Member Since: 21/11/2005
Band Website: www.matovey.co.uk
Band Members: Mostly M. A. Tovey backed by multitudinous knackered machinery and instruments clinging on for dear mortality. However, there have been various cameos by friends under the moniker Pylons On Mars.
Influences: In no discernable order: The Fall; Public Enemy; The Aphex Twin; Radiohead; Joy Division; Bach; James Brown; My Bloody Valentine; Brian Wilson; The Smiths; Stevie Wonder; The Turtles; John Lee Hooker; Edwyn Collins; Lipps Inc.; The Stooges; Prince; Philip Glass; Billy Joel; Scott Walker; The Human League; Erma Franklin; The Kinks; Ronettes; The Stranglers; MC5; Super Furry Animals; The Cure; Outkast; U2; Miles Davis; Smokey Robinson; Johnny Cash; The Prodigy; The Sex Pistols; Phil Spector; Hot Chocolate; Motorhead; Buzzcocks; The Temptations; The Style Council; The Chi-lites; Morrissey; The Jesus And Mary Chain; Gilamonsters; Otis Redding; The Wedding Present; Boz Scaggs; John Cage; John Coltrane; Gary Numan; The Isley Brothers; Vaughan Williams; Dionne Warwick; The Beatles; Curtis Mayfield; Paul Weller; Death By Milkfloat; The Beautiful South; the Jam; Louis Armstrong; Pixies; Syreeta; Adam Ant; REM; Squarepusher; Al Green; The House Of Love; Marvin Gaye; The Clash; Massive Attack...to be continued!
Sounds Like: The Human League and Chic jamming with Radiohead and The Fall in my head, though of course stratospherically, apocalyptically inferior to that in reality...
Record Label: NO (No Record Label/No Music Publishing)