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The Stalks

About Me

To celebrate a year on MySpace, a change to the biography! Not that the essential facts have changed. The Stalks still live around Bradford and Leeds. We still play a kind of Americana, though there are too many influences flying around for that to be strictly true. There seems to be a bit of a Canadian thing going on at the moment (for Rhys, anyway). We are not the busiest band in the world, but we'd all love to do more - to have more time for music. We write and record, do the odd gig, and take pleasure in producing some decent music. We have appreciated the comments received through this site...

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Member Since: 4/8/2007
Band Website: www.thestalks.blogspot.com
Band Members: Rhys - songs, vocals, guitar, piano and drums; Nath - guitars; Rick - bass, vocals;
Influences: Ron Sexsmith, Grand Drive, Neal Casal, Wilco, The Jayhawks, Be Good Tanyas, My Morning Jacket, Kathleen Edwards, David Mead, The Decemberists, Hem, Autumn Defense, Aimee Mann, Chuck Prophet, Vetiver, Gillian Welch, Jeffrey Foucault, Josh Rouse, Kate Rusby, M. Ward, Neko Case, Beatles, Teenage Fanclub, Magnet, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Ben Folds, Gram Parsons, Neil Finn, Kris Delmhurst, Ane Brun, World Party, Flying Burrito Brothers, Magnet....
Sounds Like: ‘There's no question that these guys know what they're doing on these … songs. Their brand of UK-influenced Americana sits very easily alongside other home-grown talents such as Grand Drive and Peter Bruntnell, and given a chance wouldn't sound out of place on Bob Harris's radio shows’ Bob Henderson: The Music Guru Magazine
Type of Label: Major

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Come play with us

If you live near us (Bradford/Leeds), like what we do, play drums or piano (quite well), don't have ambitions much beyond recording some good music and playing a few gigs, and are maybe a little over ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:47:00 GMT

House Concert

A word about the songs on this site. The first three songs posted here are quite old (2003), but are the only recordings we have that are in anything like a finished state. We have lots of other ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:22:00 GMT