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About Me

The most recent gigs in the Team AvsTeam B adventure feature a newly evolved acoustic sound augmented by double bass, mandolin and a melodica nicked from the Futureheads instrument toychest.

The tracks 'Flowers in your room' and 'Wild Mercury' above are taken from the 6 track EP 'All of these long afternoons' recorded in 24 hours one weekend in June and released through indie upstart Telefonic Records .The featured tracks have been mainstays of the acoustic shows and are available through the Telefonic Records website resplendent in their screen-printed sleeves, each record lovingly hand-made by the band and label.

We play gigs in the North East, but not as many as we would like. Soon we will be playing gigs in Manchester and Leeds.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Website: telefonicrecording.com
Band Members: Steve Jackson : guitars, vocals, melodica, glock, pots and pans

Chris Prior : bass guitar, double bass, melodica, backing vocals, guitar, percussion, glock, pots and pans, synth

(Occasionally) Peter Fifield : drums, percussion, backing vocals
Influences: Dylan, Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Neutral Milk Hotel, Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Pixies, Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Agrophobic nosebleed, Ornette Coleman, Tallis, Xenakis, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Garcia Marquez, Ali Farka Toure, Manu Chao, Regina Specktor, Leonard Cohen, Rancid, Lightning Bolt, Noise Bands in general, Laptop bleeps and whistles, Crumb, Henry Cow. Frankly we're all over the place.
Sounds Like: fresh reviews coming soon.
Record Label: Telefonic
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mini tour thanks

..> Thanks for everyone who turned out and listened to our stuff over the last few nights. We had a bloody amazing time and it seems very likely we'll be doing the same thing fairly soon in the f...
Posted by Team A vs Team B on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:49:00 PST

NEW EP IS GO!

Alright So it's been a long time brewing but we'e finally ready to up sticks and show the world our new songs. We recorded four of them at the back end of last year and had them mixed and remixed...
Posted by Team A vs Team B on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:10:00 PST

What we've been up to...

So, the last few days have been busy, but all in the name of good clean fun. First off we played on Friday night at The Borough in Sunderland. A select audience, but perfectly formed. How do to the gu...
Posted by Team A vs Team B on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:06:00 PST

A tired tip of the hat to you all...

Well, that was a fun week. We started out playing in the mammoth room down in the Student's Union in Durham, (for friends absent, a track of this is available now to download for your edification), an...
Posted by Team A vs Team B on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:22:00 PST

A soft drink to you all...

We're featured in Palatinate, the Durham University paper, this week in a nice article. Also, apparently we were on BBC Radio Newcastle, but none of us heard it, so answers as to if we actually did or...
Posted by Team A vs Team B on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:52:00 PST