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The Sequins

About Me



“An absolute must for indiepopsters everywhere” The Fly
“Blissfully tuneful indie-pop contenders” NME
“Great pop music” Plan B
“Wide eyed melodies and breakneck energy” Rough Trade
“I'm too lost in the world of Sequins and was trying to work out what I was going to do...” John Kennedy XFM
“Melancholic melodies that somehow remain uplifting” Loud and Quiet
“Sounding like The Smiths playing Life on Mars!” Careless Talk Costs Lives

Biography

The Sequins are a four piece indie-pop band based in Coventry, England. We make pop songs with guitars... That's probably the only true description of our music. If you'd like to get to know us, please have a listen to our music and read our blog
Album (CD): The Death of Style
Available to buy through www.toughloverecords.com

Single (Vinyl and CD): Patients
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Single (Vinyl and CD): Nobody Dreams About Me - Sold out
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/23/2004
Band Website: www.thesequins.co.uk
Band Members: Hywel Roberts - Vocals
Justin Hui - Guitar
Stephen J Weir - Bass
Donna Crawford - Drums

Influences: Talking Heads, Roy Orbison, Queen, Ramones
Record Label: Tough Love Records (www.toughloverecords.com)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Whoops!

http://www.myspace.com/thekrakOh I've just worked out how to do it... My bad.I'm rubbish with myspace!
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 08:20:00 GMT

Charity gig for Cancer

We had a great time at Rooz's studios last night.  We enjoyed the murdering some karaoke songs and of course the Krak(http://www.myspace.com/thekrak) We'd love to be their virtual myspace friend, but ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 08:17:00 GMT

Sick Note

Big apologies for not playing at the Wave Pictures gig. Unfortunately Hywel came down with flu two days before hand :-(I went down anyway and the Wave Pictures were quite wonderful! Their new songs ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Some More Dodgy Photos of the Basement gig

It's always nice having some people take photos of you at gigs, we generally never get to see most of them though; let alone get our hands on them! As a result, most of our blog photos of gigs tend t...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Stupid web hosting!

As you can see, the Sequins myspace looks a bit crap at the moment due to the lack of any frills and broken links to pictures.Our web hosting decided to give us the middle finger, so I will be sorting...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:41:00 GMT

(Slightly Illegal) Parties in Basements

Hello! We had a blinding gig in a office block basement on Saturday... Well blind drunk that was! There's always a tiny chance these things are going to get shut down by the police. For obvious re...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:32:00 GMT

Fox Fun!

We had a great time at the Fox on Saturday! That place always feels like one of the most friendly music places in the capital. There seems to be an awful lot of miserable 'haircut people' that turn u...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:42:00 GMT

New song + gig

I've just sent a load of our songs to get mixed properly by someone better than me. For some reason my mixes tend to sound like our music is being played through speakers made of crisp packets.In any...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Gig and valentines

Hello!!!Thank you everyone for coming to our gig with the beautiful Amino. We tried out a new song, which currently has a slight football theme to it... Well more a gay relationship between a linesma...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:12:00 GMT

More Snow and Recording

Hello, just thought I'd leave you with a few pictures of Steve trekking through the snow to get to studio Sequins to record a part for a song which has yet to be named...For you musos out there you ca...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:18:00 GMT