Mr Cricket / Is I Cinema / Pitseleh / Anna Burge
Alt-Rock four-piece Mr Cricket. It’s an innovative, progressive sound that brings together so many different elements it’s almost overwhelming yet the band manage to fashion it all into a substantial and interesting direction that really works for them. Unconventional
song structure with clever use of tempo changes, heavy guitars and fast beats cut through with twee harmonic (or off-harmony) vocals to great effect.
Genuinely different and genuinely exciting, it’s a sound that lacks
accessibility but more than makes up for this with its grand scope and creativity.
Is I Cinema has a sense of introspective retrospection together with a sparse but well used musical palate. An electrically amplified focus group plucked from three separate postal districts: B13, B1 (both figurehead Dominic and accredited guitarist Helen rest here) and B38. Is I Cinema first convened when percussive consultant Olly was invited to witness Dom and Helen’s songsmithery at a Jewellery Quartered flat. The one stipulation: he must lie with his back to the players on a threadbare couch. Suffice to say, the arrangements were reasonably credible. The sofa not so. Carl (six-stringed aesthetics/tech) and Tan (bass-biased kick drum concierge) both interviewed well and have since turned much of the twee into colourful turbulence.
Pitseleh are a Midlands based band who have just recorded their first EP ‘Darkside EP’ at Darkside labs, to hear more visit their myspace!
Anna Burge from Brummieland! Loves her out of tune piano!
Currently performing regularly at Pat Kav open mics singing her own stuff and a various array of covers purely for spontaneous amusementttt.
Started a fantabulous project with ‘crazy bandmen/band of crazymen’ which is Anna’s songs but done in full band form, with lots of drums, guitar and bass and yum!
