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About Me

AMY BLUE are three males and a female from different parts of England. By all standing in a room nearly at the same time and screaming and thrashing at keys, strings and drums, and stomping on a ridiculous amount of second-hand fuzz pedals, they produce the sinful noise that you're currently listening to. They exist on this pathetic-outdated-ploy-of-a-MySpazz-page recruiting those who believe, and destroying those who refuse to see past the haircuts and identikit janglesongs their radios feed to them. This is Loud-Evil-Fuzzy-Noise-Pop.
Amy Blue make beautiful, dark and electrifying music that's different from every band you've heard this year. Pitchfork said they were "pretty clever actually". And SPIN like them. Billy Corgan liked them enough to not take them to court. RedHeadedStepChild Records put them on their record. And the next record is pure wall of noise pop that isn't shameful to enjoy. In fact, you're going to love it.
You can, and should DOWNLOAD their music for FREE below:
The Amy Blue EP [2006]
This hilarious Baker Demos thread or at MP3 Lizard or at Download dot com .
***Information for PROMOTERS ***
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/11/2004
Band Website: amyblue.co.uk
Band Members: Lex Sampson: heartbeat.
JP Rutter: synaptic pulses.
Simon Chatterton: white blood cells.
Danny Legg: nerve endings.
Influences: Simon: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Jnr Loaded, Bearsuit, REM, Part Chimp, Elliott Smith, Silversun Pickups, Black Angels, Mono, Swirlies, The Postal Service, Windsor for the Derby, Kid 606, Royal Trux, Billy Corgan (the solo album), AC Acoustics, Huggy Bear, John Peel [RIP], Archers of Loaf, Boysetsfire, Prince, Uzeda. Lo-fi.
JP: The Velvet Underground's 'TVU', Low's 'The Great Destroyer', Verve's 'A Storm In Heaven', John Coltrane's 'My Favourite Things', Suede's 'Dog Man Star' & The Smashing Pumpkin's 'Siamese Dream'. Nowt else. He has listened to T Rex 118 times on his last.fm.Lex: The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlain Complex, Zwan, REM, Pavement, The Kinks, Autolux, Explosions in the Sky, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, 4hero, Idlewild, Superfurry Animals, Elastica, Be Your Own Pet, We Are Scientists, Richard Hawley, Kenickie, Justin Timberlake, MC Hammer, Chemical Brothers, Stereolab, DJ Hombre, The Mighty Boosh, Austin Powers, MP & the Holy Grail and the mighty Jackie Chan. Note to other bands: You can't poach her, so sod off.
Danny: Primus, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Tool, Deftones, Helmet, Foreigner, She Clowns In Heat, Sam Fox, Sid 'Viscous', Pope John Paul III, Jah 'Wobble', 8p Cans of Beer.
THIS MONTHS MANIFESTO:: PAY TO PLAY IS BY SUCKERS FOR SUCKERS. STOP FINANCING THE DRUG HABITS AND CHILD PORN OF THESE LOSERS AND PUT YOUR OWN SHOW ON.
Sounds Like: Silversun Pickups, My Bloody Valentine, Curve, Mono, Deftones, Pere Ubu, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, James, PJ Harvey, Sebadoh, The Cars, Giant Drag, Idiot Pilot, Beef Terminal, Wire, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, Suede, Sonic Youth, Manic Street Preachers, Joy Division, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pet Shop Boys, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, The Louvin Brothers, The Smiths, Lush, Muse, The Arcade Fire, The Frogs, Beth Ditto's Flabby Disgusting Arse, Derek & Clive...
When we're loud: heavy electronic/organic beats, loud fuzzy guitars, delay & distortion, scarily mic'd vocals
When we're quiet: gentle flanger pedals, melodic vocals, drones
"They specialise in making a wall of noise... however with this they actually write really addictive songs to go with (their) unique sound. Basically Amy Blue have some excellent tunes... hopefully we should be hearing a lot more from a band who strive for originality." - GOD IS IN THE TV

ANGEL OF CHAOS - Live, August 11th 2006
Secret Laboratory Footage From the Bunker

Record Label: Self-released.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Amy Blue vs teH b0lly!!!!

Yesterday, me, the JP, and the Lex (and hubby Neil) queued up in the freezing cold outside vermin meagrestore/zavvi in town to (get wristbands to) meet billy corgan and jimmy chamberlain, the whole re...
Posted by Amy Blue on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:55:00 PST

If you’re not convinced

that much is indeed going on, well, we wouldn't blame you for thinking so, the antisocial bastards we have become! I hear about bands taking six months to record an album and it makes me want to bludg...
Posted by Amy Blue on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:49:00 PST

17/1: Pure Evol

Take a look at the following page:Evol-I @ Last.fmThis is Simon's other project, Evol-I, where you can download his latest EP 'Cassettes On Trial' for free, alongside a ten track retrospective from 20...
Posted by Amy Blue on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:27:00 PST

Studio Diary Day 3

Happy new year anyway...! We're so ensconsed with mixing, mastering, mashing, mooging that we completely forgot this. You must be on the edge of your seats :p Bit belated, yes, but it was a bit o...
Posted by Amy Blue on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:55:00 PST

22/11: Studio Diary - Day 2, Part 2

Now it's my go for a bit of a stop and chat.We actually managed to get to the studio on time this time around. Those who know me will probably find that shocking, as I'm absolutely terrible when it co...
Posted by Amy Blue on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:35:00 PST

14/11: Studio Diary - Day 2, Part 1

Day 2 at the now quite homely feeling RandomColours studio should have felt like an easy day with all the supposed hard work out the way on the fraught-with-tension first day where, okay, I admit, we ...
Posted by Amy Blue on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:33:00 PST

Studio Diary - Day 1, Part 1

excuse the typing, this keyboard is more clacketty clack than Riverdance on creaky floorboards so I will try to keep it succinct- hold up, that's not really going to happen, so here's some facts inste...
Posted by Amy Blue on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:09:00 PST

Studio Diary - Day 1, Part 2

This is the JP part of the diary. For the record, I think I was responsible for over 67,242 innappropriate comments ranging from accusations of celebrity child molestation to intelligent musings on Si...
Posted by Amy Blue on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

9/9: Hangovers are bad.

I don't think I posted this in another blog, but here's a link to our last show in Whitechapel, where Jack the Ripper used to run around doing in prossies:Amy Blue Live - 14th August 2007Last night's ...
Posted by Amy Blue on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:03:00 PST

Us of the big name fame...

That Flyer is so cool. See? The one for our very important God Is In The TV show on September the 8th at the BRIXTON WINDMILL? ooh look how big our name is on the flyer, thank christ I didn't suggest ...
Posted by Amy Blue on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:41:00 PST