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The Menschen

About Me

This is The Menschen.

The Menschen is made up of a blues guitarist, a funk bassist, a classical pianist, one heavy metal drum machine and Tali Trow.

We play our own brand of indie rock, mixed with some cool acoustic stuff, which you have just heard, hopefully.

Ok, our EP 'Don't Mention' is now on sale, chat to any of our members (via myspace or whatever). After the festival a paypal may or may not be set up on the page so watch this space.

We recently were given the fantastic opportunity to appear on the Isle of Wight Festival Main Stage and I think it is common consensus between the band that it was fantastic so thank you so much to everyone who came to see us!
Enjoy the site! Don't Menschen it.

NME: "The five-piece's sound isn't too far away from the jerky, post-punk sound made ubiqitous in recent years by the likes of Maximo Park and Franz Ferdinand. Definitely worth keeping an eye out for. "

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Member Since: 14/03/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/themenschen
Band Members: Michael Duffy- Lead Vocals, Guitar

Stefan Liedtke- Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals

Tali Trow- Backing Vocals, Bass Guitar

Tom Valvona- Drums

Tom Seal- Synth, Trumpet
Influences: Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Kaiser Chiefs, Weather report, Robert Johnson, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, The Beatles, and so much more.
Sounds Like: "an upbeat mix of expansive Beatlesesque harmonies, and explosive, powerful riffery." --- Isle of Wight Festival ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------"a young bunch of hairy indie upstarts, Your red is so face is good too" --- Channel 4----------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------"The five-piece's sound isn't too far away from the jerky, post-punk sound made ubiqitous in recent years by the likes of Maximo Park and Franz Ferdinand. Definitely worth keeping an eye out for. " --- NME---
Record Label: none

My Blog

Important menschen related blog :)

I tried to write this last week, i bulletined and then i crashed sorry all.The menschen, we want to thank everyone who has helped us out over the last few months, Tali, for supplying the bass, and man...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:32:00 GMT

Oscar May photography

Had a shoot for the festival programme today. It went really well, Oscar did a superb job, so if you're a band looking for a shoot...Menschen
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:48:00 GMT

Add our tracks, and rate them

We've just added the options to add our tracks to your myspace, as we recieved a message from a stranger telling us that he wanted it after hearing it on the festival website, best track there apparen...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:13:00 GMT

More fantastic menschen related occurences

Hello, Just thought I'd menschen, that we have been in contact with original fm, they want our album. So my new favourite DJ, Xan Phillips, will be on Sundays at 6pm on 106fm, and over the next f...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:05:00 GMT

Everything's coming up Menschen

What a weekWhy not visit http://community.isleofwightfestival.com/flash/, there is a 2 in 11 chance that we will be playing in the background, i'd say they're some good odds.We just finished recording...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Changes...

Hello, Just posting this up to apologise for the many changes that are going on on the myspace page. This is all a misunderstanding, now we have decided to consult each other before we change the page...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:44:00 GMT

Wow

We won, we were amongst giants and we won, i was so impressed by a few of the bands last night.We're all very happy, so we're booking studio time in Winchester, we are doing 300 copies of our EP.Look ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:44:00 GMT

Another gig

Oh yes,I am currently trying to set up a gig for in a couple of weeks at Ryde Studio theatre, hopefully for a couple of hundred people, if we're lucky.If it goes ahead it will be us and Los Fantasmas,...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:33:00 GMT

Welcome

The Menschen are here.WelcomeThe menschen are currently writing, for those of you who viewd the battle of the bands last tuesday, here is the set list; Hard times, Work shoes, Don't talk politics, Sna...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:23:00 GMT

Videos

Hey people, New videos up here soon! Hope you're doing well... the Menschen
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:29:00 GMT