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About Me


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Formed in 2004, Reading 5 piece The Race released their debut album Be Your Alibi on Shifty Disco on 11th September 2006. From the fevered urgency of opening salvo - forthcoming single Find Out - to the cascading, sprawling beauty of final epic Wash Out, The Race pack more ideas into one song than many other bands manage in an entire career. Their talent is for corralling a wayward artistic sensibility and a Sonic Youth informed twin guitar frenzy with a natural instinct for melody. They judder and stumble with visceral intensity before alighting all at once on the big pop hook with an apparently effortless grace.
The Race admit to turning to North America for musical inspiration to the magical realism of Arcade Fire or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs rather than the current crop of UK indie kitchen sink dramatists. But turn to the twin male/female vocal led Research if you want proof that The Race realise ambitions of capturing the big spaces of U2 and the emotive Americana of The National and inform them with a distinctly English sensibility. Be Your Alibi is a consistently surprising, giddily mercurial and utterly captivating debut.
It all started with two double A-side single releases in 2005, these received rave reviews in the UK press and enthusiastic radio play from Radio 1, Virgin, XFM and BBC 6music as well as live sessions with Radio 1, XFM and BBC 6Music. Over the past 18 months (in support of their debut album) the band have toured with Cooper Temple Clause, The Others, Morning Runner and Seafood, and supported the likes of Supergrass, Fun Loving Criminals, Captain, Zutons, The Spinto Band, The View and Babyshambles; along with an appearance at Reading Festival and festivals in Holland, Germany, Czech Republic and Spain. The band are currently working on their second album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Website: theraceuk.com
Band Members: Dan Buchanan - Voice, Casiotone and Glockenspiel
Jessica del Rio - Guitars and Voice
Graeme Moorcroft - Bass
Andrew Aitken - Drums
James del Rio - Guitars

Email: [email protected]

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Influences: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Strokes, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, The Cure, Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, Jeff Buckley, Doves...

Management.

Vanessa Carreras
vanessa @ carrerasmanagement.com

Booking Agent.

Ben Winchester
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Press.

Starling Publicity
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Record Label: Shifty Disco
Rough Trade Distribution (Germany)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Album/Pass IT ON/Stakes/New website..

The album is done. Finished. We are very pleased with it indeed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/06/09/t herace_passiton_feature.shtml ..PASS IT ON..  We have made 100 of...
Posted by the race on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:15:00 PST

* STEAK*

Is on its way. Our record label have come up with an ingenious way of offering people who believe in us a way of sharing in the profits from this album (for the next 5 years) in exchange for £25 stake...
Posted by the race on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:51:00 PST

badgering underway.

We are in the studio at last. mr eringa has dutch roots..i got that confused with the vikings somehow. There is a lake and some portaloo’s and flies..today the wind blew them away. Andy has been...
Posted by the race on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:14:00 PST

LIMBOtastic..

So this is what limbo feels like. We had the all clear to record in a stately home and then the lady of the manor got nervous, next up was a huge church but unfortunately it was too complex trying to ...
Posted by the race on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:11:00 PST

neeearly there.

We have spent the past two weeks together every afternoon crafting/grafting hard. Having spent much of december working on stuff individually its been great to have some collective input. We're trying...
Posted by the race on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:00 PST

nearly christmas...again.

hello. I'm listening to an album called the headphone masterpiece by a chap called cody chestnutt (codychestnutt.com)..its got 39 songs, apparently he refused to cut it down for the majors and so rele...
Posted by the race on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:51:00 PST

** DAILY EUROPEAN TOUR DIARY**

Right we are almost set. I think this tour shall be called; the 'poor old us-we're freezing our butts off' tour. The heating still doesn't work in the bus although we were told today by the garag...
Posted by the race on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:39:00 PST

Getting ready for a road trip.

one week till we hit the roads of europe and i can't wait. having been couped up in our room for most of the year and seeing the seasons come and go it will be nice to be out playing again- probably n...
Posted by the race on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:37:00 PST

November, November.

We are still here. writing. meeting up most days other times on our own with the computer and a little heater for company-James is in the room right now so i am here. Probably around 13/14 songs ...
Posted by the race on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:24:00 PST

THE news.

Hello, must try and keep things updated. i tried this week to splice some footage of our trip to germany but unfortunately the free trial program i have had run out..i will try again soon in a qu...
Posted by the race on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:55:00 PST