Alain Marenghi: voice, rhodes;
Luca Ori: guitar;
Nicola Rossi: guitar;
Lorenzo Pietralunga: bass;
Marco Berciga: drums.
Influences
Radiohead, Mogwai, Pavement, Death Cab For Cutie, Explosions In The Sky, Belle & Sebastian, Okkervil River, Grandaddy, Pedro The Lion, Hefner, Delgados, My Bloody Valentine, Arcade Fire, Strokes, Decemberists, Stone Roses, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Giardini Di Mirò, Yuppie Flu, Perturbazione, Scisma, Reindeer Section, Yo La Tengo, Arab Strap, Coldplay, Will Oldham, Flaming Lips, Blur, Lucksmiths, National, Shins, Bright Eyes, Weezer, Get Up Kids, Broken Social Scene, Sparklehorse, Idlewild, Cursive, Postal Service, Smiths, New Year, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Built To Spill, Notwist and many others
Writing a biography is never easy, especially if you know it will be read by someone who has read hundreds of. But so it goes, well try to do it.
The former members of this italian band (2001) decided to concentrate themselves on instrumental music, in order to become the purists of no-sing-song. But, you know, the past returns and the roots are not peanuts, so the fundamentalism of the beginning changes into a pop-indie approach, when we finally realize we cant write 2 minutes nor 20 minutes songs, and we choose to devote ourselves to 4-5 minutes songs (how brave we are!). We made more-or-less interesting gigs, and we were amongst the founders (with our bucolic friends Pecksniff) of the label Merendina. During that experience, we learned to work in the world of gig booking.
In the middle of this excitement we had the chance to meet the fifth element, the voice Alain Marenghi (and you will judge how nasty this encounter was). He became soon an irreplaceable member of the band and he gave us a steady hand and a fist of melodramatic lyrics to release our first Ep, Great News From The Foggy Town, that was recorded by Carlo Martinelli and mixed by Mourice Andiloro, musicians, friends, and professionals. We cant judge it, cause we are too involved in it, but we appreciated that the magazine Blow Up ranked Great News From The Foggy Town between the top ten italian indie debut in 2005.
Hey there,
Just a quick comment letting some of our MySpace friends know that the "Who The Hell Is Doug Derek?" album has just been released in limited CD format on the Kool Kat Musik label (PURR 2023). Available exclusively from the Kool Kat Musik Power Pop/Alt Country online store, the album comes with a free second bonus disc of 11 more songs - all for just $15!
To purchase, just click and go to the buy link below:
http://www. koolkatmusik. com/showproduct. aspx?productid=4801
dall'ammiraglia protesto vivamente nelle sedi opportune per la torbida e inopinata esclusione dell'atleta Pietralunga nella foto ufficiale comparsa sul periodico rockit. è un complotto, vogliamo le controanalisi
veh che mi hanno scaricato addosso i pass per vinicio e j.baez in piazzasanmarco, e madre reclama... essi sono personali/nominativi e lei non ha altri con cui, ergo la vedo improba... :(
addirittura l'acustico a 30 mila e rotte visite! ma chi vi credete di essere! vabbè siete comunque sul podio dei preferiti perciò vi vengo a vedere l'11 anche se adesso ve la tirate
Ci eravamo già "conosciuti" al Blocco con i Canadians un annetto fa...ero tra il pubblico! Il vostro disco nuovo uscirà nei negozi o si potrà comprare solo online!? uwl
