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Those Men

About Me

Those Men are a band who play prog/art rock. In the studio we let ourselves go, indulging in as many overdubs as we feel the songs require, but live we strip them down to the basics and play only what is needed. We use authentic instruments such as a Shergold 12 string guitar, Guild bass and analogue synths, all of which are circa 1979. Genuine samples sampled from source such as a Hammond organ and Mellotron complement and enhance the sound, but the best bit is that we play everything. The songs are all recorded, mixed and mastered at EMP Studio. "Sob God" the studio album and "Double Yellers" the live album are both available at Zingg records. www.zingg.co.uk either as a download or on CDR. Those Men will be playing as a duo in the London and south east area for the moment, while they continue on with their next recording masterpiece. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoyed our music.

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Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: www.zingg.co.uk
Band Members: Martin Clarke vocals, acoustic guitar and drums. Mark Elliott guitar, bass, synths and drums. Martin used to be in bands such as Elastic, Jump on Tufty and The Trampoline Situation. Mark has been a founder member of Foreheads in a Fishtank and Roman Jugg's The Doomed.
Influences: Melody, rhythm, counter melody, counter rhythm, tea, beer.
Sounds Like: Lots of diverse and interesting music such as The Pixies, Massive Attack, Julian Cope, Pink Floyd, Genesis, XTC, Mike Oldfield, The Blue Nile, Thomas Dolby, Elgar, Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band, Black Sabbath, Led Zep and Prefab Sprout.
Record Label: Zingg Records, Blue Rhino Publishing
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Album

 Section three of the new album is now finished, we've put together all the tracks plus narration and all I have to do now is run it off. This section has been the longest so far to record (50 plus mi...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:23:00 GMT

2008

Well, what have we been up to? Since January 4th we've been writing our new album (working title Theman Simpulse). So far this has been an incredibly mind stretching undertaking. Not a day has gone by...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:59:00 GMT

Half way through the new album

 Been a bit of a busy week. Been recording a band called The Mod Cons all week and they sounded great. Did a fab gig on thursday night at Shangrila but best of all finished the penultimate s...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Those Men on the Radio

  The Dave O Prog Show is a regular saturday night show on Phoenix FM, a great station serving the Brentwood area. Three weeks ago Dave posted a bulliten saying he wanted some new bands for ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:28:00 GMT