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Gintis

Your power is your imagination

About Me

The Brotherhood of Gintis welcomes you with open arms, though it is not for the faint hearted. If you like your music to come with scarves, blazers, shit haircuts played by pretty boys in jeans way too tight, then just fuck off now. Gintis are about having the bollocks to do something that matters, to stick their necks out and say "hang on, lets do something beceause we beleive in it, be true to ourselves, so what if it sounds a little odd, do it" why mute your imagination? let it wander, let us take you on that journey, it's a fucking insane world out there, embrace that! Gintis will lead you on the way, we may make you see things you never wanted to see, or think thoughts that make your head hurt and bring that white sheet over your mind, blanket bombing it to stop you from taking it too far! but i'm sure we will make you smile too. It is heart warming and sincere, so come on Join us. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"They come from the University of Beefheart and graduated with Flaming Lips honours. I once spent half an hour with them looking for a wizard who was making magic potions in a caravan in Skegness. They are a little offbeat but in the best and most charming way." - Lupine
"It's different, it's diverse to the point where even Gorky's Zygotic Mynci would throw the towel in & say, 'Hey lads, please take our pedestal'. Gintis are like laboratory rats fed on a cocktail of psychedelic drugs who have escaped to set up a commune in a nuclear power station" - Link2Wales
"The world’s finest example of 'spazchedelia' - invite it into your ears and your hearts" - Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
"'Happy Drunken Accidents' is the first Gintis album. Life just got better." Ben Clay, Flotation Toy Warning
"Quite, quite beautiful." BBC Wales

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2005
Band Website: Hiddenhive.co.uk
Band Members: Carl // Dave // Rob // Kyle // Joe
Influences: Grandaddy, Pavement, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Love, Bright Eyes, Lemonheads, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse, Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, The Coral, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, Flaming Lips, The Pixies, The Doors, Midlake, Flotation Toy Warning, Sleepy Jackson, SFA, Gram Parsons, Syd Barratt, Ben Folds, the Earlies, Mojave 3/Slowdive, Low, Micah P Hinson, Arab Strap, Iron & Wine, Devandra Banhart, The Smiths, OASIS!!!! ... The seaside, arcades, mountains, shit holidays and JOHN BARNES
Sounds Like: Skewed indie country folk pop with added banjo, trumpet, piano, screaming ALOHA!
Record Label: Hidden Hive Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Review of album from French website (17/20 stars)

Here's that translation for you, tell if any bits sounds wrong. It helps to know about the subject when you do a translation to get the context right and since I haven't heard ur band some things in h...
Posted by Gintis on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

New Happy Drunken Accidents review 8/10 stars (couldn't tell the difference)

By our newest friend Mike at whisperinandhollerin.com 'GINTIS' 'Happy Drunken Accidents'   -  Label: 'self-release (http://www.myspace.com/gintis)' -  Genre: 'Indie' -  Re...
Posted by Gintis on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:29:00 PST

Old BBC review of our first e.p that were out on Slacyr records (www.slacyr.co.uk) - go buy it!

Supersoakers & Megadrives Broke These Li'l Hearts EP Slacyr Records: 29 September 2004Gintis' debut three-track EP, recorded in an abandoned Llandudno nightclub. Many great bands formed at sch...
Posted by Gintis on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:16:00 PST

Review of our album 'Happy Drunken Accidents' by Ben Clay (Flotation Toy Warning)

Gintis - "Happy Drunken Accidents" - Some words  - So here's the question: On boarding the train you enter the carriage and find yourself face to face with Stephen Malkmus, Noel Gallagher an...
Posted by Gintis on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

i like this review - though factually incorrect

 The second half was performance proper with the headline act, Gintis. Gintiss quirky brand of indie folk rock kicked of with a whimsical feel with lots of doo doo dee da das and jangly guitar ch...
Posted by Gintis on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:16:00 PST