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Member Since: 21/06/2007
Band Members: Tony O'Donovan - Sings songs with a voice and plays a guitar; Tom Couton - Bangs on drums with pieces of wood in an organised fashion; Alan Ayres AKA "The Cider Provider" - Fretboard wizard and purveyor of all things mystical; Matt Irving - plays a big guitar called a bass whilst growing hair at a rate of knots.
Influences: The Beatles, Led Zep, Elbow, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Gomez, Jeff Buckley, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, The La's, Shack, Stereophonics, Pontoon21, The Verve, Frank Sinatra, The Pogues, Lonny Donegan, Nick Drake, The Farm, Van Morrison, The Yardbirds, The Who, Chili Peppers, Joanna Newsom, Sex Pistols, The Byrds, The Doors, Peter Green, Beck, Jimi Hendrix, The Killers, Burt Bacharach, Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, The Four Tops, Blondie, Elvis Presley, The Band, REM, Stone Roses, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Manics, Teardrop Explodes, Kula Shaker, Bjork, The Small Faces, Antony & The Johnsons, Nirvana, Portishead, Athlete, Neil Diamond, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ennio Morricone, Scott Walker, The Kinks, Neil Young, Cream, Chuck Berry, Beastie Boys, Tori Amos, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Madness, Lee 'Stratch' Perry, Tony Bennet, Woody Guthrie, Kraftwerk, Nat King Cole, Leonard Cohen, Richie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Paul Weller, Ray Charles, James Brown, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, The Specials, Coldplay, Simon & Garfunkle, Tom Waits, The Faces, George Formby, Sly & The Family Stone... Also Neitzche, Dali, Luis Buñuel, Andre Breton, Banksy, Oscar Wilde, The Clans of Ireland, TS Eliot, Hannah Bovington, Sylvia Plath, Barry McGuigan, William Carlos Williams, Kenny Dalglish, Eddie the Eagle & Jim Bowen. Heroes: Charlie Shepherd, Ethan O'Donovan, Billy "The Cock of Woolton" Couton, Lee Mavers, that fella who stopped the tank in Tianeman Square...he had big brass bollocks him.
Sounds Like: In the words of Room21 Management:"THE VALE SHOWED EVERYONE WHY THEY ARE THE BUSIEST MOST TALKED ABOUT BAND IN THE NORTH WEST. VERY HECTIC MOMENTUM THEY HAVE BUILT UP FOR THEMSELVES AND ITS PLAIN TO SEE WHY. HAVE GUITAR WILL TRAVEL ATTITUDE WILL STAND THESE GUYS IN GOOD STEAD. PRODUCED A SET FULL OF SWAGGER AND SURE FOOTEDNESS AND CREATED AN ATMOSPHERE FULL OF AUDIENCE PARTICAPATION AS EVERYONE GOT HOOKED AND REELED IN VIA CATCHY SING ALONG SONGS. DOWN TO EARTH, FEET ON THE GROUND STARS OF THE FUTURE."
Type of Label: Major