For all booking details email Andrew Elliott at [email protected]
New single - "Last Cigarette" out July 21st.
Tracklisting:
Last Cigarette
Now Then
Streetwalkers of the Phoney War
"EMILIONE" OUT NOW
Tracklisting:
Emilione
Athelstan
Buy now for £3.50 (inc P&P);
Praise for Emilione
"Pretty fucking amazing" Alex Miller - NME
"Splendid" Sounds XP
"Corking stuff" Sandman Magazine
"Definitely the only half decent thing to come out of Teesside since paint" Playlouder
"Decidedly strange" CD Times
"Brimful of atmosphere, pomp and melodrama" Evening Gazette
"Sounds like a more tuneful version of what iLiKETRAiNS might come up with" The Crack
"STANDARDS" EP - SOLD OUT!
Includes 'His Last Act', a duet with the wonderful Benjamin Wetherill.
Tracklisting:
Beams
Paolo The Cartographer
Sincerity
His Last Act
Cover artwork by Richard at
Brothers Grott
What about us?
Idiot Savant, popularly (or unpopularly) misconstrued as a bunch of miserable sods, are a 5 piece band from Middlesbrough: the chip-on-shoulder capital of England (even more so now - damn you Location Location Location!).
Formed just after the turn of the millennium by (ex) flatmates Oli Heffernan and Daniel Cochran as an ego project, the band also comprises former Junior Elvis drummer and folk singing monkey hanger Ben Muriel (A.K.A. Folk Daddy A.K.A. F-Diddy), faux nice guy Dean Langstaff and cheekboned new boy Robbie Major.
Sometime in 2005 the band started to do some work, gigging extensively with such up and comers as Leaves, Aidan Smith and Electric Eel Shock, and receiving their first national airplay thanks to Radio One's Welsh lovegod Huw Stephens. They also signed to Dont Tell Clare in an attempt to negate their massive gambling debts.
In 2006 the Idiots recorded a new EP (entitled Standards and out now), played lots more gigs, and grew or maintained beards (with varying degrees of success).
2007 sees the clean shaven (for the most part) Idiots recording a new single - "Emillione", getting nice reviews from the likes of the NME and the ever-present Rob Nicholls as well as airplay on 6Music and Huw Stephens Radio One show. They've also played gigs with The Archie Bronson Outfit, The Young Republic & Echo & The Bunnymen.
None of Idiot Savant now live with their mothers.
"Fuck off" - Ian McCulloch (to a starstruck Ben - 2007)
