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Shabby Rogue

We're with stupid

About Me

Hello, we are 4 men (not Devo), real men, although people could argue this and if they're bigger than us (or smaller but just as determined) I'm sure we'd agree to anything.We've been playing music together now for more years than I care to remember and we do it cos we love it, there's Tom who can play anything (in my mind) and has a wonderfully open mind when it comes to music, then there's John who has the hand of God (attached to his ankle-joke) and crafts his words similarly to the great Leonard Cohen (and takes ages xx) and there's Shaun who can write a song in seconds and sings like he's swallowed an angel, oh, there's me as well, I hit skin (eeuurrgh). We're just about finishing our second album (well probably Autumn) and the stuff above is from our first offering, hope you like what you hear cos it's gonna change soon to bigger and better things.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2006
Band Website: thefivefamilies.co.uk
Band Members: John - guitar & vocals

Shaun - guitar & vocals

Terry - drums & vocals

Tom - bass, guitar, vocals & keys
Influences:
Sounds Like: 'The Rogue recall a galliant wardrobe of 1960s heroes from Arthur Lee to Bob Dylan, while imprinting their influences with fresh emotions and ideas. As an introduction to an outrageously good live band you could do far worse than investigate this beautiful and troubled album...' Artrocker Magazine
Record Label: Buy the album at www.cdbaby.com/cd/shabbyrogue
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

La Lupine finds work

La Lupine is an anomaly - neither work nor leisure constitute the angle of his sunlight. He's a man of science, an innovator, like a Victorian madman or the guy who sold razors on the telly and bought...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:24:00 PST

Top ten crap superheroes

As decided by me and Mike while watching the mighty Spain prevail:1. Sell-by-date manAbility: to be able to eat bread one day after the supermarket says it should not be eaten.2. Starbuck Ability: to ...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:17:00 PST

On their way to Club OSMU, Shabby encounter an emanant

Way back in 1998, as I was threading my way through the wayward and desolate humanity crowding the pavement, a righteous man stepped into my path, fixed me in the eye and said to me: ' Do you want to ...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:05:00 PST

Scott Walker: into the wilderness

Picture this: a man alone, sitting in the corner of the flat, hat low over the eyes, listening to the dust and plotting the future of music. The man being: me. Somewhere in the distance a church bell ...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:21:00 PST

Album diary 2

Technical specification list for Shabby Rogue album One thing, you know, a what-do-you-call-it. The thing you sing into to make your voice. Another couple of those. A set of flat response speakers (u...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

Scott Walker: shit at darts or what?

I was sitting in the corner, minding my own, you know. Hat down over eyes and thinking about the kind of sound you create if you hit a three year old pig carcass with a slice of lemon, and how this di...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:44:00 PST

Album diary 1

'Are we near,& Nether Wallop?'Silence.'What about,& Petersfinger?'Silence.'Are we near,& Odstock?'Silence,'I once played a gig in a place called Tosser-by-sea. You ever played there?''No.''Full of tos...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:50:00 PST

Invasion of the equbi

Tommy Persona has troubles of his own. His great friend and eternal debtor, La Lupine, called him in the middle a mortal freakout. He was woken from a dream about cybernetic lesbians by the eerie sens...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:22:00 PST

One nation under Asda

We all know the tricks they get up to in supermarkets. You can't make sense of a supermarket, you just get in, buy your Fairtrade bananas and get the fuck out. But I was in the supermarket yesterday a...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:49:00 PST

Old lovers

I met my old lover on the street last night, he'd been in an accident and his head was on the wrong way round, we had a forced conversation as, quite frankly , i felt rather aggrieved having to talk t...
Posted by Shabby Rogue on Mon, 15 May 2006 05:07:00 PST