DAN ORMSBY - Vocals, Words, Guitar, Drums, Persuasive Propaganda
SAM CLARKE - Bass, Guitar, Sensible Suggestions
SAM MOORE - Guitar, Philosophical Reflection
ILJA GRAY - Drums, Questionable Impressions
MIKE LORD - Keyboards, Story Boards
Influences
MAIN OBVIOUS MUSICAL INFLUENCES : Guided By Voices / REM / Nirvana / Dinosaur Jr / The Flaming Lips / Pavement / Sebadoh / Built To Spill / The Pixies / Mercury Rev / Meat Puppets / Beck / Sonic Youth / Television / Weezer / Ben Folds Five / The Presidents Of The United States Of America / The New Pornographers / The Decemberists / Grandaddy / Eels / The Walkmen / Spoon / The Webb Brothers / The Strokes / (early) Everclear / (early) Smashing Pumpkins / Wilco / Neutral Milk Hotel / Royal Trux / Archers Of Loaf / The Breeders / Ben Kweller / Hockey Night.
BUT ALSO, AND LESS OBVIOUSLY : Fugazi / Rites Of Spring / Husker Du / Oneida / Dead Meadow / The Minutemen / Mission Of Burma / Polvo / Girls Against Boys / Queens Of The Stone Age / At The Drive-In / Tool / ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead / Slint / The National / Karate / Malajube / Fiery Furnaces / Bobby Conn / Hanson (!) / Mates Of State / The Jai-Alai Savant / Clouddead, Themselves and the Anticon label / TV On The Radio / The Modern Lovers / Jeff Buckley / Elliott Smith / Bright Eyes / Ben Lee / Tom Waits.
AND EVEN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SOME BRITISH BANDS! : The Beatles / Mclusky / The Fall / Mogwai / Gang Of Four / Blur / Seafood / The Longpigs / the first three albums by ... Idlewild, Radiohead, Ash, Snow Patrol, Biffy Clyro, Terrorvision / Therapy? / Super Furry Animals / Mansun / Kenickie / The Stone Roses / Six By Seven / The Futureheads / Scott Walker / Jake Thackray.
AND, OF COURSE, OUR FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES : Johnny Foreigner / Los Campesinos / Distophia / Jetplane Landing / Blood Red Shoes / Esiotrot / Laura Hocking / Favours For Sailors / The Young Playthings / My Psychoanalyst / Popular Workshop / Paul Hawkins ... and all the other ace bands we know, have played with, or are doing great music right now!
!!OUR NEW SINGLE IS OUT TODAY - MONDAY APRIL 21st!! Our new double a-side single Change The Record / Ideal Man is out today through This Is Fake DIY Records. You can digitally download the single through i-Tunes and the like, or order a nice shiny 7" vinyl from www.thisisfakediyrecords.co.uk ... www.banquetrecords.co.uk ... www.hmv.co.uk and probably some other places! !!OUR NEW SINGLE IS OUT TODAY - MONDAY APRIL 21st!!
Here is a live video of Change The Record performed in London on April 19th 2008. Thanks to Aaron and Ciaran for this!
!! BOOK US !! We are available for shows more or less anywhere and at any time so long as our costs are covered. Just send us a message here or email fourorfivemagicians[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk !! BOOK US !!
!! BUY OUR OLD SINGLE !! You can still order our single (released October 2007) Forever On The Edge from Alcopop! though I guess there aren't too many left so snap one up while you can! It's a 4 track, 3" CD limited to 500. Tracklisting :
1. Forever On The Edge
2. Conversational Karate
3. Orderly Queue
4. Tom Waits' Blues
Do it here :
!! THIS IS OUR RADIO 1 SESSION !! This was recorded in June 2007 by Dan on Drums, Guitar and Voice, Jon Wood on Bass (now of Epideme) and Matt Hayward on Guitar (now of Favours For Sailors). Enjoy! :
Steve Lamacq's New Favourite Band and Change The Record "Such great song construction!" Lamacq Single Of The Week May 28th - June 4th 2008
Also, about Forever On The Edge - "I just really like the juxtaposition of the sort of dismissiveness and confidence rubbing-up against each other...a clattering pop-noise that weaves the singer along" - Steve Lamacq, Radio 1
"Really, really exciting" + "SOOOO SOOOO GOOD!" + "brilliant" + various other superlatives - Huw Stephens, Radio 1
"more than a bit special" - Playmusic Magazine Unsigned Indie/Rock band of the year 2008
"At last a believeable British retort to the drawling rambles of Stephen Malkmus. Think Hefner's Darren Hayman fronting Guided By Voices. Ace." Music Week
"the sort of lo-fi attack jam that Kurt Cobain would have creamed over" - Rocksound
"very nearly stirring enough to make you put some pants on and run down to Capital FM with a big gun. Marvellously cynical alt.rock grubbiness. More please!" - The Fly
"‘Forever On The Edge’ not only boasts a loveable melody so missed from the chord-driven NME crowd , but also a contender for the best lyric of the year ... Lo-fi indie rock at its best" - 8/10 - drownedinsound.com
"inherently fantastic" - rockfeedback.com
SINGLE OF THE MONTH Oct 2007 - "a monumentally fuzz drenched summer anthem for the slacker generation missing the greats!" - subba-cultcha.com
DEMO OF THE WEEK May 24th 2007 - "a promising potentially explosive alt.rock indie-pop X factor edge of their own" --- AND --- SINGLE OF THE WEEK Oct 18th 2007 - "A fine fine debut slice of English alt.rock ... we want everyone to form an orderly queue and pin all your hopes on these four or five fine magicians" - Organart
"This is an impressive collision of relevant underground styles from a young band with seemingly no shortage of energy or ideas" 4.5/5 manchestermusic.co.uk
"They're magic!" - SoundsXP.com
Check out everyone in our top friends too, they are all nearly as good as we are! But nowhere near as good as this man :
Haha, how come your Scottish gigs never seem to work out?! You need to make it to Edinburgh especially, the gigs are better there, and keep me notified of any single/ep/album releases. =)
There's a last. fm event here, a facebook event here and a google map to Westhill hall here. It should be a great night complete with projectors and cake, as well as free handmade shelsmusic CDs for the first twenty people to arrive which look pretty special and feature lots of amazing bands including Secondsmile, Everyone to the Anderson, Junkboy, Kopek, Sons of Noel and Adrian, *shels
ah damn!!! im afraid i have no money to get there, the others have gone to bennacassiam so they cant attend either,gunna be a wicked night aswell, ill see what i can do money wise actually and ill try come. xxx
Brighton’s premier alternative disco returns this FRIDAY 18th JULY with the hotly tipped FLASHGUNS and the rock n’ soul diamonds CRANE BROTHERS playing live.
Open till 2am with late entry and DJs dropping bombs of the musical variety to make you dance ‘til your shoes cry for help.
hey guys. I like your sound a lot. I am mates with your drummer and he sent me your way.
Our night, well what more is there to say, erm, its clubbing for grown ups. We have had poetry slams, loop station noise scapes, bands, novelists. We hope to have more in the future. We are looking out for live art, magic, more comedy and visual artists.
All round entertainment sounds fantastic. I would have to check you out first to see if I was completely entertained. Ha!
Sunderland Live is an exciting new programme of FREE live music concerts taking place this summer. In addition to Sunderland’s already successful series of events and festivals programme, up and coming musicians will be showcasing their talent at three new music events taking place at Cliffe Park on Sunday 20th July, Sunday 10th August and Bank Holiday Monday 25th August.
