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The Universals

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The Universals are Alex on Vocals and Guitars, Ash on the keys, Mike on the Bass and Martin on the Guitar. We're currently 'between drummers' so if you know anybody who can drum for us then let us know!

Our songs can be downloaded at www.blooter.com
Listen to The Universals demo of a theme for the 22nd James Bond movie. The song is called "Is Something Wrong?" and is written around possible future plot points in the upcoming movie.the universals used Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 4/12/2006
Band Website: blooter.com/
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Influences: In no particular order: Pink Floyd, New order, REM, The Beatles, The Who, Oasis, U2, Moby, Radiohead, Blur, Nirvana, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Cinephile, the Verve, Queen, The Cure, The Universals, Chester.
Sounds Like: Depends on what day it is.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Drummer!

I'd like to welcome Jack Breakwell to the band as drummer. Jack has now attended 2 practices and has shown an amazing ability to pick up songs without even knowing them before hand and then being able...
Posted by The Universals on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:57:00 PST

The Universal 7

This is really a message to the band but of course anyone is welcome to read it: The seven songs that the Universals will be working towards gigging are: Hope Universal, Red Light, Do You See, Scream,...
Posted by The Universals on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:01:00 PST

Practices!

The Universals have now had three practices together and have managed to play 'All out of Love', 'Hope Universal' & 'Mother Natures Children'. All of these songs can be found at www.blooter.com wh...
Posted by The Universals on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

Members members everywhere.....

Introducing... Mike Blower on Bass! And Dan Eccleston on Drums! The Universals are now 4! Mike is a great bass playing friend of Ash who was originally due to play lead guitar but due to the loss of ...
Posted by The Universals on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:00 PST

"Is Something Wrong?" a song for Bond

I write songs quite often. Not always with a view to them being on an album or whatever, sometimes I just write and record to have fun. Anyway I have thought for a while now that it would be really gr...
Posted by The Universals on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:41:00 PST

For who's eyes only?

Watch this space....
Posted by The Universals on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:18:00 PST

Universal News

With the arrival of Ash and the re-joining of El Crazerio, the three members will be getting together to run through the first 3 or 4 songs to be practiced. These will be: Red Light, All out of Love, ...
Posted by The Universals on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:19:00 PST

Back to Three!!

Optimus Prime, Superman, Han Solo in a New Hope, Han Solo in Return of the Jedi, Robocop in Robocop 2, Boromir and now..... CRAZY DAVE!!!! Yep well it looks like you can't keep a good man down. Spurre...
Posted by The Universals on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:14:00 PST

From the Ashes...

... It is with great pleasure that I announce the new keyboardist of The Universals... Ash! We'd been talking about him joining the band for a while now but on saturday he came round and on my old yam...
Posted by The Universals on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:55:00 PST

And then there were 2...

Well here we are a month into 2007 and the Universals project is seemingly dead in the water. My insistance on having mates in the band whether they can play or not is not paying off so it is my sad d...
Posted by The Universals on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:52:00 PST