Here lies our page dedicated and commited to the cause of the Tooting music scene and to the great bands that reside, work and play in these murky depths.
We are here to celebrate the basement sessions, 4am lounge moments and the triumphant, musical breeding ground that is Tooting SW17.
Now live once a month @ The Mighty Selkirkwe will be hosting a fantastic night of some of Tooting and beyond's best bands. Check back for updates and news on upcoming shows...
The Brent Flood.
"When you hear an unsigned band and by the middle of the song forget they’re unsigned you know it’s good. London-based foursome The Brent Flood is that band. Lyrically intelligent and musically brilliant, every track on their third self-published offering, The Autumn 2007 EP could be in the charts today" - Music-News.Com
Somewhere in deepest, darkest Tooting this Anglo-Irish quartet is gathering momentum, living under one roof and sharing musical ideas in the basement like germs...After getting to the finals of the Nationwide O2 battle of the bands in late 2006 The Brent Flood appeared on Playmusic Magazine's cover-mount CD of the best UK unsigned music and received a full-page four star review shortly thereafter. They have also been nominated and shortlisted for an Indy Award out of a possible 40,000 London bands.It is at the live shows that The Brent Flood really stands out however. Check out the dates, pick your favourite and treat yourself to one of the best performances in the Capital.
A brilliant example of engaging British song writing…Bursting with delicious melodies to chew over†- Playmusic Magazine
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Little Things.
"Wonderful pop confection" - Shaun Keaveny 6music
Rokhsan had been cutting Henry’s hair for as long as he cares to remember; Although not altogether comfortable with the arrangement Henry was too polite to say anything. Once they were old enough to play guitars, but too young to go out on a school night, they disrupted folk clubs from Whitstable to Workington with their Bleeding Hearts Country Mixtape Band. Ed and James spent their formative teenage years in a string of well meaning but unfortunately named shambolic punk bands. The story of how these four first met and started there never-ending tour of abandoned music halls is far too long to go into now but suffice to say that it involves a basement party, two boys in the same Belle and Sebastian t-shirt and a case of mistaken identity in the dark. They live (and sometimes work) in South London.
“This is a young band writing fabulous, upbeat pop-tunes. It is hard to doubt that in time lovers will skip along hand-in-hand to these affectionate songs.†– Music Week.
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The Henry Road.
*...for those who prefer more of a deranged psychotropical trip, The Henry Road are irresistibly unhinged Wagonpop heretics that will fire up the synapses of anyone who found Side Two of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake to be a mite too lucid. Mad, original and really rather brilliant.* - Rolling Stone USA
Roll up, roll up its The Henry Road. Welcome to a fantastical, litho-cut world where song titles like The Last Two Feet Are Massive (And Or Garden Feet) conjure up images of Arthur Lees love child getting lithe on a diet of choppy chords, virtuoso piano and staccato rhythms.
Skilfully lurching from caustic wits to purveyors of pastiche, The Henry Road can cause emotional turmoil. What does it mean, what do they mean, what does anything mean? If your road is straight, then they can help you find a kink. And if you already deviate, then you may just sneak a glimpse of what could be on the other side.
'Probably one of the strangest things you'll hear for many a year, rather more eccentric than weird and cleverly so. The Henry Road delight in making what they call 'wagon pop' (don't ask me) and according to our (so far failed) research the most rock 'n' roll thing they've done to date is to swear at planets, yes ladies and gentlemen this is a group of men who don't take things to seriously.' Will Jenkins, City Lights.
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