Yes! The rumours are true! Quadrophobe have a Facebook group! Do please have a butcher's, by clicking on the words 'Facebook Group' , and join it! Invite everyone you know! Who knows, maybe we can actually appear popular?
Check out our listing at Gig Guide UK!
Harking from a town where the only two major pastimes are forming bands or drinking, Quadrophobe began life as a culmination of both, but quickly escalated beyond being a minor diversion from the trivialities of small-town day to day life, into an all-consuming song and dance.
Since formation, they have written songs, broken genre taboos, ridden a piano through a small Oxfordshire village, gigged, and pioneered the Jazz Elephant; roughly in that order.
We've just finished our latest EP! We've named it Quixotic, after Don Quixote, since everyone's a little bit Spanish at heart. Ariba!
It contains four of our newest and bestest songs, and will be available for only four English pounds! We recorded it at the mighty Indie Guitar Studio in delightful Grove Technology park, care of the multi-talented Adam Fox. The first track from it, Super Badger, is first in the player above. We'd love to know what you think...
Things People Have Said:
I was immediately drawn in by the cheeky 2-Tone rhythms and mischievous brass section that are so well put together... Wonderfully infectious... [Super Badger]’s amazing in all senses of the word – amazingly original, amazingly hilarious and amazingly terrible, leaving you in equal amounts of bewilderment and hysterics. This lot are onto something, and I hope more will begin to take their silliness more seriously.
Josie Allchin, Oxfordshire Music Scene Magazine
Quadrophobe; purveyors of songs about cult movies, not-quite-octopuses, and majestically inappropriate ska affectations of forgotten 80’s tunes.
Full Metal Waistcoat
A fine, fine song [Super Badger]... The musicianship is amazing! Awesome.
Tim Bearder & David Gilleat, BBC Radio Oxford's 'Introducing' Show
A hugely enjoyable set... So infectious was the music that this writer joined the band on the dance floor. I stayed for the whole set and thought to myself, yes that's more like it. I definitely recommend them.
Al Cane , The Faringdon Folly Newspaper
Very musically accomplished... great personality!
The Jack FM 'Next Big Thing' Competition Judges
...funky, scuffly harmonious and fun... Reminds me a little of the Coral (but a bit better and with some more ideas if I'm honest).
Bandman
Infectiously ditty like, you can tell these guys are all nuts. Would love to see them live as the tempo suggests an awesome party feel. If these guys can escape to the city I see great things!
Dave Chislett, South African journalist, publicist & author
I didn't know Kula Shaker were in town.
Random passer-by, Oxford
If Quadrophobe were a country, I'd be patriotic.
Christopher George Belcher Esq
You're all just a bunch of raving old queens.
Harry Glaubner
So good I forgot about my pot noodle
Maria Ilett
