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Member Since: 4/22/2007
Band Members: Liam Martin - Guitar, Vocals...... Darren Wolfgang Amedeus - Bass..... Christopher Roe-French - Drums..... Sian Williams - Violin/Other stuff....
Influences: analogue things, not so sloppy guitars, the national, hi-hats, british sea power, facial hair, broken social scene, school, redundant strings, snowden, white walls, arcade fire, five easy pieces, the twilight sad, mucky guitar cases....you, us, cats and matadors
Sounds Like: "curiously arresting... weave together mightily fine, intricate guitar-work draped in a Joy-Divisionesque kind of darkness with impressively solid drumming from chops-man Christopher Roe-French.
This is all underpinned by violinist Sian Williams' strings, which adds an graceful, almost majestic air to proceeding, providing a optimistic ray of light to the darkness which otherwise envelops. It seems like it really shouldn't work but makes it all the more pleasurable that it does, the sum being truly greater than the parts" - The Fly"More violins with Cat Matador at the Wheatsheaf, combining well with the chiming guitars, creating a high-octane form of indie rock that veers between epic and introspective but with enough force and character to keep the large crowd fully engaged" - Nightshift Magazine"part pop and part misery" - Oxfordbands.com"Indubidable" - BBC Oxford Introducing"Unsigned quartet from the ....U.K..... who serve us with 5 tracks of reflective indie rock. Think shoe gaze with strings, which at times remind me of John Cale's playing with The Velvet Underground ;-) The use of the violin to respond to a clanging guitar on "Soren" is cool. The instrumentation certainly adds an edge to the introspection. A sort of rockier, raunchier (but not too much) version of Kyte their music twists and turns you around its finger. I really liked "Eyes" which sounded a bit like something from The Cure" - A dutch guy named Paul“Instrumental excellence with the hookest of hooky guitar lines” - Blog of Daisy Rodgers and Hot Rod?"Cajun Dance Party, The National and The Flaming Lips all in a blender!!! this band's seriously brilliant!!!" - Bugbear An infinate amount of monkeys playing with broken equipment for infinity
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Fly Chinwag With Us

09/08/08 18:54:25 :FELINE GOOD - a chat with Oxford's Cat Matador:THEY have nothing but a demo CD under their belt, yet a promising city band is already making waves  albeit little ones  as far afie...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:10:00 GMT

Reviews - Matador at the punt!

hello there,hopefully you made it to the punt on wednesday to see us play at the wheatsheaf if not here is what the fly said-"Elsewhere strange things are afoot at the Wheatsheaf where the curiously a...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 14:37:00 GMT

Leicester is weird

Oh dear....well we've just got back from playing in Leicester in a place called The Pavillion. What a strange experience indeed. I never knew there were any venues in the whole country that you could ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:28:00 GMT