A Knife In Their Eyes (#)
A Train Roars
Count In Fives
Crawdaddy Simone (#)
Death At The Chapel
Draw Japan
Excellent Choice (*)
Full Moon
Gil Sleeping
Gloves
Horrors' Theme
Jack The Ripper (#)(*)
Kicking K
Little Victories
My Garden Is Made Of Stone
No Love Lost (#)
She Is The New Thing
Sheena Is A Parasite
Thunderclaps
Who Says
The Witch (#)
You Think I'm Lonely
(#) Cover
(*) Several Versions
The Horrors' Biography
They might be the most exciting British band since the Sex Pistols, but there’s very little that could’ve prepared The Horrors for what’s happened to them since they played their first gig in September 2005.
A mess of sharp elbows, big hair, feedback and monochrome clothes, since that gig at The Spread Eagle in Shoreditch, the band (who all met at Southend’s super-fashionable Junk Club, run in the basement of a decaying Victorian hotel by keyboardist Rhys ‘Spider’ Webb) have played gigs everywhere from LA to Hull and Tokyo, been tipped by Jarvis Cocker as the future of British rock and appeared on the cover of NME after only two singles. They’ve scraped knuckles and cut knees. They’ve made a video starring acclaimed actress Samantha Morton with legendary director Chris Cunningham and then had the same video swiftly banned by MTV for excessive strobe use and general gruesomeness. They’ve been chased down the street by teenage girls trying to tear out locks of their hair in Rome. They’ve seen UFOs at 3am on the way back to London from a gig in the grounds of a stately home in Derbyshire. They’ve caused $10,000 of damage during a near-riot at a gig in New York after signing to Island Def Jam (home to Kanye West and Jay-Z) in America. And they’ve released a four dark-hearted singles that have annoyed as many people as they’ve enthralled – as well as the New York show, they had to cut short a gig at the last-ever Junk club because of an over enthusiastic crowd.
“It’s weird, because when we do gigs we just set out to play our songs and not annoy or wind up anyone - but we often cause loads of trouble in the processâ€, explains keyboardist Rhys ‘Spider’ Webb evenly. “Still, we’re not interested in pleasing everybody. And we certainly don’t have a problem with pissing people off in the process. We don’t care what people think of us. If we upset people we’re not bothered in the slightest.â€2007 The Horrors
The Band
Faris Badwan
September 21, 1986
Vocals
*] attended Tom's School
*] studied Illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
*] was The Rotters' drummer
*] his artwork in several magazines, on covers of Hatcham Social's singles
*] first art exhibition in Bodhi Gallery (October 12th-October 21st 2007)
*] dj
*]producer of So So Happy Making by Hatcham Social
Coffin Joe
January 21, 1986
Percussion
*] attended Stoke College
*] his tutor was Roger O'Dell (Shack Attack's drummer)
*] studied at Colchester Sixth Form College
*] dj
Joshua Third
December 15, 1984
Guitar (Fender Jaguar)
*] attended Westcliff High School for Boys
*] studied at University College London
*] played in Xerox
*] makes his own effects pedals
Spider Webb
February 18, 1983
Organ (Vox Continental)
*] one of the founders of Junk Club
*] is in the side project Spider And The Flies
*] provided vocals for Excellent Choice (Strange House)
*] dj
Tomethy Furse
March 11, 1987
Bass (Danelectro Longhorn)
*] attended Faris' School
*] is in the side project Spider And The Flies
*] provided vocals for Excellent Choice (EP)
*] dj
The Horrors' Discography
SINGLES
Cover
Date of Release
Title
B-side(s)
April 10, 2006
Sheena Is A Parasite
Jack The Ripper
July 31, 2006
Death At The Chapel
Crawdaddy Simone
October 30, 2006
Count in Fives
Who Says
A Knife In Their Eyes
February 26, 2007
Gloves
Kicking Kay
Horrors' Theme
Death At The Chapel (Live)
June 25, 2007
She is the New Thing
Sister Leonella
Draw Japan (Dandi Wind Remix)
Excellent Choice (Alternative Version)EPs
Cover
Date of Release
Title
Tracklist
October 26, 2006
The Horrors EP
1] Death At The Chapel
2] Crawdaddy Simone
3] Sheena Is A Parasite
4] Jack The Ripper
5] EXcellent Choice
6] Sheena Is A Parasite (Video)
ALBUMs
Cover
Date of Release
Title
Tracklist
March 5, 2007
Strange House
1] Jack The Ripper
2] Count In Fives
3] Draw Japan
4] Gloves
5] Excellent Choice
6] Little Victories
7] She Is The New Thing
8] Sheena Is A Parasite
9] Thunderclaps
10] Gil Sleeping
11] A Train Roars
*] Death At The Chapel
The Horrors' gigs
Date
Location
Venue
August 8th
London
Underage Festival
Other Sites
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HERE
Order The Horrors EP
HERE
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Coffin Joe
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