The Brute Chorus / The Filthy Habits / Capital Sun
The Brute Chorus, comprised of West Country-vicar’s son James Steel (Guitars, Vocals), Cumbria’s Nick Foots (multi-instrumentalist & vocals) and Matthew Day (drums & percussion son of a Quaker morris man) – who both grew up in the shadow of Sellafield – and Dave Ferrett (bass) Essex who came to London from the four corners of the land to pursue their interests at college in Greenwich.
They’ve been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since March. They’ve been taking it to the people with sets at The Secret Garden Party, Danny McNamara’s The Aftershow in Manchester, and a monthly residency at Camden’s infamous Hawley Arms pub and became MySpace front page featured artists along the way. They live together in a flat in Whitechapel formerly inhabited by Bow Wow Wow, so they claim.
The band’s first release was a charming offering of psyched-out garage-folk put out on the Hawley Arms backed Bumpman records. The ltd edition AA side 7″ sold out – and is currently available for download.
Main Support is The Filthy Habits - Born from the bleak winter of 2007 after previous other bands had failed to materialise, Jape, Ryan, Burgle and Gall decided it was time to pool their resources and form a band that would give a two finger salute to the rest of the local Birmingham scene. A band where the emphasis was on one thing and one thing only. Good songs.
Opening act are Capital Sun – Formed in late 2008, Capital Sun are a four-piece folk-rock band from Birmingham
