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Draw me Stories

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About Me

real editor best profile tools Draw me Stories are a cardiff-based, folk-rock band. New as a band and new to eachother, the band members all have their own seperate stories about what lead them to Cardiff for a life of folk-rock, chants, guiro, and Nepalese drums. It's members are Carl Hodgetts (originally from Tamworth), Mathieu Albasser (originally from Strasbourg) and Samuel Souter (originally from Cambridge)...Carl & Mat became friends through their PhD and only after a year did they realise their shared enthusiasm for writing and performing music. It was only when Mat became aware of Carl's solo efforts as Fingolfin that they started to play together and discuss the possibility of taking guitar brainstorms to a more serious stage. In order to better the sound they decided that a drummer was needed. Just days later, Carl and Mat came to learn that Sam, a then friend-of-a-friend, was a drummer in need of resurrecting his art...On a cold december evening, over a glass of slovakian liquer, it was decided; a band was born....
DMS - Windows in the Heart of the Guilty (unplugged @ the Woods, Bristol)DMS - Comes and Smiles and Leaves (Live @ The End, Cardiff)
DMS - Shake (unplugged @ Dirty Sue's, Cardiff)

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Member Since: 3/4/2008
Band Members: Draw me Stories are:

Carl Hodgetts - Vocals, guitar & guiro.

Mathieu Albasser - Bass, xylophone, handclaps, chants & vocals.

Samuel Souter - Drums, nepalese bowl, chants, baguette-bearer & maracas.

We are also lurk in the depths of facebook, so click this link below and join our wonderful group:

Behold, there is more...Come to xfm uploaded where you can listen to Draw me Stories tracks and vote for us!!!

And finally, DMS are on lastfm where you can listen to us, our similar artists and an infinite stream of music...

Influences:

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The ’plugged’ sessions and some lyrical insight...

Good day!As you may notice Draw me Stories have added some new 'plugged tracks' which is excellent for us as we can now give the masses an accurate representation of our live set.  We personally ...
Posted by Draw me Stories on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:40:00 PST

Glo Bar - 14th May

Good afternoon!NEWS JUST IN - Draw me Stories will headlining at Glo Bar’s Ambient Cwtch on the 14th May...As the old saying goes: "the 14th May is a glorious day for rock and folk fusion at a c...
Posted by Draw me Stories on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:35:00 PST

The airwaves will be leaking folk-rock tonight...

Hello my dearest readers, listeners etc, Today we found out, to our considerable surprise, that we will be played on xfm South Wales tonight at 9pm...Apparently this is what comes with being one of xf...
Posted by Draw me Stories on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:30:00 PST

Xfm featured artist

Good news, we are xfm’s uploaded featured artist of the week, thanks to you guys. However, the best is yet to come: we need you guys to vote for us again, for the chance to be played on xfm radi...
Posted by Draw me Stories on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

The sound of a fresh song...mmmmm

Good afternoon,Ah, excellent, new songs are up...Good to eventually get something solid that we can listen to and learn from...Overall DMS are as pleased as a weasel with the fruits of our DIY recordi...
Posted by Draw me Stories on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:26:00 PST