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Hair Traffic Control

About Me



We're Hair Traffic Control. We got together in late 2007 and since then we've had the good pleasure of recording and self-releasing 2 EPs, being featured on a BSM compilation, touring with A Bear, and playing countless shows up and down this fine country with the likes of Cats in Paris, Jonquil, Sucioperro, This Town Needs Guns, Worrier and Secondsmile.

We're currently writing and recording new material, but if you'd like us to bring the noise to you in person, give us a shout and we'll see what we can do.

LAST.FM: here

FACEBOOK: here

TOUR: was nice

EPs: Available now - click cover for details...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/05/2007
Band Website: http://hairtrafficcontrol.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Dan Harvey
Ed Wells
Chris Neil

Pictures by Gary Watts
Releases:
To Let - BSM Unsigned Compilation - £4
Order CD
Buy MP3

Let's Do Lunch EP - £4
Order CD

These Are The Dogs In My Life EP - £3
SOLD OUT

Contact: Bookings
Marc at [email protected]

Other
Band at [email protected]

Sounds Like: "Behind walls of intertwining sounds is buckets of energy and charm such as that found in the beat box intro to 'Boots and Cats' and the melodic shifts such as the lovely couple of minutes towards the end of 'These Are The Dogs In My Life Part 2'. Even at their most loud and frantic during 'Last Man In Irkutsk' it never sounds anything less than euphonious."
- Robots Made Me Do It

"Hair Traffic Control are a quality band that should be booked on bills and listened to with ears."
- thesonicminefield

"Awesome mid-western influenced guitar and incredible song mayhem"
- Safetydance

"Whimsical post-rock digressions"
- Maddog Magazine

"The EP gets off to a solid start with the instantly catchy pop-punk of opener ‘Thanks For the Beer’, but it’s the more introspective moments here that really shine. ‘Are We Not Reasonable People?’ is a fragile delight whilst ‘The One With the Brutal Face Pounding’ is the real highlight here. Starting out like the more hyperactive twin of Hot Club De Paris' ‘Clockwork Toy’, it’s a rollercoaster of spazzy guitars and intricate drumming before drifting to a wistful halt."
- Godisinthetv

"Upbeat math-pop done right, even if they do have a stupid name."
- Big Scary Monsters

"The name is silly not stupid"
- The Good Ship

or, listen to our live radio session right here and decide for yourself...

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Reviews and shit for Let's Do Lunch

Alright, we're had some good reviews for Let's Do Lunch, so thought we'd share them with you...Muso's Guide: http://musosguide.com/hair-traffic-control-lets-do-lunch-ep/ 5227The Sonic Minefield: http:/...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:00 GMT

Our actual blog and Twittering type things...

I've just realised that we have a strange state of affairs where some stuff gets written here, and other stuff on that other blog that we've got. So, for much better up to date news, try here: www.hai...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:32:00 GMT

EP and BSM Compilation News

Good evening.I have been looking through all the photos I took on our dates with A Bear, and it turns out all of them are awful, except this one:Damn my blurry hands, ruining all that I set my lensfin...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:37:00 GMT

So, what's been going down in HTC town?

HiWe're back from our jaunt up and down the country with A Bear, and have come older, wiser, and with new EP news. Let's Do Lunch is available to pre-order now from our BigCartel shop for £5 including...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:24:00 GMT

Unit 5 - How to get a ticket

Alright. On 3rd April we are kicking off our tour with A Bear with a show at Unit 5. Because Unit 5 is not an official venue as such, we are not allowed to charge on the door or sell drinks. Therefore...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:36:00 GMT

Masters of the Universe

Alright,We've had a double treat today, firstly we practiced and can play all our new songs, which is always encouraging. Secondly, and more importantly, we've received the masters back for our forthc...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Fact Into Doubt Won't Go

Hi. Having a written a more comprehensive blog on our blog, it seems churlish to short change everybody with just a link to it, so here's an abridged version...Rock!Pedals!Gigs!24th March w/ The Tupo...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:42:00 GMT

Necking fistfuls of ketamine and running into a wall.

I thought I wrote this earlier but myspace disagrees. Nevertheless, we've put a new song in the player, and the new EP should be out shortly.More news soon, as it happens, live.
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:21:00 GMT

We’ll create a kingdom in a cave somewhere and kill and eat unfortunate passers-by.

Good evening.We've just finished mixing our new EP, Let's Do Lunch, which is nice. As a show of our frankly bottomless generousity, you will find a delicious sample from said recordings on our player....
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:34:00 GMT

Noises from our mouths, in words.

We talked to the chaps at Mad Dog magazine, and in return they wrote down some of the things we said and they looked like this:Also, we recorded some drums, but no pictures of that look half as pretty...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:51:00 GMT