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Bionic

Bionic R.I.mP3's.

About Me

'My actions are part of a plan I can barely glimpse, but I know it exists.'
Hello and welcome to the show.

Don't worry, we're not after your booty. This is just about sharing something we made, making friends and a side order of devilish ego gratification. It makes us warm and gooey inside, to think that someone out there might possibly appreciate this.
So, thanks for checking out the Bionic obituary. Yes, sadly (or not so, depending on your viewpoint), Bionic are resigned to the afterlife of the unsigned. However, due to the marvel of modern technology you can now savour a morsel of what they were about.
Bionic formed somewhere in the nineties in the charming concrete infested port of Plymouth. They hung around for about five years, attempting to learn their respective instruments, then drifted into an infinite hiatus. They subsequently failed to achieve their ambition to 'make the album of the decade and sell at least 25 copies'. Life in those pre-MySpace days twas hard graft, you blinking youngsters with your free downloads ......
Anyway, they wrote some tunes and here are four of them for the world to enjoy.
And....here are four more:
Vocalist / guitarist and main songwriter Rob Nathan continues to write and record.....his MySpacesolo projectis available here

'There's a glory in the way that it ends........'
"Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/6/2006
Band Members: Left to right:Gary Lee: drums; Rob Nathan : vocals, guitar, sequencing; Stuart Rogers: bass; James Norwood: guitar, keyboards
Influences: Musical: John Peel,New Order, The Smiths, The Wedding Present, Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Pavement, Iggy Pop, Television, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Go-Betweens, The Ramones, The Pixies, Ennio Morricone, Sammy, Seam, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Grandaddy, The Magnetic Fields, Galaxie 500, Neil Young, Spiritualized, The Velvet Underground, Orbital, Smog, The Pet Shop Boys, The Fall, Joy Division, Orange Juice, Echo & The Bunnymen, Archers of Loaf, Happy Mondays, Luna, David Bowie, Radiohead, Electronic, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Einsturzende Neubaten, Laibach, Teenage Fanclub, The Beach Boys, Spacemen 3, Pulp, The Pastels, John Lennon, The Shamen, Beck, Bob Dylan, John Cale, A Certain Ratio, John Barry, The Stooges, Ivor Cutler....(to mention a few)
Other: The universal law of Karma, Sod's Law, Minamilism, Post-postmodernism, Pretensiousness, Lo-fi meets Hi-fi, Intricate simplicity, Not being able to play very well, Taking ourselves too seriously, Not taking ourselves seriously enough, Bad management deals, Premature burnout, Old age, Rock's unspoken anti-ginger policy(Mr J.Rotten doesn't count), Paranoia, Conflicting commitments, Just missing the new wave of new wave bandwagon, Not enjoying the present moment, Under exposure (attempting to posthumously address this), Is anybody actually reading this?

Sounds Like: Somebody is bitter and regretful (no, only kidding)
Sit back, relax, take ten minutes out of your extremely hectic life and find out what it sounds like. Failing this, give it a few seconds, say 'Nahhh' then move on to the next Space....
Then again, here are a few comments they gathered during their lifespan, (feel free to add your own)

'Bionic play left field, almost experimental music' yet are 'embarrassingly accessible and, ultimately, very Pop.'
Piers Martin, Scene Magazine

'Too perfect' yet also, 'a bit tragic'
Didier, Original Sin Magazine

'Bionic and 'making sense' are not regular bedfellows'
'a thrilling alien noise-scape with classic rock undercurrents'
and my personal favourite....
'dragging delicate country twangs out of what sounds like a Taiwanese sheet metal puncher'
Mark Beaumont, NME live review
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rob Nathan's solo page

If you like Bionic and are a little despondent that they are with us no more then you may like to know that at least one quarter of the band continues to write and record.  After much delay the ...
Posted by Bionic on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:51:00 PST

Extra tracks!

Don't say you don't get value for money on this page.  Yes, there was no end to our productivity as a band.  There are now 8 tracks for the price of none.  Unfortunately, I couldn'...
Posted by Bionic on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:08:00 PST

Thanks for joining/adding!

Hi, just wanted to say a big thanks to anyone who joins Bionic's friends and has a listen.  Unfortunately I can't reply to everyone, but those that leave interesting or personal comments (i....
Posted by Bionic on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:08:00 PST