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chrik - NEW SONG UPLOADED!

About Me

making music is one of our most favourite things in the world. we make tunes with drums, cymbals and a guitar.
we love to play gigs, send us a message if you want to book us.
The uk music scene is full of amazing bands and amazing people. keep the community spirit alive! in the past we have played with some lovely bands/artists such as marvins revolt, papier tigre, itch, tubelord, blakfish, instruments, pennines, fago.sepia, super tennis, hooray for humans, elks, the defeat, wintermute, this town needs guns, the! spoon? (and the), arms at last, rotary ten, proud scout, ever since the lake caught fire, the search map, goFASTER>>, spokes, lakes, monsters build mean robots, alright the captain, house that jack built, dire wolfe, double handsome dragons, we came out like tigers, my amiga, eastfifefourforfarfive, the carter manoeurve, voo, cocean, meadowlands, drive like i do, fightfightfight, shapes, 28 costumes and puzzle.
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news:
we've just been on tour and it was amazing! thanks to everyone who came down to the shows and all the bands we have played with especially monsters build mean robots.
we have recorded a new EP! we don't have a release date for this yet but you can buy limited pre-release copies at our next few gigs.
also! we are on the new BSM unsigned compilation 'to let'! for more info and purchase details check the blog above.
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videos:
video diary from the recording of the new EP... edited by rik
part one of two:
part two of two edited by rik:
'techindy' at the barfly liverpool 20.12.08...
more videos here .
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other projects:
present:
goFASTER >> (chris)
the great argument (chris)
past:
anna karina (rik)
pas de bruit (chris and rik)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2007
Band Members: chris - guitars
rik - drums

Influences: american football, rumah sakit, from monument to masses, make believe, sweep the leg johnny, sleeping people, pele, meet me in st louis, hella, postal service, at the drive in, battles, biffy clyro, cougar, don caballero, marvins revolt, instruments, explosions in the sky, lcd soundsystem, itch, dillinger escape plan, mogwai, sigur ros, sufjan stevens...

releases:

title: to let - a bsm unsigned compilation
released: april 2009
price: £4
buy: at shows or online limited edition cd , itunes
tracklisting:
01. scholars - recovery monday
02. talons - commiserations buff orpington
03. crowns on the rats orchestra - op.7 for dead poets, for saints
04. heathers - margie
05. gossamer albatross - little bird
06. hair traffic control - the hobo gauntlet
07. tall ships - words are pegs
08. la faro - tupenny nudger
09. thejamescleaverquintet - the shame
10. worrier - wind of sails
11. meadowlands - the swirl of milk
12. chrik - marmight

title: record
released: june 2008
price: £5 inc P+P
buy: at shows or send us a message
tracklisting:
1. yoshi
2. ben nevis
3. i like zebras
4. shakespeare would be good at texting
5. clicksticks or stickclicks
6. pot noodle?
7. marmight

title: four track ep (demo)
released: january 2008
buy: sold out
tracklisting:
1. yoshi
2. song two
3. song three
4. pot noodle?
5. byebyeattichellobedroom

chrik on facebook:

chrik on last fm:

check out these wonderful folk:

you are invited
football
carefully planned
cutout productions
something good
dirty otter!
brickface
burn the jukebox collective
this is my right arm
big scary monsters
motive sounds
ondryland
uneven blonde
minimal

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

BBC 6MUSIC with steve lamacq!

Hey all!Steve Lamacq recently interviewed chris on his 6MUSIC unsigned show and played a track of our new EP! if you missed it live and want to give it a listen then head over to the iplayer at www.bb...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:09:00 GMT

chrik videos

Here are a few videos of chrik stuff...video diary from the recording of the new EP...part one of two: part two of two: 'techindy' at the barfly liverpool 20.12.08... ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:41:00 GMT

'to let' - a BSM unsigned compilation

Hey all!One of our favourite record labels has released a compilation of it's favourite unsigned bands and we're on it! here's the official stuff...---------------------------------------------------- ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:24:00 GMT

reviews...

b&n magazineaugust 2009First band on was Chrik and boooy, were they good. I remember seeing this energetic instrumental guitar+drums outfit before but cant quite pin down where it was - but I remem...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:04:00 GMT