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Favours For Sailors

Scoffin' the coffin

About Me


In a time of streamlined hair, perfect posturing and asymmetric melodies, Favours For Sailors provide a much-needed musical pick-me-up. Mixing the fractured pop of Pavement, the frenetic power of Gang Of Four, the guitar heroics of Television, and the frustration of four misplaced mid-20s wage slaves, their tunes spill over with wistful lust and exuberant alcoholism.
In September 2005, these Becks-fuelled, park-dwelling miscreants noticed the weather was getting too cold for frisbee, cricket and al fresco drinking. As the drizzle turned their polo shirts three shades darker and London Fields froze for the winter, JRC (guitar/vocals), MMA (drums) and AKDB (bass/vocals) realised that the time had come to turn their summer dreams of mixing the unashamedly sweet pop sensibilities of Cheap Trick and The Cars with the wired frenzy of post hardcore into a reality.
Honing their skills in a north Hackney basement, surrounded by aging leather goods and Alsanjak family history, fuelled by too many frosty beers and cheap bagels, Favours for Sailors emerged into the East London live scene as a taut music machine – albeit one threatening to spill over at any moment into delightfully noisy, devil-may-care chaos. When they made trouble, they could call their brothers.
Autumn 2007 Maltese Falcon (MF) joins the clique after leaving 4or5 Magicians. Bigger sound, lifts to practice and nights in Broxbourne under two duvets follow in no particular order...
Not quite 12 months - and sadly not quite 12 steps later - the overly talented MMA leaves for the southern coastline of the rancid empire and rhythms are reinvented by DSS. Less a hand-me-out to impoverished musicians nationwide, but more a romantic powerhouse drummer who cut his teeth with JRC back in the square metre - probably in Nottingham. Warsome...
Management/General Info - Captain Kasra - [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/24/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/favours4sailors
Band Members: AKDB//JRC/MF/DSS
Influences: Pavement, Les Savy Fav, Q and not U, The Cars, Cap n' Jazz, Scott Walker, Modest Mouse, Television, Fugazi, The Band, Built to Spill, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Destroyer, Islands, The Who, Vampire Weekend, Minutemen, Paul Simon, The Pogues, Dexys Midnight Runners, Animal Collective, Thomas Mapfumo, Shangri Las
Record Label: ***
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lovely Day For A Que Isnt It?

Its not Friday now, its Monday. But we're playing on Friday. Thats right Friday. We're playing at The FLY on New Oxford Street (near Oxford Street). Line Dot Electric Shock have put together a stellar...
Posted by Favours For Sailors on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:04:00 PST

Wake up!!

Salutations websurfers! Time for an update...We have posted some new demos of recent developments from boot camp for you to enjoy. Let us know how they make you feel.Secondly, whilst we have had a sli...
Posted by Favours For Sailors on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:54:00 PST