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"Having sprung from the green green grass of far a-field, these days The Brute Chorus are more likely to be soaking up the sounds of Whitechapel's East London Mosque than the gentle birdsong of the countryside.

Their influences stem from folk explosions, blues and indie, while, crooners at heart, their choice of cover version would be Tony Bennett's Stranger in Paradise. A tonic, perhaps, from the fire and energy the band can't seem to help but produce in their own music.

With the unabated drive of the white stripes The Brute Chorus are conduits of pure folk energy. Singer James produces vocals as intimate as a whisper, set against the tick of the cymbal, the pulse of the bass. At the other end of the spectrum, meanwhile, he is able to flip effortlessly into climaxes both raw and unrestrained." BBC.CO.UK

LORD AUCH
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A classic piece of erotic literature, Story Of The Eye was penned in 1928 by Georges Bataille under the pseudonym Lord Auch. It told the tale of a young couple who set out to explore the outer limits of sexual taboos by playing with eggs, milk and various bodily fluids.

It's easy to see why the novel inspired London trio Lord Auch to adopt the author's alter ego as their own. Released last month, the group's debut single, The Dig Inn, is rooted in ideas of clandestine societies, and flip side Grassfingers is a claustrophobic tale of an out-of-season village green where 'only the fearless remain inconspicuous'.

There's an undoubted air of pretension about it all, but followers of The Horrors and Hatcham Social will find themselves in good company here. However, fans of Black Flag (the ashes of which formed Lord Auch) will have to look elsewhere for their next fix of garage-punk. Their self-styled paranoid pop finds them inhabiting a world where dark shadows and even darker eyeliner reign supreme, and where taut basslines and marching drums battle with quivering vocals.

Indeed, if there's one thing Lord Auch are guaranteed not to deliver, it's an easy ride.


WILD WOLVES
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In the spit splattered Stratford streets of pre-Olympic-promise there was a tattered sprawling house, perched on the fringes of Maryland train station. It was used for a short time by a swarm of art students (Alex Cox and Neill Kidgell among them), who were in turn used by a wanker of a landlord – but that's another story entirely.

Just up the road in Leytonstone was another big house, full to the brim with percussion students from the royal college of music. Olly Cox was one of these students. His room had become a rapidly growing jungle of congas, cow-bells, castanets, bass drums, bongos, samba sets,
a marimba, a vibraslap, a piano, and other crap.
But in there somewhere was a drum kit that never got used.

Alex's house was bigger. And well, wouldn't you believe it, the way things worked out - Alex ended up with a new drum kit shaped toy to play with, And it looked dandy sitting there next to his cello and his guitar.

Neill Kidgell lived with Alex, and had recently started writing music with a friend of his at Chelsea Art School. They wanted to throw some drums to the mix and see what would happen. Alex scrappily thumped out a few beats and for some reason, Neill and his friend, a bloke named Vincent Vincent were pleased with the result. A little snowball named "The Vincents" started rolling through London picking up a few fans, a new member (Charlie Waller – now (and during) member of "The Rumble Strips"), and a new name, "Vincent Vincent and the Villains". The ball kept rolling and getting bigger, and wouldn't you know, a few labels started looking in their direction.

I guess it was only around this time that Alex suddenly realised that being in band might just be THAT thing that really made him tick (although, sitting behind the drums and not writing any music, he suspected he was ticking a little less than he could).

But you see, the nature of snowballs is that some little shit tends to pick them up and throw it hard into your face every now and then.

It happened a few times in the story of the Villains, but I guess there would be no better way to realise being in a band ain't easy.
No sir!
But here I am talking about the wrong band…

The Wild Wolves ' songs had been taking shape in Alex's head throughout the entire Villains rollercoaster, sporadically performed onstage in a nameless ramshackle outfit with Olly playing drums and a string of Trombonists coming and going.

After Vincent Vincent and the Villains had at long last made an album, Alex decided that his duty's were over and left the band to scratch around for some members for his new project "THE WILD WOLVES".

Olly (when not touring the world with his classical percussion duo "ODUO") had been behind the drums on occasion but was keen to bring his other skills as a pianist / percussionist to the fore. So, with several gigs on the horizon, Alex drafted in an old drummer friend Wilkie Wilkinson (of one-time Villains support band Mr Hudson and the Library) to play a few dates. He brought with him his friend and lead guitarist extraordinaire Seth Campbell. On bass would be none other than Simon Shields – the moonlit bassist for Camden based Captain Black. On trombone – the world class (occasional Larrikin Love/Patrick Wolf trombonist) Mark Rudland. And on backing vocals and saxophone would be the glamorous Lola Maybellene...
The pack was forming….

But things were to shuffle when Wilkie was inevitably recalled for duty with Mr Hudson. And yet, that most dreaded of band quests – the drummer hunt, was solved in the lightning-quick (and equally loud) crack of Caragh Campbell's snare drum. Seth's sister appeared like a drumming angel from the South West and made the sibling union of "The Wild Wolves", double overnight. No only could she beat the skins like no other, she played the violin too! With Alex's previously untapped cello skills, drumming experience from the Villains and Olly's general drum/percussion/piano virtuosity, the versatile potential for strings; massive drumming and general multi-tasking is now making everyone's heads fizz with excitement. Trombone wizard Nick Hagyard would join the Wild Wolves while Mark was away and become a fully-fledged Wolf, thus bringing The Wild Wolves to where we are today.

The journey has only just begun. it's going to be a good one!

DEEDS OFN THE NAMELESS
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Love It…” – Alex Zane (XFM/Channel 4)

“A British Band With A Lot Of Potential” – Ian Camfield (XFM)

“Awesome Band With Huge Songs....We Love Them!” - The Joe Public

‘Sounds Great…’ -Mike Fraser (Biffy Clyro engineer)


Deeds of The Nameless are a band, made up of brothers Ben and Richard Bueno, Alex Cromarty and Steven Kennedy. They describe themselves as Nirvana meets The Beatles alongside The Beach Boys at a battle of the bands singing Simon and Garfunkel and Queen tracks… Half the Deeds have already tasted chart success with their former band Serum - who garnered huge critical acclaim from the likes of Steve Lamaq, GLR, XFM, Virgin and Radio 1

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