The Woe Betides
Grunge / Folk / Pop
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"Simon and Grundfunkel"
London/Birmingham,
United Kingdom
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| Member Since | 9/27/2007 | | Band Website | thewoebetides.co.uk | | Band Members | The Late Simon Mastrantone
Grundy le Zimbra
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| | Influences | Weezer, The Dead Kennedys, PJ Harvey, David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Alice in Chains, Nick Cave, Tim Buckley, Bad Religion, Manic Street Preachers, Ford Pier, The Carpenters, Mansun, Stephen King, Can, PiL, The Academy Morticians, Subhumans, The Mars Volta, The Ramones, At the Drive-in, NOFX, Manics, Noam Chomsky, dEUS, Miles Davis, Hunter S. Thompson, Metric, The Noisettes, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, Green Day, Tom Petty, Faith No More, Electric Light Orchestra, Queen, Chet Baker, Nirvana, The Police, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Julee Cruise, Twin Peaks, Shudder to Think, Soundgarden, Vangelis, The Young Knives, Cocteau Twins, Juliana Hatfield, Joanna Newsom, System of a Down, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Clive Barker, Chavez, Jeremy Warmsley, Niall Spooner-Harvey, Suede, Joy Division, Blood Red Shoes, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, David Bowie, Magazine, Fela Kuti, Philip K. Dick, Tom Waits, Chris Isaak, Brian Eno, Pere Ubu, Talk Talk, Miles Davis, Blade Runner, Bjork, Talking Heads, John Cale | | Sounds Like | "Agreeably grungey and off-kilter folk-pop duo... suggesting both Simon & Garfunkel and Josh Homme's Desert Sessions." (Time Out)
"...highly intelligent, experimental... littered with dark lyrics, aggressive down-tuned guitars and a periphery of strings and electronica." (Fuse Magazine)
"Sounds like the Beatles and Radiohead are in one band and touring in 1987. Original yet familiar." (theknowbodies.com)
"You'll love their irreverent lo fi scuzz alt-folk assault" (eARmusic)
"The Everly Brothers doing grunge" (Blair Jollands) | | Type of Label | Major |
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| About The Woe Betides |
Once there were two lost souls, Grundy le Zimbra and The Late Simon Mastrantone. They both loved to play music yet, blameless as they were, they could never find the right slipper to fit. The boredom was killing them.
Not ones to bury their heads in the sand, they turned instead to showcasing others’ talent and together with their friend Jeremy Warmsley they created a night called Songs in the Dark. Here they laid on a feast of modern cabaret, a celebration of all that was good in music, poetry, comedy and art.
One such Dark night, Grundy and The Late... conjured a collaboration. Didn’t they cherish the same music, revere the same films, dream the same dreams? The elusive answer had been under their noses all along. And so, with grunge as the starting whistle and pop the goal, their nascent partnership grew quickly into a flourish of explosive folk rock pop songs. Dragging their musical souls off the road to the cemetery, they set upon the earth reborn with a song in their heart and a variety of instruments in their hands. What did it matter that they were but two? What did it matter that one of them was still dead? Not a jot; the slipper fit.
Please direct any band enquiries, booking etc to: thewoebetides@googlemail.com
Press: Chris Stone - stone@stoneimmaculate.co.uk
Legal: Adam Van Straten @ Van Straten Solicitors
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