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Super U

We Live In Bazakhstan

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Hello. We are Super U. We like playing music together and travelling around the place. We've been together in various guises for about 9 years now, and are way past caring if we ever 'make it' or not. At the moment the sum of our ambitions is to finish our debut album 'We Live in Bazakhstan', which we are recording in various living rooms and studios here in Brighton with many of our wonderful musical friends. Friends such as Marty Jenkins, Adam Morton, Paul Beat, Alima Boog and Will Calderbank, who have all helped us enormously and who we owe many drinks. The plan when we finish it is to release it on our own Sack The Juggler label. Every now and again we venture out of Brighton to play shows in different towns which is usually good fun. These shows have ranged from a good night playing a festival in France, to an equally good night playing a night in Manchester that was totally dead. We're pretty useless at describing our music but it has been described, variously, by people we know as 'folk-tinged ponce rock' and (our recent favourite) 'a bit like Traffic'. Having never listened to Traffic in our collective lives, we were a bit stumped by that one, but now we think it's because sometimes we like to get Mo to play the flute. Sometimes people make a Manchester connection, but we reckon that's because of Matt's flat-vowelled singing voice. Personally, we're all into different music and think that perhaps this comes across in the music we make. Anyway, thanks for stopping by. If you like our stuff, send us a message and we'll send you an MP3 or something. If you want to join our mailing list, please email nochatter at gmail.com. Byeeeeee.
If they've got a knack for great pop in common, where they diverge is in the cheeky, childlike enthusiasm here buoyed by sophisticated playing. Conversational vocals in the Alfie vein get the finest flute this side of Belle & Seb. Lovely stuff. – Teletext
Strong vocals, the reinvention of the flute and witty, tale-telling lyrics atop slick, literate music - where have this lot been hiding? - James Ellis, Metro
Space cadet indie folk for stoners ... should be poncing about in chaffeur driven limos before the year is out - Front Magazine
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Member Since: 10/31/2005
Band Website: superu.co.uk
Band Members: Matt Barr - vocals, guitars
Ewan Wallace - guitar and other stuff
Shamus King - bass
Maureen Batsel - flute
Simon Rees - sax
Russell Knight - drums
Marty - production

Influences: The two greatest lyricists of the modern age - Morrissey and Biggie Smalls.
In terms of bands, our friends The Lodge (RIP), The Mutts (RIP), Parliament Rooks, My Little Problem, Gloria Cycles, Zex (RIP), The Metro Cities (RIP), Special School, Mudlow, Kangarucci (RIP) and North East have all influenced us in one way or another.
Sounds Like: Northern Shanty Rock. Or, if you prefer, 'unsigned gaybos from Hove', as a girl who saw our recent show in Exeter put it.
Record Label: Sack The Juggler Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

France Etc - And Another Random Film

We just got back from playing the Altitude Festival in France. Rich Lett, one of our old muckers from Meribel days, has teamed up with Marcus Brigstocke to put it on and it was a lot of fun for all co...
Posted by Super U on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:56:00 PST

We Made A Video

Yes, thanks to the extremely talented people at Nothing To See Here (that's them in our top friends) and the lovely, helpful friends we managed to persuade to spend the day getting windburned on the S...
Posted by Super U on Tue, 15 May 2007 02:12:00 PST

Front Magazine Like Us

We just found out that Front Magazine have chosen us as one of their picks of My Space for 2007. Apparently, the middle shelf tits and ass monthly reckon we 'ought to be poncing about in chaffeur-driv...
Posted by Super U on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:22:00 PST

Donald Crowhurst

We posted a new demo of a song we've had for a while, Places I've Been To Are Known. It's about the story of Donald Crowhurst and Teignmouth Electron. I've been obsessed with this story for a few year...
Posted by Super U on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:15:00 PST

What, Teletext Is Still Going....?

We like to think that Ned Ludd is smiling munificently down at the news that our first proper review has gone up on the pages of ...Teletext. Yes, in this age of information superhighways and My Space...
Posted by Super U on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:34:00 PST

We Were Used On Another Video

Every long journey, they say, starts with somebody tying their shoelaces. It was with this thought in mind that we greeted the news that the mighty Crabstix Productions, based up in the Steel City, wo...
Posted by Super U on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:41:00 PST

We're Going Off On Tour Again

That's right. Unshackle the waggon, douse the liver in vinegar in preparation and invest in new cravats en masse. Because Super U and friends are embarking upon another short, extreme sport themed tou...
Posted by Super U on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:37:00 PST

Hooray, Another Website Likes Us

Our good friends at Yard Clothing.com make fine quality schmutter. So it was heartening to learn that they also have excellent music taste, as demonstrated by their decision to put Super U on their ne...
Posted by Super U on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:33:00 PST

And We Were Used On This Video

A friend of ours made a video distributed on across the globe on the cover of the world's best snowboarding mags, and he used one of our tunes. It's called 91 Words For Snow and you can find out about...
Posted by Super U on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:45:00 PST

We Were Used On The TV

Our music was used on a couple of shows on Channel 4 and Channel 5 over the last couple of weeks. Exciting stuff eh?
Posted by Super U on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:42:00 PST