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This Is My Lawnmower

The twisted shapes and the valleys gape at you.

About Me

NEXT GIG: We play at Dry Bar on Saturday 7th June! We are headlining, it's £4 on the doors, which open at 8pm.

This Is My Lawnmower are a young Manchester band who aim to produce music that is both subtle and angular in equal measure. If byproducts of their musical aims happen to induce dancing, crying or simply make people watch in awe (all have been known), then the band are hardly likely to complain.

If you want to book us or get in touch, we do like messages of MySpace.
We also like email: [email protected]
And Paul doesn't mind being phoned on 07921620244.

Check out our other corners of the internet...

Our 'Xfm Uploaded' Page
thisismylawnmower.com
Jack Wills Battle of the Bands - vote for us!

FYI (Live, MUTV Session) + Interview

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/11/2006
Band Website: thisismylawnmower.com
Band Members: Paul Rawson - Lead Vocals, Trumpet
Tom Halpin - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Paul Halpin - Keyboards, Synths, Piano
Lee Corfield - Drums, Percussion
Jonathan Hamilton - Bass

Influences: Our influences include: Bloc Party, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Muse, Radiohead, The Smiths, We Are Scientists, The Shins, Klaxons, Sigur Ros, Hope Of The States etc.

Bands we have played with include: I Am Kloot , Peter And The Wolf , The Vagabonds , Dorp , Kill The Young , It's A Buffalo , The Geoffs , The Redwings and many more...
Sounds Like: An american pit bull terrier, sling-shotted into the farthest reaches of our Space-Time Continuum at what can only be described as Ultra-visual (or faster than light, if you will) speeds. On SpaceCakes.

Or perhaps, and possibly more accurately...

"This Is My Lawnmower buck current convention, but still serve up tunes we can all sing (and dance) along to."
"wonderfully edgy"
manchestermusic.co.uk

"TIML have songs that are remarkably likeable"
highvoltage.org.uk

"This Is My Lawnmower (better referred to as TiML) are a band to sit up and take notice of."
the-mag.me.uk

"One of our finds from In The City (2007)"
roomthirteen.com

Type of Label: None

My Blog

R13 ’Quagmire EP’ Review

Well, 3 months after sending all our discs out, we finally have a second review of our Quagmire EP. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick though. This Is My Lawnmower - QuagmireA Close Shav...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:43:00 PST

A Bit Of Press...

We sent out our 'Quagmire EP' to various places with the hope of getting a few reviews back. We got one back from Manchester Music (manchestermusic.co.uk) straight away, but I delayed posting this blo...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:19:00 PST

Review Of Retro Bar Gig (3rd Feb 08)

Cath Aubergine (of manchestermusic.co.uk) has written a review of our gig last Sunday in her MySpace blog which I thought I'd post here so you can all read it. There should be another review of the ni...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:40:00 PST

RoomThirteen.com ITC Review

Here's a review of our gig at Dry Bar on 22/10/07 as part of In The City. It's as critical as it is positive, though we were mentioned as one of only 4 bands as 'ones to watch' in their overall review...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:49:00 PST

Gig Review - The Castle, Oldham

..> 29 June 2007 / The Castle / Oldham By JA This Is My Lawnmower threw a few curveballs, not least via their gardner favouring name, but also because they have a magnificent catalogue of ...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:17:00 PST

Manchester Music Review

A pretty cool review of our demo from Manchester Music:: This Is My Lawnmower ::28 May 2007 / !K7 / 4 Trk CDBy JAA neat little five piece from Tameside, This Is My Lawnmower are taking their very firs...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:54:00 PST

High Voltage Demo Review

A review of our demo by High Voltage. Made me chuckle a bit anyway.This Is My Lawnmower - Demo Jimmy Eat World and Arctic Monkeys are rubbish band names, but they make up for it in tunes. We know bett...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:03:00 PST

Drumfuck's Knee

It would appear that Lee 'Drumfuck' Corfield has dislocated his knee.Unfortunately, we cannot play The Soundhouse in Bolton!We thought about playing it until Sunday, when we found that Lee's right leg...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Mon, 14 May 2007 09:50:00 PST

Our Page Is Messed Up!

To anyone really.... our page isnt normally like this, we are trying our best to sort the problem, so hopefully our music should be back online soon, as well as all our other little trinkets. This has...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:16:00 PST

Academy 3 Tickets...

Anybody who wants to ge their hands on Academy 3 tickets, contact one of the band, or send us a message over myspace, we will get back to you ASAP.Contact me, Tom, on [email protected] ring m...
Posted by This Is My Lawnmower on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:04:00 PST