Member Since: 3/7/2006
Band Members: * Joe Talia - acoustic drum kit (including THE snare), occasional vocals, potted film histories
* Ned Collette - slide guitar, electric guitar, banjo (a five string we think), vocals, sunglasses
* Alastair Watts - heavy gauge flat-wound strung bass guitar and polly the upright bass, vocals, encouragement
* Jimmi Buscombe - a maton acoustic guitar, vocals, love, hair(?)
* Brett Langsford - one exquisite deep honey PRS electric guitar, one freakishly beautiful amp, rock, hair
* Joe Hammond - some guitar, some keys, a lot of percussion, the odd coffee, vocals
Influences: we love (in no particular order...)
bjork, hank williams, joni mitchell, porno for pyros, emily ulman, interpol, nina simone, arvo part, bob dylan, korn, hildegard of bingen, city city city, tom waits, my bloody valentine, henryk gorecki, rand and holland, the short fiction of jorge luis borges, meshell ndegeocello, mudvayne, ren walters, the kinks, the minutemen, charles mingus, faith no more, charlie haden, kurt weill, ornette coleman, johnny cash, wilco, cliff martinez (the solaris soundtrack- wow!), bob marley and the wailers, jim o'rourke, sonic youth, sarah vaughn, our parents, tool, portishead, the sex pistols, prince, king crimson, madonna, frank zappa, radiohead, pink floyd, pink stainless tail, bela bartok, belladonna, RATM, boards of canada, public enemy, the films of andrei tarkovsky, the beatles, j.s bach, james brown, beck (sea change especially!), thelonius monk, paper crane, gavin bryars, john AND alice coltrane, polvo, benjamin britten, miles davis, deerhoof, the poetry and illustrations of william blake, cream, bill evans, pearl jam, fantomas, led zeppelin, keith jarrett, talking heads, the solo john lennon, cypress hill, stevie wonder, augie march, meshuggah, deloris, squarepusher, tom fryer, elliot smith, soundgarden, low, morton feldmann, joy division, love outside andromeda, eric dolphy, brian eno, p.j harvey, the cure, the soft machine, robin williams as a bad guy (you know the films!), godspeed you black emperor, leadbelly, the pixies...
Sounds Like: sublime country folkpop
Type of Label: None