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After a little holiday or 2, we are back again with yet another Band of the Week for your listening pleasure. This week it is Essex trio Death Of The Elephant, who having conquered Essex with their raw, sexy, short and punchy tunes are now branching out into the capital and South East, only a matter of time before the rest of the country is seduced by them. Anyway, enough of me, I shall let lead singer / guitarist Dee explain all: Bio:
Boy gets bored of cooking rotisserie chickens for a budget supermarket in Carlisle, flees to San Francisco in California, meets a girl with a pawn shop guitar. They record a mess of garage soaked songs together, with Pringle cans and boxes for drums. Boy and girl get bored of the Bay Area, the jaded sex workers and crack-heads who were always 5 cents short for a $3 baggie, and fled to the UK where crack was still reassuringly expensive.
First week in the UK some guy runs out of a tattooist's, shouting at them. He'd heard their recordings, and knew he'd sound better than the Pringles ever could. He might even taste better.
Members:
Dee - shrieking and guitar
Dan - dirt, bass, dirt
Sailor Tom - grimaces and hitting
Influences:
The Dwarves, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Joy Division, The Raveonettes, Therapy?, L7, Jack off Jill, The Casual Dots, PJ Harvey, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Phil Spector (I don't care if he shoots people now and again, for Be My Baby he gets a pass!)
Sounds Like:
Threesomes and the rub of vinyl on flesh, eating ice cream when it drips down your hands and you end up a sticky mess.
Or as The Sequins said "Their set was like being punched in the face by the fist of garage rock but then realising the fist had lipstick on it"
Organ Magazine said "Noisy trash raw old school messy garage punk rock and the last thing they need is budget and production and ‘proper things’ like that destroying their positive energy and that beautifully raw edge." Which was sweet, but we'd happily be destroyed for money. For art's sake, of course.
Current release and where it's available:
Our not so 'E' EP (hey they're short songs!), Friends With Deficits has been released this very week. Send us a message on myspace or facebook, or see us at one of our gigs.
myspace.com/deathoftheelephant
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/D
eath-of-the-Elephant/124822447702?ref=ts
or deathoftheelephant@gmail.com
Unsigned myspace artists you would recommend:
Hindley - spacey post punk, like a cross between Joy Division, Sonic Youth and Bauhaus. They have a bouncy energetic bass player with a fondness for knee socks (we like good socks!) and a lead guitarist who looks like a hot zombie Agyness Deyn. http://www.myspace.com/hindleynoise
Fashoda Crisis - Heavy, acerbic, sarcastic, political. If you like Future of the Left or Pixies or just watching a man completely spaz out and end up in the foetal position whilst playing jarring guitar, Fashoda will get you hard. http://www.myspace.com/fashodacrisis
and of course we could never forget the very sexy and intense King of Conspiracy, but you already know that, right?! myspace.com/kingofconspiracy
Future Plans: We'll be releasing some cool, colourful and loud vinyl, but first we're planning to gig a lot more, and further out, see more of Norwich and Brighton, and keep on meeting cool people while we're doing it! We'll keep on writing and playing till our hearts give out.
Tour Dates:
9 Sep 2009 The White Hart - Billericay
10 Oct 2009 The Bitter End - Romford
17 Oct 2009 The Fleece - Chelmsford
29 Oct 2009 The Grosvenor - Stockwell, London
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