McWatt

We are a duo. We play double bass, flute and several accordions. We are D.I.Y., and we love playing gigs. Invite us, we are nice and all we ask is what you can give us off the door. We smell good and are polite, even when drunk. We've been going for three and half years, and we've just released our debut album; the vinyl is on Lancashire and Somerset Records of Liverpool (www.lancashireandsomerset.co.uk), and the CD version, which is going to follow shortly, will be on Singing Knives Records of Sheffield. Whenever the size of the room and the raucousness of the audience allows, we prefer to play completely acoustically, i.e. not even through the p.a. It used to be in our manifesto, but sometimes we've been defeated by a too large room or too much audience noise. Acoustic is best though - more musical! We like Debussy, Satie, Sea Shanties, British folk music, Charlie Haden, Arvo Part, things of that ilk. People say our songs are really sad, but we do not think so. Maybe we are really depressed. One of us, Seth, lives in Leeds UK, and the other, Sarah, lives in Liverpool, UK. Sarah also plays in the band Like A Kind of Matador, but we do not sound like them. Seth plays in a band called 7 Hertz, but we do not sound like them either.