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Buy On My Stereo/Brave New World on iTunes!
Song: Brave New World. Track of the day on Garageband.com 21.01.08, 05.05.08 Track of the Week 07.07.08
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Japanese Toys write and record music in a converted art studio in a dark lane in Dublin, Ireland. Japanese Toys songs would be best described as emotional, catchy alternative rock with harmonies to die for. The band released their debut single On My Stereo/Brave New World with a Dublin show in Radio City in November 2007. The single made it to number 6 in the Irish download charts and both songs won awards on GarageBand.com, such as best female vocalist (On My Stereo) and Track of the Day (Brave New World). The band have previously appeared in Hotpress, and supported such well - known irish acts as The Thrills, National Prayer Breakfast, Blink and Turn. The band have also had a great listener response from airplay on Dublin station Phantom fm making their charts twice.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/03/2006
Band Website: japanesetoys.ie
Band Members: Elaine Nagle - guitar/vox
Lloyd Hewson - bass/vox
Louise Meagor - drums/vox
Matt Baumann - guitar/vox
Ian Bogle - guitar/vox

Influences: lloyd:

pavement, get up kids, weezer, pixies, the cure, jimmy eat world, sigur ros, bloc party, depeche mode, manic street preachers, the waterboys

elaine:

queen, extreme, led zeppelin, spacehog, the beach boys, system of a down, muse, t.n.t, the scorpions, skunk anansie

louise:

the cure, depeche mode, queen, manic street preachers, the smiths, weezer, tears for fears, david bowie, blondie

matt:

pink floyd/david gilmour, mark knopfler, joe satriani, jamie callum, george benson, carlos santana, lenny kravitz, jamiroquai

ian:

Thin Lizzy, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, Ben Folds, Queen

Sounds Like: music has previously been described as "a chocolate covered stinging nettle".

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

News....

Just thought we should write a little about what's happening with us at the moment as I'm sure some people may think we've fallen of the face of the planet. Well, we haven't. Hooray!We are very busy p...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:43:00 GMT

News news news...

It’s been a while since we blogged so we thought we’d better let you all know how things are in the world of Toys:We have been working hard in our studio for quite some time now, putting d...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:09:00 GMT

The Big Gig

So, we have been so busy we forgot to tell you all about how our single launch gig went last Saturday, well.....it was great!We had a packed venue and we were supported by two brilliant bands, Murder ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:15:00 GMT

On Your Stereo

A big thank you to Edel Coffey of Phantom Fm for having us on her show last week.  She made us feel very welcome and the interview went really well.  We did manage to talk instead of sitting...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:05:00 GMT

Japanese Toys on Phantom 105.2!!

We are being interviewed on Edel Coffey's show 'Access All Areas' on Phantom 105.2 on Friday 2nd November.  The show starts at 10am, we are on about 10.10am.  We will be playing a song live ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:20:00 GMT

Where to buy single.....

So.... November 2nd is the big release day, so here's where you can grab your copy of our new single 'On My Stereo/Brave New World':Downloadmusic.ieFreebird Records Wicklow St. and Temple BarRoad Reco...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:47:00 GMT

Check out our new website....

Go to www.japanesetoys.ie to see our brand new super shiny webpage with pictures and colours and words about us and stuff.
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:47:00 GMT

Did someone mention a single........?

Ok, it seems like we have been talking about releasing something for a very very long time now, but it's finally becoming a reality. Our debut single is on it's way with a release due early November....
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:44:00 GMT