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Click on the links above to purchase our 'E-ssential Ingredients' album!Appealing to rock, metal and dance fans, ELECTRIC CAKE SALAD are a unique experience with a growing local following as well as fans as far afield as Hong Kong and Brazil (based on CD sales). WE'LL PLAY ANYWHERE AT ANYTIME - GIVE US A CALL OR EMAIL US HERE AND WE'LL BE THERE - PUT US ON YOUR BILL!!!.............................Call us on: 07734069190 or : 07812982909- email: [email protected].................................... visit our page at www.band-me-up.comFormed in late 2006, Electric Cake Salad released their second album "E-Mobiliza" on their own Tin Shed Recordings in Spring 2009. This was the follow up to "All Right For The Wrong Reasons" released in 2006 and achieving sales in all four corners of the world. Electric Cake Salad have now released a 'compilation' from both albums as a worldwide digital release, available on iTunes, Play.com, Amazon, HMV.com etc - entitled "E-ssential Ingredients".Likening their sound to their influences of trance, electro, metal, punk and all things energetic, Electric Cake Salad combine this to achieve a unique sound - a sound that appeals to metalheads, space-metal heads and rock fans.Based just outside Tamworth in the UK, most areas and venues are therefore within easy reach..........Steve is a veteran of the music scene working with the likes of Metallica, Bon Jovi, Mudhoney, Faith No More, Motorhead, Slayer, Testament, Wolfsbane, Erasure (!), Chris Rea, Tina Turner and many more- all as a touring road crew member.........Steve has been involved as guitarist, drummer and vocalist for a number of bands including MAS, The Cheeses, Cosmic Noise Box and many others..................Mick has appeared in several lline-ups over the years. Mick has been lead guitarist with Empire, before co-founding MAS with Steve. The real story of the man who made it all up...Copies of the 2009 album "E-Mobiliza" are still available on traditional CD, and "All Right For The Wrong Reasons" is still available on CD for £5.00. Email us at [email protected]. "E-ssential Ingredients" is available now on iTunes.ELECTRIC CAKE SALAD made it to the semi-final of the 2009 SURFACE UNSIGNED FESTIVAL as well as the semi-final of the more local Tamworth Battle of the Bands.
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Member Since: 10/03/2006
Band Website: www.rotten.com
Band Members: 'Bombay' Micky Mas - Guitars, Backing Vocals, programming -- Mick plays IBANEZ guitars and Ernie Ball strings::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Steve Gianolio-Jones - Guitars, Lead Vocals, Programming, Bass and one-fingered keyboard. Steve plays E.S.P. Ltd EC100 & EPIPHONE SHERATON guitars and Ernie Ball Power strings
Influences: Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!Influences inspire us - we are influenced by all the rock and metal that we grew up with along with the dance, trance and electronica that we love. We're influenced by: the Dandy Warhols, Black Sabbath, Faith No More, The Prodigy, Celldweller, Corrosion of Conformity, The Breeders, Metallica, Anthrax, Beastie Boys, Nirvana.......you get?CHECK OUT THIS VID OF US AT TAMWORTH ASSEMBLY ROOMS - "SUPERSTAR":
Sounds Like: Mudhoney, Celldweller, Pendulum, Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Metallica, Dandy Warhols, but hey?.....we're playing our own shit...........check out the downloads
Record Label: Tin Shed Recordings
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Digital Release - "E-ssential Ingredients"

WE WILL BE RELEASING OUR ALBUM, "E-SSENTIAL INGREDIENTS" ON 8TH JANUARY 2010THIS WILL BE AVAILABLE AS INDIVIDUAL TRACKS OR AS A FULL ALBUM ON:iTunes; Amazon; Play.com; Tesco; HMV; 3Mobile; Orange; Vod...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:18:00 GMT

TAMWORTH HERALD BOTB REVIEW - 16.7.09

Review from Tamworth Herald:"REAL TALENT SHINES AS MUSICIANS DO BATTLE:  As you would expect, the quality takes a sharp upturn in Battle of the Bands later stages, as much of the chaff has gone.  It m...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Tamworth Herald Review 4.6.09 - BOTB

"Third band Electric Cake Salad may have taken note and started with a plea to 'synchronize your watches'.  It's a fair request as their mix of 1970's metal guitar and 1990's sequencer noises demonstr...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:10:00 GMT

Review - Tamworth BOTB 29.5.09

Review from Tamworth Battle of the Bands  29.5.09:"Electric Cake Salad: just two of them, were very accomplished if a little safe, I liked their Sabbath cover of N.I.B, well I do like my Sabbath, even...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 08:14:00 GMT

review by surface unsigned of the flapper gig

Electric Cake SaladThe last band of the night was Tamworth based duo Electric Cake Salad. A truly unique direction, that mixes elements of Classic-Rock/Metal, with Electronica for a refreshingly origi...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:28:00 GMT

SURFACE UNSIGNED FESTIVAL

We will be playing the 'Surface Unsigned Festival' on Thursday 26th March 2009 at the Flapper, Birmingam (next door to the NIA).This is a national competition and we have made it to the last 300 from ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:17:00 GMT

BACK ON THE ROAD AND BACK IN THE STUDIO

THE CAKE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!!!!!   WE ARE BACK IN THE STUDIO AND HAVE STARTED WRITING NEW MATERIAL FOR THE NEXT ALBUM - NUMBER3 CHECK OUT OUR TOUR DATES FOR 2009
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:40:00 GMT

No guitar for 3 months!!!

Due to an unfortunate allergic reaction to the boot of Bombay Mickey Mas Murdering Mugabe, Steve is nursing a shattered finger and ruptured tendons which have torn from the bone. This means Steve...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:35:00 GMT

Gig Review - 5.7.08

The following extract is from the Tamworth Herald: Electric Cake Salad - Tamworth Assembly Rooms (BOTB6) "Electric Cake Salad's two guitars and a drum-machine set up reminded me of Carter USM, but the...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:29:00 GMT

Check out this event: Tamworth Battle of the Bands

Hosted By: ELECTRIC CAKE SALAD....Space Metal! When: 05 Jul 2008, 20:00Where Assembly Rooms, TamworthTamworth, b78United KingdomDescription:ELECTRIC CAKE SALAD....Space Metal! Click Here To View Eve...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:34:00 GMT