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About Me

Midland Railway originaly formed in 2003 when singer Edward McAardvark got lost in a big train station, and his life was saved by by a train spotter named Giles, who later learned to play the bass. On their way home, they found a tramp in a skip called Nigel, who became their drummer, and he introduced his boyfriend Humphrey, as a 2nd guitarist.

At the time, the band went under the name "The Fitted Kitchens", but their progress was cut short when, whilst touring South Africa, Nigel was eaten by a pteradactyl. However, they found another drummer, named Dexter, less than half an hour later, when he was spotted having sex with a goat under a rock.

In the early days, the band's sex appeal was such that they were constantly being mobbed by ridiculously large numbers of girls. To combat this problem, there was no other solution other than to name the band after a railway company, and then to record a song about online football management.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/02/2006
Band Website: http://www.themidlandrailway.co.uk
Band Members:
Midland Railway are:Nick "The Train" Lote - Vocals, Guitar, Directionless Stage Banter
Robert "Mad One" Hayton - Lead Guitar, Vocals, Cheesy 80's Rock Stances
Sarah "UglyBuffy" Megarry - Bass, Demon Slaying
David "Alice" Novan - Drums, Vocals, Pouting

Influences: Nick:
Bright Eyes
Weezer
Rilo Kiley
Idlewild
Grandaddy

Rob:
Queen
Opeth
Muse
Weezer
Nirvana

Sarah:
Therapy?
Turbonegro
Nirvana
Pixies
Fugazi
Earth

David:
Foreigner
The Cars
Bob Mould
Manic Street Preachers
Ultravox

Sounds Like: imagine aliens came and took over earth (no, not the band.). really camp aliens, in miniskirts and feather boas. even the boys. in fact, ESPECIALLY the boys. then imagine they aliennapped weezer and rilo kiley (but the faster ones) and blur and put them all together and shook them up with a dash of alien music and and some prettier people, and voila. thats what they sound like. if in doubt, consult your speakers for an example.
Record Label: Everyone Should Worship Nick Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Midland Railway to re-form!

We've all been missing playing rather a lot lately, and we've come to the conclusion that we should re-form for a bit and tour again. We're all pretty exited, as you can probably imagine.They're not g...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:58:00 GMT

Bedroom Analysis Recording

Hopefully you've already listened to it as it's the first song on our profile. If not, go and listen to it now!Anyway, i thought you might be inyterested to hear about how it was recorded.My friend Al...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:51:00 GMT

New Recording!

As you may already have noticed, you can now listen to our new recording of Stupid Punk. It's our 3rd studio recording, produced by Neil Treppas. It's a song we've been wanting to record for a long ti...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:26:00 GMT

Would you like to join the Railway?

Well, things seem to be going well. Our last 2 gigs, in London and Manchester respectively, were very enjoyable, and the Manchester one got featured as one of the gigs of the day in The Metro, and the...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:33:00 GMT

Happy new year!

Even though we're a week in already.Couple of gigs in the pipeline this week - Camden tonight (as a four-piece, due to me having nasty chest pains) and Manchester on Tuesday. Hopefully we'll see some ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:11:00 GMT

The forum is back up!

Yes, the forum has stopped being crap and is now working again. And fortunately, no data has been lost, so all the gig details and conversations about Hattrick and whatnot are still there. Sign up if ...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:31:00 GMT

Who stole the forum?

On the Midland Railway website, you may have noticed that if you click on "forum", you don't get taken to the forum. Rob has been investigating, and it seems that basically, the hosts have messed...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:30:00 GMT

You've found our myspace page!

Hello and welcome to this blog. As this is the 1st post, i'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has already added us as friends, and also our myspace page designer, who's identity is ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 May 2006 15:23:00 GMT