Member Since: 27/07/2006
Band Website: www.silenceisawkward.com
Band Members: Paul Hawkins (Vocals)
Ian Button (Drums, Production & Backing Vocals)
Kate Arnold (Violin, Dulcimer & Backing Vocals)
David Serra (Guitars)
Harvey Dodd (Keyboards & Backing Vocals)
Alex Templeton-Ward (MicroKorg, Samplers & Backing Vocals)
Jes Walton (Bass & Backing Vocals)
+ Occasional Cameos from Tom Mayne (Keyboards & Backing Vocals)
Influences: We're not deliberately trying to sound like anyone else but, if it helps, our music tastes are as follows:
Paul really likes Suede, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Nick Cave, Hefner, R.E.M, Leonard Cohen and what he'd term "outsider pop music". If he's utterly honest he was massively into West End musicals as he grew up and that probably influenced him a lot too. He still thinks the music to Les Miserables is better than almost everything else ever.
Ian really likes 60s pop music and what he'd call "pop music that sounds slightly wrong".
David is a big fan of Guns N' Roses and the Mars Volta. In fact his Guns N' Roses obsession is such that the rest of the band attempt to avoid mentioning the words "Axl" and "Rose" around him for fear of a three-hour monologue on the said individual. Like Paul, he loved Suede when Bernard Butler was in the band. However (unlike Paul, who loves Coming Up and even really likes few songs on a New Morning) he isn't much a fan of the post-Bernard years. He also wants to make it known he really loves cats (as in the animals, not the Lloyd-Webber musical). Paul's a bit confused as to what this has to do with his music taste.
Kate has a fairly extensive knowledge of goth music, folk music and arabic music. Her favourite bands and musicians include Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxie Sioux, Abdul Halim Hafez, Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cymbalom Band.
Harvey Dodd is a huge Divine Comedy fan. He's also a damn good performance poet in his own right, which isn't really anything to do with a musical influence per se but probably should be mentioned somewhere and here's as good as anywhere...
Alex's favourite band of all time are the Doors. He is also interested in noise music, especially stuff like Sunn O))) and anything that is so close to not being music that it is difficult to define it thus.
Jes is a massive David Bowie fan.
Sounds Like: Outsider pop songs.
I Believe In Karma
The Evil Thoughts
The Bigger Bone
Record Label: Jezus Factory Records
Type of Label: Indie