Ursine Vulpine
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Freddie Lloyd, aged 20, is a young filmmaker and multi-instrumentalist from Herefordshire/Worcester.
Ursine Vulpine consists of Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Flute, Violin, Piano, Drums and occasionally Brass, all of which, until recently, are played and recorded by Freddie himself. Film is one of the major influences for Ursine Vulpine and so every track attempts to capture the structures, emotions and the powerful visuals of film, using interwoven layers of instrumentation. Soundtracks for films are a source of major inspiration and composing for film is something Ursine Vulpine, and Freddie, fully intends to progress onto.
Musical influences include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt Zion, Talons, Horse Feathers, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds, M83, Alexandre Desplat, Clint Mansell, James Newton Howard Hans Zimmer, Jeff Grace, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Shiro Sagisu, Akira Yamaoka and Nobuo Uemastu.
Press Quotes
"Mesmerising loops that create a sonic plateau you’ll want to lose yourself in for hours on end" The Fly
"With a staggering grasp of melancholic guitar and heart-heavy dynamics, Ursine Vulpine is the work of a man wise beyond his years" Rough Trade
"Encompassing a vast array of sounds and influences, all of the many instruments which from this scenic endeavor are expertly played by the man himself. Atmospheric to the last, each song portrays a miniature world in which everything has been expertly designed and cultivated. Put simply, its bloody marvellous, and addictive to boot!" Bearded Magazine
Stagecoach Links: Official Site / Facebook / Twitter
Stagecoach melt faces at fifty paces with junk-pop juggernauts about pizzas, chess leagues, and Buffy.
Huw Stephens span their single 'Map To The Freezer' exhaustively on both his Radio 1 shows. He then invited the band to play the BBC Introducing stage at Reading & Leeds 2010, before naming Stagecoach one of his BBC Introducing acts of the year. In February the band recorded a live Radio One session at Maida Vale. You may have heard Stagecoach on BBC One's ‘Gavin and Stacey’ Christmas & New Year specials. Channel 4 also used them on season 2 of ‘Skins’. Two of the band’s tracks feature on the international trailer for this year’s breakout British comedy ‘Killing Bono’
The band recently toured with indie heroes Johnny Foreigner and Glaswegian rockers Twin Atlantic. Stagecoach’s new AA single ‘Tony Hawk/Jonah Lomu’ (producer James Kenosha – Pulled Apart By Horses/Dinosaur Pile-Up) was released on May 30th through This is Fake DIY, and the band are now striding gallantly through the Summer's festival circuit, with dates at The Great Escape, Dot To Dot, 2000 Trees, Kendal Calling and many more.
Press Quotes
"I'm completely addicted to Stagecoach" Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1
"Splendidly quirky trash-pop anthems" Kerrang!
Nicholas Stevenson
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Nicholas Stevenson was found as a child wandering a North American wood on all fours. Taken in by a research team, they found him at first incapable of speech with a preference for wild berries and certain mosses. With time he began making occasional drawings and hummed tunes whilst pounding on a xylophone that the research team had presented him with. As Nicholas grew up he became polite and well spoken and was subsequently adopted by some fine folks in England. He remembers little of his days in the woods, although he once found himself able to hold conversation with a Raccoon in London Zoo.
Nicholas has played shows in places (some far across the sea), and supported such artists as, and supported such artists as Mumford and Sons, Frank Turner, Chief, Alessi's Ark and a run of dates with Dry The River.
Press Quotes
"His songs ooze with a sinister darkness Elliott Smith would have been proud of." The Fly
"Both unusual and marvelous" Acoustica
