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The Mams

About Me



I got my Myspace layout from pYzam .

Young enough to go on a Club18-30 holiday?
Then what are you doing here?
The Mams are about life and aging and experience and boozing and love gone wrong.
They have proper tidy lyrics, fabulous rocking guitars and the coolest grooviest bass around.
There's full lyrics available with the tracks on this page.
Live they are sweaty, damaged and noisy.
The Mams have recorded a new set of songs with the great Carl Bevan, ex 60Ft Dolls. The songs rock like the all great late 60s/early 70s rockers rocked.
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Nice blag:
By Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales:
'There is no better way to forget the storm outside than a night on the sauce pogoing [some kind of shuffle-on-the-spot is more than acceptable, too] to songs that fill the heart with joy and the head with luminous melodies. These luminous melodies are the responsibility of The Mams who specialise in POP AS IT SHOULD BE... tuneful, memorable and suffused with the kind of experiences we can all relate to. Somewhere along the line the UK music scene forgot how to make pop that isn't anodyne Thatcherite drivel. Well, if you've been wondering who has been carrying the baton for The Specials, The Smiths, Madness, early Blur, the [Small] Faces, ABC and anyone else from these isles who managed to subvert unflinching social commentary with sweet and sour tunes to please the most discerning palate, The Mams are that band. Between them, they have have received the approbation of various international indie pop labels, the legendary John Peel and some Johnny-come-lately nobody from Radio Wales who thinks their songs are the closest anyone in recent years has got to the genius of Mr. Ray Davies, if Mr Ray Davies had had the good fortune of being backed by Chic. Their debut album, Wam! Bam!, received airplay on Radio 2 and 6Music when it was released in 2007. In support of that they played a nigh-on-legendary gig for us in Chester that bruised hearts and coloured hangovers.'
From the recent past:
'How can such an immaculately written, intelligently arranged, tightly played and artfully produced record not have gone platinum within days of its release? I defy you not to buy this record for, if you love to dance, it would be a criminal dereliction of your duty to humanity not to do so.'
Red Dragonhood
'The Mams take the best of some of my favorite 80s bands and wipe away the dark eyeliner and black clothes, leaving behind light, bright music that's fun to listen to... Run out and grab a copy.'
www.blogcritics.org
'The Mams whipped the audience at the Blue Rock festival into a disco frenzy... After taking the stage by storm more than a few festival-goers wanted to know more about the band who provided the uplifting party atmosphere.'
Carmarthen Journal
The Mams have a history. 2 years ago they traded in 80s disco pop. They were ahead of their time. You can buy their highly praised 11 track CD ‘Wam Bam!’ here:

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Member Since: 21/12/2006
Band Website: www.themams.co.uk
Band Members: Jon on vocals and keys, Matt on the Love Rock and Mike on coolbass. New drummer tbc.

Influences: 15 Storeys High, Early Doors, Californication, Seinfeld, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robin Friday, Dylan Thomas, The Sopranos, The Wire, Reginald Perrin, John Cooper-Clarke, Martin Amis, Stuart Lee, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Charlie Kaufman, Morrissey, Black Books, John Duffin, The Fonz, Grammar School Girls, Paul Smith, Howard Marks, Cary Grant, The Odd Couple and John Self.
Sounds Like: 2009's answer to 1973
Record Label: gonzo/muso (own label)
Type of Label: Indie

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Latest from Blogcritics 25/08/07

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/08/25/194453.php  Music Review: The Mams - Wam Bam! Written by writnkittenPublished August 25, 2007 'The latest in my growing list of likes from the U.K. i...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:06:00 GMT

What the papers say... Carmarthen Journal 15/08/07

..> ..> ON THE BRINK OF BIG SUCCESS ..Task 793 --Story Comments - START--> 10:00 - 15 August 2007 A Llanelli band who whipped the audience at the Blue Rock festival into a disco frenzy could soon...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:24:00 GMT