tanuki Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) A drunken friend showed everyone a video by my old band today, i ended up listening to some old stuff and couldn't decide if it was great or just wrong! Its mostly from around 2001 - 2003, we got signed but they had no idea how to market us around britpop so things went a bit sour before our album could be released.. Or even mixed for that matter! Its nice to share as no-one will hear this otherwise! An odd 5 piece band making music with instruments and kid's toys, for Bristolians the singer later became Kid Carpet and we were the ones who build Toybox Studios out of blagged carpet squares and hand dried sand... Id love to hear any thoughts, my bass playing on this annoys me in hindsight, like i say, the album never got finished so these are working mixes we took away.. https://soundcloud.com/guy-fowler/sets/actual-size or laugh at the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhA70t5wdoU Edited June 19, 2016 by tanuki Quote
Roland Rock Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 Just watched the video and really enjoyed it. Will check out the other stuff when I get the chance. Quote
KingPrawn Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Ive only watched the video but I think its a really good sound. A laid back almost indie reggae vibe. I hope you don't mind comparisons but if Finlay Quaye and Radiohead a few years back hooked up?? You get my drift?. Good production. The video defo keeps you interested as its pace matches the song. There is definitely room for this in the in the world of music. Quote
Stu-khag Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 I remember the name of your band quite vividly. Trying to think If I own any singles or saw you in Cardiff? Quote
tanuki Posted June 21, 2016 Author Posted June 21, 2016 Thanks for all the kind words, and yeah, i think we played the Cardiff Barfly a few times back then.. At the time we were one of those bands who didn't quite fit in and the record company had trouble working out how to market us.. Was a fun band though.. The video actually got banned from MTV at the time for featuring crashed cars etc, seemed quite ridiculous but the media went very careful directly after 9/11 so a lot of people got hit with ridiculous bans! Quote
timmo Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Your band sounds pretty generic for the time, and I don`t mean that in a bad way. I can`t understand how the label didn`t know how to market you. If I had known about you back in those days, I would have been interested in your seeing your band. Quote
AndrewJordan Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Cool stuff. Get it mixed and put it out there! Quote
police squad Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 yep I thought it was strangely good (in a good way) Quote
LewisK1975 Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Yep - enjoyed that - I got a laid back Verve vibe from it. Quote
linear Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Sounds amazing. And your working mixes make my finished mixes sound like something recorded on a phone. Clearly I have much to learn. I found it very reminiscent of the late 90s rather than early 00s. That isn't a criticism, but I wonder if that was a contributing factor with your label. Britpop was over, and people had moved on to Coldplay and Travis, or the awful commercial distillation of DnB and Jungle - it was a bit of a low-point. Quote
alyctes Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Can't' hear much wrong with that, myself. Nice work. Quote
kendall Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Not my kind of music at all, but I've got to say I really got into it. The video was clever and I think someone else on here mentioned a Verve vibe - which I agree with. Quote
Duarte Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 A bit reminiscent of Soul Coughing, if they made the soundtrack to a Tarantino film about reggae... which is good. Quote
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