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About Me

Finally for the band of the moment, These Monsters, I cannot stress how good they were tonight, you must, infact have to see this band live
- Sandman Magazine
Time has frozen as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of jazz-post-rock resonance both comforting and devestating
- The Fly Magazine
Over and over These Monsters deliver a crashing landscape of deft intensity and unparalleled creativity. As far as debut releases go, few are as stunning or ambitious as These Monsters. I'm hard pressed to align These Monsters with another UK band, because frankly there aren't any other UK artists I've heard doing anything remotely similar. In that aspect, they join the ranks of 65 Days of Static and Blueneck for outright creativity.
- Decoy Music
These Monsters are a band that can hold their heads up high with the likes of Sigur Ros, Mogwai and The Boards of Canada
- UK Music Search
Album of the Week
– Organ Magazine
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is one of the most promising bands in the instrumental arena. If These Monsters can pull together a debut album with anything close to the vision, idea and musicianship as this EP, they will definitely become the U.K's answer to Explosions in the Sky.
- The Silent Ballet
Incredible Debut Ep, energetic, passionate, eerily pretty
During the middle of the set I take a casual glance around the packed room to notice that not one person is talking, all eyes on the band and all jaws on the floor.
- Leedsmusicscene.net

Up next, these monsters are simply amazing. The five-piece make instrumental blunderbusses of songs that would give Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai nightmares. The doom-laden riffs and drummer Tommy's relentless assault on his kit are at once brutal and strangely pretty, whilst the rousing saxophone adds a perverse showtune element to proceedings - a vicious, energetic and loud-enough-to-be-pornographic live show.
- Sandman Magazine
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BOOKING
Please contact Haydn at Brainwash Promotions. There is a link in our top friends.
[email protected]
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If you'd like either of our records you can order them directly off this page by clicking one of the links below
EP 1 ON 12 INCH VINYL
UK Customers - £7.99 inc P&P
Pay with Noch=x ( safer than pay pall)
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European Customers - £8.99 inc P&P
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U.S. / Rest Of World Customers - £10.99
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CD SINGLE:
'TO SWING BACK & FORTH WITH A STEADY UNINTERRUPTED RHYTHM'
'MORT POUR RIEN'
INCLUDES HAND PRINTED INLAY/SLEEVE

UK Customers - £3.49 inc P&P
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U.S. / Rest Of World Customers - £4.49
[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/3/2005
Band Members: stuart
tommy
ian
sam
Jennifer Lopez
and friends

Influences: warsaw village band brightblack morning light ornette coleman wilco funkadelic converge jaga jazzist king crimson neurosis slint four tet sigur ros angelo badalamenti cooper temple clause earthtone9 deftones ernest ranglin mogwai tom sweetlove refused the mars volta explosions in the sky bjork unkle will haven adem animal collective radiohead godspeed you! black emperor cult of luna charles mingus we vs death miles davis mono isis aphex twin nick cave from monument to masses jaco pastorius prefuse 73 chris clark 65daysofstatic a silver mount zion dalek john coltrane mice parade broken social scene the velvet underground papaM dntel john zorn amon tobin duke ellington slayer vincent gallo super furry animals tom waits the smiths pink floyd fridge mum the black dog plaid john frusciante parliament boom bip jimi hendrix autechre nick drake the album leaf led zeppelin dandy warhols love gruff rhys gravenhurst the beatles broadcast lfo jefferson airplane johnny cash neil young enablers mad professor massive attack CAN roy orbison shakti dj shadow cLOUDDEAD tortoise sonic youth red stars parade jah wobble marvin gaye cannibal ox at the drive-in scientist battles defacto grateful dead tim buckley belong delia gonzalez & gavin russom king tubby yes brian wilson smokey robinson whomadewho casiotone for the painfully alone franz and shape kraftwerk LCD soundsystem the radio dept kling klang lift to experience ry cooder do make say think gong! the dfa mastodon the avalanches acoustic ladyland burial vangelis trevor wishart gonzales fionn regan white magic gentle giant ibrahim ferrer charlie parker TV on the radio new order youngblood brass band van der graf generator gang gang dance mike oldfield the psychedelic furs zakir hussain sage francis prince far I the shining T-bone walker wendy carlos espers humanfly keith jarret bardo pond 13th floor elevators leadbelly antibalas afrobeat orchestra woody guthrie susumu yokota kid 606 trees syd barret hawkwind comus the eighties matchbox b-line disaster in flagranti regina spektor bonnie 'prince' billy sly & robbie sebastion marnie stern dillinger escape plan botch electric wizard iron butterfly
Sounds Like: An instrumental group that rely too much on trying to be different and making a racket than causing any sort of pleasure. Their main problem is that they are just far too loud. Can anyone please tell me the point of using a saxophone if nobody can hear it? Too much unintelligible noise and feedback that just plain hurts. A poor man’s Quack Quack, I’d hate to be their neighbours.
Record Label: children no more
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

These Monsters... Facebook Group

this is our group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5069152258 you can upload videos, pictures, whatever sign up its the future...
Posted by these monsters... on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:42:00 PST

debut e.p out now

..> ..> it's on limited edition white 12" vinyl and comes with a cd inside the sleeve. it's cheap - £6 from a show or you can order it over the web by clicking the links on our main mys...
Posted by these monsters... on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:06:00 PST

CD single out now!

Two track CD single out now on Children No More Records to swing back and forth with a steady uninturrupted rhythmmort pour rien £3 available from http://www.myspace.com/childrennomorerecords from gi...
Posted by these monsters... on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:54:00 PST