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Genre: Indie / New Wave / Rock
Location Medway/Maidstone, Un
Profile Views: 7972
Last Login: 6/30/2012
Member Since 10/2/2009
Website www.thelovefamilyband.com
Record Label Collision Music
Type of Label Indie
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The long awaited album 'Out Of Reach' by The Love Family on Collision Music is released on 18 June 2012. Available in all good record shops and online at all the usual outlets. Ok, here we go 2,3,4. I joined the Love Family in the Summer of 1992 when they were playing around as a 3 piece. Gaz wanted to play guitar and sing rather than be Phil Lynott. I (Cliff) used to play bass in The Strookas and got to know Gary and Mark from playing gigs with Swingin' Time and Millions of Brazillians. Having left The Strookas I bumped into Gary and Mark in the infamous Minstrel in Maidstone, got invited to a few practices, really clicked with Paul's drumming and was whisked off to play my first gig in Budapest, Hungary. I remember being quite nervous as the gig was being videod and I wasn't that confident playing all the songs. The second gig was really something else - in the mountains outside Budapest where three walls of a castle formed a type of open-air theatre in front of a couple of thousand Hungarians. Oh yeah, and this one was being filmed by MTV (Ok that's Magyar TV - but the truck said MTV!) We played a few more gigs and came home to Blighty shattered but happy. Things then really seemed to happen very fast with a demo making it's way to Steve Lamacq at the NME and Mark Sutherland favourably reviewing a disastrous gig at the Bull and Gate. Then the biggy - an NME photo shoot and amazing write-up to promote the Burnt ep in the biggest selling edition of the year - Glastonbury. This was pretty swiftly followed by the Happy Couple 7" which was made single of the week on Lammos Radio 1 Evening Session and had airplay on various other stations. We were also gigging extensively and played with The Dentists, Cast, Zodiac Mindwarp, Sonar Nation, The Flamingoes, Prolapse and many, many more. Venues included the Powerhouse, the Garage, the Mean Fiddler, the Jericho Tavern and the Bull and Gate. We played a short French tour in 1994 and after this things just seemed to tail off despite the fact that we recorded an albums worth of material at the famous Red Studios. We continued into 1995 playing a very well received gig at The Highbury Garage and finally called it a day later in the year after a gig at the Woodlands Tavern in Gillingham. Still, I'm very pleased to have finally got this page off the ground as I was in quite a few bands but only really LOVED this one (and miracle of miracles - we're all still mates.)
Members
Gary Robertson - Vocals/Guitar. Mark Wrangham - Lead Guitar. Cliff Bailey - Bass Guitar. Paul Ireland - Drums.
Influences
So many - Husker Du, Bob Mould, Sugar, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Pixies, Kinks, Hoodoo Gurus, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Screaming Trees, T Rex, The Clash, Wall of Voodoo, Stan Ridgway, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, The Chameleons, The Church, Soft Cell, The Triffids, Psychedelic Furs, Manic Street Preachers, Red House Painters, XTC, Scott Walker, Associates, Killing Joke, Pet Shop Boys, Van Der Graaf Generator, The National, The Band, Ride, Rush
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Noisy guitars, thumping drums and great lyrics/vocals. Oh and a bit of Pixies/Killing Joke bass.

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The Love Family

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The Love Family are a four piece Indie/Rock band who hail from Kent’s Medway Towns. They blazed a trail around the venues of the UK and Europe for the first five years of the 1990’s bringing their brand of melodic noise to the people.

Championed by the NME’s Mark Sutherland for their four track E.P Burnt and awarded single of the week for Body Soul Heart Mind by Radio 1’s Steve Lamaq. A man who recognised "a slice of pop perfection" when he heard it.

In 1995 they embarked on the recording of their debut album. For a band that loved playing live and struggled to cope with being in the studio long enough to record a single this was a tough task. So, during the summer of 1995, they decided to take a break from recording, to evaluate what they had done and refine some of the songs. After much soul-searching and careful analysis they finally emerged triumphant from this monumental task in 2010. Unfortunately, the original recording studio had now ceased to exist and so they found themselves at Ten21 studios in Maidstone, Kent during June 2011 where Out of Reach, an 11 track album of shimmering, powerful, pop excellence was finally completed.

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October 02, 2009

Members:

Gary Robertson - Vocals/Guitar. Mark Wrangham - Lead Guitar. Cliff Bailey - Bass Guitar. Paul Ireland - Drums.

Influences:

So many - Husker Du, Bob Mould, Sugar, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Pixies, Kinks, Hoodoo Gurus, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Screaming Trees, T Rex, The Clash, Wall of Voodoo, Stan Ridgway, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, The Chameleons, The Church, Soft Cell, The Triffids, Psychedelic Furs, Manic Street Preachers, Red House Painters, XTC, Scott Walker, Associates, Killing Joke, Pet Shop Boys, Van Der Graaf Generator, The National, The Band, Ride, Rush