Artist description downbeat, song based pop combining guitars, keyboards, strings and vocal harmonies.

Music Style Eclectic mix of instruments and styles

Musical Influences diverse and wide ranging

Similar Artists red house painters, radar brothers, velvet underground, galaxy 500, glen campbell, jim webb

Artist History Based in Brighton, UK. We have had national radio plays and local radio sessions. The live sound is developing all the time and we are gaining a loyal local following. Chimps debut mini-album is released on the 6th of May. Distributed on Slow records by 3mv/pinnacle(cat.no. chimp002)

Group Members Laurence - vocals 6 & 12 string guitar, keyboards and effects / Stuart - bass, keyboards, vocals and electronica / jon - keyboards, bass, vocals. / paul - drums, percussion, vocals / lizzy - violin, viola, vocals / beccy - cello. we are currently soliciting for a brass section and more strings.

Instruments keyboards, bass, guitars, xylophone, cello, violin, viola, drums, samples and effects.

Albums Chimp - Lowfer. Slow records

Press Reviews "Sanctuary can be found in Chimp.... References here would be Gorky's, Belle and Sebastian and that man Goughie again. A disparate looking mob, Chimp's acoustic whimsy is bolstered by violin and cello, beautifully illustrated on recent single Waiting For The Ice To Melt and flip So Joe. Live, as Marinescape and Ageing Taxi Driver are on my CDR, Chimp have a crystalline and woozy sound that evokes idle, snug days listening to Low in winter." David Morrison. Comes with a Smile. 2001 CHIMP – “Lowfer” (Slow Records) Oddball Brighton sextet Chimp have been slogging their guts out as almost the city’s resident support band for many a moon now. Seemingly destined to tread water forever - without ever releasing a record - it is greatly heartening that they have now won a modest deal that their perseverance and charming music deserves. A limited edition 7”single aside, 8-track mini-album Lowfer is the first fruit of their studio labours, and an absolute delight of p eculiarly British pastoral pop. They can rock when they wish, as brand new, harder edged material aired at recent (headlining!) hometown shows has proven, but on Lowfer, it’s very easy does it, as the title explicitly suggests. The strident strings of Lizzy Carey and Rebecca Waterworth usher in opener and single So Joe, giving way to principal songwriter Laurence Collyer’s gentle folk vocal, riddled with mock disinterest as he croons on about getting stuck on the outskirts of Lulworth, trying to make his way back home. What follows over the next 20 minutes or so is entirely expected, but it is interesting to note what a tough backbone props up such acoustic whimsy, courtesy of rhythm section Stuart Ridley and Paul Wadsworth. As Pete Jackson’s keys prance cheerily around the wafting acoustic arrangements, these boys hold everything together with great aplomb. The undoubted highlights here are Neighbours, which highlights the conflicting tastes and volumes of CD players in adjacent dwellings, and the quite magnificent The Greenest Marinescape Ever, where Collyer and Carey duet like a bedsit Richard and Linda Thompson against an unfeasibly pretty and haunting melody. It’s gorgeous, and really should be lifted as a single, if only to showcase Lowfer to territories still oblivious to Chimp’s off-kilter beauty. As I say, this is a very British quiet noise, so I wonder how they may fare overseas? The most obvious touchstones being Belle And Sebastian or Badly Drawn Boy - both of whom are making ground in scarily large markets - it may yet prove a doddle for our simian chums. Such winsome musings are not for everybody, but I for one revel in the quaint and dainty, dinky and delicate. To nick a line from Slow Boat - Sad songs come from an old guitar / and I’m on fire. TOM SHERIFF

Additional Info 2nd album 'can't stop, on fire' to be released autumn 2003

Location Brighton, East Sussex - United Kingdom

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