Awful Sparks
Bio
The Awful Sparks are a modern rock band based in London's Historic Maritime Greenwich.
In May this year, they released their first single, "Int'l Toughguy", on Leaving Home Records.
The band formed in late 2003 after a chance encounter in the Chinatown branch of Ladbrokes.
In between greyhound races Oliver and Gareth started to reminisce about their days as indie club promoters in the music scene colossus that is Somerset. After a few glasses of rum, they decided to form a band: to make music that combines the tender naivety of their small town past with the bright panache of capital city life.
They drafted in Dan and Spencer, who had been indie-boy nodding acquaintances at a minor West Country public school, and started rehearsing in a disused library.
Patrick joined as singer after completing vocal training with the BBC's Fame Academy team.
As far as influences go, they like the way the Minutemen play three different songs at once and still sounded sharp, the way Talking Heads used guitars as percussion and the way Steve Malkmus gets to the point by being completely indirect.
They have been compared to early Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Rakes, John Otway and Altered Images.
In May this year, they released their first single, "Int'l Toughguy", on Leaving Home Records.
The band formed in late 2003 after a chance encounter in the Chinatown branch of Ladbrokes.
In between greyhound races Oliver and Gareth started to reminisce about their days as indie club promoters in the music scene colossus that is Somerset. After a few glasses of rum, they decided to form a band: to make music that combines the tender naivety of their small town past with the bright panache of capital city life.
They drafted in Dan and Spencer, who had been indie-boy nodding acquaintances at a minor West Country public school, and started rehearsing in a disused library.
Patrick joined as singer after completing vocal training with the BBC's Fame Academy team.
As far as influences go, they like the way the Minutemen play three different songs at once and still sounded sharp, the way Talking Heads used guitars as percussion and the way Steve Malkmus gets to the point by being completely indirect.
They have been compared to early Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Rakes, John Otway and Altered Images.