Member Since: 29/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.pokehole.co.uk
Band Members: Richard Lyn Dylan Dave Simon Matt Tegi Hazel
Influences: Fanfare Ciocarlia, Cake, Ben Folds Five, Josie and the PussyCats, Goran Bregovic, Alice Cooper, rubber ducks, Meatloaf, Jake Thakery, Mr Bungle, Janis Joplin, Tomahawk, Ivor Cutler, The Kinks, Queen, Bonzo Dog Band, Temperance Seven, Benny Hill, David Bowie, Cider (for the brass section), Nick Cave, Soul Coughing, Nico, Buffy (the vampire slayer, of course), Lena Lovich, Joyce Grenville, Jane's Addiction, Tom Waits, Barbarella, Les Hurlements d'leo, Cuddly toys, 17 Hippies, Gogol Bordello, Black Sabbath, Elvis, Lidiya Ruslanova, Leningrad, Spalding, Banana Splits (all five of them), Bourbon biscuits and custard creams, Rumpus, Mike Patton, The Cat Empire...
Sounds Like: Well, imagine the bonzo dog band and Cake go on holiday to Russia. They rent a flat on the shores everything's going fine, they're listening to Burt Bacharach when Nick Cave comes round to borrow a cup of sugar but Tom Waits has already taken it all and he's using it to create gypsy brass sounds out of a dead cat that's stuck in a drainpipe.
Not only that but the 17 hippies are out in the barn picking fights with Gogol Bordello because they can't agree if the Beatles are better than the Kinks, but of course we ALL know the anwer to that question ... and that's what we sound like, give or take.
Type of Label: Major