December 2011
The Amateur Transplants are Dr Adam Kay and Dr Suman Biswas, two sweary boozy musicians who gave up their prosperous medical careers as qualified doctors to sing puerile parody songs.
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November 2011
Sooooo Wonk Unit, their debut album was Flying the Japanese Flag, it had front man Alex Johnson naked on the cover, his cock covered in menstrual blood. Nice!
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October 2011
Pigshackle were formed in 2003 but didn’t actually release their EP Epig until 2007. After that, shit got real. They played a tonne of shows & learnt how do to things with instruments that hadn’t been previously thought possible.
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September 2011
Dignan Porch is a London based band which was instigated by Joe Walsh (ex Artefacts For Space Travel) in 2009. The band was snapped up by the hip US independent label Captured Tracks immediately after Joe posted the first Dignan tracks online.
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August 2011
No one in Bill Davro is actually called Bill Davro. From the town of Warrington, jostled between Liverpool and Manchester, the pop trio of Bill Davro avoid the obvious musical cultures of those two larger cities to plot a musical course of their own; creating rich voiced modern skiffle pop, but of a timeless/other time from a golden, other worldly, parallel 'the North'.
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July 2011
This is one of those ideas that has you face-palming in shock that you didn't think of it first. But we didn't – Jim Burke late of Collapsed Lung did. The minute I heard the first track from his original long-player, Flattery Not Included, I knew he had Kooba written all over him.
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June 2011
Chief Black Kettle was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne who was killed by General Custer in 1868. Quite what he has to do wth Koobas Band of the Month for June, I have no idea. What I can tell you is that Boston indy rockers are receiving a fair amount of play on Kooba right now.
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May 2011
Dormant Figure from Dundee - Band of the month for May 2011. Sounds like: The best brooding and passionate elements of Joy Division and The Editors but with enough of their own subtle joie de vivre to make them unique and distinctive.
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April 2011
TradeMark G founded The Evolution Control Committee (ECC for short) in 1987 and they have been pioneers in the world of bootleg mash-ups ever since. The are best known for their underground hit “Rocked By Rape” which sees CBS’s Dan Rather fused to Back In Black by AC/DC.
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March 2011
Jenny Lockyer is our band of the month for March 2011. We first encountered Jenny when she and Jonny Yeah both contributed their voices to MJ Hibbett's rock Opera Dinosaur Planet. You've probably heard tracks from her 9 track album “Fluff” on our early 2011 shows.
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February 2011
This band who are well loved in Hong Kong for their harmonious pop are also possibly on the verge of taking on the world; with a recent feature in world famous TIME magazine hailing them as one of the top 5 bands of Asia to check out in 2011.
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January 2011
Sounds like: Feline rockabilly blues punk. History: Formed in Basingstoke in 2008/2009, the band began life as simply “The Johnsons” and quickly gained notoriety for their blistering live sets and the on-stage antics of cat-headed lead singer Pussycat.
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