Bookings/Enquiries contact Rosco- 07941 690695.
e-mail the band - menincaves@hotmail.co.uk
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Influences
Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Django Reinhardt, 22-20s, PJ Harvey, Biffy Clyro, David Bowie, QOTSA, LCD Soundsystem, The Kinks, Portishead, The Beatles, Reuben, Bloc Party, The Who, We Are Scientists, Radiohead...
Sounds Like
Highlights of what people have said about us below below. For the full comprehensive collection CLICK for blog page...
"its 4 tracks reflect a confident diversity of influences, which create a refreshing sound...In a year when the likes of Nine Black Alps have achieved great success, it appears with this EP that Men In Caves can offer a fresher, more assorted and less contrived alternative to the grunge resurgence." more... Concrete Magazine
"...a breezy West Coast vibe...It's not very often that you get rock shanties with muscle (no pun intended)- and they're done well here in a Nirvana VS Decemberists way." more... Artrocker
"Lead Singer Tom Brindle has a beautiful and strong voice, frequently angst filled and emotion saturated. The accompanying band strike up a bold grungy rock sound, which is well structured and highly polished.
Stand out tracks for me are ‘Am I The One?’ which is a bluesesque yet jazzy toe tapper and ‘Why Did You Bring Me Here?’ for its slowly increasing tension to a head bashing climax before dropping away into meak exhausted heap. Great finisher" more... Liquor Is Quicker Magazine
"An enjoyable romp through the raw passionate delivery of kelly jones via a slightly modified Nirvana (if they’d been listening to post-punk funkiness)…" Subba-Culture
"The Caveolae EP from Cov band Men in Caves impresses with its polished and melodic, yet unrestrained, sound. Before you realise its happening, your subconscious will be oo-oo-ing along with standout track Spiders." Cathryn Newbery, Warwick Boar
"With up beat and well paced songs, Men in Caves are a powerful trio who manage to make lots of noise and movement for just three guys. Their set was full of distinctive and unrelenting lyrics and vocals, finishing with the set with the haunting melody of Why Did You Bring Me Here?" Dan Searles, BBC online
Click image to enlarge Caveolae EP review Click image to enlarge Lost At Sea review
"Lost At Sea" CD available with full colour artwork and inlay, designed by Albini's Cat. Featuring:
1- For Your Country
2- Am I The One?
3- Potions
4- The Funniest Thing
Remastered Bonus Tracks:
5- Spiders
6- Why Did You Bring Me Here?
Buy it for £3 from Head Records (formerly Fopp) Royal Priors, Leamington Spa You can also buy it at a gig show of your choice for a mere £3.
OR buy it online & have it sent to a location of YOUR choice.- £4 inc postage, packing & M.i.C badge and sticker! Pay with paypal/credit/debit card.
Buy Men in Caves tracks through i-tunes, including the 3 brand new songs WASTED LIVES, SLENDER FINGERS & A CERTAIN CODE.
Men In Caves pin badges also available in 4 different designs from gigs, or add an extra pound on paypal when buying a CD & we'll sort you out!
Debut demo "The Caveolae EP" has now sold out. But for the benefit of all you fact fans
it featured the tracks - Depth, Spiders, Tiptoe and Why Did You Bring Me Here? + artwork by Justin Case.
"For Your Country" Live @ Godiva Festival, Coventry, 2007. Video by Drunk Dan
CLICK HERE to view BBC video clip of "For Your Country" live at GODIVA FESTIVAL 2007
VOTE FOR US! We're over the moon to be confirmed to play Godiva Festival 2008, but we now have the chance to be bumped up to the 30,000 capacity main arena alongside The Enemy. Click this icon and vote Men in Caves. It only takes a second, you don't even have to register:
You can also come to Priory Place (BBC Centre) on Sun 25th May for the gig where it will be decided based on crowd votes, this internet vote and judge votes. Its all ages, free entry and kicks off 5pm ish. Thanks :-)
Check out the promo vid for COVSTOCK 2008 in the awesome Cathedral Ruins, COVENTRY, flyer below with full line up...
TV studio performance of unrecorded song "See Through You", UCE student production.
We are Men in Caves, thanks for coming...
We are a band of three, now scattered evenly over this fair shire.
Band titbits:- Tom
is currently an archaeologist. He likes muddy holes and hidden temples. Tom also likes to mimic 1960s rock icons in front of mirrors. Parts of his face do not reflect. It is rumoured that Tom can shatter street lamps with his stare. His dislikes include spiders, wearing suits and Ross phoning him up pretending to be important members of the Record Industry. An interesting fact: Brindle is a place in Lancashire, a colour, and is also a type of Indian Aubergine.
Ross currently enjoys a low profile job within the music industry (aside from his role in Men in Caves). He dislikes sobriety. He likes drinking games, elaborate birthday celebrations and phoning Tom up pretending to be important members of the Record Industry.
An interesting fact: Whilst travelling in Laos Ross mistakenly got onto a bus driven by local drugs and weapons smugglers, thinking it was his coach. This is true. Luckily for Men in Caves he lived to tell the tale. (Some of the drug dealers are now on the mailing list).
Pete is currently a molecular biologist, or a nuclear physicist or some other sort of scientist so important and top secret that Tom and Ross arent quite sure what he does. Despite such elevations, it is his life ambition to own a teashop and some cats. An interesting fact: Pete is by far the tallest member of the band, a giant at 6 ft 7½. There was talk of lowering him into a trench before each gig to create the illusion that he is the same height as the others. However, current EU health & safety laws prohibit this.
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Great news on the Godiva Festival and good luck guys...fingers crossed. One act I would most definitely pay good money for to come and see on centre stage!!
Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! Saturday 10th May 2007 CASTNETS - JESSE SYKES - BRENDAN CASEY £6 /£8 Door Doors 8pm til 2am
CASTANETS: Castanets is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain. Castanets is Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004)
JESSE SYKES The band that started as a duo of Jesse Sykes and former Whiskeytown band member Phil Wandscher began writing and playing together and later brought on the rest of the Sweet Hereafter, as they are now known. The new album sees Sykes displaying a more weathered vocal style and the band a more produced sound. There are some really upbeat tunes on the album like “You Might Walk Away” and “I Like The Sound”. With the latter bringing to mind a Grace Slick sound and the former with a tipping of the cap to Cat Power.
Anthony Gliddon, The Tide and The sands have all been in my Sofalofa studio recently, I've put some of the songs recorded on my site for your enjoyment. Don't forget to get your tickets for Dig The Pig/TheTide/Kidnap Jack at Cox's Yard on 31st May. I have tickets available if needed - £4.00 to you.
Hey, so sorry about Saturday, we really overran shooting our My Valentino cooking video and couldn't make it in time to vote! But I heard you got through - congratulations!!!!
