Music:
Member Since: 2/17/2006
Band Website: http://www.topplers.net
Band Members:
THE DECIDER - Scots art rockers who take 'She's
lost control' and make it "pop!" A three track single also featuring
the reto-futuric punk-funk of "Recycle It" and "Reccomended" along with
the title track "Unshakeable".
JOWE HEAD
- An original member of Swell Maps then joined The Television Personalities...
but his solo work is best! Two tracks 'Merman Blues' and 'Baby
Bounce'.
STEVE TREATMENT
- Released 3 classic DIY singles in 1978/79 then this in 2005! Steve is
joined by The NoMen as his backing band and there are five (or is that six?)
tracks on this single which is packaged in a spectacular fold out poster
sleeve.
THE KNOCKOUTS
- An insane instrumental rock band from Luton... ex Thrilled Skinny. They
make inspired garage/surf/punk tunes!
THE KNOCKOUTS
- The band have teamed up with a singer on this release and produced four
tracks of Bollywood inspired garage rock!
STEVE TREATMENT
- the best of steve's topplers recordings 2003 - 2005! NEW
IMPROVED VERSION includes remixed versions of the tracks from Steve's
2005 7" single!
...
JOWE HEAD - New solo album, a first rerelease for his nineties band 'Olives
Hairy Custard, and his current band 'Angel racing Food.'
THE KNOCKOUTS - their first
full length album for Topplers, but this must be their fifth or sixth album
to date...
THE PHONES SPORTSMAN BAND -
Phones was a founder member of the Swell Maps... this is his first recordings
since the first PSB solo single in 1980... and it's well worth the wait!
Topplers Lite has now launched
another FIVE CDs.
They are available now on the Topplers
Lite label . They only costs a token
One Pound (plus post). There are
10 great recordings available at this cheap price!
Influences: Hear we go... Pere Ubu, Suicide, T Rex, Neu, Nyah fearties, The Seeds, The Pop Group, The Fall, Wire, Can, Amon Duul, John Fahey, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Hole, Julian Cope, Animal Collective, Chrome, Sugababes, Johnny Dowd, Half Japanese, Henry Cow, Electrlane, The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, The Blazing Corks, Eve of Destruction, Ivor Cutler, Angel Corpus Christie, Captain Beefheart, The Creation, Electric Eels, Shampoo, Tripod Jimmy, Rocket from the Tombs, Pebbles, Nuggets, The Ramones, Captain Groovy and his Bubblegum Army, Swell maps, the Stooges, Television Personalities, Nikki Sudden, Jowe Head, Epic Soundtracks, Richard Earl, Phones Sportsman, Golden Cockrill, David Thomas, The Pixies, The Breeders, The Amps, Ramases, O Level, XTC, The Monks, Link Wray, Ronnie Dawson, The Four Plugs, Baby 63, Steve Treatment, Crime, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, The A-Lines, Lee Hazelwood, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Faust, Tony Conrad, The Cramps, Nick Cave, Birthday Party, Sixto Rodriguez, Lydia Lunch, Black Sabbaff, Sweet, The Slits, World Domination Enterprise, Bobbie Gentry, Middle of the Road, Klaus Wonderlich, Sleater Kinney, Girls in the Garage, Alice Cooper, Sweet, Rock On by David Essex, The Conroy Canyon Mission, Elvis, The Platforms, Dan Melchior und Das Menace, Gang, The Broke Review, Buff Medways, Thee Headcoatees, The Topplers, Cul De Sac, Floorian, Glen Branca, The Prefects, Subway Sect, The Users, The Lines, Mari Mundi & the Bitches, The No Neck Blues Band, England's Glory, Only Ones, The One, The Cult Figures, Ironfish, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Metal Urbain, Elton Motello, Tom Waits, Kleenex, Woody Guthrie, Blind Blake, Leadbelly, Fred Frith, Sun Ra, Echo & the Bunnymen, and that other band...
Sounds Like: ...everybody else...
Record Label: We are not the French Dance Label!
Type of Label: Indie
