Name:
Saloon
Personnel:
Matt Ashton - Guitar, Moog, Theremin
Alison Cotton - Viola, Moog, Melodica
Adam Cresswell - Bass, Moog, Melodica,
Amanda Gomez - Vocals, Guitar, Moog, Melodica, Percussion, Stylophone
Mike Smoughton - Drums, Percussion, Glockenspiel
Current Job:
Two weeks annual leave followed immediately by an appearance at the Truck Festival in Oxford (22nd & 23rd July). Then the day after that we play a RoTa night at the Notting Hill Arts Centre (24th July) followed by a nine-date tour in August with Mahogany from New York and Curtis Newton from France.....
3/8/00 Brighton, The Lift; 4/8/00 Bristol, Comedy Club; 5/8/00 Exeter, The Caven; 6/8/00 Liverpool, Zanzibar; 8/8/00 Leicester, The Charlotte; 9/8/00 The Jug of Ale Birmingham; 10/8/00 The Portland Arms,Cambridge; 11/8/00 The Betsey Trotwood London; 12/8/00 The Rising Sun, Reading.
Previous Employment:
None of any real note: Dr Seuss, The Deviants & Soup are among some of the thankfully lost bands of the nineties. British Air Power are still going, though but now they're called British Sea Power.
Achievements:
Futurismo split 7" w/Lazer Guided (Artists Against Success), August 1999
Shopping/Song For Hugo 7" (AmberleyRecords), April 2000
Electron 7" (Bearos Records), July 2000
Other releases include various tracks on compilation CDs, 'Chromosomes' (Something From Your Insides), 'Pink' (Readipop#1) and 'Conquistador' (POP Volume#1,POPnews www.popnews.com).
References:
This week's fav: "Out of Reading with Gallic laced Stereolabelled avant-pop filtered through folksiness and electronica with viola, theramin and spacey synths, vocals in English, French and Spanish. A heady cocktail of mown grass and absinthe" ("What's On", Birmingham's answer to Time Out)
or for the more discerning listener: "You're shite" (Paul Mead, Essex)
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Strengths include excellent presentation and dress sense, impeccable record collections and of course,fantastic songs. Weaknesses? Well, we're never going to be as big as Travis are we?
Contact Details:
Belmondo Productions, Flat 5, 4 Kendrick Road, Reading RG1 5NB, www.saloon.co.uk or info@saloon.co.uk
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