Two / Three New Bands. I could and do rave about these all day.
For fans of swirly guitars, drum machines and big bass lines: The Mekano Set (they even have a skinny boy in dark glasses!). Their singer is a foxy lady. They say they are into Curve and Kate Bush but there's some obvious Sissy influence going on there. Spiteful sexy. The boy with the shades also does songs that sound like Sisters / Joy Division and are mmmm... delish.
Samelyish, which is a word I have just invented specially for the occasion, Jack Cooper is a lovely, deep-voiced croony skinny pale boy who does dark and funny stories about incest and mobile phones over a deliciously cheap drum machine with a lamp shade and a beautiful fringe. Yes, lampshade. He also plays in The Guillotines but I haven't heard any of their stuff yet.
The Flesh Happening are ridiculous and brilliant. Their sound owes a lot to early Joy Division. Their singer is a lanky gay Bauhaus / Bowie fetishy lunatic poet who can't seem to keep his clothes on. He likes rubber, and corset. Who doesn't? Brilliant. Songs about rent boys and diseases and chemical abuse and tragic musings.
P.S. I am not obsessed with skinny white boys.
http://www.myspace.com/mekanoset
http://www.myspace.com/thefleshhappening
http://www.myspace.com/mrjackcooper
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By sheer coincidence The Flesh Happening are friends of a work colleague of mine and played at his wedding yesterday.
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Ho ho ho. Brilliant. Can't imagine wot that must have been like??!!!
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Hmm, this is weird. i actually liked how the Mekano Set sounded.
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That's twice in two days.itnAklipse wrote:Hmm, this is weird. i actually liked how the Mekano Set sounded.
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Their myspace stuff doesn't do them justice really. It's all juicy stuff oh yes. I know The Flesh seem a bit raw but they're tip top live indeedy. It's not often I find new bands that do anything for me at all. So much stuff out there, so much crap. Milk is a mystery to me. Tortured artist? Workaholic? Closet Goth? You gotta love em either way.
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Great description.TAK: The Hideous New Girl wrote:tip top live indeedy
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So The Flesh have played at a wedding, and I notice that The Mekanos have got a gig in a Church. 'Weddings, funerals, christian-ings...' ho ho.
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thanks for the tip the mekano set are certainly delish.TAK: The Hideous New Girl wrote:Two / Three New Bands. I could and do rave about these all day.
For fans of swirly guitars, drum machines and big bass lines: The Mekano Set (they even have a skinny boy in dark glasses!). Their singer is a foxy lady. They say they are into Curve and Kate Bush but there's some obvious Sissy influence going on there. Spiteful sexy. The boy with the shades also does songs that sound like Sisters / Joy Division and are mmmm... delish.
Samelyish, which is a word I have just invented specially for the occasion, Jack Cooper is a lovely, deep-voiced croony skinny pale boy who does dark and funny stories about incest and mobile phones over a deliciously cheap drum machine with a lamp shade and a beautiful fringe. Yes, lampshade. He also plays in The Guillotines but I haven't heard any of their stuff yet.
The Flesh Happening are ridiculous and brilliant. Their sound owes a lot to early Joy Division. Their singer is a lanky gay Bauhaus / Bowie fetishy lunatic poet who can't seem to keep his clothes on. He likes rubber, and corset. Who doesn't? Brilliant. Songs about rent boys and diseases and chemical abuse and tragic musings.
P.S. I am not obsessed with skinny white boys.
http://www.myspace.com/mekanoset
http://www.myspace.com/thefleshhappening
http://www.myspace.com/mrjackcooper
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*Geezhus, are they this pop?
i just liked the way the singer looked
i just liked the way the singer looked
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I thinks she sounds as good as she looks. And I found them first, so there.itnAklipse wrote:*Geezhus, are they this pop?
i just liked the way the singer looked
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True dat!TAK: The Hideous New Girl wrote: I thinks she sounds as good as she looks.
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Understood!SINsister wrote:...as long as I get to keep Milky boy to myself, though. Hands off - he's mine.