ARTISTS
Keyboard Rebel
www.myspace.com/keyboardrebel
To much acclaim peasant-tronic mavericksKeyboard Rebel released their second single, 'My Lordship', on SlickNine Records on CD and download on 31st July 2006.
The band started their career in 2004 with acompilation appearance on Twisted Nerve Records on a limitededition 7" also featuring Badly Drawn Boy. Since then theband have featured on the 10" compilation EP 'Slick NineRecords Presents' and released their first single, 'Northern Sherpa' inautumn 2005.
Man And The Vertebrates
www.myspace.com/manandthev
Man And The Vertebrates contain former members of the legendary And The Adventures Of and are based in London. Their previous incarnation The Bedford Rascals have supported acts ranging from The Others to Babyshambles. They're awesome.
Yossarian
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Yossarian is the side-project of lone Keyboard Rebel, Tom Butlin. He has this to say:
Yossarian, sadly, is not my real name. It's Tom. I'm slightly ashamed to count myself amongst the thousands of budding singer-songwriters out there who think you might want to hear about their sad and meaningless lives. Two things make me stand out, however: my consciousness of the absurdity of the above, and my almost complete inability to play the guitar. Instead I fight a losing battle to sound like the Mountain Goats using just a Yamaha PSR-220 electronic keyboard and a decidedly English voice. This results in something darkly humorous and musically not very accomplished which I'm hoping has a peculiar charm of its own. Audiences at all... however many there've been now of my gigs so far have been surprisingly attentive, and a moustachioed man at the first said I was 'like Serge Gainsbourg on temazepan,' which I took as a compliment. I represent a particularly young and tender new branch of the sapling Manchester label Slick Nine Records, whose gnarliest living limb Keyboard Rebel also tolerate my meanderings in their line-up.
Oh, and by the way, my debut album The Selfish Gene is now out! Order a free copy from the shop.
Pop Martyr
www.myspace.com/popmartyr
Pop Martyr biog coming soon.
