Member Since: 9/19/2005
Band Website: theknockouts.org.uk
Band Members: Andy Westmalle - guitar, J Hackson - keys and Clod magazine, T Fitzagre - percussion and pr, E Smoke - drums
Influences: Bleepy stuff, twangy stuff and heavy drumming/percussive stuff - also Indian Cinema pop tunes, Rock and Roll/punk 50's to present day (with heavy concentration in the 60's and 70's), Thrilled Skinny, The Keatons, Shrug, The Losers, The Rosehips, Pregnant Neck, Death by Milkfloat, Gag, Fellows of Flitwick, Topplers Recs etc. Link Wray, Devo, Herb Alpert plus many obvious others - Wire, Fall; Leerdammer cheese; Buff Medways, Kinks; Badger breweries; Swell Maps, Booker T; Chillis/olive/garlic; nuggets, nougart, pebbles, puddles.
We are influenced by the weather and tend to avoid exposure to precipitants, except for snow, sometimes. We are influenced by dirt. One of our number is rural-phobic; one likes running free in ditches. We listen to BBC Radios 2,3 and 4. Never Radio 1. Not any more. We sometimes come across as off-ish; sometimes we come across as odd people you wouldn't want to go out for a drink with. Most people we know don't drink with us. We are dreary drunks.
Sounds Like: We sound like four enthusiasts playing hammed-up riffs on bad equipment. Millions have done it. Our twists are no vocals, bass or apparent quality control, except in our warped minds. Go for downloads here and at our website www.theknockouts.org.uk (STOP PRESS: LOADS MORE FREE DOWNLOADS HAVE JUST BEEN UPLOADED ONTO OUR WEBSITE) We would like to do more types of stuff, but are bound by limitations and the awareness that we could go all twiddly-bonk and floral.We're like a cheese sandwich with too much onion and/or lime pickle.The summer of 2007 has seen us flat out and exhausted with a load of releases. First out; "The Foreign Sounds of The Knockouts", which is right old racket. Far more refined, comparatively, is the Topplers' VINYL and cd release of four Indian Cinema themed tunes. See www.topplers.net. An album of Ant Chap produced Eastern Europop instrumental pophits will also be lobbed out by the same label, hopefully, before not too long.
Here we are live in the home of musik. DE, the Zelle, Reutlingen...
Record Label: The Legendary High Town/Topplers
Type of Label: Major