Artist description We've been described as: 'melancholic lo-fi pop, with noisy bits' 'punk for tired people' 'poppy then weird then loud!'

Music Style Lo-fi pop

Musical Influences Don't ask us what we think we sound like as we don't really know (why not listen to the MP3's and make up your own mind). Our main influences are The Delgados, Graham Coxon, Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth, and Daniel Johnston.

Artist History We formed in 1999 almost by accident having been in a band together at school (a five piece 'organ driven mod funk' monstrosity called Gingko), after a chance weekends playing around with four tracks and FX pedals. We spent weekends and holidays of the next year writing and recording songs in our hideaway ramshackle studio in rural Suffolk (as well as playing a couple of disastrous gigs) before releasing 'the beck ep' and finding our lo-fi pop feet. This was followed a year later by the three track 'leaving suburbia ep'. By this time we'd gathered the courage to venture out of the countryside into the bright lights of Norwich to start playing occasional gigs again - with more success this time. After a bit of a break we're all back in East Anglia and playing with new songs as well as various other projects for our own Happy Capitalist Recordings label. We love broken guitars, tape players, cheap keyboards, distorted basses, omnichords, FX pedals, drum machines, harmoniums, telephones, record players, vibroslaps, maracas and all the mid range audio frequencies.

Group Members James Boyce sings and plays guitar, Steve Hansey plays bass and sings and Joe Bear plays drums.

Albums See www.happycapitalist.co.uk for more info

Press Reviews Review - Record Collector, November 2001 "September", the opener of this three tracker, lurches slowly at first like Low, verginging on steel drum music (Singles Bar's instrument of choice), before picking up the tempo. Singer James Boyce describes the music as "punk for tired people", and on the evidence of this track alone, he might just be spot on. Knackered piano comes in towards the close, and the rasping hi-hat remains constant. With a knowing vagueness, he sings "I see flowers swaying in the breeze". Saying nothing never sounded so good."

Additional Info Our records are available direct from us, or from www.happycapitalist.co.uk

Location Norwich, Norfolk - United Kingdom

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