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The Mardous

About Me

TO BUY SINGLE CLICK HERE: ..'Dirty' and B-side 'Maybe I need you here' are downloadable from itunes for 79p each.

For booking/enquiries email [email protected] or you can checkout The Mardous' management www.myspace.com/viralmusicuk

They released their debut single 'Revolution over the phone' (Poptones) on 8/8/05. It reached number 5 in the indie charts and they went on to play at Glastonbury amongst other festivals last year. They have also enjoyed gigging with Babyshambles, Arctic Monkeys, Happy Mondays, The Paddingtons and The Cribs to name a few.

Along the way the have recorded sessions for the BBC, Scottish Television, and lots of people have said lovely things about them, not least the NME, iD Magazine, L'uomo (Italian Vogue), Daily Telegraph and Metro. The video to their debut single was playlisted on MTV2.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/18/2005
Band Website: flickr.com/photos/themardous
Band Members: Ross Stewart - Vocals/Bass
Ben Duff - Guitar/Vocals
Alex Foster - Guitar/Vocals
Stevie Durkin - Drums

Influences:take their name from Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans; a tragic-love-novel of epic obsessive proportions where lead character Mardou and Jack fall in love and then out of love so bright that it quickly extinguished leaving Jack alone with heartsick and obsession. He then sat down and wrote an amphetamine psalm for the lost love affair. It was pure exorcism. And when you hear the Mardous urgent melodies it will make sense. As Jacks novel was a drugged-up peon of obsessive love written in a lost weekend, the Mardous haunt similar themes, capturing the loneliness of Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy wandering the streets of NYC, the desperation of Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon and the urgent fading of a Tennessee Williams character. All searching for the impossible, the striving for the intangible.

Single review - NME:
Sounds Like: Watch our video by Clicking here then go to yellow bar at bottom!
Type of Label: Indie