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Jim Kane

thecodebreakers

About Me

The Codebreakers singer/songwriter is currently recording and performing as "Slim Jim Kane'. If I build a full band back up again it may be called the Codebreakers, it may not. Anyway, this is some stuff we recorded last year, I'm still playing a few of these songs but if you wanna hear the new stuff click on slim Jim Kane - 1 friend below.......cheers Slim

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/11/2005
Band Members: Jim (vocals, guitar)Karl (lead guitar, backing vox)Craig (bass, backing vox)Andrew (drums)
Influences: The Kinks, Wilco, Kings of Leon, The Clash, Stone Roses, The Beatles ,The Jam, Dylan, The Who, You Am I, Supergrass, Gomez, The Smiths, Rolling Stones, Sleepy Jackson, White Stripes, Neil Young, The Zombies, Creedance, Sex Pistols, Oasis, Stereophonics, Beck, Flaming Lips, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Velvet Underground, the Killers, Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Elliot Smith, Mercury Rev, Happy Mondays, Blur, Marvine Gaye, the Supremes, Sly, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Nilsson, Gelbison, The Stooges, Primal Scream, Aretha Franklin, Beck, Suicide, Super Furry Animals, Db's, Devo, Blondie, De La Soul, Arcade Fire, Spiritualized, The Undertones, New York Dolls, Badfinger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, MC5, Traffic, Bowie, Dr. John, Ride, New Order, Go Betweens, Madness, the Byrds, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Love, Brian wilson, Squeeze, the Waterboys, The Pogues. Anything thats real and a bit catchy with attitude.
Sounds Like: You tell us....
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new demos uploaded

these songs are raw and not mastered yet but they definitely capture a certain energy. check out Hello australia (Kane), Hoochy Coochy(Kane/Meerbach) and Time to Kill (Kane). These were reco...
Posted by Jim Kane on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:53:00 PST

New EP finished!

It took a while be we finally have a mastered copy of our new ep in our hot little hands! We did all of the drum recording ourselves on Craigs tascam at a Baywswater rehearsal room one very long but h...
Posted by Jim Kane on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:50:00 PST

Half A Cow Demo of the week, review Oct '05

"It's hard to find the time to do everything these days, what with starting a part-time job, especially finding time to do something as time-consuming as DOTW. Hey! Idea! I'll put the proposed demo cd...
Posted by Jim Kane on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

Melbourne's 'mX' newspaper Feb 14 '07

"Get Into This: Aussie Rockers The codebreakers have released Little Bird, a brooding track with shades of the Kinks and Kings of Leon. Their rock 'n' roll swaggery has been causing a stir at recent l...
Posted by Jim Kane on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST