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APPLICANTS

solid as a northern rock

About Me


hello there, we are APPLICANTS. we come from out of the speakers and from london. paul met fidel at school in wolverhampton during an experimental a' level class in music technology. there were only three pupils on the course and there were no teachers to teach us anything as they all assumed they knew what they were doing.
well know is your time to judge!
accompanied by the lovely and exciting jeffrey james, APPLICANTS are here to create great and dangerous music you couldn't possibly get out of your head, even if you were to burst it off using mind tweasers.
we have played many times around london and the uk, and once even on a romanian beach! we have released one vinyl on brainlove records, and a new EP is only moments away.
APPLICANTS are currently recording, writing and practicing a whole new bunch of stuff - we are recoridng versions of them round fidel + paul's council flat (as it should be) - once we've recorded them we'll put them up for you to hear...
"A band so riotus, so punk rock and so endearing as to be impossible... In an alternative universe Applicants would be playing Wembley and Muse playing The Dublin Castle."
richard davis
artrocker magazine
read the full review in our blog
"The intercontinental Applicants... parallel universe popstars with a fondness for fake blood and liver-destroying quantities of booze, and that's just on the bus to the the gig. Bring your own serviettes - it's going to get messy".
the guardian guide
"Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit... He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart".
Frederich Nietzsche
NEW SINGLE OUT
29 OCTOBER!!!

as a showcase to our upcoming ep, we are releasing hypochondriac and hurt as a double a side single this month! the single is download-only and will be available form a million sites including i-tunes, more details to follow!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2005
Band Website: applicantswebsite.co.uk
Band Members:
porL bLades, fideL viLLeneuve & jeffrey james
photo by vicki churchiLL
Influences: over the years, a list of bands or musical artists that fidel likes would be something like - ray stevens, atari teenage riot, bearsuit, suede, martini henri rifles, ol' dirty bastard, group sex by the circle jerks, beethoven, or whatever esle he found in the chairty shop that day.
adding it all up, he doesnt think that sounds like APPLICANTS at all though.
fidel's hero would probably be someone like joe meek, who's house/home studio at 304 holloway road he lived in for 8 months.
Sounds Like: Bricolage
is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts and literature, to refer to:
* the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available;
* a work created by such a process.
It is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler – equivalent to the English "do-it-yourself", the core meaning in French being, however, "fiddle, tinker" and, by extension, "make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are to hand (regardless of their original purpose)".

a rock and roLL eLephant cLimbing the greasy poLe of pop.
Record Label: Brainlove Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

APPLCIANTS MISSION STATEMENT

musically:1. to be one of the first indie/rock/alternative acts that sounds like its taken into account some of the other huge musical tides over the last 50 years. dance records, hip-hop, easy liste...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:27:00 PST

HELP US CHOOSE SOME NEW BADGE DESIGNS!

can anyone help me choose some badge designs? we are applicants and can't afford to make them all. maybe like 3.your help would be very useful!...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:26:00 PST

something fidel wrote in an email to a girl and he thought it was quite pertinent...

i dont know. who exactly is new rave, anybody really? i think its a term lost on most people, including on those its trying to identify. the next big thing will be audio books i reckon. everyone ...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:48:00 PST

APPLICANTS in ARTROCKER

hi there, the BRAINLOVE aLL day festivaL at the windmiLL in Brixton was reviewed by artrocker magazine! - if you're too poor or Lazy to run away after steaLing it from smiths, here it what it says abo...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:11:00 PST

one of the best interviews fideL has ever done

was for a webzine caLLed noize makes enemies. cLick here to read it
Posted by APPLICANTS on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:37:00 PST

APPLICANTS BEACH GIG FILMED IN ROMANIA

you can see our recent gig in the fabuoLous romanian viLLage of vama vache onLine at www.getloaded.ro.make sure you have your scripts aLLowed on yr borwser.happy viewing!x...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:45:00 PST

FIDEL INTERVIEWED BY COMPUTER MUSIC MAGAZINE

thanks to branka for the scan!
Posted by APPLICANTS on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

NEW APPLICANTS INTERVIEW

for Extrageographic Magazine:the Link is:http://www.extrageographic.org/magazine/arts/2007/070214_ applicants_interview.htmlor click here...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:46:00 PST

NEW PICTURES FROM OLD BLUE LAST

pictures were taken from our Last gig at the old bLue Last in shoreditch. to prove what a resounding sucess it was, i've put some of them up on our myspace pictures part - they are mostLy on page 2. ...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

APPLICANTS IN HACKNEY GAZETTE!!!!

no reaLLy...
Posted by APPLICANTS on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:12:00 PST