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Blue Wall

About Me


BACKGROUND:

"Blue Wall are Tom, Andy and Ollie, and together they generate angular post-punk that jerks around and puts a smile on your face" - Quench magazine

"The pursed-lipped post-punk of new pups" - The NME

"Promising local upstarts" - Buzz Magazine

Blue Wall's CV would state: Swn '08, Barringtone, Young Knives, Das Wanderlust, BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Grade 7 in Saxophone, Rugby Prize in year 9, previous employment in WHSMITH, and a few other things.

NEWS:

We have just finished recording with Jordan at Ripefruit Recordings. You can buy our new single "So Here's a Picture" at our gigs, and hopefully soon on iTunes!

SO HERE'S A PICTURE/PRACTISE WHAT YOU PREACH

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Music:

Member Since: 03/05/2007
Band Members:
Bookings: bluewallmusic@hotmail.co.uk
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Tom D
Guitar & mouth-sounds

Ollie D
Drums

Andy T
Bass & mouth-sounds

Influences: Tom D
NHS, David Lynch, Talking Heads, Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu, Final Fantasy, Wire, Deerhoof, Wild Beasts

Ollie D
Magnetised jam, Paul Weekend, Vampire Simon, Kings of Leon, Take That

Andy T
Fringes, Bjork, Guillemots, Circa Survive, Dream Theater, Bloc Party, Good Shoes

Sounds Like:

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Single!

'So Here's a Picture' will be available to buy at our gigs from 24th Feb!  If you want us to post you one, I'm sure we can arrange that.  Hopefully we'll get it onto iTunes soon too.  We hope you like...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Our first everever NME mention!

We are mentioned in this week's NME in their little student guide to Cardiff!We're described as "the pursed-lipped post-punk of new pups Blue Wall".And then later in the article as "all the things any...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:06:00 GMT

Our interview/review!

We have a nice review/interview for the wonderful God Is in the TV zine!  For those who don't know, it's a brilliant indie webzine for music and stuff.  Here's the article on our CD:http://w...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:06:00 GMT

RADIO PLAYS

Just to remind ourselves of the previous merry months since we made our No Hot Ashes CD: we were played on: Bethan Elfyn's show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bethanelfyn/) Adam Walton's show on BBC&nbs...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:54:00 GMT

’No Hot Ashes’ on Radio 1 Wales

Our song 'No Hot Ashes' will be played on Bethan Elfyn's 'BBC Introducing' show BBC Radio 1 Wales  (99.5 FM)at midnight tonightWoo!If you're awake you should listen to it! :-)Blue Wall xx
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:13:00 GMT

Buzz Magazine

Hullo!  Firstly, we are supporting We Smoke Fags on Sunday 11th at Cardiff Barfly, come along!!! Also, check this out: 8 words dedicated to us in Buzz Magazine!  Woo!  Very excited&nbs...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 06:00:00 GMT

A review!

Henry from Young Knives writes:"The Swansea gig was awesome. We had a brilliant band first on called Blue Wall: www.myspace.com/bluewallmusic.Check them out, lots of good tunes and a really interestin...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:12:00 GMT

A SHORT BREAK post Young Knives

Young Knives were fantastic - 3 very friendly, very musical and very funny people.  They were very kind to us too, and put on a great show.  NME: you get points for being a long-standing fad...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:29:00 GMT

Young Knives and New Logo

So I sit down ready to revise, but I can't put pen to paper before I announce this: 1 The Young Knives chose us to support them on their 'Off The Beaten Track Tour' on 22nd March at Sin City, Swansea....
Posted by on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:32:00 GMT

Who’s News?

"A Good Shoe is Hard to Find" is going to be played from 9-10pm on Wednesday 20th February on Xfm South Wales (106.8-107.3) Listen, and vote if you can!  Tom and BW x
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:10:00 GMT