Member Since: 8/12/2007
Band Website: http://next-goal-wins.blogspot.com/
Band Members:
Gareth Candidate - Guitars, Vocals and Beard Growing Attempts .
Christian Candidate - Drums, Vocals and Nice Jumpers. (And even better beard).
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Influences: There's a continuous stream of bands and things in general that inspire and influence us, and we write about these lots, when the mood takes us, on our blog here.
But for now, here's the key influences that we could remember:
Vaguely obvious influences:
Pavement / Bloc Party / Los Campesinos! / XTC / Hot Club De Paris / Winterkids / Good Shoes / Two Gallants / Blood Red Shoes / The Mae Shi / Johnny Foreigner / The Clash / Born Ruffians / We Are Scientists / The Futureheads / The Specials / The Kinks / Mystery Jets / The Rakes / Maximo Park / The Cribs / Joy Division / Test Icicles / The Hold Steady / Tubelord / Cats and Cats and Cats / Little My / Pony Up / Elle S'appelle / Pete And The Pirates / Mates Of State / Tokyo Police Club / Pretty Girls Make Graves / The All New Adventures Of Us / The Maccabees / The Jam / The Who / The Holloh / Tellison / YouMadeMe / Every band we've ever played with who spoke to us and didn't just ignore us at soundcheck and things //
Slightly less obvious influences:
Regina Spektor / Sufjan Stevens / Miles Davis / Bob Dylan / Sigur Ros / Outkast / Million Dead / Johnny Flynn / Sam Isaac / Frank Turner / Jose Vanders / Kimya Dawson / Jeffrey Lewis / Luke Leighfield / Jim Lockey / Midnight Mile / James Yuill / Courteney Pine / Don Caballero / Fred Frith / John Coltrane / Erik Mongrain / The Ataris / Michael Nyman / John Cage / Phillip Glass / Steve Reich / Sam Richards / Andy McKee / Le Tigre / Lightspeed Champion / Keiko / Rilo Kiley / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Life Without Buildings / Xiu-Xiu / Bikini Kill / Broken Social Scene / Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Mogwai / Explosions In The Sky / And So I Watch You From Afar / A Genuine Freakshow / I Was A Cub Scout / UnderOATH / AC/DC / Jurassic 5 / Foals / Scroobius Pip / Irritant //
Non musical influences:
Adam and Joe / 1.FC Kaiserslautern / You //
Sounds Like: Peter Petrelli's socks in a tumble dryer.
BBC Gloucestershire said it sounds more like this though:
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major