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About Me

The Mayfields emerged from the embers of C86 with a love of indiepop. There was nothing better than buying your favourite bands record in the week and then playing support to them the following week. During our short time together we played support to some of the greats including Razorcuts, Jasmine Minks, Close Lobsters and the Pooh Sticks. Three vinyl releases were made - the now legendary flexi - 'All you ever say' which was shared with fellow Salisbury band the Badgeman. This was followed with releases on Ambition Records - Call my name/world of your own, and the Bus Stop release of Feels like yesterday/deeper than the ocean. Highlights....? Well that has to be Malcolm Mclaren reviewing the World of your own single in the NME. Lets just say he wasn't very polite.........

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/01/2006
Band Members: Kevin - Vocals, guitar, Paul - Guitar, Iain - Bass, Mark - Drums, Swanny - Backing vocals and tambourine, Bob - Glockenspiel. (also Rich- Drums, Dan- Guitar and several others over the years!)
Influences: Influenced by the following (in no particular order): Primal Scream, Razorcuts, Talulah Gosh, Josef K, Orange Juice, Baby Lemonade, The Byrds, The Wedding Present, Sonic Youth,The Soup Dragons, 14 Iced Bears, The La's, Jesse Garon and the Desperados, the Fizzbombs, the Clouds, Mousefolk, the Darling Buds, the Pastels, the Vaselines, Loop, BMX Bandits, Chesterfields, Mighty Mighty, Biff Bang Pow, Felt, Jasmine Minks, Subway Records, the Sea Urchins, The Field Mice, Sarah Records, Alan McGee,John Peel, The Smiths, Creation Records....
Record Label: Compact &Bijou, Ambition Records, Bus Stop Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Firekites track on Cloudberry Records Fanzine!!

The next Cloudberry Records fanzine issued on the 15th June contains a further track for the Firekites - the band formed by Iain Mayfield after the Mayfields dissolved.. The cd contains other tracks b...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:04:00 GMT

New Firekites track on Cloudberry Records Fanzine!!

Another mp3 to download!

Hey! I've just put "world of your own" demo version up for download - more will follow as interest is gaining momentum - even as I write this! Thanks to everyone who has contacted me - I'll put ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:22:00 GMT

Sunny sundae smiles...

It's sunday and the kids are watching the latest Harry Potter DVD - tiem for some more reminiscing...? I've made Out to sea and Seasons Pass available as down loads for a while. I hope to ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:29:00 GMT

the appliance of science...

It's great how technology has moved on in the past few years. I've spent this afternoon playing around with some new software that should allow me to post up some rare and never heard before tra...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:10:00 GMT

Do you remember the first time?

I remember the first time I saw the Mayfields. I hadn't joined at that point. I was a great fan of the Groove Farm, and Andrew from the band had written telling me of a gig they were doing...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:05:00 GMT

Time marches on........

Hello Indie kids everywhere and a special welcome to Brian at Bus Stop and Roque - the first online fans for this new "Do you remember the Mayfields" myspace blog. Over the next few weeks I'll b...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:47:00 GMT

and out of the woodwork.........

It's about time the world learned about the Mayfields....small indie band from Salisbury....or maybe the band that time forgot. I hope to post up some old tracks soon so keep 'em peeled!
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:32:00 GMT