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About Me

..First of all, a warm WELCOME to you...... ---
WE NO LONGER SPEND ANY TIME UPDATING THIS PAGE
OTHER THAN NEW GIGS
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We are M*A*D M*U*S*H (It rhymes with... george bush),
We might come across as complacent and self-indulgent old pricks, but the truth is we GIVE a damn.....we just don't spend all our time getting worked up about it; it's a waste of energy. Better to be kewl, balanced, and actually get some work done and not just sulk all life long.
We're a band based in London, and our names are Markus Poltorp, Dave Lecks, Oli GrÃ¼nfeld, and Pumpy. We're the kind that likes music that offers more than merely having a calming effect on people in supermarkets and elevators. We don't get a trip just out of being a band, but out of people loving our music and hearing what we have to say, the most important of which is that it's up to each and one of us to create an individual alternative to the world "authorities"..... the "leaders" are innocent.... it's the ordinary grass root man messing it all up..... See the blood on your hands, wash it off, and forget about it,
Justice is more than a concept. Justice is a real thing.
On a more down to earth note, if you're a creative type and would like to be involved with the band, throw us a line and tell us what you'd like to do and what you'd need from us.
Thanks for coming.....and remember, if we do a bad thing because someone else told us to, then it's our own fault, no matter who they are....and there's no excuse....so let's be FREE, INDEPENDENT, AND STRONG.....love justice, love life.....
DISCOGRAPHY:
"Mad Mush EP"
--Four track EP
Release date: 2007/03/01
(Creative Commons licence)
"Dear Gwen"
--Single of the Month (July 2007)
Release date: 2007/06/30
"Out of Reach"
--Single of the Month (August 2007)
Release date: 2007/08/02
"Shout Back"
--Single of the Month (September 2007)
Release date: 2007/09/03
Mad Mush at Vatican Rehearsals, London, July 4th 2007. Photos by Cameron Hollis.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/10/2006
Band Members:Markus Poltorp, vocals & guitar; Dave Lecks, guitar & vocals; Oli Grunfeld, bass; Pumpy, drums.

MP3 Players

Influences: INFLUENCES: Whatever I put here, it just feels wrong.
Sounds Like: SOUNDS LIKE: Help me out here.....Buzzcocks - Pete Shelley, The Only Ones, early Ramones, Distillers, Graham Coxon... Guitar driven rock'n'roll, melodic, stuffed with licks and hooks, bit punkish....AND WHAT THE WORDS SOUND LIKE, WELL THAT DEPENDS WHAT'S IN YOUR HEAD ALREADY. IF YOU CARE ABOUT ANYTHING AND HAVE A HEART IN YOUR BODY AND YOU KNOW JUST HOW FUCKED UP EVERYTHING IS AND YOU KNOW WHAT COMPLETE DARKNESS AND DESPERATION IS....well then I reckon you'll like the sound of the words.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

WE WERE ATROCIOUS LAST NIGHT....

plenty of reasons, explanations, and excuses, but --- you learn and you grow. We certainly will. It was a good night put on by Clive though, bless him, Bear hug to the guy out of the Brief's crew who ...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:33:00 PST

Single of the month September "Shout Back" up now

This is a beautiful ska'ish tune written by our guitarist Dave Lecks. Goes down really well at our gigs. The first rough mix of this was made almost a year ago (and I hav...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:28:00 PST

1340 mag review favours Mad Mush EP!

Dan Wolter from 1340 magazine has written a very nice and funny review of our debut EP:1340 Mad Mush review
Posted by MAD MUSH on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:53:00 PST

ramones cover for tweek-ed only

it's shit, but hope you like it anyway LOLnobody else is allowed to download it! REMOVED!! Broken link.
Posted by MAD MUSH on Fri, 25 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

August Single of the Month: Out of reach - a little background

Well "Dear Gwen" was a love song joke, but this heartache was for real. I wrote the first part of the chorus sitting in a little room in Malaga many years ago, far away from friends and family, just a...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:40:00 PST

Some nice gigs coming up!

We've become involved with promotors Mohawk Moggy, which is how we now have a stadium gig on our hands on September 23:rd, and are on the bill on a number of occasions with some very nice bands.Things...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:39:00 PST

SINGLE OF THE MONTH: "DEAR GWEN"

Here's the first installment of what we hope to be a monthly feature, a nicy little ditty, with some jokey lyrics. Note, this it not from the EP that Oli Grünfeld is producing, that's still in the wor...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST

Shit Creek on Pete Cogle's podcast #132

Cogle plays shit creek
Posted by MAD MUSH on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:52:00 PST

what;s the most depressed you ever been

drugs, anybody?... of course not....but when a man is forced to take too much shit, he wants to stand up and shove it back down a throat....but if there is no throat, what then.....who's fault is it t...
Posted by MAD MUSH on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:24:00 PST

Brushed up "I alone" a touch

It's been uploaded, so will be available within 24 hours if the space engineers get it right! Just took the bass down a notch/boosted another frequency, and remastered.
Posted by MAD MUSH on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:52:00 PST