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About Me

Hello there!
Let me tell you about Handsome Mike...
Formed in 2006 by brothers Mike and Rob Rees we quickly grabbed drummer Sam Shields and enlisted the enigmatic, beautiful and hugely talented Dave Green (Click that link) to complete the line-up. 'Handsome Mike' are surprising in fewer ways than you'd imagine we'd think you'd say we are.
In the last year we have headlined various venues such as Night & Day in Manchester and The Magnet in Liverpool, Played at the 'In the City' festival, supported acts like Ali Love, Vinny Peculiar and Fruitbat of Carter USM, been championed by Terry Christian and his amazing team at BBC Manchester, Clint Boon on XFM, Conrad Murray at Revolution and a plethora of local stations the length and breadth of the country, we've made friends with lots of lovely bands and met loads of people who are far cooler than us yet still listen to our music.
We're another one of those 'bands' that you hear so much about. There are many such 'bands' knocking around and lots of them are very good. We hope you're one of the people who thinks ours is the best. If not, we dont mind, it would be dull if the minor successes weren't offset by major failures and disapointments.
We're making Music for ugly people.
Music for people who feel like a part of themselves is missing.
Music for people who think 'uncool' is the next 'cool'
Music for people who would like an enormous haircut but...just...can't...
Music for people who don't mind laughing out loud.
Music for people who dont understand why everything isn't easy.
Music for people who are tired of spending money
Our Music. Your Music. There is no 'club'. You're welcome to it.
Thanks!
Mike
Have a listen to a few more of our tracks including never-put-on-the-internet-before 'Shoes', Which is one of my all time favourite songs at XFM uploaded.
Click here to go to XFM!
Advertising time! We record at Jaraf House Studio with the lovely John Kettle. If you want your life to be made marginally better then contact him on 07760162182. He makes groups of musicians sound like bands.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Members: Handsome Sings Sometimes. Green Plays Guitar A Bit. Rob Bums The Bass. Sam Slaps the Skins. Essentially though... its all John Kettle. We don't really get any input into the songs.

Influences: Walking Dead, Pegg, Fresh Prince, Ben Folds, My Upringing, Wales, Animals, Funny Words, Morrissey, Manchester, Human Emotion, Smiling, Pleasantness, Things With Guitars In, Songs I've Heard, People I Know, Television, Film, Coupland, England, Losing, Ambivalence, Wilde, Pensiveness, Advertising, Computers, Noises, Hannon, Phobias, Contentment, Carparks, Work, Stress, Pain, 'Cool', 'Uncool', Confusion, Kittens, Moglins, Zissou, Deconstructionalism, Green, The Green, Fake Tans, Haircuts, Transformers, Neediness, Ego, Cars, Violence, Intelligence, Colin the Dog and Kettle.
Sounds Like: Sounds a bit like a rambunctious vocal felch amalgamation of the hybrid bastard offspring of stuff which has guitars in and people singing a bit.
Record Label: Sticky plastic labels or often just a marker pen
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Writing Songs That No One Will Hear...

... is the name of Handsome Mikes second album. The joy of it, is that it is strictly imaginary and simply a way of classifying songs in my head. I will indeed send you a non imaginary c...
Posted by Handsome Mike on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:16:00 PST