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The Ex-Men

...sully your senses...

About Me

Our album, A life of love, now available through the Beanstalk site: click HERE for one (paypal)

or go to www.beanstalkrecords.com

"... claustraphobic... bleak... eerie... grotesque... funky... melodic... sparse... trippy... unsettling... euphoric... infectious... scathing... odd... compelling... highly recommended" Is this music?

"Ex-men, divine intervention" Daily Record

"Underworld after six pints of mild" The Sunday Times

"Sort of swing-beat with a little pop sensibility" Gill Mills

"We are loving this at BBC Radio Scotland headquarters" Vic Galloway, Radio 1

"I'd rather live out the rest of my days high on skag than allow The Ex-men to sully my senses ever again" The List

Top 5 albums of the month: Skinny

"Not sure how the references to jism and Tracy Emin's bush would go down with the teatime millions" Metro

"Acclaimed DIY videos" Tom Robinson, 6music

Track listing: the curator / use my brain / wordcage / cursed / a life of love / c'est pas grave / suck her / mouthpiece / now! / falling / the next 30 / godot on call waiting / famous

Anyway, we're a two-piece, speaking, electronic thing...

piece one: Matt Green ( The Tall Boy , Juno )

piece two: Jack Sims

...and we'll be gigging it somewhere near you soon. Thanks to everyone who's been playing us over the last few months (Sharon Oakley on Clyde 1, Vic Galloway on Radio 1, Jim Gellatly on XFM, Keith Manson on Black Diamond). There'll be a link to the shows on Resonance and Black Diamond soon. Check the blog for other links. We've also been working with some other musicians. Popcorn Superhet has done a fantastic shoegaze remix of Suck her and there're tracks up done with Adam Zanders (Fantasy Control) and Rajaneesh Dwivedi (Fanga) and Nick Ramm (Cinematic Orchestra, Clown Revisited). Hopefully we'll be working more with these guys in the future. So what's going on with the Ex-men right now? We did our Eurovision thing down at Shunt (Check out the vid over there

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/28/2006
Band Website: For bookings: [email protected]
Band Members:

Video - Wordcage / Cage de mots - Eurovision 2008?


Influences:


Record Label: Beanstalk Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gill Mills

Do you know about the Gill Mills Best of Myspace podcast? Check it out here: http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/485ffc225ed893f7 She plays The Ex-men on blog no.32 and says "very Blow Up, sort of swin...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:38:00 PST

Minnie Music

She's been giving us some good press, yes she has! Check out the blogs at http://www.myspace.com/musicanon  ...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:26:00 PST

Kit Macdonald writes in Metro

Ex-Men's gift to the people of FranceTuesday, April 22, 2008 ..Auld alliance: French lyrics for a French Eurovision entryThat the French are in uproar over their Eurovision 2008 song, Seb...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:14:00 PST

Divine Intervention - The Daily Record

Scots electro duo offer to end France's Eurovision controversy Apr 22 2008 Exclusive by Rick Fulton THE Auld Alliance could be reborn after a Scots electro act cheekily offered to come to the Eurovis...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:31:00 PST

Suck Her - Popcorn Superhet Remix

www.myspace.com/popcornsuperhet That's where Popcorn Superhet (aka Alan McCormack) has put up a remix, or rather remake, of Suck her. Brilliant! Thanks Alan....
Posted by The Ex-Men on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Top Model France 2008

Our Gainsbourg inspired track, A life of love, was chosen for the French satellite TV screening of Top Model France 2008!! And they’re putting The Next 30 on a compilation they&rs...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

Suck her: out on Cry Parrots compilation

We played at Cry Parrot’s compilation launch in February, alongside Grozny and The Low Miffs. It was ages since I’d seen Grozny play and it’s a fine thing they’re back on the l...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:48:00 PST

Vic Galloways playing A life of love

..TR> Vic Galloway’s playing A life of love! Listen in tonight on Radio 1 on Vic Galloway’s Introducing. He’s playing us on the Back of the net feature (about 1:20 am) which means...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:42:00 PST

Is This Music? review ’A Life of Love’

A Life Of Love (Beanstalk)Judging by the lyrics of this album there doesn't appear to be a lot of love in Jack Sims life or heart, apart from possibly for himself, though the misanthropic tone is temp...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:00 PST

lyrics - a life of love

A life of love   Cold hearts, I'm handing myself over. And that's the way towards expansion of my consciousness. Can't think my own way out, So I'm handing myself over, but never before did I fe...
Posted by The Ex-Men on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:15:00 PST