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The Astrochimp

About Me

"Angry, Rebellious, Critical...a Renegade" Is this the Astrochimp? Well no, actually it is a self description of The Rev. Frank Scott as brilliantly portrayed by Gene Hackman in The Poseidon Adventure. Though the chimp has been called all these things-sometimes all at once! Part Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, part '67 meets '77 but some might say with the musicianship of The Shaggs!!! The late great Martin Hannett may have described it as "Genius yet crap!" Then again he may not have...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/05/2006
Band Members: The Chimp - Vocals & Guitars, 4:5 - Bass, 3:7 - Drums, Alpha Charlie - Backing Vocals
Influences: The Beach Boys, Ramones, The films of John Carpenter, The Beatles, Tiswas, Syd Barrett, The Chills, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Rolling Stones, Felt, The Jesus & Marychain, The Factory, Dawn of the Dead, George A Romero, Spaced, My Bloody Valentine, All Night Radio, The Flash, Tintern Abbey, The Ronettes, Suicide, Mc5, The Stooges, Television, Kraftwerk, Aphrodite's Child, The Kinks, Can, The La's, Cary Grant, The Velvet Underground, The Bryds, Funkadelic/Parliament, The Creation, Johnny Cash, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Pretty Things '68-'70, Glen Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Big Star, The Monkees, Joe Meek, Ace Of Wands & anything written by Trevor Preston, The Raspberries, Tim Buckley, Tim Rose, Ma & Pa Percival, The Appartment, We All Together, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Julian Cope when he had nice hair, Baby Your Phasing Is Bad by Caleb, The 13th Floor Elevators, Love, Quantum Leap, The Attack, T-Rex, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Joy Division/New Order, Tony Wilson, Martin Hannett, Robert Leo Gretton, Orange Juice, Gene Hackman, Gene Hunt, though not in that shite Ashes To Ashes, Gene Clark, Up In Flames by Manitoba, Eno, Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Portishead, Pete Ham/Badfinger, Sly Stone, The Zombies, Teenage Fanclub, Elliot Smith, Fred 'Sonic' Smith, Serge Gainsbourgh, The Monkees, Mike Nesmith, Repo Man, The Beta Band, Lonepigeon, King Creosote, The Aliens, Neil Young, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, The Who, The Action/Mighty Baby, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Snake Plissken, Jack Burton, Napoleon Wilson, The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Flaming Lips when they were noisy, Mercury Rev, Parsley the Lion, Skip Spence, The Vaselines, Pere Ubu, The Move, Subway Sect, Nick Cave/The Birthday Party, Man About The House, The Sweeney, Wire, Broadcast, Nancy & Lee, Scott Walker, Steed, Mrs Peel, Tara King, Thomo, My little sister, Caribou, Pussy Galore/Blues Explosion, The Tomorrow People, Life On Mars, The Beep Seals, The Professionals, Angel Investigations, The Small Faces, Galaxie 500, Dennis Waterman's false teeth as seen in New Tricks, Only After Dark by Mick Ronson, The Specials, Nazz/Todd Rundgren, Le Orme, Sonic's Rendevous Band, The Bee Gees, Clinic, Neu!, Klaus Dinger total artist RIP and a 1000 more i've forgot...
Sounds Like: A bit like the above but less talented and on a crappy 4-track.
Record Label: Urk Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fred Gee

You just don't seem to get the calibre of barstaff at the Rover Returns anymore, remember the time Fred Gee drove Annie Walker's jag into the canal? Comedy genius i tell ya, nearly as good as the...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:51:00 GMT

Opps!

After accidentally stumbling on Dawn of the Dull the other day i noticed that i have in fact uploaded the wrong mix. The version now uploaded for your listening pleasure has a full wall of sound surro...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 GMT

New Song

If your reading this you will have noticed that i've uploaded a new song. This mini masterpiece was recorded in August under a heavy spell of listening to Air by the mighty Aphrodite's Child for weeks...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:10:00 GMT