The Wind Up Birds From: Leeds, United Kingdom The Wind-Up Birds are from Leeds. They are named after a book by Haruki Murakami. They use good Yorkshire words like owt and nowt. They write songs about independent record shops, the reality of life, the monotony of work, and escape. They sound like the Fall stalking Art Brut in The Wedding Present's library. It's somehow fitting that, in the month that the Centre For Creative Arts launched their impressive [...]
The Wind-Up Birds are a UK pop-punk band, but it's clear that the definition of pop punk varies from continent to continent. Vocal delivery is definitely a touch different, which you'll easily notice-to me it recalls Art Brut in the way it's very matter of fact, almost spoken word. The group's just released their new album, The Land , and it's full of sharp and jagged guitar licks just like the one here. If you're a fan of bouncing punk rock, then this is going to be right up your [...]
We became instant fans of the Wind-Up Birds after hearing the brilliant There Won't Always Be An England from their Tyre Fire 73. They are a peculiarly British band steeped in the idiosyncrasies and (sometime ridiculous) ways and mentalities of our island, unafraid to gleefully reveal when the Emperor is out and about with his new clothes, and to champion the cause of the forgotten, the unwanted and the isolated. They skilfully blend influences from folk to punk to create a restless, hybrid sound that has feet in many camps, but a home [...]
by teepoo Check out this neat animated video for Octoberman's Wind Up Bird from his new album Waiting in the Well . You can stream the album via Exclaim!
After last night's top 5 albums of the year tonight's post brings you the five best videos of 2011. A collection of the most interesting, innovative, thought provoking, witty and imaginative videos that caressed the Devil's eyeballs in 2o11. 1. Rugged Wilderness & Mountain Man No More - Dropping Feathers Unsettling, thought provoking and elegiacally beautiful if there was a better music video in 2011 then I missed it. Go Try [...]
Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviant art.com/ The Wind-Up Birds Working Christmas Day It's better to give than receive so go visit indie contrarians the Wind-Up Birds bandcamp site http://thewind-upbirds.bandcam p.com to download their Christmas single, Working Christmas Day with all proceeds going to Barnardos. Not only do you get a great Christmas song you get a nice warm glow from doing [...]
There's an awful lot of Christmas tunes out there this year beyond the usual gubbins of Carey, Como, et al. Some deserve to sit lonely and ignored in the further reaches of the interweb, like some cyber version of Eat Me dates, but some have piqued our Yuletide cravings and misgivings. Hence we've given over the second instalment of Sack of Streams to some big baubled tunes. Santa's perspective on the season he gives so much to is often ignored amongst the cacophony of pissed up jeers and board game family disputes. The Narrows have taken his viewpoint [...]
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Tweet Watch the new video for Ducky 's song "Windup Bird" below, and download the MP3 too. Connect with Ducky - Facebook | Twitter | Website | Tumblr | Bandcamp Ducky - "Windup Bird" Tweet This! Share this [...]
It would have been nice (considering the seriousness with which I took this morning's half-marathon) if I had the opportunity to run 13.1 miles on good rest. Alas, this was not the case. I received only 3 hours of sleep last night, and when my alarm sounded at 6am I was finally starting to drift [...]
Here are the videos that caught the Devil's eye this week... Ghost Society Better Days Stripmall Architecture One of Three STRIPMALL ARCHITECTURE "ONE OF THREE" from CIRCULATE on Vimeo . [...]
Vamos hoy con un poco de punk-rock, de la mano de The Wind-Up Birds, banda de Leeds formada por Paul Ackroyd (voz), Ben Dawson (bajo, voces), Mat Forrest (guitarra, voces) y Oli Jefferson (batería). Entre sus influencias se encuentran bandas como Belle and Sebastian, The Smiths o Pavement. Recientemente acaban de editar, a través de su Bandcamp , una recopilación de sus canciones, entre la que se encuentra esta que podéis escuchar a continuación. MySpace mp3: The Wind-Up Birds-Slow Reader
The Wind-Up Birds From: Leeds, United Kingdom If there was any justice in the world then Yorkshire terriers The Wind-Up Birds ( Literate Rock and Bird Maniax ) would be a fixture on the obligatory list of bands for 2011. Unfortunately it's not going to happen because the Wind-Up Birds are a little too obtuse, a little too unusual, a little too caustic for the sensitive palates of today's journos. Thank god then for the blogosphere who have clutched the band to their ample bosom. [...]
It's Christmas Day, we have had our breakfast of smoked salmon and poached eggs, and I decided I might as well settle down with a bottle of fizz and talk shite on the internet. Given we opened all our presents and had a big meal when my parents were visiting last week, I figured I was obliged to do no more than get pissed and slowly waste away the day today, stopping only to gorge myself on roast lamb and some indeterminate point in the evening - whenever Mrs. Toad gets over last night's hangover I suppose. I [...]
This time next week (on December the 6th) Sturdy Records is putting out Courage Now, For Tomorrow Will Be Worse , the new EP from Leeds' almost embarrassingly brilliant post-punk literary genii The Wind-Up Birds . They are larger than the average bird, have a grey, dour plumage and an unusually intense, piercing stare. They generally travel in a group of four males. The Wind-Up Birds are mainly recognised for their song. Once heard, no one can forget their awkward, screeching, unsettling call. Sounding something like The Fall if they sobered up [...]
The Wind-Up Birds - Tyre Fire Learn More And Buy 7" Vinyl (Includes Digital Download) Or Buy Download I just can`t bring myself to remove the fantastic `Tyre Fire` video from our front page side bar. A promotion to it`s own post and a fond farewell is the order of the day. Post-Punk Indie with regional angst , it`s a Northern [...]
The Wind Up Birds - Tyre Fire from Paul Morricone on Vimeo . This smart new vid from Leeds-based quartet The Wind-Up Birds takes a journey into the mind of a chap contemplating setting his life ablaze and moving on. Tyre Fire , pegged as the opposing number to I Will Survive , is a stark exploration of the frame of mind such a person might wander through. [...]
The Wind-Up Birds From: Leeds, United Kingdom Once upon a time dear children of the Devil there was a musical sub culture in the United Kingdom called Grebo (occasionally spelled Greebo). Centred around the Midlands the style was largely the creation of the British music press and never entered the consciousness of a wider audience. One of the bands that was lumped into the manufactured musical scene was Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (usually shortened to [...]
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. " - Friedrich Nietzsche Before heading into the nuggets of truth contained within this #MusicMonday, I should point out that the H-T-A Facebook page is now the go to place for our links to free MP3 lists. Tons of musical freebies popping into your stream every morning sound like [...]
"The Wind-Up Birds are from Leeds. They are named after a book by Haruki Murakami. They write songs about car parks, and songs about pubs, and songs about work, and songs about escape. Sturdy Records will be releasing their debut single Tyre Fire in late April". Striking social commentary from the North of England. Finely avoiding an overall state of despair with a regional black comedy background, emotions run high while comparing white noise revolutionaries Buzzcocks and Joy Division. The Wind-Up Birds strike me as individuals that are an equally awkward and [...]
The Wind-Up Birds From: Leeds, United Kingdom The Wind-Up Birds are from Leeds. They are named after a book by Haruki Murakami . They write songs about car parks, and songs about pubs, and songs about work, and songs about escape. They sound like a John Peel band from the early 80s, like the Fall stalking The Nightingales in Jarvis Cocker's library. [...]
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