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the marder

About Me


"If you imagine a world somewhere between Manchester and Berlin; a place mid-way between Joy Division and The Chameleons; a voice fixated somewhere between Billy McKenzie and Thurston Moore. Not that the dark shadows cast by The Marder actually seek to copy or indeed sound like any of these icons, but they’re hitting the genre that could make them equals. From the industrial wedges of bass guitar to the heartbeat perfect and wild rolls of maybe one of Manchester’s best drummers, their singer and guitarist is the funnel for all of this almost unbridled energy. The crack of “Forty” and the intense mind blowing ructions of “If The West Apologised To The East” are merely small nuclear missiles, launched from what promises to be an increasingly threatening arsenal of songs. ."
Review by JA - ManchesterMusic.co.uk
...So elegantly ripped apart, so gently torn in two....Disemboweled, bled dry and left outside....Senses betrayed. Tongue burnt, tongue numb, tongue removed....My own Mother never really loved me.
"THE MARDER are very much a band you want to keep a very careful eye on. Their bleak twangy tones are suitably informed by a remote obsession with early Factory singles, The Chameleons, the progressive rumblings of latter day bands such as Foals and George Orwell. Theirs is a vision of 1984 set in black and white and despair and the guitarist has his guitar hitched up so high that it’s literally being sucked into his armpit. The end result is a jerky, very clever twist of timings that makes Interpol sound as smooth as Bobby Brown, but it’s the voice, stolen from the Postcard Records era of Orange Juice and Josef K that provides the final, convincing, musical wrench. Superb stuff from a band we’ll no doubt be hearing a lot more from."
Review by Manuel Ecostos - ManchesterMusic.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/12/2005
Influences: A Clockwork Orange, Johnny Depp, Surfer Rosa, Edgar Allen Poe, Bruno Ganz, Albini, Volkswagen, Glasgow, John Huston, Dr Strangelove, Chicago, Relationship of Command, Budapest, The Wire, Corruption & Lies.
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Band Photography byKirsty K & Alan HallArtworks byHowie Cherry
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

* DEMO OF THE WEEK *

Good evening, we have been awarded DEMO OF THE WEEK by Manchester Music.co.uk.....please have a read, visit the website if you can. "The Marder don't need to try too hard to impress and it's fitting t...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 18:57:00 GMT

LIVE REVIEW FROM THE CASTLE

Oldham Castle 18th April 2008 "If you imagine a world somewhere between Manchester and Berlin; a place mid-way between Joy Division and The Chameleons; a voice fixated somewhere between Billy McKenzie...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 14:15:00 GMT

FOUR MORE TRACKS APPEAR

We've decided to put four more tracks up on l'myspace, they have been made available in Stereo, and if you really want to you can download them and put them on a cassette, which in turn you can play i...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:09:00 GMT

SO ELEGANTLY RIPPED APART...

    ...So elegantly ripped apart, so gently torn in two. ...Disemboweled, bled dry and left outside. ...Senses betrayed. Tongue burnt, tongue numb, tongue removed. ...My own Mother...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:52:00 GMT

LIVE REVIEW FROM THE ROADHOUSE

We supported The Sugars at the Roadhouse on Thursday 9th of August 2007...we filled in last minute for The Pistolas, so we didnt have many down, but the few who were there seemed to enjoy.....please n...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:48:00 GMT

ANTHONY H. WILSON

He was a hero of mine, i'm gutted i never got to meet him in person, although he did play one of our songs last year on his radio show for XFM Manchester - The Sunday Roast...and he really liked it - ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:14:00 GMT

LIVE REVIEW FROM THE CASTLE

The Marder played live at The Castle in Oldham on the 28th of June 2007.   "THE MARDER are very much a band you want to keep a very careful eye on. Their bleak twangy tones are suitably informed ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:23:00 GMT

LIVE SESSION ON XFM

The Marder did indeed play a Live Session on Xfm Manchester 97.7 fm, on Clint Boons Music Response, on Monday 18th June between 7pm - 10pm... ...The Marder played three of their songs live o...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 17:20:00 GMT