hey i wanted to share this band with you guys. they are a birmingham band who have been around for years. they have a huge cult following in birmingham. they are also a lazy bunch as far as promoting them selves is concerned. anyhow they have managed to put a myspace up. if you are into don caballero, us maple and the like you will love it...

www.myspace.com/calvadosbeamtrio

listen to "the gay this is..."

its the only proper song, the other two are jams but just as interesting.

hope you enjoy.

I saw these play in Birmingham and they were beset by technical horrors and they were fucking brilliant. They were under discussion at the weekend when I noticed F.Thorr has a CBT car sticker in her rear window, and I professed perplexity that they could manage car stickers, but not a bloody record.

One of you Birmingham types need to drag an album out of this band using any necessary means.

daniel robert chapman wrote:I saw these play in Birmingham and they were beset by technical horrors and they were fucking brilliant.

If this was at the sunflower lounge I was at that gig. It was funny and brilliant.

i lent the guys my mics to record there record. with look it should come out in the next year. fingers crossed.

I first saw them at the City Tavern c.1996 when they had a really razor sharp Table sound. Over the years thay have become closer to the DonCab sound. They did release a single about 7 years ago, around the time of the sticker.

If there's a record on the way you can be sure it's going to be a good one. Give me one other band who allowed a decade for their debut album to mature...

Viva Zippy

The first band that ever played for the Damn You! collective. Fact. www.damnyou.co.uk

and the 7" was recorded by the bassist in my 1st band. I hardly know them though...

These guys sound great. Definitely keep us up to date on a proper LP/EP. The forum should have more threads like these. Well done, Sir Knives.

Rotten Tanx wrote:

daniel robert chapman wrote:I saw these play in Birmingham and they were beset by technical horrors and they were fucking brilliant.

If this was at the sunflower lounge I was at that gig. It was funny and brilliant.

I think it was - with Bilge Pump and Trencher, and promoted by Thorr. I was wincing for the first ten minutes but when they got going - by gum.

the bassist stayed at my house once. He was drunk and kept singing Cheap Sunglasses by ZZ Top.

i have the 7" lurking in my room somewhere - i seem to remember being vaguely underwhelmed by it, but i might give it another spin.