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Toy Drum

I WANT ANOTHER WORLD..............

About Me

SOUND:
Indie / Alternative / Rock
INFLUENCES:
Spiritualized Interpol Radiohead The Smiths Pink Floyd The Cure
CURRENTLY:
Completed our 4th demo with Latent Lemon engineer Justin Saban & preparing to unleash it. Finishing rehearsals for a 10 song set. Booking performances at those great small London venues and elsewhere.
AIMS:
Growing our fanbase further and building upon our reputation for blinding performances. Headlining sold out gigs. Having a single released & played on radio.
HISTORY:
2001-2002 HEADLINED AT: Dublin Castle Camden West One Four Kensington Kings Head Fulham Bedford Esquires The Horn St. Albans
2002-2005 Worked on the band sound taking in advice from Dave Balfe (food records), after watching us rehearse and play live. did a handful of gigs. Intense band introspection period !
EVENTS:
Supported Mohair & Goldrush at above venues..... Runners-up of herts & beds battle of the bands. Played outdoor festival at dave balfes country house!
MAILING LIST:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/9/2006
Band Website: toydrum.co.uk
Band Members: Jamie Smith
vocals, glassy clean rhythm and shards of atmospheric guitar work.

Carl Henderson
vocals, distorted/punchy Kustom guitar sound with spasmodic riffs.

Stuart Brookes
big, driving Rickenbacker Bass also with soft and velvety moments.

Justin Douglas
tight, diverse and sometimes animalistic drums & percussion.
Influences: MUSIC:
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead. REM - Automatic For The People The Cure - Pornography. Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call.

BOOKS:
The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter.

FILMS:
Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Bladerunner, WonderBoys

ASTRONOMY:
Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, Mars Express, Planet Quest, Hubble Images
Type of Label: None

My Blog

TOYDRUM GIGS

PLAYING AT THE FOLLOWING VENUES.................. 31ST MARCH         & nbsp;       THE CASTLE, SEMI FINALS OF BATTLE OF THE BA...
Posted by Toy Drum on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:28:00 PST

XFM AND TOYDRUM!!

HI ALL, PLEASE HAVE A LOOK ON THE LINK BELOW, AND HELP US IN THE XFM FESTIVAL........................ PLEASE VOTE FOR US   TOYDRUM   www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/toydrum...
Posted by Toy Drum on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:15:00 PST

XFM AND TOYDRUM!!

HI ALL, PLEASE HAVE A LOOK ON THE LINK BELOW, AND HELP US IN THE XFM FESTIVAL........................ PLEASE VOTE FOR US   TOYDRUM   http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/toydrum...
Posted by Toy Drum on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:15:00 PST

FREE CDS AND BADGES... YES FREE, ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING!!!

Hi all... Because we're extremely nice fella in search of rock'n'roll stardom, we're giving away FREE copies of our latest 3 track EP, "A View From The Observatory" along with FREE button badges. Yes,...
Posted by Toy Drum on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:59:00 PST

Road To V - Rate us please...

Howdo all, We've registered a profile for the Road To V festival, which gives unsigned bands the opportunity to be the opening act for this years V Festival. Our profile is on http://www.roadtov.com/p...
Posted by Toy Drum on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:56:00 PST

TOYDRUM

HI ALL THE GUYS HAVE ENTERED INTO A HUGE FESTIVAL COMP, AND TO GET THRU THEY NEED YOUR VOTES!!  WOULD YOU PLEASE LOOK AT THE LINK BELOW AND RATE THEM PLEASE. http://www.roadtov.com/profile/11601 ...
Posted by Toy Drum on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:23:00 PST

TOYDRUM'S REVIEW IN FANZINE. 9TH MARCH 2007

"Toy Drum, who I'm seeing for the first time, are a more evolved bandthan The Suspects and you can tell as soon as they start to play. Sounding tight and a little moody, they breeze through their set ...
Posted by Toy Drum on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:04:00 PST

We're back!...Look out for us at a venue near you soon

Well what can we say, apart from thank you to all who came down to Lark in the Park for our first come back gig and...what a night!I can honestly say that the band has never sounded so good as we did ...
Posted by Toy Drum on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:52:00 PST