Posts tagged "band"
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2 years ago
Evening class, & how are we today..? Busy, busy week it has been for us. We did a live show with our Lego Johnson band on Friday; just a small club show at a place called Juju on the King’s Road here in London. Now obviously, we do quite a few shows so they don’t usually tend to intrude too heavily on our working week but on this occasion our regular drummer Sam couldn’t make it so we had to train up a dep to do the gig. Believe me, that kept us busy. As any of you out there in band’s will doubtless attest, a drummer is the backbone of any musical outfit & almost impossible to replace so we went about the task of finding his stand-in with a fairly sizable anvil of trepidation. Step forward the almost God-like Aicha, whom we borrowed from our friend Kissy Sellout’s live band. She’s an absolute banshee on the drums & she utterly nailed the 6 song set with only one rehearsal. No mean feat I can assure you. Even so, the gig was still 2 days away &, well, you just never know what’s gonna happen on stage til you’re actually up there, no matter how hard you practice. I think (& certainly hope) she won’t be offended if I say that, even though she had been great in rehearsal & soundcheck, the band nevertheless approached the show itself with a heightened sense of nervousness. Swapping drummers is like… let’s see… – like going onto the football field with not just a new goalie, but a whole new defensive line, – or turning up to your driving test only to discover the examiner has a left-hand drive car*. You know it could & should be fine but equally it could just as easily be an utter, unmitigated disaster. In the end though, we needn’t have worried; she totally owned it & all that extra pre-match tension just helped fuel our collective adrenalin rush. It was a genuinely unique show in the truest sense of the word & whilst the Gallagher Brothers were off in a field somewhere preparing to let a few thousand people down with their last minute no-show, I’d like to think we gave a couple of hundred sweaty, Chelsea ravers a night that exceeded their expectations. Cheers to everyone that was down there & extra special love to Aicha – watch out Kissy, we’ve got our eye on that one! Gotta send a little love out also to our lovely friend DJ Goldierocks, who threw another one of her fast-becoming-legendary bbq’s up in Dalston on Saturday. I went to one a couple of months back & bumped into fellow MaxCaster Mr Hudson there. He was tearing the roof off V this weekend so he was not in attendance at Miss Rocks’, but a good time was had by all even so. Catch you at the next one, Mr H. Saucy
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2 years ago
Maxcast announce… The Hoosiers!
Maxcast are thrilled to announce the services of another great band – The Hoosiers!
The Hoosiers (formerly known as The Hoosier Complex) are a multinational band hailing from both the UK and Sweden. The band consists of Irwin Sparkes handling guitar and vocals, Martin Skarendahl (bass and acoustic guitar) and Alphonso “Alan” Sharland on the drums and percussion. Their time spent in Indiana, USA inspired the band’s name as well as their first creative output: a citizen of Indiana is colloquially called a Hoosier.
Their debut single “Worried About Ray” muscled it’s way to No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in July 2007 and they released their debut album, The Trick to Life, in October reaching the top spot in the UK album charts.
The Hoosiers have honed a sound they call “Odd pop”, combining a number of musical genres and references. The boys cite their key influences as The Cure, Jeff Buckley, The Flaming Lips and XTC.
The band are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their next album and this will be on general release early next year, in between sessions (and maybe even during) they’ll be onboard the Maxcast site and posting up plenty of cool stuff for your aural and visual pleasure!
Maxcast Team
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2 years ago
The Enemy join Maxcast
We can proudly announce that The Enemy have joined Maxcast!
They’ll be keeping us all up to date on their goings on in the coming weeks – so stay tuned…
Maxcast Team
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2 years ago
“Welcome to Cannonia…”
South London’s finest Peddlars of Dirt Disco, Kaiser Saucy & Lord Fader, the faces behind The Loose Cannons, are at times a 2-man djing extravaganza and at others, a 5-piece live band, bursting electro-fuelled glamour & disrepute onto dancefloors worldwide. They also present a Sony Award winning radio show on Kiss FM in London every Tuesday night & now publish a weekly video, music-chart & blog for Pepsi Maxcast!
As well as undertaking recent remix duties for Roisin Murphy, Space Cowboy, Kid Carpet, Justice & Cassette Jam they are currently putting the finishing touches to a brand new album, scheduled for release at the end of ’09.
No parking in Cannonia.
The Cannons are no stranger to Maxcast – they’ve been here from the start & it’s Myspace roots. You’ll be able to check out 2 of their old videos on the Youtube channel now, but there’s more to come from these boys!
Maxcast Team
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