Member Since: 10/19/2005
Band Website: fellcitygirl.co.uk
Band Members: Phil McMinn - Vocals/Guitars
Joe Gibbons - Guitars
Adam Drake - Bass
James 'Shrek' Pamphlion - Drums
Influences: Michael Chabon, Explosions In The Sky, Idlewild (I mean really, that 100 Broken Windows record is good, really good, to the point of being embarassingly so), Bjork, the Martin Scorcese film about Dylan (wow, wasn't he good?), iLiKETRAiNS, Low, My Bloody Valentine, Jeniferever, Philip Roth, Graham Swift, Jaga Jazzist, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, BBC News 24 (610 on the remote, learn it, store it away, repeat the headlines over and over until they're true), Mono, Jane's Addiction, Pixies, Sigur Ros, Tool, Susannah and the Magical Orchestra, Boxhead Ensemble, Bill Evans, that T.S Eliot line about stillness at the turning point of the earth, Led Zeppelin, Mogwai, Jeff Buckley, Elbow, Mars Volta, Aphex Twin, John Coltrane, girlfriends who tidy your room while you're out at work, girlfriends who take pictures, At The Drive In, Anything on Anticon Records, Red House Painters, Patti Smith, bands we sound nothing like: they're the real signs of a band, surely? surely? surely.
Sounds Like: "It becomes clear that the press on this band is misleading and the harder, rockier edge of both Fell City Girl and Oxford begins to make itself felt." - New Noise
"Fell City Girl have their sights set on a higher plain than many of their contemporaries...the sound of an unmastered Jeff Buckley recording receiving the full makeover of a Muse sized skyscraper" - Drowned In Sound
rafted around a main frame of brooding intensity, Fell City Girl deliver the desperately delicate passion of Jeff Buckley with a slight hint of Muses' post rock pop, creating songs that careen gracefully from whispered intimacy to epically wailing crescendos effortlessly and perfectly - Room Thirteen
Record Label: Lavolta
Type of Label: Indie