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Mechanical Bride

About Me

a young girl from surburbia, buried deep in the perversion of music, all things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small...Delicately experimental, folk/electro. Female Solo Artist, from Surrey,UK. Based in Brighton.Larrikin Love- Well, Love does Furnish a Life- single Jan 22nd

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/10/2005
Band Members: Lauren Doss - vocals/guitar/glockenspiel/mandolin/piano, Abi Bailey- violin/vocals, Tommy Heap- piano/vocals/accordian, Marcus Hessenberg- glockenspiel/melodica, Sam Pearson- tuba/euphonium
Influences: Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald,Led Zepplin, T-Rex, Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros, Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Beck, Kings of Convenience, Velvet Underground, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Doves, Elbow, Roxy Music, Robert Newman, Steve Reich, The Strokes, Ray Lamontagne, Willy Mason, Nick Drake, amoungst others....
Sounds Like: Haunting folk, maybe with some electronic/rock/blues....make what you will..
Record Label: Transgressive
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Black Skeleton Sea......

Hello all,Well it has been a while in the making, in amidst gigs with the humbling Johnny Flynn, and singing in a few churches, but the new ep, Black Skeleton Sea is finally nearing completion and sh...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:14:00 PST

GRAB HOLD OF THE UMBRELLA!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! hope you all had a cracking one and thanks to everyone who bought the umbrella single. it's had a very positive reaction so we're dead chuffed. Ta! For those who've asked where they ca...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:01:00 PST

Umbrella...

Yes I'm afraid it's a cover, but it is different we promise! It's our interpretation of Rihanna's, Umbrella, minus the Jay Z I'm afraid. We had a lot of people say they enjoyed haering our version at ...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:51:00 PST

EP in the making.....

Apologies for the silence, we have been busy i promsie!There are a few boyish additions to the Mechanical Bride ensemble. Anyone that might have caught us in Brighton, may of heard us making a bigger...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:48:00 PST

Bat For Lashes tour...

Mechanical Bride is due to support the lovely Bat For Lashes girls on six dates of their Uk tour. Be part of the Brighton commradery, and come to the gigs in Manchester, Leicester, Sheffield, Bristol,...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:37:00 PST

Well, Love does Furnish a Life.....

The Larrikin Love single is out this week mon 22nd, Well, Love does Furnish a Life, featuring Mechanical Bride and the guy you can't seem to avoid nower days, Mr Jamie T. It's a great song, and you ca...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:55:00 PST

Basement Club 25th Jan

Gorden Raphael & Transgressive RecordspresentBasement Club@ The Buffalo Bar25th JanuaryBobby Cook + Thomas Truax+ Mechanical Bride + DJ's8pm - 2amĀ£5 tickets from www.rockfeedback.com...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:50:00 PST

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all! Hope it was a good end to a good year. Think this one will be an exciting one! Got the first podcast to start things off, with Mr J warmsley and the Trans twins, was a bit of a ...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:03:00 PST

NME cd today!

He,He, it's the NME! The young Tran's boys have got a CD going on the cover of this weeks ruddy music rag! It's got a Mechanical Bride tune on it n all! the only available CD version of Poor Boy. Let'...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:51:00 PST

APOLOGIES .....EP is a little late!!

Apologies to those who have tried to buy the ep already, it is infact taking longer than expected to hand craft, so should be in the shops mid to late week......as they say in the guiness ads, the bes...
Posted by Mechanical Bride on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:04:00 PST