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The Defeat

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/02/2007
Band Website: coming soon...
Band Members:
Joel | Guitar and vocals

Tom | Drums

Luke | Bass and Vocals

Ian | Guitar


Influences: Band of Horses
The Smiths
The Casket Lottery
Radiohead
The Copperpot Journals
Propagandhi
Justice
Bjork
Explosions In The Sky
Texas Is The Reason
Ryan Adams
The Appleseed Cast
Pelican
Refused
Daughters
Cave In
Sigur Ros
Elliot
Minus The Bear
Daft Punk
Coalesce
Faraquet
Death cab for cutie
Bloc Party
Sounds Like: Ambient, emotional, melodic rock music.

Merch: April 2007 Demo

1: Dorian

2: A Sad Mass' Mountain.
£2.00 [BUY]

The Six Machine

01. Blakfish
02. Caesura
03. My First Tooth
04. Colour
05. The Defeat
06. Minotaur Explode

£6.00 [BUY]

Creeping Tee

£8.00 [BUY]


Video: Straight to Video- [Live]

A Sad Mass' Mountain

The Coin game was great [LIVE]

 Press:
"They straddle the post-rock and indie genres in an Appleseed Cast-esque way, offering moments of instrumental beauty side by side with toe-tapping melodies which almost sound like early Biffy Clyro."
Big Scary Monsters

"Weaned on the likes of Fugazi & Sigur Ros they belt Out tunes with the formers energy and maintain the glacial Beauty of the latter."
The FLY

"We once saw Mogwai in Bergen, Norway and they left us bored and cold. The Defeat have come from no where and they could destroy the Reading music scene in 2008."
Velocity Recordings

"Stunning Post Rock/Indie music from Reading, laced with fresh energy and beauty. For fans of The Appleseed Cast, Mogwai, Refused and Biffy Clyro."
Safetydance Promotions

"Emo-math-pop hooks that slap yr cheeks!"
Marvins Revolt

"They fuse post- rock, pop and Icelandic influences in to music which engages your mind"
BBC

Shared A Stage With:

Youthmovies
Frank Turner
Meet Me In St Louis
Marvins Revolt
Itch
Blakfish
Rolo Tomassi
Vessels

Podcasts: BSM RECORDS

Mailing List:

Name:
Email:

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

For those who would care to listen...

Hello everyone,Long time no blog! I hope everyone's doing well.It feels like such a long time ago since The Defeat was up and running and doing things. It's crazy to think that it's almost been a whol...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 01:46:00 GMT

BSM Six Machine.

Hello Friends.As you probably know, our song 'An Entire Day In Pastel Colours' is to be included of the forthcoming Big Scary Monsters Records '6 Machine' release. We are big fans of the label and the...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:37:00 GMT

London Shows... Laying Off The Drink.

Hello everyone, I haven't done a blog for a while; well, a couple of weeks at least. In the time since I last typed and you last read we've been up to no good. We've been partying too much and gettin...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 16:12:00 GMT

DIVE!

Hello Friends.I am currently waiting for my old Vauxhall Cavalier to be collected for scrapping, thought i might kill the time with a blog-blog. The car has been lifeless for some time now, sat motion...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:05:00 GMT

Which are your favourite three supermarkets?

Friends.So the religious chocolate festival draws to a close. Most people are now back to work, which includes Tom, Ian and Luke, but does not include me. I am off work until Friday. So it goes. I wou...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:39:00 GMT

The Impromptue Heady Weekend.

Good evening and goodness gracious! I think it’s safe to say that both Joel and I had quite a lot of recovering to do today. Having sampled some of Reading’s spectacular nightlife on ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Saturday morning.

Hello Friends,It is Saturday morning, i am at the computer in the defeat HQ, and Ian is making some very loud noises using his Nintendo wii (it appears there is some sort of war going on). I watched t...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:35:00 GMT

Stuff that’s happening soon.

Hello Friends,And a happy new year to you all, i hope that this finds you well.We are busy Bees right now, i thought that i'd let you know what we are up to.The recording continues. We have been delay...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:42:00 GMT

Recording new sounds.

Hello Friends.It seems a long while since we recorded our first two songs way back in April. At that point we had been together just two months, yet to play a gig, Ian had not joined the band, and Luk...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:23:00 GMT

The last parts of our first year here.

It's been a good couple of months since anyone posted anything up here... Wow, times are really exciting for us. These last few months have been very busy; although everything that's happening or...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:00:00 GMT