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The Fire Escapes

About Me

The Fire Escapes bring velocity and variation to the teenage nation, from otherworldly melodic pop to noisy guitar squalls all topped off with ice-cool honey-through-velvet girl vocals. The band members hail from the North-East and North-West of England by way of Japan, the Isle Of Man and Ireland. When the acid queen shakes her pom-poms pink, all the boys have too much to think but when the acid queen paints her nails tangerine, she'll rev up your rainbow machine x

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Member Since: 15/01/2008
Band Website: www.mypace.com/thefireescapes
Band Members: Mark Headley, Lucy Pullin, Matthew Seligman, Richard Slinger, Tony Morrelli (The Count) & John Reynolds x
Influences: Bruno Schulz, Nirvana, The Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star, Throwing Muses, Patti Smith, My Bloody Valentine, PJ Harvey, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, William Burroughs, Dylan Thomas, Fuzzy Felt Folk, Felt, Philip K Dick, JG Ballard, TS Eliot, Thomas Mann, Robert Graves, Ladislav Sutnar, William Empson, Wyndham Lewis, Lorca, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Jane Siberry, Blondie, Warhol, Pablo Neruda, Marc Chagall, Louise Bourgeois, Samuel Beckett, the Clangers, Kate Bush, Can, Sun Ra, MC5, Velvets, Stooges, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Syd Barrett, the Flaming Lips, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Harmony Guitars, Pavement, Joy Division, Big Star, the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, the Soft Boys, Pere Ubu, Jacques Lacan, Jung, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Adam & the Ants, Madonna, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, the Smiths, DFA, Guided by Voices, REM, the Polaroids, Beefheart, Craig Armstrong, the Modern Lovers, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Animal Collective, Harmonia, Eno, the Byrds, Yoko Ono, Primal Scream, Shimmy Disc, Band of Holy Joy, the Durutti Column, the Wolfhounds, Scott Walker, the Hotel Costes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave we salute you all x
Sounds Like: Fire Escapes Review on Biff Bang Pop!
Record Label: Maximum VOLUME
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

My Dreams Are Like Diamonds "oÀ¤äâóÉnˆFk

The beauty of your love, the beauty that you are... A love song is a love song, and for your cosmic pleasure we offer to you "My Dreams Are Like Diamonds' as our love song to you, to each other and th...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 08:45:00 GMT

Norwegian Adventurer Rescued by Pterodactyl üÜkQŒ_Î릧ün’z¶

Hello our dear blogreaders, our new song My Life in Tornado City was partly inspired by Captain Bluebear's tenth life. For the few of you unfamiliar with Walter Moers' cult book, 'The Thirteen and a H...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 04:33:00 GMT

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... eK|¹n€³n-g

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."A space princess in a revealing bikini, curiously similar to those worn by the Bounty Bar advert bounty hunters, proved her bravery and courage next to a...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:49:00 GMT

We Can Remember The Future For You

The Fire Escapes are thrilled to announce that they have successfully built a working, functional psychotronic wishing machine, having carefully followed instructions given to them by a time travellin...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:50:00 GMT

Canyon Orchids Sing

Tonight in a post gig happy blue giggling deliriously Toffee mountain mood two of the Fire Escapes went to THRESHERS to get THRASHED but instead we met a tall, skinny pale Threshers Sales Assistant w...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Shimmy shimmy shango we're playing Club Fandango

The Fire Escapes Fandango @ The Dublin CastleOn the 3rd March Club Fandango will be 8 years old.   Consequently, we will ramp up the ramparts of The Dublin Castle and illuminate Camden with a flying l...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:32:00 GMT

The Fire Escapes in Rio!

Today we take a walk outside of indiepop. What inspired me to make this post was a request I received from a band on myspace. Which has an account on myspace know that around half and see a band get l...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:43:00 GMT

Norwegian Elk Hounds

It is beautiful and clear flying high up here without the push and rush of the ground.To play perchance to dream.To dream perchance to play.Today we were given a splendid box of Lego that contained a ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:12:00 GMT

Inkbound Postcard from Bohemia

Dark wood panels record history like magnetic tape records sound. The sun is a ball of dust exploding like a dandelion clock over the city. The cars escape the gravitational pull of the road and spin ...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:14:00 GMT

"do do do do do do ... kicker of elves"

brilliant = virginia woolf's 'orlando'relief = end of festive seasonsaddle sore = but every good cowboy deserves a good steedbirthday band = 1 year old the Fire Escapesout of pocket = fine wine / fi...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:40:00 GMT