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Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping

We've done an At The Drive-in

About Me

We did it for shits and giggles and a bit of petrol money and we ended up totally out of pocket; but it was worth it.
For 4 years, two Steve's and a drummer made music that most people weren't daft enough to bother with and which was not inspired by: the slate grey skies, steel industry, hills... although we did once pen a tune about the lovely ladies of London Road. It was kind of an accident though. That'll teach Ste to teach shy singers how to sing.
We sung glorious odes to the stars and the future (mainly the bleak dystopian futures envisioned by our favourite Sci-Fi authors).
Unless you've got your speakers off then you know what we sounded like at the last point we chronicled our music in recorded form. Its getting better all the time, but its not sounding like Shed 7.
When my internet gets back up i'll put the real latest stuff online.
Sorry.
Steven Doyle (Mr Doyle to some people).
PS When Mike's well we'll do a show.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/26/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/stopthatastronaut
Band Members: Ste - Guitar, Vocals.
Steve - Bass, Vocals.
Mike/Dave/Will - Drums.
Influences: At The Drive-in, Grade, DJ Vibes & Wishdokta, Superchunk, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Dugong, Andy Glenn & Ritch, Shy FX, Mad Max, Joy Division, George Lucas, New Order, Philip K Dick, Coheed & Cambria, Dr Who, The X-Files, The New Lev Yashin, The League Of Gentlemen, Laika, Altern-8, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, Milloy, Urban Shakedown, Isaac Asimov, Thursday, Planet of the Apes, True Playaz, The Ganja Kru, The Prodigy, Akira, Fist Of Fun, Dune, Douglas Adams, Yuri Gagarin, The Day Today, Four Dumb Kids, This Mourning After, Indecision, John Humphrys, Hopewood, George A. Romero, Roddy and Sir Arthur C., DARTZ!, Flatlands, Frank Herbert
Sounds Like: One hand clapping.
Record Label: DiY
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MERCH!

Righto... i've had my head up my arse for ages now and been dallying over getting this stuff sorted!We've had some product available since our tour with Four Dumb Kids that you might like to know abou...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:40:00 PST

NEW SONGS!

Finally added a couple of the 6 songs we recorded before and around Christmas.
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Wed, 23 May 2007 04:11:00 PST

Dartz!?

Dartz!Alt-pop from Teesside with a full-length record coming out on Xtra-Mile Recordings and off on some kind of never-ending tour of which this is the first night.  Catch their skills before the...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:03:00 PST

A slight return...

Where did you go, when things went wrong for you... when the knives came out for you?Having spent 6 months away from the gigging circuit we had a workout with William Penryth Beauchamp in front of the...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:25:00 PST

If you have got something nice to say... (part 2)

This review will appear in the next issue of Maximum Rock & Roll, #280, which is a apparently a big fanzine in the USA and will come out in mid-August. Here's what it will say:FOUR DUMB KIDS / STO...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:42:00 PST

If you have got something nice to say...

... say it! Distort Records do MP3 reviews... here's what they said about us when they chanced upon this page: Stop That Astronaut - The Mass Of Humanity ... DDDDd - posted by Ian, 16th May 2006 Now t...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:34:00 PST

Drummers...

We've been a bit slack recently as we've been sorting out who sits behind the drums in this band.  Dave couldn't really do it anymore so now we're training up Will and will be back at gigs a...
Posted by Stop That Astronaut Are Sleeping on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:29:00 PST