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Playhawk

LOUD???

About Me

"stringless, battered electric guitars (that can often pick up taxi cab radio on their distressed amplifiers); an energy-draining electric drum kit (which drowns out all sound in a thunderous, Thor-like blitz of thuds and crashes); a bowel shaking electric bass (which makes every PA system struggle to keep up); and harmonising honky-tonk keyboard (to tie everything together and make it audible) are all essential components to what Playhawk think real music should be about."
"Styling their music on the rough and ready legendaries, especially Neil Young in his "Tonights the Night" to the "Ragged Glory" era, Playhawk have formed a style of music which takes the essence and spirit of all their musical heroes and welds it together with what can only be described as Stockport attitude."
"Having all been born and raised in this drab mill town, the three founding members of Playhawk; TOMMY G, ALASDAIR and LUKE THE DUKE, formed the band having been inspired by their environment and surroundings. It just goes to show, a shitty little mill town in the arse crack of the pennines can produce the finest quality Progressive-Blues-Grunge band, so there is hope for Stockport yet. Watch Playhawk and you will know what I'm talking about. This musical mash of heavy rock riffs, pentatonic lead guitar, John Bonham style drumming, funk-bass, harmonised gravel vocals, and soulful keyboard, could only have derived from Stockport...... or Seattle."
Prince Stratocastovsky III

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/21/2006
Band Members: TOMMY G
Guitars/Vocals/Lager
ALASDAIR
Guitars/Vocals/Aggression
TOMMY L
Bass/Hats/Guitars
(L)UKE "THE DUKE" BONHAM
Drums/Hyper/Trampoline
PHIL NEW HOPE
Keys/Guitar/knob Twiddling
JOE90
Bass/Holsten
ANDY LEATHER
Percussion/Has a car
SILTY RIVERS
Guitars/Dope
CRAZY ANDREW
Roadie/Guru
YOYO
Roadie/Chemist
SIMON CLEAR LOGIC
Photos/Hoodies
Influences: Stockport post-industrialisation
Poverty,
Love,
Pink Floyd,
Led Zeppelin,
Neil Young,
Jimi Hendrix,

Girls,
Krombacher,
Warsteiner,
Augustiner
Edelstoff,
Konig Pilsener,
Fruh Kolsch,
Lech,
Tyskie,
Rhubarb and Custard Sweets,
Crash Bandicoot,
Apocalypse Now,
Mary-jane,
Revenge......
Sounds Like: Coherent noise / very fucking loud
Type of Label: None

My Blog

EP

Greetings long suffering followers of PLAYHAWK.    WE FINALLY HAVE A CD WE FINALLY HAVE A CD WE FINALLY HAVE A CD WE’VE GOT A CD   You can have one too.   Get in touch  ...
Posted by Playhawk on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:19:00 PST

Occupational Hazards

DANGER! BEING A MEMBER OF PLAYHAWK IS LIKELY TO CAUSE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: DEAFNESS:  "WHAT?, WHAT?, I CAN'T HEAR FUCK ALL....NO, YOU TURN DOWN, IT'S THOSE CYMBALS, I FEEL SICK"..ETC ETC BUS...
Posted by Playhawk on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:53:00 PST

people of STOCKPORT unite

Playhawk are playing the Academy. Yes. THE venue in Manchester where everyone from our home town should descend on and let the post industrialised city know what its little "Stockie" brother is about....
Posted by Playhawk on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:18:00 PST

M*I*A

LOST ONE GRUNGE/BLUES/PUNK SUPERGROUP LAST SEEN BAKERS VAULTS, FUCKING AGES AGO ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF PLAYHAWK IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST STAGE OR MUSIC VENUE         &...
Posted by Playhawk on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:32:00 PST

Thoughts of a bassist

If a band plays in the Chestergate, do they make a sound?...
Posted by Playhawk on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:53:00 PST

Birfday

Tommy G's BirfdayFun Jesus christ.  Just got home from a rather uncomfortable bout of sleep in the middle of the floor in Ciaran and Laura's flat.  Yes it's well into the afternoon and I sti...
Posted by Playhawk on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:02:00 PST

READ THIS: new song lyrics underway (please comment)

so he raises a beer up to his lips and lowers his gaze right down to her hips she's on the dancefloor doin' the twist but he only dances when he's pissed he thinks he's a ladies man ( he thinks he's d...
Posted by Playhawk on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:48:00 PST

drink?

jesus christ   is anyone ever sober  when they write on this blog?   Thought not.   Onward Playhawk, and don't stop drinking til sunrise.  (Or when Al passes out) More gigs co...
Posted by Playhawk on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:27:00 PST

esharoooooghaa

esha oo? eshaa fuggin ghaa! tired of the same old crappy number-one-hit-singles that radio one and our so called "popular" music chart have to offer? well don't be. cos somewhere out there is a b...
Posted by Playhawk on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:01:00 PST

Won't get served again

ishafuggingig Right, about that battle of the bands thing: Many thanks to all you mad bad rag tag Playhawk supporters that turned up to watch us at the Bakers Vaults (pronounced 'Baykohs').  Ther...
Posted by Playhawk on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:34:00 PST