Music:
Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Website: thelastingdays.co.uk
Band Members:
Smith
pianos, 6 string, violin, handmedown words
Huw Jones
guitars, harps
Rich Riley
mountin' bass, loops
Ben Harrison
shakes, accordion, whistles, voices, drums
Influences: jorge luis borges, weezer, pixies, bright eyes, mogwai, bert jansch, nick drake, offspring, lapsus linguae, ryan adams and the cardinals, elliot smith, davendra banhart, trevor wishart, jim o'rourke, guided by voices, g love and special sauce, jeff buckley, the shins, whiskeytown, maximillian hecker, the cure, wonderstuff, elvis costello, the living end, sublime, john steinbeck, ben folds five, the birthday party, mark lanegan, john martyn, davey graham, patti smith, soundgarden, coltrane, stray cats, the liars, pulman, dave grohl, ben harper, tom waits, 65 days of static, dave brubeck, django, the police, kerouac, wilco, smashing pumpkins, the band, neil young and crazy horse, gondry.
Sounds Like:
"a revelation"
Bristolbands.com
"Smith and the Lasting Days are a band made up of all the best ingredients - effortlessly combining infectious onstage energy with multi-instrumental musicianship, driving rhythms, sweet vocals, and most importantly of all beautiful songs and melodies that will be ringing around your head for days, they are definitely a band with a very bright future"
Moles, Bath
"The Lasting Days play with an enthusastic, knee-bending verve seldom seen outside of the 'Hey, let's do the whole show right here!' segments of the early Brit-rock films. You know, the bit where whole rooms of peope gleefully dance but never touch... sundry, immaculately played ... Waterboys-recalling mini-jams"
Venue
Record Label: A Future Without
Type of Label: Indie
