Jeremy Warmsley

Jeremy Warmsley, Maps, Kyte at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms, Thu 11 Oct

Review by Dom Gourlay

I'm one of the few who's yet to be wholly convinced by Maps. James Chapman's music is something that can best be described as being "pleasant" and "competent" rather than "exciting" or "invigorating"»

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Jeremy Warmsley

Jeremy Warmsley lives in London and started making electronic music with songs in them in January 2005. He is currently putting out records with the help of the lovely people at Transgressive Records. He lives in London and is half-French.

A songwriter since the age of seventeen, he had an epiphany in Jan 05, realised all the music he'd ever made up till then bored him, and started again from scratch. Since then his music has encompassed a curious mixture of the new and the old, the traditional and the atypical, all things archaic or experimental. He insists on self-producing all his songs, only bringing in other musicians to sing backing vocals.

Jeremy's live appearances are wildly unpredictable; in the past six months he has played as many times with his seven-piece backing band the LMNOPs (including laptop-ist and trombone section) as he has on his own. Recent gigs (including a tour with Regina Spektor) have seen him ably assisted by pianist TOM ROGERSON, Jeremy singing and switching between guitar, piano and percussion.

Having put out a single in June 05 and an EP in November 05, he is preparing to release his next EP, Other People's Secrets. With contributions from ADAM BEACH (also of Optimist Club) on bass, TOM ROGERSON on piano, MATT INGRAM on drums (all members of the LMNOPs), as well as a string quartet and brass section, it will be his first record to feature musicians other than himself. It is out on Transgressive on April 10th.

Maps

Maps is a man called James. He writes and records at home on a 16-track. His influences include Low, My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Spiritualized, Brian Wilson, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

MySpace page

Kyte

Kyte is Tom, Nick, Scott, Ben and Jamie. People have said things about them:

"Kyte will steal your heart as soon as look at you." 8/10, NME

"Vocalled-up post-rock with serene widescreen intentions." 8/10 Rock Sound

"An absolutely amazing band making amazing music" 4MUSIC

"Not since the Arcade Fire have we felt in the presence of such a spooky, eerie, enigmatic band." thisisfakediy

Check out the video to 'Sunlight' below...