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The Fountain are a three-piece pop band from Manchester .While The Fountain are from said city, their location is largely insignificant.The Fountain are influenced by various forms of modern culture, lowbrow and highbrow, no brow and eyebrow.The Fountain walk a lofty tightrope minus safety net between the popular and the rather bloody strange.The Fountain is Maria Dada (vocals/bass), Ted Kemp (vocals/guitar) and Alan Creedon (drums/backing vocals).
"Post-punk with the spirit and sense of purpose of those original practitioners as opposed to the watery imitations that have blighted the phrase in recent years.""...if you can imagine a female David Byrne duelling with Stephen Malkmus whilst Wire and The Fall have a Krautrock party...one of Manchester's most exciting underground bands..." Cath Aubergine, Manchestermusic.co.uk
"Very, very clever people who can play very, very quickly and very, very smartly. Very, very clever people who can take the piss out of Kate Bush, the entire punk thing and spare the time to slap down some riffs made from barbed wire whips" Review of "Fat Tax", Unpeeled.co.uk
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Member Since: 9/9/2005
Band Website: theelegantpisser.com
Band Members: Ted Kemp (Guitar/Vocals/Synth), Maria Dada (Bass Guitar/Vocals), Alan Creedon (Drums/Vocals)
Influences: Julian Cope, Guided by Voices, Wire, Television, The Vaselines, Talking Heads, Early Gorky's, The Monks, Early Scritti Politti, The Fall, The Velvet Underground, Felt, Brian Wilson, Orange Juice, The Beatles, The Kinks,The Soft boys, The Television Personalities, The Stooges, Josef K, Ariel Pink....Plus everything else that seeped into our subconsious along the way...
Record Label: Bad Space
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

USA Radio

'In My Brain, I Can Hide" will be on USA radio this Saturday on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia between 09:00 - 11:00 Richmond time and on www.wrir.org between 14:00 -16:00 UK time....
Posted by The Fountain on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:18:00 PST

Hark! The Filthy Angels Sing and Across the Pennines

The label that brought you debut offerings from the likes of The Long Blondes, IK+ and Johnny Foreigner are featuring Fat Tax (exclusive) on their "Hark! The Filthy Angels Sing" compilation avail...
Posted by The Fountain on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:44:00 PST

We are listening to

  - Deciet (This Heat)   - Grotesque (The Fall)   - Dark Orgasm (Julian Cope)  
Posted by The Fountain on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:13:00 PST