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About Me

We started playing together in 2004, and we're making progress. So far we've recorded an 11-track album in a disused church in Leeds buy it at gigs or online from www.boomkat.com And a load of gigs of course. We've made it as far and as wide as Glasgow, Brighton and Bristol. We want to go all over the land. We also intend to go further. Like to sea.
We Improvise! That's what we do. We make tunes inside which to improvise, or just start from nothing. We also compose. We've got a wide variety of influences, because we're all from different musical backgrounds - contemporary classical, folk, jazz, free improv, punk and just plain odd - but we find mutual ground through listening to each other, and making it up as we go along.
You can listen to our live January Resonance FM session at http://www.dexterbentley.com/hellogoodbye.htm. We've done soundtracks to a couple of films, and are very eager to do more, so if you've made a film that needs music... Also, we love doing gigs. Ask us and we will come!
Non-myspacers can e-mail us on [email protected]
We did a 9-date UK tour in October 06, and a 6-date collaborative tour with Rose Kemp in February 07. Thanks to all the people who put us on or came to see us. We're also collaborating with David Thomas Broughton, and have an album coming out in Spain, released by Acuarela.
Here's some reviews by people we don't know- on the Leeds Music Scene website and another one on Tasty Fanzine
We edited our profile wearing a hat .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2006
Band Members: Lucy: Violin, Mandolin and Voice; Helen: Clarinet and Bass Clarinet; Seth: Double Bass, Accordion, Trombone and Trumpet; Yvonna: Violin, Glockenspiel, Guitar and Voice. Alex: Violin Plus friends on French Horn, Bassoon or Cello, the Broom, Hands, Broken Glass etc.
Influences: Stravinsky, Mingus, Dolphy, Satie, Myra Melford, Mick Beck, Joelle Leandre, Bartok, Taraf de Haidouks, Ligeti, Mike Patton, Masada/Bar Khoba, Mr. Bungle, Bluegrass, The Rachel's, Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Dallas Simpson, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Henry Threadgill, Joey Baron, Eyvind Kang, Dave Douglas, Francois Houle, Peggy Lee
Sounds Like: A right old racket.
Record Label: birdwar, acuarela
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

our tour and our new album(s)

We just got back from a mini tour in France and Switzerland, and we had a fantastic time! We were lucky enough to play with God is my co-pilot, the fantastic Coyote (Liege) and the absolutely superb O...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:58:00 PST

Thirsk gig with Rose Kemp reviewed in the Harrogate Advertiser!

Here's a review of our Thirsk gig as part of the mini tour with Rose Kemp. He thought Ob Savi was a traditional song - ha (we wrote it)! "One of the best and boldest music events in our district ...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:04:00 PST

Posters from by-gone 7 Hertz gigs

Here's some e-posters from previous gigs....Nottingham, where the people dress up real nice. The people from Damn You! are great:Arrr:Our tour...ooh it was fun.At the York gig a little girl drew this ...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:24:00 PST

Dancers/ animators/ puppeteers/ film-makers/ artists - collaborate with us!

Calling all creative types! We're looking for dancers/ animators/ puppeteers/ film-makers/ artists / people who do live visuals to collaborate with us. We could either provide something we've previous...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:10:00 PST

New Tunes!

After that recording the other day, we've got some new recordings, some of which we've put up on here. They were recorded by our friend Michael Ward, who we reckon has done a superb job! Hope you like...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:02:00 PST

Recording in a disused church

We just did some recording tonight in St Mark's church. Amazing acoustic, and we did ooh, about nine tracks. So at long last we'll have a musical doggy bag to sell at gigs! I was the last one out - ha...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:26:00 PST

from Scholtz Vitrine - Newsbleed...

9.9.03 "People who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by some organ pipes." Jonathan Amos, BBC News Online science staff, in Salford.The la...
Posted by 7 Hertz on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:56:00 PST