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the Bends

About Me

We are pursuing individual projects for now, check out our top friends to listen!

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Music:

Member Since: 26/02/2007
Band Members: Brian Holt - Vocals, Guitar
Heather Konkin - Vocals, Keys
Andrew Gillott - Percussion
Eugene Burton - Bass

Influences: Arctic Monkeys, B-52s, Babyshambles, Beatles, Beck, Bedouin Soundclash, Bloc Party, Blur, Clash, Coldplay, Dead 60s, Death From Above 1979, Doors, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Harvey Danger, Hentchmen, Hives, Hot Hot Heat, Iggy Pop, Jet, Libertines, Modest Mouse, Rammones, Sam Roberts, Streets, Strokes, Sublime, Subways, Tokyo Police Club, Transplants, Vines, Violent Femmes, Von Bondies, White Stripes
Sounds Like: An eclectic combination of funk, rock, jazz, swing, punk, and a lot of SOUL.Sometimes, however, the entire band breaks out the dark, gritty sounds of pure TECHNO.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

the end of the bends

the bends have now endedthanks for your supportcheck out our other projects in the top friends list
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:46:00 GMT

and the music review by Chris Parke

parx-e.com
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:24:00 GMT

Interview by Chris Parke

Eugene and I were interviewed by Australian Blogger Chris Parke. Heather and Andrew were unavailable but Eugene took the liberty of answering the questions for Heather.Too see click on parx-e.com
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:19:00 GMT

cd release

yesterday night was our release party and it went wellthanks to everyone for coming we had a great time and i hope you did too... and thats all i feel like writing now
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:46:00 GMT

new songs up

i switched around some of the tracks on the myspace player so now you can listen to more of the cdif you wanna listen to the ENTIRE thing go tohttp://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/the-bends
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:06:00 GMT

CD Review by Rob Lardie

http://www.cdreviewsbyyou.com/feature.php?reviewID=52&styleI D=10Reviewed by: robbieAn infectious blend of jazz, pop and punkI know that I use the word unique way too much on this website but in the ca...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:00 GMT

our story?

realized we didnt have our bio on here.. soooowe formed in july 2005 two weeks prior to our first show which took place august 6heather and i had been jamming for a while and i booked us in a battle o...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:46:00 GMT

PRE-ORDERING!

our cd is being printed RIGHT NOW!! and we get the copies on friday sept 7 so until then you can pre-order your copy now using paypal! the cd is $10 and shipping and packaging is $2.50 for a total of ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:51:00 GMT

mastering and duplication

the cd is mixed! i finished it moments ago so tomorrow i am taking it to be mastered then we will get our masters in a week which ill take to get duplicated!then we should have our copies a week after...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:33:00 GMT

OHMYGODWEHAVEMUSIC!!

i finished mixing a 3 track demo tonite and the full cd is still on its way!
Posted by on Fri, 04 May 2007 23:23:00 GMT