Artist description Brand new, box fresh, in the usually prosaic world of rock and roll, Comprising of such long forgotten qualities: style, ideals and brains, they have tunes too. Yes it's a new thing catch it while you can... Not a career move then...well perhaps not, the only goals being in destroying Lodge/handshake mentality, US 'Macho Musicians' and informing us that "2000 damp bricks won't save you now" ...2000 what?.....damp bricks, a lyrical excerpt from their altogether amazing debut single Sink Venice packing into three minutes all the urgency you could ever want from a high octane all destroying rock and roll single, Dumb? Maybe. Stupid? Never, with musical hooks and word play like that: Not guilty. And the moral of the story? If ignorance is bliss then I'll have none of it, see you at the front." [source:Fantastic Plastic Records]

Music Style Post Punk

Musical Influences Sonic Youth, MC 5, At The Drive-In, Dick Dale

Similar Artists And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, The Hives, Wire, The Libertines, The Fall, Liars, The Kills, The Parkinsons, Interpol, Singapore Sling, International Noise Conspiracy, Monochrome

Artist History They met at art college in London & formed at the very end of '99, naming the band after 2 different types of gun. The band signed to Fantastic Plastic in 2001 and released 2 widely praised singles "Sink Venice" and "One Note", both of which were Singles Of The Week in Kerrang! Ikara Colt's debut album "Chat And Business" is now available on CD and Ltd edition vinyl. The CD comes with special stickered packaging (hours of fun making your own sleeve!) and the vinyl is heavyweight and strictly limited to 500 only copies. The album tracklisting on CHAT AND BUSINESS is:- One Note, Rudd, Bishop's Son, City Of Glass, Pop Group, Belgravia, Sink Venice, After This, At The Lodge, Here We Go Again, May B 1 Day, Video Clip Show. Since "Chat And Business" IKARA COLT have released a new EP, "Basic Instructions EP". Featuring the tracks Bring It To Me, May B 1 Day #2, Don't They Know, Panic, May B 1 Day #1, the EP is available on CD and limited 7" double pack vinyl (UK only) IKARA COLT's album Chat And Business was recently released throughout USA (Epitaph), Europe (Epitaph) and Japan (Maximum 10). IKARA COLT have started work on their second album...... For more info, sound clips, pics, gigs etc please go to www.IkaraColt.com [source:Fantastic Plastic Records]

Group Members Paul Resende (vocals) Claire Ingram (guitar & back vocals) Jon Ball (bass) Dominic Young (drums)

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums and Keyboard

Albums CD/LP: [Chat & Business], EP:[Basic Instructions ep], SINGLES:[Sink Venice], [Rudd], [One Note]

Press Reviews CHAT & BUSINESS 2002 debut album reviews: "They are lots of good British guitar bands... Ikara Colt are the best" (PlayLouder.com) "Un-marketable, un-mouldable, un-fuckable: Ikara Colt exist because 99.9 percent of everything else is shit and getting shittier. We are at the absolute other end of the spectrum from Stereophonics here.8/10" (NME)

Additional Info The debut album CHAT & BUSINESS is banned from UK charts due to the stickers on the front cover...

Location London, England - United Kingdom

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