Captain Barnaby - Vocals, Harmonica, Theremin and Guitar Ivan UnSettled - Drums Griff 'The Gryphon' Griffiths - Guitar Cat Presley - Bass
Influences
Howlin' Wolf, Cosmotheka, Franz Liszt, Edgar Allan Poe, Max Wall, Tom Waits, R. L. Burnside, Herman Melville, Little Walter, Lev Termen, Captain Beefheart, H. P. Lovecraft, Werner Herzog. . . We could go on. Best thing is to hear it.
Sounds Like
We've got an axe to grind and the wounds to prove it.
A rag-tag Band, this. Bolting from disparate corners of time, space and Yorkshire, a new group emerges from the moonlit night to take centre stage in the quest for a true alternative to Alternative. Our destination? Uncharted territory, new and familiar. We are here to find and explore the heart and soul of All Things. Pounding drums and tall stories, bodyshaking tunes with depth and truth, a Band - The Band - you can dance AND think with.
We have not been here very long. But let us in and we will stay with you forever.
Meet Sirella the BEARDED LADY who has joined the Laycock family. This Sat 19th from 8pm till 1am at the Chemic Taverns one and only Pirate Night! Includes new local bands and musicians as well as Leeds famous sea shanty choir! Then on Sat 3rd Oct at Hull Truck Theatre Madam Laycock will perform with a fantasic shadow puppet storytelling background (See below!)
Our EP launch is creeping ever nearer it would be most fantastic if you could attend! It's going to be seriously horse!
It's Saturday the 30th of May at The Library. It's an early start, early finish job (6pm - 11pm) and we are on at 9pmish. Tickets are £4 from Crash of Jumbo or on the door.
We are surrounded by brilliant bands such as our label mates The Light Streams (also launching their new EP), our old pals The Voltaires, our new friends The Feelies Inc. and we have transpennine excitement from Little Tremors.
Our EP, titled A GLimpse of Lightning will available on the night and is released the 1st of June. It's real hot. The Remix version is actually available now at www.silverlodeonline.co.uk.
Brilliant gig at the Fenton last night, it was great to catch up with you again. I'll let you know when I give you some coverage on my website, possibly in the next 7/10 days, as I'm writing alot of press-packs at present.
yes, we have been known to venture as far as manchester, we had a potential offer of a gig there which never materialized, there's a band called the greetings there, you should check them out and get them involved too. i hope to hear from you soon.
We of the good ship Bootscraper think it would be an opportunity only a fool would miss were we to not take you up on your offer of a joint offensive on the ears of the unsuspecting Yorkshirians, you name the time and place and we shall splice the mainbrace, shiver the timbers and fudge the tunnels... in short YES!
decided to check up and see if you were still around... it seems you are :) Maybe we'll see you again sometime soon. Nice to see you have some gigs in the pipeline, even if we can't make it to most of them :(
Thanks for playing DEM DIRTY OL' BLUES at Santiago.... It were right good, like! Rob at Grain Division and Nadine at No Title xo
PS. May I draw your attention to Twilight Terror, a hot alternative night that is swingin' with danger at The Library on Saturday the 29th of November! Twilight Terror. Advert over!
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