Member Since: 31/01/2007
Band Members: THE CONTRAIRES:
Joe Baker - Guitar & Backing Vocals/Screams.
Jamie Gould - Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals/Screams.
Joe House - Drums/Percussion.
i record at home using audacity, various instruments and a cheap crap microphone.
Influences: my dreams/nightmares etc., the alarming state of modern western culture/'art', the smiths/morrissey, bob dylan, tom waits, nick cave & the bad seeds/the birthday party, neutral milk hotel, minor threat, fugazi, leftover crack, bad brains, john coltrane, miles davis, charlie parker, albert camus, haruki murakami, edgar allan poe, jean-paul sartre, jack kerouac/the beats, jim jarmusch, david lynch, coen brothers, sergio leone, takeshi kitano, will smith, jean dubuffet & art brut, edward hopper, 'cockroach man' or 'the guy with no-bones'.
the lesser-known words, music, art & photography of - the blue devils, jamie gould, chester crisford, rob mason, smoke 'em out, bucky, dead city stereo, nathan blaker, some sort of threat, ok pilot, the computers, the cut-ups, red carpet robots, the arteries, terrible strangers, joshua edwards.
Sounds Like: country death songs. (c. crisford, iou 10% [ho ho ho])
Type of Label: Unsigned