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Petanque

Music to help you feel better...

About Me

Est. 1999 Odd time signatures, strange chords, unusual song structures, funny lookin' band members - with a heart of pure pop! Petanque are a foursome with some original music you just might want to hear...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/24/2005
Band Members: Guitar/Vox - Anton Mckay Bass - Justin Castley Keyboards - Tara John Drums - Tim Lowe
Influences: Roger Whittaker / Belle and Sebastien / The Chills / Arvo Part / Stereolab / Moondog / Phil Spector / Ron Grainer / The Triffids / Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army / The GoBetweens / Sodastream / Thermos Cardy / The Spinsters / King Wasabi / Cinema Prague / Delia Derbyshire /Jethro Tull /The Muttonbirds / Serge Prokofiev / They Might Be Giants / Michael Nyman / The Devine Comedy / Igor Stravinsky / The Verlains / Philip Glass / XTC / The The / The Cocteau Twins / The Pixies / Frank Black / Dave Brubeck / The Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Electrophönvintage / Arvo Part / The Bank Holidays / Henryk Gorecki / Burgers of Beef / Stereolab / Radarmaker / Institut Polaire / The Autumn Isles / etc etc etc
Sounds Like: You tell us please
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Old Song Uploaded

I've uploaded an old song of ours that we recorded years ago but no longer play live - "Taking Mr Angst Out for a Drive".  It doesn't scrub up too badly listening to it now (some rough-ish singin...
Posted by Petanque on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:36:00 PST

Gig at the Hydie last night

What a great evening!  Great crowd, brill bands and we played quite nicely all things considered... Istitut Polaire were sounding particularly fine - bah - everyone was!  Awesome!
Posted by Petanque on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:04:00 PST

Goodness Gracious!

Hello everybody!  Petanque have finally made it to Myspace!  Jolly good - as you were...
Posted by Petanque on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:14:00 PST