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Quartershade

I'm the damn paterfamilias

About Me

You're very kind to visit our Myspace page when faced with a choice of thousands - please help yourselves to the songs that are sitting in the player. It's our way of saying thanks...
And if you feel like going to www.quartershade.com and joining the mailing list, we'd be honoured to get in touch every time something of note is coming up (about once a month) so you won't miss anything.
Quartershade finalized their name, line up, and sound in 2004. Highlights to date include: a guest appearance on BBC Radio 4, an invite to play In The City Unsigned, multiple plays on XFM, the accolade of 'Hot New British Band of the Week' on national Danish radio (P3) and their single being featured on the front page of drownedinsound.com - all strictly through word of mouth only.
They've played on Zane Lowe's Home Taping tour, and have gigged with bands like Oceansize, Bromheads Jacket, The Motorettes, and The Fall.'Tunes big enough to fill the new Wembley Stadium twice over... Quartershade already have one eye on their next destination, and a small toilet off the A46 it ain't.' Drowned in Sound'Clear, muscle bound statements, ripe for success and yearning for bigger things ... this music demands a very large audience indeed' Manchester Music'Impressive slice of wonky alt-rock, full of bristling contortions and arty menace' Subbacultcha


Captain my captain - LIVE www.3firstcutawards.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/9/2005
Band Website: quartershade.com
Influences: Oceansize, Radiohead, Biffy Clyro, The Motorettes, Longpigs, Elbow, Rival Schools, Sigur Ros, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Mogwai, Idlewild, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Mclusky, The Veils, Sonic Youth, Hell is For Heroes, Sufjan Stevens, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Bloc Party, Marmaduke Duke, At the Drive-In, Queens of the Stone Age, Copperpot Journals, Nirvana, Arcade Fire, Eels, Supergrass, Elliott Smith, Guided By Voices, Graham Coxon, Pixies
Sounds Like: Epic bursts of post-rock squeezed into user-friendly doses of emotive guitar noise. Or something not too dissimilar
Type of Label: None

My Blog

In The City Unsigned 2006

Quartershade have been selected to play this year's In The City Unsigned. We're playing at Teasers on Sunday at 9.
Posted by Quartershade on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:43:00 PST

QS play live session on BBC Radio 4's Loose ends

If you're quick you can still grab a listen of the show on the bbc website.
Posted by Quartershade on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:04:00 PST

QS on XFM, Tuesday April 4th 9pm(ish)

We just found out that Ian Camfield is going to play Captain My Captain on XFM tomorrow (Tuesday April 4th).  We'd be ever so grateful if you'd go here:http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=94145An...
Posted by Quartershade on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:09:00 PST