Music:
Member Since: 5/28/2006
Band Website: YOWZA
Band Members: Hannah-
Guitar , Trombone , Glockenspiel , Vocals , Recorders , Handclaps, Hi 5's
Paul-
Guitar , Vocals , Handclaps , Hi 5's
Tom-
Guitar , Handclaps , Hi 5's
Jonny H - Bass Guitar, Hi 5's , Handclaps
Influences: Herman Dune , Belle and Sebastian , Smog , Fonda 500 , Camera Obscura , Talking Heads , The Essex Green , Danielson , The Lovin Spoonful , The Beatles , Wrestling.Jonathan Richman,Hefner, Early Arty Talking Heads............Lists are shit.
Sounds Like:
REVIEWS.....................................................
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"An amazing EP(Golden Lights EP) full of farmyard folk pop fun" - TEN FOOT CITY mag April ’08.Brilliant jangly indie pop - SHADOWPLAY FANZINE - April ’08"The Rocky Nest are from East Yorkshire by way of Laurel Canyon and Isobel Campbell’s tourbus"...................................."How a marching band would sound if they spent a couple of months listening only to The Strokes and The Velvet Underground"...............................and"More twee then Belle and Sebastian wearing Arran jumpers"
- HIGHVOLTAGE- JANUARY ’08.................................................."
What you get when you mix an ex-Fonda,an ex-Favour and three lovely ladies playing glockenspiel,recorder,trumpet,guitar,bass,acordian and send them off to a farm to make music"
-TEN FOOT CITY MAG- MARCH ’07........................................."...with a revamped line up and a new philosophy they are a band to be reckoned with rather than one to be patronisingly underated.The re-invention makes them vocally richer and musically more ambitious"..................."something both menacing and lush"
........"heartfelt odyssey"......and "all in all stunning"...
- SANDMAN MAG - FEBRUARY ’08
Record Label: DIY HI 5!
Type of Label: Indie