Our style involves us playing big sounding choruses and catchy verses, with a combination of punk, indie and grunge rock influence. This culminates in a raw garage-rock ambience from 4 different tastes in music, varying through acts like Brand New, Bloc Party, The Cure and Alkaline Trio.
Mr Sportsman was started in early 2007 with a red acoustic guitar, a small computer room and gentleman by the name of Gaz. He spent most of his time that year, recording what could be described as the bare bones of Mr Sportsman's music, on his computer. However, something was missing.
This something was found in summer '08 in the form of a keen bass player, Tom. In a beige front room in Rusholme, Tom's clever bass lines started to give the music a dimension it previously lacked. From that point onwards, the plan was to turn Mr Sportsman into a band.
The hunt was on for a drummer and a lead guitarist. It wasn't until late '08, after tireless efforts from Gaz and Tom, that Gaz got a call from Joe. Gaz had known Joe since age 11 and knew of his talents as a drummer so a call was made to arrange for Joe to join Mr Sportsman.
Around the same time Sean, a work colleague of Gaz's, showed an interest in the recordings made by Gaz which lead to them getting together and running through some ideas. Sean was impressive, showing a very developed sense of key and timing in spite of the relatively short time he'd been playing guitar. Sean was added as the forth and final member of Mr Sportsman.
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