magoo profile picture

magoo

A circus tickler mind buzz

About Me

A long time ago ( about 1992 ) in a village far far away, a band called MAGOO was formed. Influenced by bands such as guided by voices, stereolab, pavement, the flaming lips and a healthy dollop of radio peel, the band took its first steps towards being able to play. this achieved they set about writing, recording and playing local gigs in and around norwichafter releasing three singles on noisebox records they were snapped up by those canny scots chemikal underground, where they released two albums : the soateramic sounds of magoo and vote the pacifist ticket todayduring this time magoo played all over britain, did some european jaunts, played CMJ festival in new york and at glastonbury in glastonbury. fun fun funafter parting ways with the chemikals the band started recording their third album realist week at their own sickroom studios, eventually releasing it on london label global warming to great reviews but little else2003 / 2004 saw magoo recording their fourth LP. the all electric amusement arcade and 8-track mini LP. popsongs. magoo live in norwich and surrounding areas and london and are still wowing audiences up and down the country

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/30/2005
Band Website: thesickroom.co.uk
Band Members: Andrew Rayner - vox / guitar co-founder back in the day. brings creamy vocalising, guaranteed guitar and multi-various songwriting options to the crazy world of magoo.
Jennifer Heagren - bass / synth jen uses supersrategic bass vibrations, keyboard manipulation and co-writing possibilities to full effect.
Owen Turner - guitar / vox co-founder in 1992. principally lead guitar man, but can play most instruments put in front of him including caramel cornet.. chief sonic scientist
Stacy Gow - drums / percussion / vox stacy employs demon drumming, percussive flourishes, velvety backing vocals and more as his contributions to the magoo machine. he is mr gold drum goliath
Influences: flaming lips, early mercury rev, guided by voices, sebadoh, stereolab, buddy holly, doris day, gorky's, neil young, beach boys, yo la tengo, the fall, blondie, northern soul, early r.e.m., nancy and lee, simon and garfunkel, grateful dead, pavement, grandaddy and more, so much more...
Sounds Like: .. a pulsing vein on the forehead of rock'n'roll.
Record Label: series 8
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Magoo @ Buffalo Bar march 30th

yes we're leaving our hive for a bit to go play with the super band The Playing Fields at the Buffalo Bar March 30th. Its our first London outing in a looong time so hope to see y'all. x...
Posted by magoo on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:39:00 PST

radio 1 session this thursday

For a chance to preview 3 brand new magoo songs tune in to the Rob Da Bank show this thursday night - 13th july. If you can't make it you'll be able to listen online for a week or so afterwards a...
Posted by magoo on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:46:00 PST

the launch gig/album out today

A huge thankyou to everyone that came along to the launch gig last week.  We had a great night and were more than helped along by the truly wonderful Alto 45 and Fonda 500 :) If you missed t...
Posted by magoo on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:09:00 PST

single out today/Rob Da Bank session

Our new single 'Superteen Scene' is released in the shops today.yay.  Limited edition 7', heavy vinyl..lovely.  Also available from our website at  www.thesickroom.co.uk .&nbs...
Posted by magoo on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:23:00 PST