Music:
Member Since: 9/18/2004
Band Website: thetemplars.com, templecomberecords.com
Band Members: carl (guitars & lead vocals), philthy (medieval battering rams), chris (guitars & vocals), perry (bulldozer bass)
Influences: the who/rolling stones, menace, the kinks, last resort/4skins, angelic upstarts, index exposure, the squad, leyton buzzards, the clash, count bishops, the jam, crux, komintern sect, snix, chelsea, reich orgasm, camera silens, close shave, red alert/red london, major accident, little bob story, tumbling dice, the rejects aka terrible twins, combat 84, the shapes, tolbiac's toads, the jook, riff raff, lanterne rouge, black sabbath, early stranglers, venom, criminal class, nabat, skinkorps, the sweet, hammersmith gorillas, crisis, joy division, warsaw... we grab our sound from the music we grew up on, especially from labels such as chiswick records, syndicate records, secret records, crane rases records, oi! records, c.a.s. records, anagram records, gougnaf movement, no future, raw records, stiff records, step-forward records, new rose records, vertigo records, 77KK, chaos records, bondage records, rock-o-rama, hammer records, razor records, bronze/neat records and others...khakibedford.com & oldhcdude.com
(most of the pics are from there!)
Sounds Like: early british & french oi oi music with a tinge of 60's rock & roll, a smidgen of late 70's punk, add a bit of creativity and a splash of genuine lyrical content and you've got 100% crusader rock & oi!! no mess, no fuss... just pure impact!!
Record Label: Templecombe Records & others
Type of Label: None