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all the voices we heard rising up from the lawn

About Me

"a celebration of England at its naffest & most beautiful... I like it a lot!" Steve Lamacq BBC 6music
"highly melodic, intelligently crafted and genuinely interesting" Clash magazine
"brave, fresh, adventurous music" Tom Robinson BBC 6music
grasscut's debut album is a journey from the Sussex South Downs of 'High Down', through the collapsing Nintendo Cathedral of 'Muppet', to the transcendence of 'In Her Pride'. Weaving in between the lead vocal are voices from the past and the present, snatched from mobile phones & gramophones - a 1920s tenor, gossiping mums, a Victorian singing poet, a woman reminiscing about post-war rationing...
grasscut is Andrew Phillips and Marcus O'Dair. Phillips is an award-winning film and television composer with over 100 screen credits (to be viewed at unitedagents.co.uk/film/andrew-phillips/). His soundtrack album, Home, is out now on Burning Shed and he has recently contributed tracks to Lo Recordings. O'Dair contributes double bass, keyboards and miscellaneous noise.
Having made their live debut at the Loop Festival (Fourtet, Caribou, Holy Fuck) in August 2008, grasscut have gone on to play audiovisual shows at Tate Britain and the Duke of York's arthouse cinema, as well as The Great Escape festival. Among those with whom they have shared stages are Plaid, Clark, Luke Vibert, Tim Exile, Nathan Fake, Fujiya & Miyagi, Acoustic Ladyland, The Invisible, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, BLK JKS, Robert Logan, and Valgeir Sigurdsson.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/04/2008
Band Members: Andrew Phillips - voice, instruments, songs, production
Marcus O'Dair - double bass, keys, noise, management
Influences: Martin Hannett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Devo, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Claude Debussy, William Wordsworth, Robert Wyatt, Hilaire Belloc, Amon Tobin, WG Sebald, Harry Partch, Charles Mingus, Peter Warlock, Ezra Pound, Young Marble Giants, George Oppen, Oliver Postgate, John Barry, Freddie Phillips, Basil Bunting, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Barry Gray, Bernard Herrmann, Kraftwerk, Patrick Keillor, Chris Marker, Arthur Wainwright, T S Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Josef K, John Cage, Ron Goodwin, Thomas Pynchon, Brian Cant, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, Delia Derbyshire / John Baker / Brian Hodgson / Dick Mills / Roger Limb / Peter Howell / Paddy Kingsland and all at the Radiophonic Workshop, Walter Leigh, Murcof, Cliff Martinez, George Oppen, The Beatles, Gene Clark, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Cabaret Voltaire, Moondog, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Phillips, Joseph Beuys
Record Label: Ninja Tune
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ninja Tune night at the ICA for Independents Day

Independence Day is, of course, a vulgar American celebration, and not one to be embraced by folk in good 'ol Blighty. Independents Day, however, is a thoroughly different matter, despite any phonetic...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:14:00 GMT

grasscut enter the world of hiphop

Just a quick one, ladies and gentlemen, as we're putting the finishing touches to our bicycle-sampling extravaganza for tomorrow... and besides, it's nearly time for a gin... But believe it or not, a ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:57:00 GMT

grasscut storm Radio 3

News just in: a Grasscut track is to be played on Radio 3's magnificent Late Junction show. For those of you in possession of a wireless, tune in from 11.15pm on 1st July. Rumour has it, there's a ses...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:18:00 GMT

Mona Lisa Curse wins awards at Banff

Mona Lisa Curse, featuring Robert Hughes, directed by Mandy Chang, and scored by our very own Andrew Phillips for Oxford Films / Channel 4, has just won Best Arts Documentary and the Grand Jury Prize ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:40:00 GMT

Free tickets to Koko gig... win win win

Grasscut are most delighted to offer a pair of free tickets to our gig at Koko on 4th July, supporting Plaid, Clark, Luke Vibert and Tim Exile. To be in with a chance of winning, please send us a mess...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:27:00 GMT

grasscut, Bike Week, and the Duke of York's cinema

In celebration of all things steam-powered, wind-up, and self-propelled, and as part of Brighton's Bike Week, we will be performing (incorporating various bicycle paraphernalia) outside Freedom Bikes ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:08:00 GMT

Grasscut bulletin number two

Much enjoyed our show with BLK JKS last night (and the fact that we were billed on the posters as "like Matmos covering Philip Glass" - it may not be quite true, but it sounds good). Thanks to One Inc...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 06:43:00 GMT

BLK JKS (and GRSSCT)

As if our official entry into the blogosphere wasn't thrilling enough - and may we recommend a drop of brandy if it all gets too much - Grasscut are delighted to issue a further bulletin for Brighton ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:43:00 GMT