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the polaroids

oh sweet rock and roll it'll cleanse your soul

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Member Since: 10/18/2005
Band Website: thepolaroids.co.uk
Band Members: mark polaroid: vox, guitar
gel polaroid: lead guitar
honey polaroid: vox/guitar
sara hamalainen: vox, guitar/keys, moon tambourine
jonny bassman: The Bass
hag: noises/laptoperator

Influences: bruno schulz, william burroughs, dylan thomas, philip k dick, jg ballard, ts eliot, thomas mann, robert graves, ladislav sutnar, william empson, wyndham lewis
Sounds Like: can, sun ra, mc5, velvets, stooges, the fall, sonic youth, syd barrett, nirvana, patti smith group, television, nirvana, cocteau twins, flaming lips, the brian jonestown massacre, pavement, joy division-new order, elephant6, shimmy-disc, thirteenth floor elevators, felt, guided by voices, DFA, animal collective, bowie, eno, the byrds, the bunnymen, julian cope, pere ubu, early REM, beefheart, primal scream, jesus & mary chain, spacemen 3, my bloody valentine
Record Label: maximum VOLUME
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

rising and falling - sweet rock and roll download

Lester Bangs reviewing a July 1968 show at The Hippodrome in San Diego CA wrote: (...) That was a quite night, though. In a way it was the ultimate Velvet Underground concert. The audience was terribl...
Posted by the polaroids on Sun, 25 May 2008 02:01:00 PST

dont rain on my astral plane ...

psychobullies, psychobullies everywhere, sneaking in corners, corridors, commodores, conquistadors, comments on our hair and our wear and our wait and our weight. did I see you? did I see you there? k...
Posted by the polaroids on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:42:00 PST

polar air download...

is it actually possible to download polar air? or to breathe it in? what is polar air?"polar airA type of air mass with characteristics developed over high latitudes, especially within the subpolar h...
Posted by the polaroids on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:11:00 PST

gales to gowns x

birthday gowndid you think we had forgotten? that the extravagant promise of one free download every fortnight was just a teasing rouse to invite your friends to subscribe to the deliciously generous ...
Posted by the polaroids on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST

tornado city / free fortnightly download

zowie blogreaders, toot toot cymbal crash horn blow woo hoo moo moo, yes it's fanfare fanfare more fare for the fans, here is our free fortnightly download for you. my life in tornado city was part...
Posted by the polaroids on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:14:00 PST

shower scene / downland no 2 of 2008

yola,so in keeping with our impressively high word to deed ratio we offer to you the fortnightly download no.2 called 'shower scene' we hope you like it, thanks for the lovely comments on spiral cast...
Posted by the polaroids on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

my spiral castle

happy new year, we have come up with a ludicrous idea of offering a new demo track free for download exclusively on our myspace every fortnight through 2008 and we begin with a song called 'my spiral ...
Posted by the polaroids on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:54:00 PST

street of crocs ltd download

i've responded to the pressure applied and recorded a one take version of new song "street of crocodiles" inspired by bruno schulz and also thanks to the amazing brothers quay short film for the ...
Posted by the polaroids on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:08:00 PST

treatise on tailors dummies ...

"the whole of matter pulsates with infinite possibilites that send dull shivers through it. waiting for the life-giving breath of the spirit, it is endlessly in motion. it entices us with a thous...
Posted by the polaroids on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:48:00 PST

urban foxes

ben smith from thornton heath in south london is quietly watching television in his sitting room when he is joined by an uninvited guest.a fox with sharp teeth and bad breath is staring at him, while ...
Posted by the polaroids on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST