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Billy Wears Dresses

About Me

Songs about Life, The Universe and Social Services

Billy Wears Dresses a four piece band who write and perform their own material, are now signed to Inline Records and their first album "Space Hopper Summer" has just been released

Out of 620 entrants, Billy Wears Dresses were finalists for the KMFM battle of the bands in 2007.

More information can be found at our website www.billywearsdresses.com

And we have free podcasts to download from iTunes.

You can now contact us by our new email address [email protected]

Derek Don't Deliver EP

Check out our new YouTube site! http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=BillyWearsDresses

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Member Since: 03/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.billywearsdresses.com
Band Members:

Nick Spink : Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar.

Martin Loft: Vocal, Lead Guitar, Mandolin.

Ian Snowball : Drums.

Paul Moss : Bass Guitar.


Influences:

Nick Spink's Influences:: Radio Head, Pink Floyd, Eels, 'Get Cape, Wear Cape, fly', Blur, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Mitch.

Martin Loft's Infuences:: Mark Knopfler, Shawn Colvin, Andy Summers, Jeff Beck, Quincy Jones, Vince Clarke and anything cheesy and eighties!!
Ian Snoball's Influences:: The 1st single I bought was 'Thats Entertainmet' by The Jam. I have been a long time fan of The Jam and Paul Weller, all things mod (Small Faces, The Who),Northern Soul, Ska, Reggae. In later years I discovered jazz (Art Blakey, Buddy Rich). After that house music, the rave scene, The Stone Roses, The Verve, Oasis and modern listening like The Libertines, Kasabian, Artic Monkeys and those hot chicks Girls Aloud (Editors note: Oh so not 'Animal' from Electric Mayhem then?):


Paul Moss's Influences:: Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, James Jamerson, Bruce Thomas, Bootsy Collins, Jaco Pastorius.
Sounds Like: Sounds a bit like
'Silly Bears Messes'!
The Nick Spink Dance!
Record Label: Inline Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

This Is The Song Out On Monday 10th November and Live at HMV

Monday the 10th of November 4.30pmBilly Wears Dresses will be in HMV Canterbury to promote thier latest single "This Is The Song"Featuring a live set & signing.Come On Down!!!   The new s...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:36:00 GMT

Billys podcast

Hey guys, check out our latest podcast (number 6) for free at http://billywearsdresses.mypodcast.comIt's as funny as a Dachshund with an erection trying to climb up the stairs..!!Also available at Itu...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:59:00 GMT

Exciting News This Week - Watch This Space

Important anouncement comming this week. Watch this space for exclusive Billy News!
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:50:00 GMT

Victory in Margate!

KMFM Battle Of The Bands - The Lido - Wednesday 15th August Recently a pro singer who is a member of the Musicians Union went along to the X Factor just to see what goes on. Before you get to see Mr H...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:03:00 GMT

Flaming Henrys and Peek-a-Boo Productions

Hi, just a quick note to say that we played three songs at Flaming Henry's in Maidstone on Wednesday night (13th June) as part of their regular 'open mic' sessions.  They film all the bands/singe...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:03:00 GMT

New Profile

We now have a new profile at www.myuploaded.co.uk/billywearsdresses and you will find two new songs there as well as a studio recorded version of 'Fruit Machine' for your listening pleasure!Enjoy, Lov...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:54:00 GMT

New material

Hi, my name is LameCat and I host this site for BWD.Recently I had the privalige of watching the guys at rehearsal in order to take some pictures which I hope to post up very soon, but the main reason...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 02:40:00 GMT

Roadie for Billy at V Festival!

Billy Wears Dresses is giving one of YOU loyal fans the chance to roadie for them at the V Festival if they get chosen as one of the 2 bands that will open the gig.  The sucsessful aplicant will...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:35:00 GMT

What some of our song's could be about

Magical Fruit Machine Imagine living each moment fully, not distorting the moment to fit personal self concept but allowing self concept to emanate from the experience.  "one should open ones ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:05:00 GMT

Pauls Blog

It's not everyday that a band invents a new genre on iTunes, think about it. No really think about it, don't just read the next sentence. Stop reading this!!! Oh well, that's the Rentaghost generatio...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:59:00 GMT