Member Since: 3/3/2006
Band Website: badabingrecords.com
Band Members: Roxanne Stephen, vocals
Tom Cullinan, guitar/vocals
Ben Hopkin, bass
Joe Dilworth, drums
Influences: Listen to Th' Faith Healer's live broadcast on Brian Turner's show at WFMU
Setlist: This Time / Get the F*** Out of My Face / Love Song / New ..2 / Moona Inna Joona / (short chat) / Reptile Smile / It's Easy Being You / Heart Fog / Hippy Hole / Don't Jones Me
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QUOTABLES FROM TIME OUT NY
"The best rock band of the '90s"
"Th' Faith Healers were fun like your first roller-coaster ride, no matter how many times you were lucky enough to catch them."
HAVE FAITH-CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK-THE NEW YORKER
In 1991, a band from Hampstead, England called Th' Faith Healers played at
CBGB's. The band was worrying away at one chord, and the music was so
narcotically loud that it felt a little hard to see anything, except for
the band's singer, Roxanne Stephen, who put her head down and shook her
very long hair in front of her, both hiding her and making her the center
of attention. Their songs drew inspiration from older German bands who
played the same thing over and over - Can and Neu! - but their sound was
not far from the enormous guitar wash of their contemporaries My Bloody
Valentine. Th' Faith Healers approached repetition with the faith of a
minimalist like Steve Reich, and their music approached the transcendence
rock fans like to think they're getting more often than they really do.
The band existed for less than five years and didn't build a big enough
audience to sustain them, but nobody put on a better loud rock show in the
early nineties. This spring, Th' Faith Healers have reunited for a brief
tour, and there is every reason to expect that they can still find an
entire world in one loud, long chord.~Sasha Frere-Jones
REVIEWS FROM BA DA BING PAGES
Th' Faith Healers: The Peel Sessions of Th' Faith Healers has continually been getting great reviews, Alternative Press gave the album a five out of five and said 'anything this amazing is always met with dumb looks and indifference.'
Angry Ape says, 'This album is essential, proving that there are great things out there if you're prepared to give something a chance, go out on a limb and look beyond what's presented to you in the mainstream media.'
But don't blame the mainstream media, please, as they're busy with White House leaks and all I'm perfectly happy to have Angry Ape covering things instead.
Read more Ba Da Bing! News here.
Sounds Like:
TH'
FAITH HEALERS - Peel Sessions (BING045)
One of the greatest bands of the nineties, whose three albums on Too Pure are bona fide classics, releases their four never-available
Peel Sessions. Including favorites, Peel Sessions also includes some songs
set to be on their never-recorded fourth album and covers of ABBA
and Badfinger. ~Ba Da Bing!
CD $10 ppd
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Read a very well written review from PopMatters with interesting background info on the band
Record Label: Ba Da Bing!
Type of Label: Indie