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The Arcane Parade

About Me

Email: [email protected]
"There's a punk urgency and rabid instrumental discipline" Unpeeled .
"...the most rocking and powerful trio that’s graced the pages of Future Sounds so far"
"...urgent rock songs that'll launch you into next week with a fist in the air and a smile on your face." Rockfeedback .
"Clever, aggressive and engaging Alternative Rock Music."
"Criminally underrated." The Plastic Ashtray .
"Shades of The Who for the sheer dynamics of the songs." Monochrome Museum .
"Disgraceful." Nigel Hilton.
"Miss Black America's Hectic Whirl is recalled...If they can really throw themselves at their targets, it could exhilarate." Planet Sound .
"A succinct slice of retro-influenced punk, exploding from the starting blocks like a more caustic Clash." Rock Midgets .
"Woooooo!" Rick Flair .
"spiralling guitars and spluttered verses with the kneejerk frenetic qualities of early Rocket From The Crypt" Subba-Culture .
"Energy, dedication and artistry: all that matters in music, and all that the Arcane Parade embody"" Starve in Heaven .
"The Radiohead of the West Midlands... like the Beatles in Hamburg." Ross Bannatyne .
"Drawing from a plethora of styles to create something with a little danger" The Mag
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/9/2005
Band Members: Carl Watchorn (drums/lead vox),
Craig Hutton (guitar/vox),
Reeves Anthony (bass/vox).
Influences: The Clash
Manic Street Preachers
Television
Neu
The Police
Wire
Richard Pryor
Bill Hicks
Sounds Like: Razor sharp tension, insistent and forceful alternative punk.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Civic Bar Thank You's

Thank you to everyone who came out to see us play The Civic Bar on Saturday night. It was a great night, we had a blast playing and the feedback we had was great as well. Likewise cheers to the E-go's...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 08:11:00 GMT

Brakes Show and New Songs on Site

Last night we played what will most likely be our last ever Little Civic show, in support of Brakes. Cheers to Brakes for being extremely nice people and for bumping us up the bill to main support, an...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:24:00 GMT

Last Minute Birmingham Show and an Update on the upcoming Wolverhampton Shows.

Hello hello,We've taken a last minute show at The 444 Club @ The Rainbow in Birmingham this Wednesday night., where with The Chakras. I'm unsure on all the details right now, but doors are at 8 and we...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:24:00 GMT

Just found this review of last nights show!

"The Arcane Parade Juggernaut rolled into Birmingham last night, delivering a virtuoso performance to an all-star crowd at the Sunflower Lounge.Playing a set compiled almost entirely of hits from thei...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:47:00 GMT

Is 7 tracks an EP or a Mini Album? How about 8? Does anyone except me care?

Just a quick update on our recording. As you may know, we spent the weekend at Skylab Studio's with the extremely talented Andy Taylor and Floyd Brennan, laying tracks for our forthcoming EP / Mini Al...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:20:00 GMT

"You could do with a little more stubble"

Evening all,Last night we played at the Little Civic in Wolverhampton, playing on our first sold out show. Admittedly, the show wasn't sold out due to us being there, however it was really nice to pla...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:49:00 GMT

"Have you ever been to Morrisons and found they've ran out of cucumbers?"

Last night we played the Sunflower Lounge, in what I believe was our first gig in Birmingham for about 10 months (That seems longer than i thought, so please correct me if you can prove otherwise).Any...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:42:00 GMT

Back with Bang...and six other songs

So last night saw us play our first gig for 4 months, where we played with the Southern Cradle, at our spiritual home of Katy's in Stourbridge.It was recorded by KFFM for their podcast, so hopefully w...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:41:00 GMT

"Leather and Loose."

Hello everyone. Just in case you didn't know, we have not dis-banded, we are merely on a short term hiatus while Carl grows a beard. I'm not sure where he is at the moment but was last spotted fooling...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:59:00 GMT

A Weekend in Wollaston

So this weekend we were down at Katy's for a weekend of Live music and Tuborg Lager. We thorougly enjoyed catching up with the lovely people of Kidnapper Bell and Porpoise, who both played wicked...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT