Member Since: 29/01/2008
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/themodconuk
Band Members:
Tom Burgess - Guitars/Vocals
Ben KD - Bass/Vocals
Tom Rapley - Drums/Vocals
Influences: The Beatles, Coffee, Oasis, Phil Burdett, Radiohead, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Robin Ince, M. Ward, Christopher Hitchens Ale, Paul Weller, Old Leigh, The Verve, Ed Byrne, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Scandinavia, Kent, David Dundas, U2, Shane Meadows, Bob Dylan, Philosophy & Ethics, The Beautiful South, The Mighty Boosh, Withnail & I., The Crooked Billet , John Squire, Deuchars IPA, The Cinder Path, Empty Bars, Family Guy, Massive Attack , Trip-Hop, Portishead, Adnams, Traveling Wilburys, The Carlton, Badly Drawn Boy, Eddie Izzard, Bees, Jam, Cats drilling, Cake or Death?, The La's, Murphy's Law, Going in the Carlton for a Broadside, The Prestige, Travis, Jackson Pollock, Slagging off Aristotle, Heavy Stereo, Ride, QI, Dara O'Briain, The Alex on a Sunday afternoon, Video Jukeboxes, Summer days in the Old Town, Seafood, Brandy & Coke, Höegaarden, Kopperberg, Bombardier, Elastica, Westons Cider, Ian Brown, The Long Way Round, A walk to the sea (to the Smack Inn in Leigh), Paul Heaton, Morrissey, History, Moaning about the shit beer in the Alex , Worthington's, Guiness, Rainy days, Sunny days, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Independent Films, slagging everthing off, even things you like, Trainspotting, Sitting in the Railway scribbling utter shit into a notepad, The Long Way Down, Stephen Fry, Doing things you shouldn't , Putting the world to rights over a pitcher of Ale, Center Parcs, The same old drunks in the same old pub, The Seafront, Riga, Novelty Rock, Moaning in general, The Godfather, Squeeze, U.N.K.L.E., Pulp, The Not-So-Beautiful North, Stereophonics, Badly Drawn Boy, The Sun Rooms, Roy Orbison, John Squire, Christopher Hitchens, Shack, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ribbles, Röyksopp, Dibbles, Music videos from the 80's, B.B. King, Zwan, Eric Clapton, Beck, The Bluetones, KT Tunstall, Madness, Faithless, a game of Ribble-Dibble, Dire Straits, Marvin Gaye, Mixtwitch, Moby, Mogul Storm, Roddy Frame, Life In Hell, The Railway Hotel, Pub Lunches, Tom Petty, Moaning about the queue for the bar on Pound A Pint night, Elliott Smith, incomplete sente....., Hobgoblin, The Metros, Ska, Connections (What a bar!)
Sounds Like: A strange mix of the above, bit weird, a bit cheese & marmite sandwiches... enough people like it for Starbucks to sell them but you wonder why there are so many left on the shelves...
Record Label: Unsigned