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Gamages Model Train Club

About Me

"Gamages Model Train Club impart an energy and eloquent lyricism that is part devil-souled bluesman and part 19th century gentleman's club…"

- www.junkmedia.com, New York

"Evoking the rhythmical gnarliness of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Gamages' 'The Loss of Gamages Model Train Club' sounds like a cage battle between Belle and Sebastian and Arcade Fire held in Nick Cave's living room"

- Artrocker Magazine, London

"the Gamages Model Train Club album appearing at platform one could well be one of the albums of the year"

- The Devil Has The Best Tuna, UK

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/16/2005
Band Website: http://www.last.fm/music/Gamages+Model+Train+Club
Band Members:

LIVE @ Trashville Lounge, 9th October 2008:

john victor willshire - vocals, lead & rhythm guitar
helen lea - vocals & bass guitar
andrew a. atalla - rhythm & lead guitar
steve cox - classic organs, electric pianos and other noises
samson walton - picking, strumming, effecting and coding
hilary persephone jackson - plucking, bowing & feeling
karl 'dave cave' hussey - tight'n smiting drums

Influences:
Get Off - The Dandy Warhols
End of miles - Frank Black & the Catholics
Something To Bang - The Absentee
We Both Go Down Together - The Decemberists
See America Right - The Mountain Goats
There She Goes, My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Manchasm - Future Of The Left
Sixteen Ways - Green On Red
Bullet - Frank Black & The Catholics
Ramblin' Man - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
My Body Is A Cage - The Arcade Fire
The mercy seat - Johnny Cash
Linda Blair Was Born Innocent - The Mountain Goats
Not Yet - The Veils
Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Nest - Sons & Daughters
Current of the River - The Young Knives
Bring the Monster Inside - Willard Grant Conspiracy
Till I reach you - The Walkabouts
Screaming Sun - Big Ray
Lover of the bayou - The Byrds
What Money Means - The Dexateens
Burn - The Dream Syndicate
The Monkey - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Whisky Woman - The Flamin' Groovies
Here comes a city - The Go-Betweens
Texas Seranade - The Gun Club
Evangeline - The Icicle Works
Masterplan - My Morning Jacket
On the beach - Neil Young
Broken Horse - The Rain Parade
I woke up one moring - The Rockingbirds
The Seventh Seal - Scott Walker
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie - Belle & Sebastian
Ballad Of Cable Hogue - Calexico
Get Myself Arrested - Gomez
Can't Stand It - Wilco
What I'm Looking For - Brendan Benson
Jailbird - Primal Scream
Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Ruling Class - Loose Fur
Peace Beneath the City - Iron & Wine
Happiness/The Gondola Man - Elliott Smith

Sounds Like:
An enigma wrapped in a conundrum wrapped in a riddle. With occasional slide guitar.
Record Label: Tiger's Head Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The story of Gamages Model Train Club

.................. .. Our version of Gamages Model Train Club began in a thrift shop in Islington, London, some time back in 2005. I found a badge amongst a slew of others on a pin board in...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Good evening...

...I'm here to tease, to titillate; I'm going to tell you about some music you can't listen to. I have the absolute pleasure of pronouncing the Gamages Model Train Club album recorded, mixed, and s...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:49:00 GMT

Somewhere, carved in aluminium substrate, lies the album...

And so, after 8 days of recording, everything is contained.  Held in Bark Studios on part of a hard disc on a PC, the graft and care and feeling of what we collectively thought, at a certain poin...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Ooooo, that was a good day...

The GMTC elongated recording process continues... two weeks after we did two days on Hilary's cello and my singing, we're back in for the last two days of recording, before we start the mixing process...
Posted by on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:05:00 GMT

Back in recording...

Finally, back into Bark to continue recording... various diarying issues have meant that after the first two weekends at the beginning of April, we haven't been able to get back in till now... and wha...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 02:11:00 GMT

For shes a jolly good cello...

Last night we (Helen and I) were putting together another inspiratiion CD for the GMTC recording sessions (see the main page for the full tracklistings of the other three that Steve, Sam and I did).&n...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:37:00 GMT

The worlds tallest organist...

...although, to be fair, it’s maybe the angles I was taking photos at... but doesn’t steve look like a 7’2" guy playing a child’s organ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:30:00 GMT

The second weekend of recording...

It’s Friday night, ten pm, and I’m on the train south to Brighton... tomorrow moring we start the second weekend of the GMTC album recording.  Whilst I may have had a few beers tonigh...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:06:00 GMT

One weekend down...

...and some to go. Well, we’ve nailed 10 drum tracks, with some particularly apocalyptic drumming by Karl on ’Old King Cole’, and then layered 6 bass & double-tracked acoustic tr...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:05:00 GMT

GMTC scrabble...

In yet another ’that’s not very rock and roll’ moment, whilst Andy and Hel crack on with recording their parts, we’ve been playing ’GMTC scrabble’ in the back room....
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:31:00 GMT