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Hexicon started as three man voice/guitar/french horn combo in 2004 and got told they sounded like a lo-fi Beach Boys. They expanded when Mike, Paul and Tom were joined by Andy and Greg, the rotating drummer tag-team and Giles who was a total bass-head.Before the rhythm section joined the other guys started making a record, playing all the bits themselves as Greg recorded and mixed. It's coming out pretty soon. Hexicon recorded more songs at Soup Studios soon after. 'Narissa I Won't' and 'Sweet Things' were planned for release as a single, and they are waiting patiently.Hexicon have so far played on bills with some of their favourite people including James Yuill, Fireworks Night, Esiotrot, Darren Hayman, Fanfarlo and SFA. Rob Rotifer took them out on a tour of Austria in 2006 to play some shows alongside Fuzzman and himself.Members of Hexicon tend to crop up in other bands like Allo Darlin, and Tom's Horn can be heard on Darren Hayman's most recent records.

She Plays Games
Ireland at the ICA
Listen to the live living room session on IYB14 Fortean Times with Hexicon
In Your Bass 14

'Still Here' and 'New Lappy' were previewed in a live session for deXter Bentley's Hello Goodbye show on Resonance in 2007 - listen to the show again here:
dexterbentley.com/hellogoodbye.htm

Our old EP which was available through the Mentalist Association has now sold out and has been deleted. 'Something Strange Beneath the Stars' can still be found on the latest label sampler, 'Condimentalist.'
mentalistassociation.co.uk

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Member Since: 7/7/2005
Band Website: www.bunkeronthehill.com
Band Members: Mike Collins-singing, guitar; Paul Rains-guitar, lapsteel, keyboard, singing; Thom Allard-horn, synth, keyboard, glockenspiel, singing; Giles Barrett-bass; Greg Webster-Drums; Andy Raeburn-Drums.


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Sounds Like: Hexicon make the sound of mellow hillbillies tripping in the countryside
Artrocker

..the monster wig-out at the end just builds and builds and gnaws into your head, with a feedbacky drum avalanche climax.
lastnightfromglasgowindieeyespy on 'Follow the Herd'

A nice variant of indiepop, complete with french horn and lap steel and other cutesy instruments…definitely something to watch out for.
Central European music journal

If the Beach Boys were from Kent and recorded pet sounds with the audience on percussion.
Electroacoustic Club

If this EP contained only the first track, Sweet Things (Born to Die), it would still be worth buying. The song is a bittersweet remembrance of childhood, its ephemeral nature and the naive dreams that as children, we are condemned to let go of just by growing older…
Backlash Magazine EP Review

Gorgeous mellow indiepop in the vein of Stars Of Aviation and Fanfarlo
How Does It Feel to be Loved


Record Label: Mentalist Association
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

lazy radio

Hey everyone, we've not been purposefully lazy - eight months just sort of went by without us noticing. We've finished recording our album, Greg is mixing it now. Tom has gone to India for a bit aft...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:47:00 GMT

keep it quiet

we played to a peculiarly hushed and appreciative crowd at the ICA in April, for the Quiet Nights run of gigs. Hexicon appeared as the old school, 'acoustic' three man model, complete with a rare per...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:41:00 GMT

christmas play

we've just finished recording our christmas single especially for In Your Bass 10, called Christmas Play. the podcast will go online in the next day or two to build up some christmassy anticipation f...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:13:00 GMT

listen again

listen again to the Resonance fm Mentalist Association special, if you were too hungover, working for not enough pay or doing something better with yourself to catch it on the day.it's now up on the d...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:14:00 GMT

resonance fm session 2nd June

we're doing a live session for dexter bentley's midday Hello Goodbye show on Saturday 2nd June. we're sharing the bill with Gasp!Cracking Eggs- a great excuse to join forces for a song. the session w...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:48:00 GMT

drummer

we're looking for a drummer/percussionist to join the Hexicon line-up for our upcoming run of gigs in june and july and hopefully beyond. we're recording an album at the moment with extra bells and ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:35:00 GMT

artrocker review and austria tour

artrocker have featured us in Afonzo's demo kitchen. It doesn't make a great deal of sense, mind, but nevertheless, I think it's a recommendation...artrocker reviewand thanks to clodia who blogged us...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:44:00 GMT

the blossom sighs

we recorded a brand new version of Something Strange Beneath the Stars recently that's included on the new M.A compilation, 'CondiMENTALIST'.  19 tracks of cuteness, pop, noise, bloops and bleeps...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:16:00 GMT

dazey chains

dazed and confused did an article on our label/collective last month, and they've now accompanied it with an online mish-mash of interviews and a mentalist association compiled radio mixtape featurin...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:57:00 GMT

scraps of songs and things

it's going to be a little while before any of our recordings surface but here's some old stuff that could have been the new stuff before it gathered too much dust. we took our old 4-track recordings ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:35:00 GMT