About Me
So Now the end is near......
Yes its true The Needles are calling it a day.
They had a good crack at it, acheived alot over the years and produced some great records.
Thanks to everyone who helped the band along the way; long suffering familys, dear friends and girlfriends, The Nicols, The Hylands, The Addisons, The Milnes, The Forrests, Murry and Lindsey (Bad baby panda, did the ace videos), Wendy (rip), Vic Galloway, Jim Geletly, Frome Road, Gayle and Malks, Erin (sxsw), Moogie and Leanne, Lauren (ex hart), Ian Cheek, Ben (ex impressive), Nat (Born to run), BBC Scotland, Chris (stv) Jimi, Mike Hyland, Popup, Scottish arts, everyone who helped make the vidoes, Emily,Wayne Love, Caffy, Jen, Marc Lamarr, Phil Jupitus, all the bookers and promoters who’ve put em on, Aberdeen and Glasgow..lot and lots of other people, too many to mention but we thank you all for eveything.
Last gig is on Sat Decmeber 22nd in Aberdeen - Hope you can make it.
Thanks for the support.
IN SEARCH OF THE NEEDLES
Formed in Aberdeen, the band are Dave Dixon (guitar / lead vocals), Paul Curtiss (bass), Richey Wolfe (keyboards / vocals) and Johnny Wolfe (drums / vocals). They came together at the end of the 1990s as a means to survive the trials and tribulations of school together, they quickly became the biggest band in town... When we started out we loved Guns n Roses and Nirvana, but they were too complicated for us, explains wired singer Dave Dixon. Britpop meant nothing to us because we were detached from it it seemed like a London thing so we turned to the simplicity of the earliest rock n roll for inspiration. There was something quite sinister about Gene Vincent but tender too. There was an ambiguity there. Raw, exciting rock n roll made utter sense to us.
blah blah blah we had alot of crap about who the band supported, press stuff, radio and tv plays etc here but let the music make your mind up or not...
From the simplest of constituents, the needles have created a monster.
-NME
Sharp fizzles of punk power pop. Like an overly-excited Weezer covering Buzzcocks, being mischievously poked by Phil Spectorwith shockingly electric cattle prods ROCKSOUND
Fuzzy magic jem.
-Metro
Get yourself to a Needles gig youll jive to ace tunes, have a laugh and fall over on the tube on the way home! DISORDER
A wonky new york dolls stomp which gives way to unfathomable oompah
- Kerrang
Songs like dead or alive is every teenage cowboy fantasy in one pop gem flash of tambourine-dream brilliance
-NME
The needles are not just the needles, theyre the FU....ING NEEDLES.The needles rule, ok?
-Drowned in sound
Great, great band -Zane Lowe
Truly Impressive - THE FLY
The Needles deliver an excellent set that’s strong on melody and startling, imaginative instrumentation. - Music Week
The Needles sound
fresh, catchy and exciting - Stool Pigeon
bloody love this album-Record Collector
The Needles are what you have been searching for - Loud and Quiet
Frantic and poetic, furious and distinguished, weird, wonderful and a
cut above all those garage rock pretenders - Evening News
Another success for The Needles that leaves us
practically salivating - Gigwise
This lot deserve to be huge- Burn
GIRL I USED TO KNOW / DEAD OR ALIVE OUT NOW
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iTUNES LINK TO DOWNLOAD
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Look out for the Girl I used to know Video on Spanking new music and NME chart show on MTV....
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