Introduce your band...

[JakeBrownBass]

Hey guys,

Finally got chance to post my band in here.

Were called 'Ten Floors'.
We've been together donkeys years and are a 4 piece consisting of me, my twin brother and 2 of my best mates.
You can take a listen to us at [url="http://www.myspace.com/tenfloors"]www.myspace.com/tenfloors[/url] or [url="http://www.facebook.com/tenfloors"]http://www.facebook.com/tenfloors[/url]

The two songs up there we have been working on since decemember. Please take a listen and let me know what you think guys. We are really happy with them ourselves!

Jake

[pantherairsoft]

Wicked stuff!


Been a while since anyone had the chance to add to this….

[shosgood]

Hi all,

Just joined a 5-piece southern/hard/rock/metal inspired originals band called Backhand Saloon based in Exeter. I Replaced the old bass player who played with a pick, where as I am a finger-er-er-er. The drummer has also been replaced by a much better player!

Check out our myspace: [url="http://www.myspace.com/backhandsaloon"]Backhand Saloon[/url]

The recordings are from a little while ago and we are soon to have some re-recorded songs and lots of new ones put up. Let me know what you think.

Edited May 27, 2010 by shosgood

[thisnameistaken]

I'm currently playing in a little 5-piece reggae-influenced... punk? band. Drums, bass, guitar, 3 vox, trombone, trumpet and occasionally organ (organ seems to be getting scarcer recently...).

Just uploaded some rough demos we've been working on to the myspaz: [url="http://www.myspace.com/copaseticska"]http://www.myspace.com/copaseticska[/url]

Could do with more confident brass takes really, not to mention in-tune vocals. Always work to do...

Edited May 27, 2010 by thisnameistaken

[the_skezz]

In a punk band called the Deficits, facebook is here [url="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/The-Deficits/118917578136285?ref=ts"]http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pa...78136285?ref=ts[/url]

Only had one gig so far (though it went pretty well, especially considering we've only had one practise as a full band) and we've got a couple of others coming up in July (see the facebook for more details). No songs up yet, but we're looking to record some stuff in August when we've got more experience.

[hitchy64]

Hi all, I'm in a 5 piece covers band called BEDLAM from Crewe, Cheshire.
We have been together about 4 months and done 8 brilliant gigs
Vids and photos on Facebook here [url="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bedlam/153991889810"]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bedlam/153991889810[/url]
We also have a website [url="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbedlamlivemusic.co.uk%2F&h=1364d"]http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F...%2F&h=1364d[/url]
Cheers Hitchy

Edited May 28, 2010 by hitchy64

[pantherairsoft]

I seemed to of let this thread slip away! Silly me. Keep adding guys. Some amazing stuff here. There is now also a facebook group thread that a fellow BassChatter has started. If you have a Facebook Group please add to that thread also and support the bands there as well!

My newest project…

Our Helical Mind

A 2-piece funk/D&B/Break Beat kinda thing. Good fun and I get to use all of my pedals!

Still in its early days, but the tracks are getting there and we are planning a 'proper' recording and a pile of gigs from the end of next month.
Both myself and the drummer are from a rock background (Former touring drummer with 'The Meatloaf Story' & 'Circus Du Vampire Rocks') so its been hard to break some old ways… but we are happy with how things are going and have already had a few MC's and local Drum & Bass bars/clubs approach us about doing spots between DJ sets…

Myspace - [url="http://www.myspace.com/ourhelicalmind"]http://www.myspace.com/ourhelicalmind[/url]

I've already sent friend requests to pretty much all of you that have contributed to this thread so I can see what new updates are happening in your musical worlds.

Shep

[Twigman]

I play with Sad Lovers & Giants.




Sad Lovers & Giants are a rock band from Watford, England who formed in 1981. Their sound blends post-punk, atmospheric keyboards and psychedelia and the band has been described as "a pastoral Pink Floyd."

The band's members have included Garçe (Simon) Allard (vocals), Tristan Garel-Funk (guitar), Tony McGuinness (now part of the trance trio Above & Beyond) (guitar), Cliff Silver (bass), Ian Gibson (bass), David Wood (keyboards and saxophone), Juliet Sainsbury (keyboards), Marco Müllner (keyboards), Nigel Pollard (drums & percussion) and Wilberforce Hicks (keyboards).

The original lineup produced two studio albums, Epic Garden Music and Feeding the Flame, before splitting in 1983. During this initial period they recorded a John Peel Session for the BBC and a live concert for the Dutch Radio Hilversum station, which was subsequently released as the album Total Sound. Live performances included headline dates at UK colleges and clubs with occasional trips to Europe, although they did support The Sound at a major London venue on the day Epic Garden Music entered the UK independent charts.

European interest in the band began to grow, and with the release of second album Feeding the Flame, they toured Germany and Holland, gaining a dedicated fanbase. Artistically, Feeding the Flame is considered to be their finest work and hints at a potential that could have elevated them to the status of contemporaries such as The Chameleons, Cocteau Twins and Modern English. Tensions within the band caused a complete disintegration, however, with Garel-Funk and Pollard leaving to form The Snake Corps (inwhich I played keyboards).

Not much was heard for a while; their label Midnight Music released a "mopping up" album entitled In the Breeze, which included one of their previously unreleased signature tune, "Three Lines".

They returned in 1986 with an updated lineup (Tony McGuiness on guitar, Juliet Sainsbury on keyboards and Ian Gibson on bass), and new album entitled The Mirror Test. Although stylistically similar to the original lineup, the dark edginess of songs like "In Flux" had, to a certain extent, been replaced by more melodic songwriting. On the other hand, the new lineup had a live energy previously lacking, and as they continued to play the best of the old songs, their act developed to produce some truly memorable performances.

As interest abroad grew, the band performed extensively in Holland, Spain and France, headlined at the old Marquee club in London's Soho, and with the release of their fourth album, Headland, were a featured band in Melody Maker.

They released a further album Treehouse Poetry before Midnight Music went bust and the band split once again, coming together occasionally for gigs supporting And Also The Trees at the Marquee Club and London's Electric Ballroom. E-mail from Eternity, a 'best of' compilation, was released by the record label Cherry Red in 1996 after the company picked up the Midnight catalogue.

In 2002, the band released a brand new album called Melting in the Fullness of Time. They played two dates in Italy a year later.

SL&G (Allard, McGuiness, Pollard, Gibson, Müllner) played several gigs in Italy in April 2009, coinciding with Cherry Red's re-release of Feeding The Flame and Epic Garden Music. Hicks (also in Detachments) replaced Müllner later in 2009. They closed 2009 with a gig in their hometown of Watford.

In 2010 Cherry Red re-issued The Mirror Test.

In 2010 Sad Lovers and Giants have played a couple of gigs in Athens and a Midnight Music reunion festival in Barcelona.
They are releasing 7" vinyl in October followed by a full CD & download album in spring 2011.

Albums
1982 Epic Garden Music CHIME 00.01 (Midnight Music)
1983 Feeding the flame CHIME 00.03 (Midnight Music)
1984 In the Breeze CHIME 00.07 (Midnight Music)
1986 Total Sound CHIME 00.22 (Midnight Music)
1987 The Mirror Test CHIME 00.30 (Midnight Music)
1988 Les Années Vertes CHIME 00.40 (anthology - Midnight Music)
1990 Headland CHIME 01.10 (Midnight Music)
1991 Treehouse Poetry CHIME 01.20 (Midnight Music)
1996 E-mail from Eternity (The Best of Sad Lovers & Giants) CDMGRAM 104 (Anagram Records, distributed by Cherry Red)
2000 La Dolce Vita (Sad Lovers & Giants Live in Lausanne) VKR001CD (Voight-Kampff Records)
2001 Headland and Treehouse Poetry VKR002CD (Voight-Kampff Records)
2002 Melting in the Fullness of Time VKR003CD (Voight-Kampff Records)
[edit] 12" Singles
Man of Straw (DONG 5) "Man of Straw", "Cow Boys (version)", "Close to the Sea"
Seven Kinds of Sin (DONG 31) "Seven Kinds of Sin", "The Outsider", "Ours to Kill"
White Russians (DONG 34) "White Russians", "A Map of My World", "Life Under Glass"
Cow Boys (DONG 36)
Sleep / A Reflected Dream (DONG 40) with The Essence
Clocks Go Backwards (DONG 59)
[edit] 7" Singles
Clé LM 003 (Last Movement) "Imagination", "When I See You", "Landslide"
Colourless Dream LM 005 (Last Movement) "Colourless Dream", "Things We Never Did"
Initial copies were pressed with the labels backwards.

Lost in a Moment DING 1 (Midnight Music) "Lost in a Moment", "The Tightrope Touch"
Man of Straw DING 5 (Midnight Music) "Man of Straw", "Cow Boys"


Facebook page:

[url="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Sad-Lovers-Giants/104860292879894"]http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pa...104860292879894[/url]
Video from Barcelona's gig on Saturday 18th Sept:
[url="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1409075703892"]http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1409075703892[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ShZUMEVjE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ShZUMEVjE[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfs4hLwZwU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfs4hLwZwU[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1bwa-LU9c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1bwa-LU9c[/url]

Last.FM page:
[url="http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants"]http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants[/url]





Should be enough for you guys!!!

[howdoesitgoagain]

One of the bands I am involved in, All Stars Dub Band [ aka Dub in the Pub ] laid back dub stuff, just for fun and gigs in pubs.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWOlvDcqjx8"]Dub in the Pub vid[/url] I come into shot about halfway through, if you can bear it

[Old_Ben]

Hey, I'm playing in a 5-piece rock band based in bristol called blackwolf Myspace = [url="http://www.myspace.com/ukblackwolf"]http://www.myspace.com/ukblackwolf[/url] We play a mix of covers and original. Currently focusing on the original material! got a few gigs lined up over the next few months and always looking for more, and to play with loads more bands!

Its mainly influenced by Led Zep, Guns n Roses, AC/DC e.t.c. We're all between 19-24 and rocking hard as nails! We're playing the O2 indigo arena in london on saturday... should be sweet as!

[pantherairsoft]

[quote name='Twigman' post='965494' date='Sep 23 2010, 12:30 PM']I play with Sad Lovers & Giants.



Should be enough for you guys!!![/quote]

Show off :-)

[xilddx]

[quote name='Twigman' post='965494' date='Sep 23 2010, 12:30 PM']I play with Sad Lovers

<snip>

Should be enough for you guys!!![/quote]
Wickid! My band covers a couple of your numbers!

[Hamsalad]

I play in a progressive/dance/rock ish band called Dalla Russia.

The basic ethos is to use odd time signatures, key changes and extended sections without people realising they're listening to anything more then standard 4/4, meaning it can be enjoyed on two levels. If you just want a pulse to dance to, we give you that, but if you're into music, then you can appreciated the architecture behind everything.

Here's one of our tracks synced to Knight Rider:



[url="http://www.myspace.com/dallarussiauk"]Our myspace[/url]

[Lozz196]

I play in The Daves

None of us are actually called Dave though. No idea where the name came from, as the band had already been going for three yrs when I joined. Think it could be a parody "Chav & The Daves", or from Only Fools - alright Dave?

Anyway, we`re a classic punk covers band - Pistols/Clash/Undertones/Buzzcocks/SLF etc.
Line-up is:
Dave - singer (and occaisonal rhythm gtr)
Dave - lead gtr
Dave - bass
Dave - drums
And to make sure the boot-boy terrace backing vocs are present, we all holler along in the choruses.

On a usual gig, we play 2 sets of abt 20 songs in each set - value for money or what, seeing as we don`t play places that charge admittance
(or at least try not to, unless something is offered that we really can`t turn down).

www.thedaves.co.uk
[url="http://www.myspace.com/theukdaves"]http://www.myspace.com/theukdaves[/url]

The band also has original material as well
[url="http://www.myspace.com/davefromthedaves"]http://www.myspace.com/davefromthedaves[/url]

We are also on Facebook, but as I`m personally not, I can`t provide the link.

We don`t do anything that hasn`t been done before, but we`re good at what we do (from what others say, not our own ego-inflated opinions) and our gigs are good fun without too much seriousness, as although we put maximum effort in to this, we see it as something we do for the love of it, so no shoe-gazing Daves here, we aim to provide entertainment, and some good sing-along songs. Hopefully, we put a smile on the audiences faces, and they go home having had a good evening.

[CHRISDABASS]

[quote name='Hamsalad' post='975790' date='Oct 3 2010, 10:48 AM']I play in a progressive/dance/rock ish band called Dalla Russia.

The basic ethos is to use odd time signatures, key changes and extended sections without people realising they're listening to anything more then standard 4/4, meaning it can be enjoyed on two levels. If you just want a pulse to dance to, we give you that, but if you're into music, then you can appreciated the architecture behind everything.

Here's one of our tracks synced to Knight Rider:



[url="http://www.myspace.com/dallarussiauk"]Our myspace[/url][/quote]


I really like this!!!

Nice work!

[pantherairsoft]

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='975831' date='Oct 3 2010, 11:26 AM']I really like this!!!

Nice work!

[/quote]

Agreed. Fantastic.

[Hamsalad]

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='975844' date='Oct 3 2010, 11:37 AM']Agreed. Fantastic.[/quote]

Thanks very much! As soon as we sort our tour our I'll post it on here.

If only we could sort out some kind of basschat festival....

[pantherairsoft]

[quote name='Hamsalad' post='975925' date='Oct 3 2010, 01:10 PM']Thanks very much! As soon as we sort our tour our I'll post it on here.

If only we could sort out some kind of basschat festival....[/quote]

Now THAT is a bloody good plan!

[Hamsalad]

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='975929' date='Oct 3 2010, 01:14 PM']Now THAT is a bloody good plan![/quote]

It would have to be a pretty [i]low[/i] key event thought.

Ahthankyou.

Also, just noticed you've got GB bass; Nice one man, Bernie sets up my basses for me; such a lovely guy.

[mike f]

Hello there,

My name is Mike and I'm the bassist in The Hops.

Based in London, via Dorset, Nottingham and Cheshire...., we've been together for 12 months, we are a 4 piece; vocals/guitar, guitar/vocals, bass and drums.

We play swing/rock/folk/punk. Ring-funk?!

[url="http://www.myspace.com/thehops"]http://www.myspace.com/thehops[/url]

We are soon to play at;

15 Oct 2010 229 Club London
13 Nov 2010 The Bull and Gate Camden Town, London
4 Dec 2010 Champions, Bournemouth Bournemouth, Dorset
9 Dec 2010 Monto Water Rats London
10 Dec 2010 100 Club London (supporting The Men They Couldn't Hang)

Cheers,

Mike

Edited October 3, 2010 by mike f

[xilddx]

Hello, my name is Nigel and I'm an alcoholic.

My two bands are thus (and it's an absolute delight and privilege to play with them) ..

[b]Krupa [/b]- I've been playing bass with Krupa's solo band for about three years. She's the singer with Transglobal Underground and previously with 1 Giant Leap. Krupa on vocal and Kaoss Pad, Hamid Mantu from Transglobal on drums and percussion, me on bass. We have an album coming out in November which got a lovely 4 star review in Uncut Magazine last month. You can hear some of it here [url="http://www.myspace.com/krupa"]http://www.myspace.com/krupa[/url]

[i]"Jaw droppingly good" The Evening Standard

"UNCUT MAGAZINE REVIEW OCT 2010:
Artist: KRUPA
Album:Wonder If The Moon
DiscoMind Girl Productions* * * *

Global influences fused into perky urban pop

Spinning the bouncy, rhythmic Eighties dance-pop of Madonna and Prince into fresh directions with great lashings of Bollywood themes and tropes, this striking-looking Londoner’s solo debut buzzes like a peripatetic wasp, from the opening salvo of “Love Sting” to the looping “Ridiculous Boy”, which echoes the Purple Imp’s “Dirty Mind”. Krupa has sung for Transglobal Underground and 1 Giant Leap and now revels in unleashing her own predilections, asserting independence as an “Emotional Yoyo”. It’s as busy as Tom Tom Club with burbling samples, funky drum-breaks and bursts of reggae and rap, and insistently catchy. Fierce." Chris Roberts

"Vocally at times Krupa sounds like Kate Bush but with balls. Let’s hope audiences soon catch on to the fact that the future of music is with acts like this, rather than with the gaudy pyrotechnics of the X Factor." Howard Male - The Arts Desk" Nov 2009

"Insanely catchy Bollywood pop style" BBC[/i]

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[b]Kit Richardson[/b] - I've been playing with Kit for a year and a half. It's ferocious chamber pop. Kit's an extremely talented singer/songwriter/pianist and I answered her ad for a bassist in this very portal. I simply HAD to be in her band Line up is Kit on vocal and piano, Oli Dacombe on Drums, Sam Norris on guitar, MicroKorg and Glockenspiel, Emma Blanco and Jessie May Smart on violins. We are going to record a new EP in November. There is some older live in the studio stuff here, but we sound much bigger now. [url="http://www.myspace.com/kitrichardsonmusic"]http://www.myspace.com/kitrichardsonmusic[/url]

[i]"Kit Richardson begins singing, and my jaw drops. She stretches, trips and cartwheels her words and vowels. Her songs are almost subterranean in depth. Bewilderingly Diverse .. Amazing!" Artrocker.[/i]

Edited October 8, 2010 by silddx

[skankdelvar]

Hi

I'm Skank and here's my early 70's retro cover band 'The Cover Ups'. The twist is that we only play songs that would have been in a covers band set in the early 1970's. So lots of Marmalade, Melanie, Pickettywitch, Englebert Humperdinck. And we do it in character, so lots of period jokes about Mr Enoch Powell, darkies and Concord (no 'e' that's for Froggies). Our fee is payable in pre-decimalisation cash, so pounds shillings and pence only, Mr Landlord!



We are:

Skank Del Var: Bass, B.Vox
Derek Swarm: Singer, Guitar, Castinets
Vince Felcher: Guitar, keys, sax, banjo, melodeon, chimes and frog
Binky Statchworth: Drums, B.Vox and van

The Binkster and I met while playing in Flat Mattress, a Noel Redding Tribute outfit. The Cover-Ups are playing a residency at The Pines Daycare Centre in Bicester every Wednesday afternoon up till Xmas. They won't let you inside but you can see us through a window if you look over the wall just by the bus stop. Give us a wave, eh!

Edited October 3, 2010 by skankdelvar

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

O5B once did a gig where we did the first set as a three piece. The singer did the usual 'introduce the members of the band' bit & introduced me & the drummer, then ten indicating the empty space normally occupied by the second guitarist said "The other member of the band would have been the Late Nick Guitarist" then a pause followed by "He's not dead, just running a bit late late"

[CHRISDABASS]

[quote name='Hamsalad' post='975925' date='Oct 3 2010, 01:10 PM']Thanks very much! As soon as we sort our tour our I'll post it on here.

If only we could sort out some kind of basschat festival....[/quote]

If you need support on your tour check out my band Meet Me In Vegas (link below)

[janmaat]

Okay my turn

My main band is called Lonesome Cowboys from Hell, based in London

we're a five piece, we call it "Psycho Country" but I think "Punk-Oldtime" would fit better - or would it?? maybe dark cabaret country...

- Calum F. Kerr - voc / perf
- Tim Flitcroft - guitar, ukulele, accordeon
- Billy Smith - fiddle
- John DeVolle - drums
- me on --- gut bucket bass or, more recently, double bass

[url="http://lonesomecowboysfromhell.com/"]http://lonesomecowboysfromhell.com/[/url]

Then I play in a band called "A Band", that's somehow a noise-experimental-jam band of 50+ members (!), some say it's avant-garde, I play mainly fretless BG there - great fun

And I am frequently dep'ing for Madgalena in Rex Nemo and the Psychic Self Defenders, a new 5 piece band that I think has a bright future, where I'm playing fretted BG - more of a rock band; there is some stuff somewhere on Youtube, where we play the Supernormal Festival (crap PA so rubbish bass sound on these)

Cheers guys loving it