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About Me

Since 2001 this group of friends have shared many a musical and or social experience together, bumping into the odd mile stone on the way. The Cardiff based four awoke in 2006 as Stray Borders and over the last six months have; appeared on Cardiff Compliation "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The 22 Of Us", been voted demo of the week by Organ magazine, enjoyed air play on BBC Radio One, BBC Radio Wales, and other radio stations. Stumbled across their name in local and national press a handful of times, played shows in and out of Cardiff, met a lot of lovely people and did some funny dancing after shows with their friends.
Currently the gang are writing and making plans to record - exciting!
Stray Borders tracks can be also be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/details/LostChildren019. 'I don't mind waiting' is currently available on a pistol digital compilation called 'fresh weird and wonderful' available in various stores and via itunes...which got to number 8 in the alternative download charts
This line up has played with bands such as: Hope of the States, The Delays, 65daysofstatic, Future of the Left, Meet Me in St Louis, Los Campesinos!, Vessels and Errors
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Member Since: 3/15/2006
Band Website: strayborders.co.uk
Band Members: Matthew: Vox and Guitar., Carlie Jo: B Vox and Bass, Paul: Guitar Master, Richey: Drums.
Influences: To name but a few: Pixies, Fugazi, Shipping News, Explosions In The Sky, Shellac, Cable, Oceansize, Juno, Tool, Boards of Canada, Youthmovies, Broken Social Scene, Slint...you get the idea :)
Sounds Like: "Demo Of The Week" - Organ Magazine"On the whole this is an accomplished Demo that sets the Borders up as local pioneers of the post rock sound" - God Is In The TV"This is gorgeous" BETHAN ELFYN/BBC Radio"Current essential new Welsh tunes include a demo by Stray Borders which could give Mogwai a run for their money" HUW STEVENS/Radio 1/Western Mail"This gang recall the best elements of Godspeed, Slint and the Liars whilst maintaining an individual and intelligent sound." JAMES HANNAM/HonkMagazine"Having seen this 'fresh-faced" cardiff quartet tote their dynamic post-rock a couple of times live, it's nice to report that these three tracks do the biz in a Mogwai/Slint/Shipping News fashion." NOEL GARDNER/Buzz Magazine"Purveyors of slow-burning, mathematically precise alt-rock experiments that strongly recall the shrill distortion barrages of Sonic Youth...and we await further news from their dark camp with bated breath." BBC EXPOSURE"forget that crap ... the musics what matters...that was excellent, excellent" ADAM WALTON/BBC Radio Wales
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My Blog

Yes, we’re still breathing.

Dear all,Its been ages since we have written one of these properly, we usually just use it to post news articles and sometimes we forget to do that. It seems like a time to let you know the plans for ...
Posted by Stray Borders on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:03:00 PST

Website

I should have posted this months ago, we have a nice new website designed by Look Happy Designs (see our top friends. It makes us feel like a proper band. Take a look and let us know what you think: &...
Posted by Stray Borders on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:08:00 PST

Lost Children EP

Thank you for all the requests and interest we have been having for free copies of our CD!!!! We are out of the hand made bundles for the time being, so congratulations to all you lucky people who alr...
Posted by Stray Borders on Tue, 29 May 2007 03:55:00 PST

Western Mail

There is a review of last fridays gig in Tomorrows Western Mail - check out headliners - The Envy Corps x c
Posted by Stray Borders on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

Take A Look At ORGAN http://www.organart.com

hello - How you all doing? Organ...fantastic fanzineeee take a look at the other stuff on the site to... "Demo of the Weeks is from Cardiff's rather beautiful STRAY BORDERS, DEMO OF THE WEEK S...
Posted by Stray Borders on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:49:00 PST

Future Gigs and Gigging 2007

Dear friends there are some exciting Stray Borders gigs in the pipline for March, we will give more information as soon as details are clarified. I think you will find one in ...
Posted by Stray Borders on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:52:00 PST

If You Would Like A Stray Borders CD Click Here...

To obtain a Stray Borders CD including: 'Incase Of Emergency Break Glass' 'I Don't Mind Waiting' 'We Placed Our Lives In The Hands Of Traffiic Lights' Please drop us a message with 'ne...
Posted by Stray Borders on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

Adam Walton Show Tonight - Playing Stray Borders(hopefully)

If your not going to see the Melvins at Cardiff bay tonight!! or AD7s last show!, you could always cuddle up with some Mulled Wine, Herble tea (or a cold beer) sit back, relax&nbs...
Posted by Stray Borders on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:04:00 PST

Media Frenzy Well Kind Of

Hey all,We got played on Radio Wales last night (3/12/06). They pretty much played the whole of "Incase Of Emergency Break Glass" which was very nice and it was about the third song in. Bethan Eflyn e...
Posted by Stray Borders on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:51:00 PST

BBC Radio Wales Tonight

10:30, after the Sports personality of the year... we will hopefully be played on the radio as part of a show to promote the 'this town aint big enough for the 22 of us' cd This is the link to listen ...
Posted by Stray Borders on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:32:00 PST