Artist description Varied Rock with lashings of slide guitar. Dark humour abounds amidst plenty of intriguing ideas.

Music Style Eclectic Rock

Musical Influences Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, ZZ Top, Mountain, Floyd, Eagles

Similar Artists Fun Loving Criminals, Chemical Brothers, B52's, Moving Hearts

Artist History Formed in 1999, I-browze came about as a collaborationbetween the main man, Doc Mustard and Chilli Dog Slim whose long lost nephew turned up and out to be the drummer dreams are made of.

Group Members I-Browze: vocals and harmonica, Chilli Dog Slim: bass and six string guitars, Doc Mustard: Keyboards,Sarah Dixon: backing vocals,Paul Carter: saxophone, Tijrone Rosewall: choice guitar licks

Instruments Guitars via POD, Nova and XG sounds, drums and Soundblaster

Albums Posing To Survive

Press Reviews Posing To Survive - the title of a T.V movie about a kidnapped supermodel? Thankfully not. Rather, it’s an engaging, exciting, eccentric album by I-Browze, but who -or what is I-Browze? (Noel Gallagher, perhaps, with backing from Leonid Brezhnev and Denis Healy.) For the second week in succession we are drawn back to the Shakespearean speech featured on the uNSouNd album: 'One man in his time plays many parts'. In Ollie’s case, however, these aren’t the Seven Ages of his life but various 'members' of the band as, like Alec Guinness or Peter Sellers, he gets just about everywhere, including into the shoes of Doc Mustard and Chilli Dog Slim. There is certainly enough variety and quality to the album to suggest that they all got together on the writing too. Opener Maybe is a song of options, sung like Buddy Holly but lyrically closer to Lyle Lovett, while Questions is thematically even more open to uncertainty. A blues-rock stomp, it vividly conjures a sense of searching - for what? - amid searing angst. Perhaps the answer lay in Ireland for we’re then off for very energetic walkies with The Athlone Collie in the skilled presence of Uillean piper Shameless O’Huligan. (Another alias of course, but this time not for Ollie.) Other fine numbers include I’m In Outer Space, with its evocation - musically and lyrically - of being weightless and above things, getting the big picture; and Fresh Meat, a rude, funny rallying cry for veggies everywhere which the B-52’s would be proud of. The best song however is Abbreviation. Starting with an intro that pits R2D2 against a swinging horn section and later featuring a delicious bass line, it is a sly, wry and raucous tale of a man whose father’s respect for him seems less than unconditional. Ph.D or O.B.E - whatever makes him proud of me. To sum up this album of many parts, with fine work by Tijrone Rosewall, Andrew Tween, Sarah Dixon and Paul Carter adding to that from the main band member (members?) - F.A.B. John Lonergan..... Revolutions

Location Penzance, Cornwall - United Kingdom

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