Retro Soup formed in about February 2006 when Joel and Rose met at a Wolfmother gig at the Sheffield Leadmill. A couple of weeks passed on myspace, and after the statement ‘oh you have a drum kit? we should start a band’, they were formed.
Recording onto their computers, they record each of their separate bits, and then email each other the MP3’s, where they will then start to mix the tracks, edit them down and master them, before shoving them onto Myspace.
With Rose being a freelance artist and Joel a graphic designer, the albums are recorded and printed in a matter of weeks, and allows them to promote the band in any way they see fit. The debut album ‘Surrealism’ saw the soup mixing with different styles to try and find their own sound, and songs like Third Mic, Breeze and Crossed Paths are echoed in the first main individual album, ‘Glitch’.
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"Gloriously noisy"
"You guys slay me"
"Cool as f**k"
"Yaaaay!"
"yeaah.. more feedback and reeevurrb!" - Graham Coxon (Blur)
"this is fucking great. hair, fun, madness. yay. it's really fucking great - Tim Minchin
"You have a great singing voice, great harmonies" - Sue Denim from Robots In Disguise (technically she did say it to me)
"Glorious electrical bits, dirty guitars, we like a lot" - Nemo
"Arty wankers who put the music into the scene. Note for note, tighter than Andrew Lloyd Webber's chuff. When they start singing, i start running... in time to the music. They give iTunes a reason to exist" - Hayden Black
"It's better than fun squared!" - Alan
""White as The White Stripes, human as The Human League and way more amusing than Muse."" - Frankie Poullain
"This is pretty cool, i like it" - Dean Rosenzweig
Glitch
1. Escape
2. Humanity's Last Hope
3. Contraption Distraction
4. Hiding Away
5. Idiotproof
6. Wire(d)
7. A Nation Of Glass Society
8. Decision
9. Always Wanting To Be Seen
10. Falling Away Into Paradise
11. Eternally
12. Shutdown
Buy Wire(d) from iTunes by clicking on this link!
Retro Soup LIVE @ The Boardwalk 27/05/09
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