Once upon a visit to the local gentlemen’s hair salon, it was noticed that the barbers hair was itself, lank, overgrown and listless.
"I'll be damned if I'm going to allow this atrocity the privilege of cutting my hair", I thought to myself.
I went out and bought myself a pair of stainless steel scissors that very day.
And thus it was that the barber became the trimmed...
“Sweeping atmospheric post punk in the vein of The Cure and Joy Division with a glittering coating of shoegaze†– The Bull and Gate
Trim the Barber are a socially and politically aware 4 piece from North London. They are fuelled lyrically by modern alienation and discontent in a country falling apart, disenfranchised by apathy and powerlessness and musically inspired by 80’s post-punk, shoegaze and anarcho-punk.
The band formed in North London in early 2009 with the intention of fusing a DIY punk aspect with the epic, tender atmospheric sounds of 80’s indie; with soaring vocals and a wall of sound ethos, the band is a densely textured and explosively loud live act.
Mixing thought-provoking lyrics with a lush and fuzzed-out, yet direct delivery, Trim the Barber bridge the gap between post-punk acts such as Joy Division, Wire and the blissed-out shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine and early Spiritualized.
Trim the Barber means taking back charge of your life, making your own choices, cutting down those who cut you down. The name was taken from the Jamaican dub overlord King Tubby cut ‘I Trim the Barber.’ The band take self-empowerment, autonomy and personal freedom from this sentiment, providing sincere social commentary and antidote during a media produced climate of fear.
Having written more than enough songs for an entire album before even securing the line-up, in sessions dubbed The Hairy Floor Home Recordings, Trim the Barber recorded 4 of the songs again on marginally better equipment, this time releasing the music online and effectively launching the band.
Trim the Barber plan on entering the studio to record an EP during the coming months of newer tracks, but for now the ‘Stop and Search’ recordings are available to listen to online. Check the top of the page for gigs, but determined to continue playing in any setting; impromptu and intimate acoustic performances are inevitability in the green spaces of London this summer.
