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About Me

Owen Thomas, Jim Duncan and James Harvey met at a village school in West Sussex at the end of the last century. Dan Sinclair and Chris Gogarty were found wandering in the hills near Brighton and whilst disorientated were convinced to join a band named after a recently discovered deep-sea fish. Since forming Winteria have headlined the Brighton Live week, played to a packed Bull and Gate in London, appeared on the bill at The Gilded Palace of Sinâ€™s Sadstock festival and supported the likes of Tilly and the Wall, Joy Zipper, Last Days Of April and The Lovegods. The two Jamesâ€™ have also spent a week in a remote Yorkshire farmhouse writing songs with Ray Davies as part of an Arvon songwriting course. When not gigging Winteria write, practice and record their music in a self-built studio near a motocross track thatâ€™s covered in egg boxes and fairy lights. Work on a debut album was started late last year and the 4 tracks on our Myspace page will feature on the album. All songs were written, recorded and mixed by the band who are aiming to play gigs up and down the country to support it when it is finished to a decent standard. A decent standard being somewhere near Under the Western Freeway by Grandaddy or any early Pavement album.

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Member Since: 7/17/2005
Band Website: winteria.co.uk
Band Members: Jim Duncan, Owen Thomas, James Harvey, Dan Sinclair, Chris Gogarty.
Influences: Grandaddy, Pavement, The Delgados, Velvet Underground, Super Furry Animals, Eels, Supergrass, The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, Beck e.t.c.
Sounds Like: According to local press we play "shimmering glacial pop" and the NME say it's more like "Pavement taking a walk in the park".Please feel free to make up your own mind and any of your own descriptions are gratefully recieved as they are bound to be better than ours.
Record Label: Drunken Forest Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gigs and a new plan

Greetings one and all.I have decided, optimistically, that I am going to aim to write an at least fortnightly bloggy dairy thing to let you know what is happening in the happy land of Winteria."Why bo...
Posted by Winteria on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:26:00 PST

Artrocker Review

Hello,We have been reviewed in artrocker magazine comparing us to the likes of Arcade fire.... for the full review go here Artrockercheers Winteria...
Posted by Winteria on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:02:00 PST

New Songs on Myspace!

Winteria Newsflash:New songs have been discovered on the Winteria Myspace site. Along with Hands on Ears, which has been on the site for while but matured with age like a fine claret, the three new tr...
Posted by Winteria on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:07:00 PST

On stage meltdown and the eternal mixing

Greetings one and all.Well it was an interesting gig at the Ocean Rooms. No matter how hard you try to fight it being in a band always ends up being to close to Spinal Tap for comfort.For starters the...
Posted by Winteria on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:00:00 PST

Live Videos

Hi AllJust a quick one to let you know that we have uploaded some live videos. They are from the Halloween gig that we played last year at the Concorde 2 in Brighton. Track listing includes - Hands On...
Posted by Winteria on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:25:00 PST

Vote for Winteria at the NME website.

Hello all, Winteria need your help!! We are now on the NME new music website, the site is set up for unsigned artists to promote their music and listeners can vote, leave comments ...
Posted by Winteria on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:55:00 PST

Tap Dancing

Greetings all, We played a gig on Valentines Day supporting Omaha's Tilly and the Wall on their first ever UK date. They are rather good and are signed to Connor Oberst's Team Love label... ...Oh...
Posted by Winteria on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:09:00 PST

Halloween masks blind band

Hello again Welcome to Harv's blog 2 (it's like Robocop 2 but not quite as moving) We played at the Concorde 2 in Brighton on Halloween. It's the biggest venue we've played so far and if nothing ...
Posted by Winteria on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:28:00 PST

Hello World

Greetings... My name's James Harvey but because there are two James' in this band I am known as Harv, not the best stage name but hey.I play keyboards and write some of the lyrics for Winteria. I thou...
Posted by Winteria on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:59:00 PST