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Chimpanman

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About Me

Three-brother-one-other guitar based original songs about lives of dubious virtue. Variously described as "Northampton's mellowest band", "Not very good", "best thing on MySpace" and most baffling "When I came to see you live I thought you'd be rubbish but you weren't..."

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Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Website: chimpanman.com
Band Members: Jon -- bass and vocals; Ian -- guitar and vocals; Pete -- guitar; Jim -- drums.
Influences: Reni, dEUS, Zita Swoon, Dead Man Ray, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Orwell Music, Samuel Beckett, Dinosaur Jr , Teenage Fanclub, Swervedriver, Ride
Record Label: Nettlewine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Two new songs, two new gigs

Not the most prolific, but finally, while I am shrugging off the hangover of Sam's birthday party (it was 3 days ago...) something to blog about. I've put a couple of the album tracks up for you - the...
Posted by Chimpanman on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:04:00 PST

The MySpace Current Top 9 According To Jon

Hello, We are sitting back with a metaphorical cigar (no one smokes 'cept Jon, who smokes too much and talks bilge) as our album is, as they say, finished ("started" we like to think). Just got ...
Posted by Chimpanman on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

An album, some gigs, and bands wanted

Well, we promised ourselves we'd be a little busier this year - in the next few months I hope we find it's all been worth it... First up, a couple of great gigs for you...on Sat 7 July you can find us...
Posted by Chimpanman on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:24:00 PST

Another year done

Well my friends, another year done, bar Christmas obviously.... Those who know me never call me Mr.Christmas, I think I have issues with Christmas, but I will try to enjoy myself in the ways I know ho...
Posted by Chimpanman on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST

Recorded

5 new tracks were layed down over the weekend at Premier Studios over in Corby, exciting times for us as the recordings define where we are at the moment...Iain Wetherell did a fantastic job of c...
Posted by Chimpanman on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:59:00 PST

In Betweeny

Dear all, Chimpanman has that decidely in betweeny feeling to it at the moment...to wit; 1 I was to take some days off this week to record some new demo songs that have been rattling round in my head...
Posted by Chimpanman on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:09:00 PST

Capital Radio

Summer is (finally) upon us, and the living is easy. No scratch that - - the living is trying to assemble BBQ's and garden furniture from Latvian instruction manuals, and collecting blood blisters, sc...
Posted by Chimpanman on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 03:03:00 PST

Tiny things good and bad.

I was listening to a song today, and it suddenly occurred to me how a tiny little thing can make a song.It was California by Joni Mitchell. Jon & I have a history over Joni Mitchell. I hate her and he...
Posted by Chimpanman on Wed, 17 May 2006 08:44:00 PST

A Bass Player Speaks

Hello to you all out there in MySpace world. Rehearsals going well and Jim has ended his dry spell by pulling out a cracker of a song which we tried last week. I think he's just putting the finishing ...
Posted by Chimpanman on Thu, 04 May 2006 02:00:00 PST

New songs

New songs are unpredictable. Im in a phase of thinking everything Im writing at the moment is rubbish, in comparison with everything else Ive written. Im rehashing and thrashing around and getting now...
Posted by Chimpanman on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:09:00 PST