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The Murderhouse

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***DEBUT 6-TRACK EP "THE MURDERHOUSE" NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES WORLDWIDE!***
"It's a joy to find that this relatively new trio are oozing potential in spades, the garage rock rumble of David Martin's four-string and Wayne Miller's sprightly drumming neatly offset by Suzy Bradley's pure, clean vocals, while the lyrics suggest dark depths and violent moods. The Murderhouse sound exciting, fresh and original. Maybe it's just refreshing to hear a band not in thrall to current trends, maybe a woman singer naturally stands out amid the bloke-rock hordes, but this is definitely one of the best demos I've heard for a long time." - The Talk Magazine, York, Jan 2007 issue.
"A fuzz bass intro leads into a BRMC rumble, offset by their secret weapon, the switchblade vocals of Suzy Bradley... The band add a bit of punk attitude to these Nick Cave-like mood songs... The attitude, drive and musicianship seem to be all present and correct... we may have an exciting prospect on our hands." - Playmusic Magazine, Issue 3.
"Take two ex-members of post-punkers Red:Shift and add the haunting voice of Suzy Bradley and you've got something very special, that swings between noisy guitarless Wire-rock and crisp PJ Harvey-style balladeering. Make sure you catch them live or pick up their demo without delay" - The Fly.
"Fuzzzed-up rock and noir-ish balladry" - Time Out, London.
"One of the highlights of the night was the female-fronted The Murderhouse's aggressive acoustic attack... A dark and brooding culmination of musical styles" - Sandman Magazine, Leeds.
"The Murderhouse are all about full-on ear-assaulting filthy minimalist rock, with a vocal that you wouldn't want to meet down a dark alley" - whisperinandhollerin.co.uk
The Murderhouse formed in early 2006, after a late-night conversation between ex-Red:Shift guitarist David Martin and Bloody Marys drummer Wayne Miller about forming a two-piece bass/drums band with a simple mission .. playing fast and furious filthy rock inspired by the likes of Death From Above 1979 and Queens Of The Stone Age.
However, things took an unexpected turn when they hooked up with singer/songwriter Suzy Bradley, who had been plying her trade on the acoustic circuit, and brought her remarkable voice and dark folk and blues-influenced songwriting to the band.
The combination worked immediately, and The Murderhouse played their debut gig within a few weeks of meeting Suzy for the first time.
Since then, they have toured the UK, including regular shows in London, various festivals, and a recent visit to Northern Ireland, and in summer 2007 they ventured across the Atlantic for the first time to play a series of very successful dates in New York. Their gigs and recordings have been acclaimed by national and regional music press, and they have also made several radio appearances.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/03/2006
Band Members: Suzy Bradley
- Vocals, Guitars

David Martin
- Bass

Wayne Miller
- Drums
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Suzy solo stuff

Happy new year from the Murderhouse! We'll be continuing to plug our new EP in 2008 and hopefully doing some more recording too. Our 6-tracker is available for your downloading pleasure on iTunes, and...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:15:00 GMT

LONDON GIG FEB 2

Hello. Due the fabled suckiness of myspace, i can't actually add this to the listings at the moment. But! We have a gig on Saturday Feb 2 2008 at the Bullet Bar in Camden, London. The venue is at 147 ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:46:00 GMT

EP NOW ON iTUNES!

Our debut 6-track EP, imaginitively titled "The Murderhouse" is now available worldwide to buy on iTunes, through our own label, Tarnished Worldview Records for a paltry £4.74. It fecking rocks. Track...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:32:00 GMT

Sons and Daughters etc

Loads of great support gigs for us back on home turf at Fibbers at the moment. (Thanks). We've just played with the brilliant My Brightest Diamond (sort of Kate Bush meets Sonic Youth),...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:27:00 GMT

Adventures In New York

Stepping out of a yellow cab onto the sidewalk outside Madison Square Garden carrying a guitar case  you can't get much closer to total rock n'roll wish fulfillment. Admittedly our gig that night is ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:25:00 GMT

interview with The Talk

There's an interview with us out now in the June Issue of The Talk magazine, which you can pick up free in venues, pubs etc in York. And they've cunningly made sense of our disjointed blatherings...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:47:00 GMT

Bowels

Hello world. We are lying low throughout ye merry monthe of May, while Wayne recuperates from surgery on a DOUBLE hernia (by a strange coincidence, he used to be in an industrial m...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 16:14:00 GMT

Even newer songs!

Hello world. Just uploaded new song No Return and new mixes of Stay and Dark Days which finally sound every bit as awesome as they should. All were engineered as usual by Nev Barker at Cadman Lan...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:22:00 GMT

New songs!

Another day spent productively increasing the amount of ROCK in the world! Live favourites Stay and Dark Days committed to digital recording media and unleashed on the myspace listening public with a ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:22:00 GMT

Playmusic, The Talk, and general media whoredom!

Couple of very decent reviews - one of our demo in national magazine Playmusic, which is damn exciting - though they did get our myspace address wrong, so if you've just found us&n...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:33:00 GMT