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From their conception in 2000 in the cotswold town of Cirencester, Crayfish have aimed to be a one-gig grunge band. They achieved this so well that all the members left leaving singer/guitarist Matt Aldis to his own sordid devices. Months past and Crayfish reformed with a new agenda. One that would ensure that they would be hailed as the worst band in the west-country. Thankfully (though begrudgingly for Matt) this goal seemed an impossible task and eventually they bit the bullet and tried to make something of themselves. 2003: So Matt, Felix (bass) and Rupert (drums) took on the task of creating a gargantuan, behemoth-like sound, down tuned everything to destruction and recorded it under the influence of a lot of alcohol and drugs. The results were the foetal seed of a half-arsed good idea. The introduction of J Evans on lead guitar created aspirations for something better, and though still quite begrudgingly, Matt the leader (ha ha ha) of the band, influenced by bands such as Black Label Society, Alice In Chains, The Meat Puppets and Frank Zappa thought it was time to take the group in a weird and interesting new detuned direction. 2004 saw them play a host of venues, mostly around Swindon and Cheltenham but most notably, the TMF festival where they were supporting stage headliners Breed 77 and Winnebago Deal. Aspirations include getting our forthcoming album finished (it's doing a good impersonation of Chinese Democracy right now), many more dates in London and further afield, and playing some more summer festivals. The main aim, however is to get a gig with guitarist supremo Adam Bomb (he has to be seen to be believed). Crayfish hope that, whoever you are, youll find something in our music you appreciate, even if we are all ghastly people.

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Member Since: 5/14/2006
Band Website: crayfishband.co.uk (Under Construction)
Band Members: Matt Aldis
Main songwriter,singer and guitarist. He sings with Cirencester band, Bad Obsession and plays guitar for funk-rock act, Athufaena's Puzzle, both of which have taken him to Bristol and several local open air events to audiences of 2-3000. An experienced player, engaging frontman and formidable vocalist.He is also responsible for all of the artwork for Crayfish.

J. Evans
Lead guitarist with a very distinct old school style reminiscent of Slash and Eddie Van Halen. J has also been playing with local rock band, Bad Obsession, for 6 years or so.He has played at various local open air festivals and appeared on BBC 1 as part of Music Live '99. Both he and Matt helped Bad Obsession to win two awards at Stroud talent contest including best overall act.

Felix M.F.
Plays bass for Crayfish. As the longest serving member of the band apart from Matt, Felix is a solid, intuitive rhythm player. Other bands include being singer-guitarist-songwriter for London based punk band, British Beef, who earlier last year realeased their single 'Without Me' on Fatfox.The video for it has been shown onmany digital channels including Scuzz and VH2. He has played at London's Astoria,the Metro Club and the Waterrats(a gig which had representatives from 3 major labels present). He also played bass for Gloucestershire rock band Athufaena's Puzzle, who have gigged around Bristol, Birmingham Cheltenham,Gloucester and London areas.

Rupert Irving
Completes the solid rhythm section of Crayfish on drums.He plays in two other bands including established local band, Bad Obsession and another local act,Athufaena's Puzzle. He has played for numerous bands over eight years or so, including Cirencester based bands Morph and Just To Annoy Ray. Like the others he has played around Bristol, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, Swindon,small venues in the west country and further north in Lancaster. In '99 he appeared with Keyop at Bristol's Ashton Court festival to an audience of 3000 after the success of their debut record, released on indie label,Flexipop.He also appeared with J on BBC Music Live that year with local act Practical Fantasy.
Influences: Alice In Chains
Black Label Society
Pantera
Aerosmith
Blind Melon

Sounds Like: CRAYFISH! funnily enough...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Help me! Any small rock festivals we could play?

I'm making a big effort to some Crayfish action in some festivals this year and was wondering if anyone has some info or a link to some lists of rock festivals then that'd be ace!Take it easy,Ruhaa x
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:02:00 GMT

We are on iTunes!

Just to say that you can now buy some of our songs off the iTunes music store!Thanks very much to Robert Smith of Maxrock in Birmingham (used to put us on at Eddie's before it burnt down) for putting ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 03:14:00 GMT

Crayfish enjoy a bit of sub-dom: official

Our good friend Hanna posted this in our comments book! Kinky bastards...Thankyou very much The Register » Science » Biology »Crayfish enjoy a bit of sub-dom: officialScientists probe 'humping' behavi...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:52:00 GMT

Review of The Vaults gig 8/9/06...

Thankyou so much to all you guys and gals for coming down and to everyone who queued for ages to get in.We recorded the and filmed the Crayfish set and Dan (I think) recorded the Headtrauma set sound ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:24:00 GMT

Gigs cancelled and the Black Friday dvd...

Firstly,a massive thankyou to all of you who have added us! THANKYOU! We appreciate the appreciation! Secondly the lack of gigs situation: We're not playing anywhere at the moment 'cause we're doing ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:53:00 GMT