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sugardrum

I don't mind if you forget me

About Me

check out www.sugardrum.com for latest gig details and some strange, random blog entries.

CD's for sale

We currently have 2 CDs for sale. The first is called "1 of 1" and is a chilled, intimate recording recorded in the sugardrum studio "the tuesday club" featuring nigel on vocals and guitar and beth on cello and backing vocals.

You can buy it from the wupadupa shop and at gigs. It costs just one shiny pound if you buy it from us at a gig, or £2 from the wupadupa shop and has the following songs on it, the first of which you can listen to and even download from this page, a sort of try before you buy type of thing.

    rainglow 1 of 1 aunt agony easily pleased

Our second EP is called "absence of friends" and is also availble from the wupadupa shop for £2. Recorded again at "the tuesday club" this features nigel on vocals and guitar and beth on cello with the addition of nick on drums, matt on violin and bass, carrie tree on backing vocals and some subtle electronica and rhodes piano from nigel. You can hear and download the first 2 songs on the ep from this page.

    motorway song limbo absence of friends sleep talk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/27/2005
Band Website: sugardrum.com
Band Members: nigel on vocals & acoustic guitar helped out by danielle on vocals, betty on vocals and cello, nick on drums and percussion and various other lovely people depending on who's around at the time.
Influences: Tori Amos, The Smiths, Radiohead, deus, Nick Drake, Bark Psychosis, Beck, Placebo, Mum, the boats, Smashing Pumpkins, Sufjan Stevens, M Ward, Red House Painters, Loney dear, The Album Leaf, The Magic Numbers, Aphex Twin, Coldcut, Morphine, Barry White and Frank Sinatra.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

another space, another blog

I'm a bit rubbish and never get around to writing on here, but I do have another blog type thing on the main sugardrum website at www.sugardrum.co.uk which is kept slightly more uptodate than this one...
Posted by sugardrum on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:35:00 PST

goodbye

Our beloved dog died yesterday. She'd been in hospital for a week, suffering with Jaundice, sickness and diarrhoea. I'd been visiting her every night for the past week and even though she so ill she s...
Posted by sugardrum on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:11:00 PST

Tree in a Bottle

I'd love to pour,my anger into a songbut that wouldn't, be very fair on the songso I hide,my anger up a treeand I pretend,the anger was never there.a lonely forest has since grown up in my mindcontinu...
Posted by sugardrum on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:26:00 PST

1 of 1

When we were young we looked at cloudsto see what we could find thereresemblances they passed us by, waiting to be found thereand oh, how the days were still.and all the places that we travelled towhe...
Posted by sugardrum on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:05:00 PST

are we there yet?

People like to be silent on trains,they just sit there, waiting.they cover themselves with newspaper and sound,and sit there, waiting.so when they noticed you,hurled abuse at you,called you names,well...
Posted by sugardrum on Fri, 05 May 2006 11:21:00 PST

scared of mice

you were scared, so you stamped your fear into the ground broke it's legs without a sound now see the mouth bleed, as it struggles to breathe we just stared no one dared to move at all no one see...
Posted by sugardrum on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:01:00 PST

trick or treat

nobody's home... nobody's home... nobody's home... so go away, go away, please go away... and sleep while you can, sleep my little one, til the monsters and the nightmares break down ...
Posted by sugardrum on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:50:00 PST

limbo

all the people waiting for, their chance to be known the voices that are never heard, may have the most to give, while the ones who make the loudest noise, always have the least to say. the mos...
Posted by sugardrum on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:08:00 PST

The true nature of cats

Once I had a goldfish, and his name was Bill he would swim around for hours, he would swim around all day. I also had a big fat cat, and his name was Ben he would stare at Bill for hours, He woul...
Posted by sugardrum on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:08:00 PST

Wide awake...

If we lived under a waterfall, where water falled, we could be ourselves, and nobody would know. We could dream all day, and nobody would ask us why. Each day would wash away, leaving us a day beh...
Posted by sugardrum on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:41:00 PST