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Toshk

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Songs to learn and sing - part four

Toshk hail from the same part of England as Hard-Fi and The Bluetones both geographically and musically. Morose, introspective and dark lyrics intertwine with upbeat pop melodys fuse effortlessly to form the Toshk sound.

The band (sometimes - well, on this occasion) describe their music as unashamedly "eighties" influenced rock-edged-pop; seemingly calm on the surface but with darker riptides that given half a chance will pull you under and give you a damn good spanking.

After an inactive start to the year Toshk are again writing, recording and considering some late summer gigs.

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Music:

Member Since: 20/09/2004
Band Website: http://www.ilike.com/artist/Toshk
Band Members: Yes
Influences: Talk Talk, The Cure, Mylene Farmer, Manic Street Preachers, Goodbye Mister Mackenzie, Kasabian, Arcadia, Weezer, The Bluetones, Echo and the bunnymen, Stephen Duffy, Supergrass, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, The Kinks, Bronski Beat, Billy Bragg, The Divine Comedy, Pulp, Blancmange, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, Thomas Dolby, Rachel Stamp, Talking Heads, Suede, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Bif Naked, Squeeze, Gary Numan, Paul Weller, Tears for Fears, Nirvana, The Donnas, Bex Marshall, Eels, Early REM, Flesh for Lulu, Dandy Warhols, Garbage, Speechless, Ultravox, Yazoo, Fun Boy Three, Foo Fighters, Specials, Madness, The Beat, Blondie, Boom Boom Room, Dannii Minogue, Radiohead, Muse, Howard Jones, Choice Malone, Smashing Pumpkins, The Eels, Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Tori Amos, Avril Lavigne, Tyrax Ventura, Kylie Minogue, Feeder, Soft Cell, Busted, The Music, New Order, T.a.t.u., David Bowie, Tears for Fears, Blancmange, Anthony Stewart Head, Joan Jett, Joy Division, Tori Amos, Heaven 17, Sonic Youth, Kahuna Dream, Suede, INXS, Duran Duran, The Jam, Royksopp, KT Tunstall, Muse, Bjork, Psychedlic Furs, Busted, Ben Folds, Queen, Dexys, Stranglers, Talking Heads, Spear of Destiny, Dexy's, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, KLF, Bjork, The Bolshoi, ABC, XTC, Angelo Badelamenti, Boys Wonder, Crazyhead, Crowded House, Finn, Benign, Plastica, Prince

Sounds Like: Search us; we haven't got a clue - just doing our own thing

In our heads we sound like... Smashing Pumpkins / New Order / Squeeze / Hard-Fi / Talk Talk / Depeche Mode / Spice Girls / The Cure / Echo and the Bunnymen / Duran Duran / Pet Shop Boys meets... oh I don't know - you tell us. I don't have a clue who we sound like. But I'd very much like to know.

So if you know please tell us.

Record Label: Scufd Music

My Blog

Sorting out the attic

While writing material for the next wave of Toshk I've been sifting through the huge archive of demos that we've recorded. Most of them will never appear on a bonafide CD so I'll be cleaning a fe...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:04:00 GMT