Artist description The Mitchell Fyswick Experience plays a mixture of Pop Funk mixed with Hillbilly and Gospel feels - whatever comes to hand at the time.We play highly danceable, slightly tweaky songs about love affairs that were never meant to be.Everyone in the band has been coerced into singing and so there's often 3 part harmonies going on to make this one of the fattest sounds you'll hear from a 3 piece band anywhere.

Music Style Funk Pop Hillbilly Gospel (or something)

Musical Influences The Stranglers, Violent Femmes, Doors, Generic 70's sounds, Dance, Disco

Similar Artists Violent Femmes, Stranglers

Artist History A little frustrated at the momentum of a band he was playing in, Nigel 02 was telling Nigel 01 how he'd always wanted to start a dance band - something a cross between The Prodigy (beat wise) and Lorena McKennit (nice World Music overtones and very slick textures).So, it was suggested the band be formed. Just a 3 piece to make it easy and manageble, a combination where we could learn new material quickly. I don't think it quite moved in the direction Nigel 02 expected, but everyone's having fun anyways.

Group Members Nigel 01 - Accoustic Guitar;Drop D Guitar; Lead VocalsNigel 02 - Keyboards set to wailing organ patches and honkey-tonk PianoGeoff - Bass played through a distortion pedal

Instruments Guitar; Bass (with distortion); Keyboards

Albums Our EP - Motion Lotion - is nearly finished

Press Reviews The Mitchell Fyshwick Experience are a unique musical three-piece based in Australia's forgotten capital, Canberra.With a stripped down selection of instruments - synthesiser, guitar and vocals - the 'Experience' produce a charismatic blend of funk, skat, gospel, rock and other assorted musical genres and clichés. To hear this band play is to witness your own conception of contemporary music melted down, reshaped, and hand sculpted into an explosive hybrid of reactive, passive, volatile and disparate elements.The most recent development in the saga of the Mitchell Fyshwick Experience is the exciting news that their fan base has now reached international proportions. Via the well known Internet site MP3.COM , a self styled "Jazz" radio station in New York has expressed profound interest in the creative offerings of the trio. With the promise of air play to a cultured New Yorkian audience, Canberra's own Mitchell-Fyshwick Experience have solidified their first vital steps upon the road of a promising career.------------The Special Mystery Band this month was the Mitchell Fyshwick Experience, perhaps a reference to Saturday mornings with Dad buying screws and timber-glue, but more likely alluding to more nefarious activities. Whatever your expectations from this ambiguous moniker, you will not fail to be surprised, dismayed, entranced and discombobulated by this bizarre and perplexing trio. Bass guitar played like thrash guitar, keyboards encompassing honky tonk, moody jazz and Bach, brittle, percussive, alternatively tuned acoustic guitar and some very wacky harmonies are the sound elements exploited. The songs are genre-hopping beasts ranging from sublime sparse sweetness, to raw grunge-rock hybrids, gospel exaltations and joyous silliness in the space of several minutes. Fingers are shredded, sweat is sweated, alcohol liberally consumed and the crowd, after several songs of complete befuddlement, got up and danced and then it was all over, too soon for some, a relief for others. This is a love ‘em or hate ‘em sort of band that will either be hugely famous, have a devoted cult following or disappear in a flurry of bad drugs, hallucinogenic nightmares and overused marital enhancements.

Additional Info http://www.chaos-lounge.com

Location Canberra, ACT - Australia

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