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What do you do if you the pub you run (The Hawley Arms) is staffed and frequented by some of Londons best new bands and you’ve always wanted to put a few records out’ Start a Label. Therefore Alan ‘D Day’ Days Bumpman45’s first release is a double whammy of psyched out garage folk music from Hawley residents ‘ The Brute Chorus´. A-side Chateau is the song of a taciturn lover literally besieged by love taking the forms of an unwanted visitor and then a wolf at the door. Like a nightmare Red Riding Hood turned inside out “you look just like a wolf my dear, though you´re wearing clever clothes” - frontman James Steel claims he dreamt the tune one night and wrote the song within minutes of waking up. AA side is a blistering duet with band friend and former Fiction signing Tigs. The two singers take it in turns to tell a tale of infidelity, theft, revenge and murder over a pounding skiffle rhythm adorned with synthesizers, kazoos and a banjo played by another friend Mat Martin; all served up Fairytale of New Yorkstyle.The Brute Chorus, comprised of West Country-vicar´s son James Steel (Guitars, Vocals), Cumbrians Nick Foots (multi-instrumentalist & vocals) and Matthew Day (drums & percussion son of a Quaker morris man) who both grew up in the shadow of Sellafield - and Andy Holt (bass) from County Durham who came to London from the four corners of the land to pursue their interests at music college in Greenwich. They´ve been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since March. They´ve been taking it to the people with sets at The Secret Garden Party, Danny McNamara´s The Aftershow in Manchester, a monthly residency at Camden´s infamous Hawley Arms pub and became Myspace front page featured artists along the way. They live together in a flat in Whitechapel formerly inhabited by Bow Wow Wow, so they claim. |
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