Member Since: 21/05/2006
Band Members: Neil Ahern - rhythm guitar, bongos/banjos, lead vocals, making fucked up faces when singing and playing
Ian Tierney - keyboard, guitar, bodhran, mixing and electronic stuff, keeping hamsters
Paul Ward - guitar, keyboard, vocals, sunshine
Influences: A long list of influences, by member, here we go: Paul; "album leaf, mum, silver mount zion, air, arcade fire,Sigur ros, radiohead, blonde redhead, boards of canada, calexico, yann tiersen, em...loads more"......Ian; "Rachels, RATM, Faith No More, Kid 606, RJD2, Cannibal OX, Radiohead, Amon Tobin, coco rosie, blonde redhead, Les Baxter, NIN, Dalek, Jurassic 5, Terry Riley, Debussy, Stevie Wonder, Stone temple pilots, Kid Koala, Ultra Magnetic Mc's, Interpol, Michael Jackson, Pharcyde, Nirvana, Onyx, Throbbing gristle, The kinks, Max tundra, The Clash, Guns and fucking Roses (I bought The Spaghetti Incident...did you?), Mr Bungle, Dj Shadow,The Secret Chiefs, Miles Davis, Dr. Dre,Tortoise, Lighting bolt, Elbow, Love, Spirit, Snoop dog,The Doors, Can, Edgar Varese, Burt Bacherach, Herbie Hancock, Third Eye foundation, Pj Harvey, Chopin, Dj Format, Beck, Guapo, Arcade Fire, James Brown, Venitian snares, Melt Banana, jaga jazzist, The Melvins, Prince, The Beatles, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Erik Satie, Bjork, Cypress Hill, bits of Zappa, bits of Richard D. James (the good bits), Broadcast, Cloudead, Subtle, Bit of a heavy kettler at heart really! especially Sepultura (Chaos AD/Roots era), Pantera (Post cowboys from hell (...obviously!) ),PAW(who out there likes paw??" Neil: Arcade fire, arctic monkeys, the beatles, beck, belle and sebastian, blur, bob dylan, bowie, bright eyes, calexico, dj shadow the doors, the doves, elbow, flaming lips, gomez, gorillaz, ian brown, interpol, jay-z, johnnie cash, joy division, kings of leon, the kinks, libertines, low, manic street preachers, morrissey, nick cave and the bad seeds, oasis, the pixies, radiohead, rage against the machine, simon &; garfunkle, the smiths, the stone roses, the streets, sufjan stevens, super furry animals, thom yorke, velvet underground, the verve.
Sounds Like: everyone elsewhere...
Type of Label: Major