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The Basement Sessions

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Yup. We like making something along the lines of psychedelic experimental alternative metallic blues space electro prog psychosis noise post-punk rock, with which we enjoy screwing with many peoples' brains. Yeah, something like that anyway, like that stuff you see when you rub your closed eyes for ages. We've been compared to Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd (earlier stuff), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Joy Division, The Doors, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Battles and Muse. We love just fucking about with different sounds/noises. We're not really trying to impress anyone. We're trying to have fun with music, sort of musical rants and indulgence. We don't always think about it or really care. Sometimes we just mong out and make indecipherable madness stuffs, other times we rock, funk and groooooove. We're not gonna type another anti-cliche cliche here so let's just say we're in it for the free drinks. Stop by sometime, watch out for cables and Sam.
If you would like a free CD just ask, any tracks you want we will burn.
If you would like us to support your band or have any suggestions for gigs then please message us. Cheers.
LOVE IN A FEEDBACK LOOP,
The Basement Sessions
Words
"It's some of the most horrible music I've listened to in years... but it's brilliant." - Billy Barrington, Django Spears
"The Basement Sessions.. they're the most fucked up band." - George McVicar, Prince Harry
"Dude.. This reminds me of Laurel and Hardy." - Stefan Barlow
"Very impressed with you guys, I always like to hear stuff like that amongst the pissy little indie bands." - Nile, Sour Jane
"Great set, reminded me of Frank Zappa and Beefheart.." - The Finds
"Well, like, basically, are you on something?? I just thought you must be on drugs to make that kind of music. Really psychedelic.." - Mike Roche, Brighton Rock 'N' Roll Circus
"An amazingly mental, interesting, fun, funny, exhilarating and unforgettable experience." - Pascale Harman
"Woah!! ... What the fuck? That was.. that was mental.. How did you do that? ..." - Some guy at The Pressure Point, 20th March 2008
"Yeah nice one mate, try not to break anything on your way out". (To Richardson) - PA Guy at Ousefest 4
We are also on FACEBOOK , REVERBNATION , TOTALLY UNSIGNED , LAST.FM and iLIKE .
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/05/2007
Band Website: www.thegreengecko.co.uk/tbs
Band Members:

Influences: Steve - The Jazz Greats
Huw - Kraftwerk, Jeff Buckley, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, The Stone Roses, Rolling Stones, The Who, Massive Attack, Daft Punk, The Stooges, Tangerine Dream, The Aliens, Johnny Cash, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd (Barrett and Gilmour lineups), The Doors, Sam Richardson ...
Benny - RATM, Muse, Hendrix, concert/Spanish/flamenco/classical guitar, The Horrors, Turning Green, Deep Purple, Melt-Banana, AC/DC, Zeppelin, NIN, Clapton, The Mars Volta, Pixies, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Pink Floyd, The Who, AFI, Frank Zappa, John Fruisciante, RHCP, The Strokes, Aphex Twin, Foo Fighters, The Futureheads, The Cure, Daft Punk, Nirvana ...
SamO - The Doors, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, The Beatles, Boulez, Jefferson Airplane, Genesis, King Crimson, The Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Syd Barret, The Mars Volta, Bob Dylan and the Band, Grateful Dead, Gong, The Incredible String Band, Van Morrison, Hawkwind, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, Herbie Hancock, Arthur Rimbaud, Comte de Lautreamont, Nietzsche, Sartre ...
Nick - Iron Maiden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Prodigy ...
Sounds Like: Jamming and mashing musical madness into something identifiable as a mixture of prog rock, alt-rock, jazz, psychedelic sound dreams, ska and punk, a drum kit meant for metal, a guitar with too many frequencies and voices that do not belong to their owners.
Record Label: 20-packs of CD-Rs.

My Blog

TBS PLAY THE BRIGHTON COALITION + D&B RAVE + MOBBS' 20TH & END OF TERM BASH

OY OY!! THIS IS COULD BE A WICKED MASSIVE HUGE FRIDAY NIGHT BASH!! TBS ARE PLAYING THE BRIGHTON COALITIONA mash-up of PSYCHEDELIC PROGRESSIVE JAZZ PSYCHO ROCK FUSION, FOLK, ALT ROCK,DJ and STAND-UP be...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:08:00 GMT

OUSEFEST = WAH!

Thank you for those who appeared out of nowhere and stopped to see us.That was the most mental gig we've ever played, organised in the most ridiculous manner (no rehearsal for a month, with a differen...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:21:00 GMT

New Recordings from March/April

New recordings of all our main tunes at the moment from the last 4 weeks, including some from Scream Studios in Brighton where the florescent stuff everywhere drove us slightly mental...Pool Music has...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Two new gigs! 17th March @ The Hope and 20th March @ The Pressure Point

Hi people,We've got two new dates confirmed for the 17th and 20th March which we would love to see you at.. Plenty of time to know about these gigs! Unfortunately Huw is in Russia so he's not playing,...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:50:00 GMT

The ALBERTRON SESSIONS uploaded, plus general update shiz.

The ALBERTRON SESSIONS have been uploaded, these are some of our rehearsal recordings for the Prince Albert gig we did, which we loved and are very grateful to those who came to support us. We got som...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:36:00 GMT

GIG ALERT: The Basement Sessions & Sour Jane at The Albert

Hosted By: Sour Jane, The Prince AlbertWhen: 03 Feb 2008, 20:00Where: The Prince Albert (Upstairs)48 Trafalgar StreetBrighton, BN14EDUnited Kingdom
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:35:00 GMT

New tune "Hills of Chameleon Funk" and Sam’s Hat recording

Yo,We have decided that "Hills of Chameleon Funk" is now part of our upper echelons; head over to our page and have a listen and let us know what you think.Also we've mastered a new version of Sam's H...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:23:00 GMT

Four New Recordings Up, Track Count = 12

Peace,We've been recording absolutely crap loads as usual (that's how we work), and have uploaded four new recordings, albeit not really new tracks if you're one of the like 40 plays we got for each o...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:24:00 GMT

"Come With Me" (to be renamed) Lyrics.

Probable lyrics for the "Come With Me" (will be renamed since that was random) track by me, Ben. It's about the ignorance of poverty and  materialism, sparked by a homeless ex-art college student...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:44:00 GMT