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Takk

in limbo

About Me

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Members: John Filbrook - Guitar & Vocals
Ben Harris - Vocals & Guitar
Martyn Whitford - Bass
Dave Mitchell - Drums, Double Bass, Percussion

Influences: Gravity
Sounds Like: These are from crowd reaction...not from the band...
Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters, Frankie Stubbs (Leatherface) crossed with the Goo Goo Dolls
We'll chuck more in as they come in!
Record Label: made by machines
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

It's the season for giving...

...so here goes... thanks to the people who came to our gigs this year...we really appreciate it...you really shouldn't have bothered, but we're grateful and we love you all... thanks to Dave, our new...
Posted by Takk on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST

wasted season and the fact i sound like a dieing cat!

Right, 'tis john here. Hands up who thinks my voice sounds like a dying cat? The more people that say "yes" means i'll never have to sing it again thus saving the world from total war!!! hahahahah &n...
Posted by Takk on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:36:00 PST

Wasted Season - Acoustic

We've just posted an acoustic version of Wasted Season for anyone who wants to listen/download it... ...it's the same deal as Big Black Cat...recorded live...no effects...just acoustic...recorded by B...
Posted by Takk on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

Acoustic practice posted

...we posted an acoustic version of Big Black Cat yesterday from a practice round at Brendan's house (he of Cornish Underground fame)...there's no special tricks...no extra reverbs, delays, compressio...
Posted by Takk on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

Who would've thought that would happen?

...well other than the people who already knew... ...anyway...as of about 20 minutes after our last gig, Laura has quit the band...what a kick in the cunt that is... ...well martin already knew...so I...
Posted by Takk on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:25:00 PST

Recording

if anyone's wondering why the demo is taking so long to record I'll admit that it's my fault...last night we spent the evening putting handclaps, claves, double bass and vocals on Porcelain...there ma...
Posted by Takk on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:46:00 PST

Give us your email addresses...

...please... ...as myspace is fucking shit and we can't send event invitations as their fucking help desk doesn't seem to want to help...useless fuckers... ...so, if you want to be updated with our gi...
Posted by Takk on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:13:00 PST

more takk recording

hey hey hey we came out of the Echo Recordings Studio early this morning after laying down more guitars and vocals for the demo tracks (Initial, Big Black Cat and Porcelain), we even managed to get A...
Posted by Takk on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:36:00 PST

Two down...

...one to go... we've now played two out of the three gigs for this week (well period of 7 days anyway) Nicals' was suprisingly good...the few crowd who turned up made the night really...they were coo...
Posted by Takk on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:40:00 PST

The usual bollocks

Ben got a pm over the amplifeye forums from the guy supposedly putting on the Nicals' gig saying "hey...I'm not going to be there so can you guys do all the fucking work?"...cheeky cunt...we'd have so...
Posted by Takk on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:17:00 PST