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The Soldiers of Fortune

The Soldiers of Fortune

About Me

The Soldiers of Fortune are a crack unit of songwriters, remixers, producers and musicians.We now have some tracks online. So please listen, leave some comments, add them to your page if you like them and tell your friends - we need some word of mouth support! We'll be changing the tracks regularly for some of our own stuff and some remixes we've done of other bands so keep checking back for new, exclusive and extraordinary bits and bobs. Any messages will be replied to, you lucky devils.We are currently in the rehearsal studios getting ready for our globally anticipated live launch, which should be soon....Stay cool, won't you.

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Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Members: Richard Buxton (Guitar); Dan Oldham (Drums and vocals); Gavin Peters (Guitar and vocals); Mike Rumney (Keys, percussion, electronic wizardry); Miki (bass)
Influences: Air, Arcade Fire, The Avalanches, Badly Drawn Boy, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beck, The Bees, The Beta Band, Blur, Bowie, Bright Eyes, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, Chungking, Cream, Curtis Mayfield, Dangermouse, De La Soul, Death in Vegas, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Doves, The Earlies, Elliott Smith, Fingathing, The Flaming Lips, Fourtet, Funkadelic, Gorillaz, Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Kasabian, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Love, Lovin Spoonful, Massive Attack, Minnie Ripperton, Muse, Oasis, Paul Weller, Portishead, Primal Scream, Pulp, The Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Simple Kid, The Super Furry Animals, Sly and the Family Stone, Small Faces, Spiritualized, Harry Hill's TV Burp.
Sounds Like: Elements of: Air, Arcade Fire, The Avalanches, Badly Drawn Boy, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bees, Beck, The Beta Band, Blur, Bowie, Bright Eyes, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, Chungking, Cream, Curtis Mayfield, Dangermouse, De La Soul, Death in Vegas, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Doves, The Earlies, Elliott Smith, Fingathing, The Flaming Lips, Fourtet, Funkadelic, Gorillaz, Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Kasabian, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Love, Lovin Spoonful, Massive Attack, Minnie Ripperton, Muse, Oasis, Paul Weller, Portishead, Primal Scream, Pulp, The Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Simple Kid, The Super Furry Animals, Sly and the Family Stone, Small Faces, Spiritualized.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Guitarist, Bass Player wanted

Hello, After another setback, our band has diminished a bit lately and we need some new musicians so we can finally get this show on the road. We are looking for 1 bass player and 1 g...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:33:00 PST

Our Name

Our name... Just a quick note about our name and what we should do... we chose the name as it sounded like a good name for a band like us that aren't just a guitar band, but do remixes, dance tracks a...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:45:00 PST

Subways Remix

The Subways Rock and Roll Queen Remix   We've just added this remix to the site, I hope you like it. It's something we were hoping to use with them in an official way, so we've not put it up here...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

The 'On Your Hands' Demo

We've had this demo knocking around for a while - it's actually something I recorded a couple of years ago for a previous band. The quality of the recording really isn't great (it's very quiet so turn...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST

Waxing Lyrical

We are still alive. We've put some lyrics to our songs up now, following some requests, so feel free to read into them what you will and let us know what you think we're talking about - because someti...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:55:00 PST

What we're up to and all that...

Just thought we'd say hi, as this mysterious profile and lack of information can all get a bit boring sometimes can't it? Well just to introduce ourselves, we are, as you might have guessed, The Soldi...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Mon, 22 May 2006 05:39:00 PST

Tracks Online

We now have a couple of tracks online. So please feel free to listen and please leave some comments. If anyone wants any downloads let us know. If you have any suggestions on what you want to see on t...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:38:00 PST

Greetings

Welcome to the new Soldiers of Fortune Myspace site. The Soldiers of Fortune are a musical team of songwriters, remixers, producers and musicians. We'll be updating the site with some tracks...
Posted by The Soldiers of Fortune on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:40:00 PST