Member Since: 19/01/2007
Band Members: Chris 'mussles' Attwell (bass) Andy 'pedro' Baxter (joint lead guitarist) Jemma 'smokey' Davies (lead vocals) Tom 'shlonger' Flynn (joint lead giutarist) Ben 'creepy' Gerrish (drums)
Influences: there are really too many to list, we all have very eclectic taists. everything from rock, metal, funk, jazz, blues, some hip hop, soul, even some country oh yea and western.Finally, One City Girl, composed mostly of guys: an odd cross-breeding of acoustic guitars, blues strumming, box percussion, white funk (including at one point, a wah-wah effect on one acoustic(!)) and the most full-on raunchy vocals I’ve heard since The Gossip (though lacking the subtlety you get with Beth Ditto, e.g. slow-burning ballad ‘Coal To Diamonds’. Oh well, no problem.) No, I can’t make out a word, but it sounds damned good: this is the kind of music that makes me lament for the days when I could listen to Led Zeppelin unmolested, without needing to conjure up worthy justifications. Not least because Robert Plant sounded distinctly female; singer Jemma belts them out, one after another; the players are nicely laid-back and proficient, except for the drummer, who breaks into what sounds like acoustic jungle at the end of one song. There’s an air of frivolity and cheerful amateurism: Jemma gets asked whether she wants a Cornish pasty; with room for one number left, and only one left on the setlist, they end up playing an extra song, an extended (and extremely dextrous) guitar solo from Andy.
Sounds Like: no-one
Record Label: un-signed