Artist description If you are a fan of songs in minor keys with that meloncholy ache, and with that epic buildup and quiet resolve and you like descriptive narratives that you can follow along set to easy rhythms then this may be the band for you.

Music Style We are like an Un-Irish Pogues or an all male Cowboy Junkies

Musical Influences Neil Young, Nick Cave, The Replacements, The Clash, The Graduate

Similar Artists To create music is to know your influences(and their influences) and to borrow from them adding your own distinctive insight and sound. It's not stealing if they are dead.

Artist History We formed about a year ago in the aftermath of recording the second of Colin Spring's two solo albums Meet the Sea or Be Washed Up. The first Dashboard Tallies,Pedestrian Kills is featured on MP3 and is linked to this site. We started playing in the parking garage of an abandoned apartment complex for the hobos and possums and but by the grace of God we made it out before the wrecking ball came and we found some new digs down by the docks where your feet stick to the Labatt's soaked floor and it is either too hot or too cold but never just right. Every once in a while we move our instruments out, usually by cover of night and by the lonesome barking of the jetty seals so that we may litter the stage of some local club like so much discarded debris on the side of a scenic highway. It is the philantropic act of giving those poor deprived people the moody rock and roll that they so desperately deserve. Thank you, thank you

Group Members Fran Hapke-Drums Michael Hallet-Guitars,Whirlitzer, Mandolin, etc Michael Serpe-Bass Colin Spring-Voice, guitar

Press Reviews Colin Spring lands in the company of the most important talents this town has produced in recent years-The Stranger ...Dashboard, Tallies is a beautifully poetic album-Insite The rare occasions where a band plays a perfect set..the best local album (Meet the Sea) since Modest Mouse's second album...the next will be a classic-The Stranger Will Oldham, Joel R.L. Phelps are his true peers.. Where are the Dylans, the snaggle-toothed Waits of my generation..Colin Spring understands the romance of a dirty kiss-Everett True Complete reviews can be found at www.thestranger.com in the archive

Location Seattle, Wa - USA

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