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About Me

Clips of the Bob Cuba Album Launch gig, 11th May, Nice N'Sleazy, Glasgow:

The new self-titled album is out NOW..... Check the preview songs "The Great Divide", "Preachers" and "Million Eyes"!

Formed in early 2002, Bob Cuba write high-energy guitar pop for the internet generation. Tackling subjects such as Jesus, UFOs, manufactured pop, the peril of showers and the nature of reality, the Cubites live show has taken us the length and breadth of the UK. Our debut EP "Bounce" (Fusion Records 2003) garnered international airplay, featured on a Nickleodeon soundtrack, got 'Album of the Week'(?) in our nation's favourite tabloid and led to a BBC and XFM Radio Sessions shortly after. Watch out for our debut album "Bob Cuba"!

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/7/2006
Band Website: bobcuba.com
Band Members:
Cbob (drums + vox)

Sbob (guitar + vox)

Jbob (bass)
Influences: My Bloody Valentine/ Primal Scream/ The Jesus & Mary Chain/ The Cure/ The Smiths/ The Orchids/ The Field Mice/ The Golden Dawn/ Supergrass/ Super Furry Animals/ U2/ Picnic/ Blur/ Radiohead/ Air/ The Pastels/ The Wedding Present/ The Stone Roses/ The Police/ The Shins/ The Webb Brothers/ Arcade Fire/ The Go! Team/ The Flaming Lips/ The Velvet Underground/ Fan Assisted Igloos/ The Beatles/ Ned's Atomic Dustbin/ The Velvet Underground/ The Band/ PJ Harvey / The Rainbow Trouts / John Peel / The Stooges / Sex Pistols / Pixies / Rolling Stones / The White Stripes/ Belle And Sebastian / Bis/ Manda Rin/ Chemical Brothers / Sons And Daughters / New Order / Billy Bragg / Simple Minds / Teenage Fanclub / BMX Bandits / Half Man Half Biscuit / Joy Division / Talking Heads / Blondie / The Strokes / The Damned / David Bowie / Ramones / The Doors / Happy Mondays / The Pooh Sticks / The Beatles / Palmiferous / Marshall Chipped/ Mossbunker/ Big Eyeball On A Bus/ St Mirren/ The Carpenters/ The Simpsons/ Monty Python/ Vic and Bob/ Shock Absorbers/ Johnny Hates Jazz/ Ash/ The Primitives/ The Springfields/ Voice Of The Beehive/ The Weather Prophets/ House of Love/ Ultravox/ The Sea Urchins/ The Mission/ The Damned/ Inspiral Carpets/ The Housemartins/ The Blisters/ The Boomtown Rats/ Funkadelic.................................................. .....................BOB CUBA'S FRIENDS COME FROM HERE! :
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Sounds Like:
"The Bobs have been dazzling us for four years now" - Rick Fulton, Daily Record, August 31 2007

"Elastica guitar squalls and The Cramps rhythmic creep... masters of songwriting" - Daily Record, Aug '05

"The best sounds of the Buzzcocks, the Damned, Josef K, Orange Juice and the Smiths... SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP!" - Opposition T

"...new wave, 3-chord thrash, with a hook" - Is This Music?

"uplifting punk-pop - akin to the playful drum machine-driven sound of early Bis" - The List

"The best thing to come from Glasgow since Primal Scream" - Steve Lamacq

Record Label: Unsigned (Fusion Records - the 'Cuba's own)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Happy New Year - Maggie May is approaching!

2007 was a satisfying year for the 'Cuba - an album released in May, a great launch gig at Sleazies, the 2 best London shows we have ever done, a great show with Bis to close the year.... Some v...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:20:00 PST

Daily Record Review

Friday 31st August Daily Record review&.. "Soundcheck favourites Bob Cuba release their debut album. Another trio, this time from Glasgow, The Bobs have been dazzling us for four years now. They've f...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST

Album Review - The Daily Record on 31st August....

Pick up a copy of Scotland's finest newspaper THIS FRIDAY (31st August 07) and read a review of Bob Cuba's debut album "Bob Cuba".... We do not know if it will be a good or bad review so we ...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:20:00 PST

Album..

The initial 'Cuba album sales were impressive, and thank you all for the many emails of appreciation - this makes it all worth while . However, with part of our stock stuck in the shop-that-was ...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:56:00 PST

ORAN MOR GIG is CANCELLED

Hello all,Really sorry but the Oran Mor show on Friday 13th July (tomorrow) has been cancelled. Apologies to all who were intending to come along - we are more gutted than you.The Bobs...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:55:00 PST

Bob Cuba's jaunt to London

Wow!We returned back from London on Saturday absolutely exhausted (and slightly fluish on my part but nevermind!) but ecstatic with the way our 2-night album launch gigs went.The Bull & Gate in Ke...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:07:00 PST

Fopp Cuba!

You can buy the new Bob Cuba album In Glasgow's Fopp in Union Street, and in Byres Road by the end of this week! It will be distributed throughout the UK in time for our London launch! In the me...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:57:00 PST

The Cuba banter!!!

Just thought I'd share some of the banter going on over at the Bob Cuba board - www.bobcuba.com Banterific Indeed! -------------------- ..> Cubite N IP: 89.241.245.183 May 14, 07 - 8:36 A...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:46:00 PST

Album's first radio airing on XFM...

The album had it's first sneak preview on XFM on Thursday night (10th May) on big Jim Gellatly's show, with an "exclusive" play of Debunker! I have to say (being a bit biased) that this song was...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Sun, 13 May 2007 03:29:00 PST

'Cuba Album Launch

Brilliant gig last night! Thanks to all who came along. Last night had everything - good support acts in Marshall Chipped and Ainslie Henderson (and his big bouncy bollock band) - bo...
Posted by BOB CUBA on Sun, 13 May 2007 04:09:00 PST