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Ten Tigers

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About Me

Ten Tigers is a team of four very individual and stubborn people who make the best noises they can and enjoy learning about music, performance and life together. We formed several years ago but we all get sick a lot. We do not function without tea and we are old enough to know exactly who we are. We are good at keeping secrets. When we started this band we all took up new instruments. We wanted to be novices together. We like to swap around and keep our songs short. We have short attention spans and assume the audiences will be the same. We believe that you can have fun while being serious and that sometimes you just have to change the rules.Paul has been in bands before but never like this.Manda once had lessons in how to play the tambourine.CK is allergic to ewoks.

The video below our cover of Daisy Chainsaw's 'Love Your Money', videoed by lovely Dom at our first leccy gig, Noisy Night 3 @ Chinnery's. For further coverage see http://www.noisyzine.co.uk, http://www.southendpunk.com and http://www.radiogetswild.com who have all said nice things about us. The loons.

INJURY/ILLNESS OF THE WEEK: Paul has had his operation, is up on his feet and did some funky drumming on Friday night at the Sunrooms! And everyone else seems healthy too. This is pretty much unprecedented.

According to Jenna Leonard at Music Zine :"Despite their protests that the tracks they have available are 'only rough acoustic demos done in Cubase round Manda's house, Southend's Ten Tigers' first track 'Superlucky' lies somewhere between original British Riot Grrl Mambo Taxi and Manic Cough's recent b-side 'Spooky'. The vocals walk a fine line between sweet as pie and full on punka, with a pensive allure and despite the obvious recording set backs they show plenty of Poly-Styrene cum Voodoo Queens potential. The creeping B-movie guitars, sparse drumming and melodic vocals have a likeable rough around the edges quality. 'Sunny Shades' has the appeal of Dressy Bessy but with a more chilled out Californian sunshine feeling of fading sunsets and warm beaches, much like The Essex Green. The delicately strummed guitar and dreamy melody are a contrast to darker 'Superlucky' with it's bubblegum, indie pop vibe but again shows great potential for when Ten Tigers lay some tracks down in a proper studio."http://www.musiczine.com


According to the beautifuland talented Sophia at Noisyzine: "Southend's d.i.y, low-fi indie punks Ten Tigers take to the stage for their first gig proper. Yes, they have generously allowed Noisy to host their stage debut (well, technically their second if you count last month's appearance at the Grand's Open Mic night!) and garner the largest crowd of the evening. There's some unusual sound effects courtesy of a Thunder Box and a Buddah Machine, quite possibly the most epic introduction to a set I've ever seen at Chinnery's, a dance routine and an excellent cover of Daisy Chainsaw's 'Love Your Money'. The effects this performance has had on the Southend public appears akin to some sort of fever that's spreading rapidly and causing people to break into epic speeches about the greatness of this lot, investigate just what makes them tick and compare them to legends such as The Fall and The Slits. You need to see this band and catch the fever too!!"

Go and buy her fanzine! And that's an order.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/10/2006
Band Website: tentigers.co.uk
Band Members: Manda, CK, 'M', Paul Travolta.
Influences: Kenickie, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Nirvana, The B52s, Jarvis Cocker, The Yeah Yeah yeahs, The Moldy Peaches, Atari Teenage riot, Adam Ant, Mogwai, The Sugarcubes, Adem, Cream, X-ray Specs, Placebo, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Queen Adreena, The Super Furry Animals; Sausage sandwiches and cups of tea, Buttercup Syrup and chips, Fairtrade chocolate, Marlboro lights; Stephen Street, Butch Vig and Lee Perry; Brighton, Japan; Manga, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis; Cats.
Sounds Like: Quiet grrrrl..
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tiger update (coffee shop explanation)

OK a few eagle eyed people have noticed that we have two gigs coming up, one at Costa coffee in Chelmsford (more on that in a minute) and another at the Sunrooms with the glorious Beatroots.You will a...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:21:00 PST

Music-zine is/are great!

Hooray, Music-zine (the people who randomly gave us our first review when we didn't submit anything anywhere) have now given us a page of our own with an email interview on! You can see it here:http:...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:24:00 PST

Charisma over content

Oh we had a blast last night! The sound somehow turned to crap between sound check and our set and we played like puddings but it was sooooo much fun. Thanks to everyone who came along, we had some ...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:15:00 PST

Heavenly week of happy joy

Hi everyone,long time no blog.This week we all took time off work and spent 6 days rehearsing, gigging and recording together which was a lot of fun and not half as stressful as we thought it might be...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

For the slackers and the fools.....

Hello.It has come to our attention that some of you may have been busy yesterday afternoon when M's interview with DJ Nix on Radio Gets Wild was aired. We are aware that some of you were working, or ...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:49:00 PST

M on the radio again

Yes, M is a complete media whore.Here her here:http://www.radiogetswild.combeing interviewed and possibly talked about (eek) this Saturday between noon and 2pm.
Posted by Ten Tigers on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:31:00 PST

OMG thank you!

Humongous thanks to everyone who made Noisy Night 3 on Monday, thanks for all the support, to the other bands who were amazing, to our new friends The Rounds, to Gareth who carted all our gear around ...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:22:00 PST

No escape now....

OK folks, so the gig's tomorrow, I know a lot of you are coming which is really sweet and some of you have apologised because you can't which is very sweet also. This is just a reminder really in cas...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Sun, 20 May 2007 06:10:00 PST

M on the radio! Proper radio, not her own crappy thing.

http://www.phoenixfm.com/story/182.phpBrentwood's Only Alternative show on Pheonix FM let M and our pal Soph Noisyzine go on air and plug plug plug everything they could think of for two hours solid. ...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:16:00 PST

Gig Virginity lost!

Thanks to everyone who was at the open mic at the Grand last night where we did our first sneaky live performance! The crowd were very kind. Is that miaowing going to become a regular thing?!Mr Josh...
Posted by Ten Tigers on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:57:00 PST