Artist description A little information about skinflowers: we are two brothers, g-man and rich:t, from a tiny nowhere in England called Brockworth. We make music. We make music that is kind of twisted out of shape, the kind of music your car stereo might be playing after a particularly unfortunate car accident that leaves your car absolutely mangled but yourself relatively unharmed. Nonetheless, the car stereo keeps playing. We make music for situations just like that. Not *heavy* music, not tyres screeching and metal mangling, not a 4x4 hitting a lorry head on over a tiny humped back bridge because someone has jumped the temporary works lights. But music for that undefinable feeling of *wrongness*. Lyrically, we’re spiritual wrongness. We’re M. Scott Peck experiencing a flash of realisation, the blinding light of a nuclear explosion mistaken for the presence on a Damascus bound road. We’re two broken angels speeding away from heaven as fast as possible on a Friday night, looking for somewhere where basket weaving isn’t considered fun. Looking for what’s always been inside. But hitting a lorry head on while speeding over a humped back bridge because we’ve jumped the temporary works lights. We’re the near silence that follows, interrupted only by the mangled car stereo playing awkward music.

Music Style awkward rock

Musical Influences radiohead, talking heads, rem, u2, eat

Similar Artists radiohead, talking heads, rem, u2, eat

Artist History 1997 "makesurei'mnotaround" on the "abuse your friends" compilation 1999 "man of blood" 3+3 trk ep 2000 "data in a hurry" long playing silver shiny disc

Group Members g-man - vox/guitars/programming rich:t - bass/keyboards/programming

Instruments guitar/bass/keyboard/rebirth/drum m-c/sampler

Albums "data in a hurry" 13 track CD album

Press Reviews It's very much 'dark indie' in the same way as perhaps Radiohead but without all the things that really piss me off about that band (ie: The ludicrous vocals, the pretentious attitude, the overtly convoluted lyricism, etc). It's only a short set for them (25 minutes?) but in this space of time, with a series of increasingly claustrophobic tunes, they manage to create an onstage atmosphere of genuine menace ... something of an achievement considering that in front of the stage there are young ladies with laser guns handing out ice cream! :) Anyway, although the Skinflowers are probably the least "Goth/related" band on the bill, they certainly take the prize for being the darkest ... Final song, "I Don't Need More Money I Need More Time" (they certainly did, 25 minutes is NOT ENOUGH!) is better than everything Radiohead have ever done put together ... (live review by The Rattler, posted on a Usenet newsgroup dec 1999)

Location Brockworth, Glos - United Kingdom

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