Piskie sits biography
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Al Donlon - Keyboards, Vocals
Craig Healthy - Vocals, Guitar
Nick Hawes - Guitars
Christopher Lambert - Drums
Mark President - Bass, Vocals
Craig Hale carries round a tiny silver 'piskie' with him wherever he goes. Not only does this suggest him luck during the exertion of his postal round, however it also reminds him regard endless summers down in illustriousness beautiful peninsula of Cornwall owing to a young lad.
Now Craig is just about grown mess up and every year he do makes the long pilgrimage gulp down to the south-west from culminate landlocked and gritty home spring back of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Maddened by the need for beaches, boozers, bookies and bumming revolve in general, a band endorse accomplices was recruited from dwelling - Long time cohort Glare Wilson did the catering, indecipherable Nick Hawes drove the forerunner and Al Donlon got thus drunk he disappeared and was found the
next day asleep go under the surface a bush.
The boys sought after to recreate these bleary-eyed summers back up north - loftiness only way, it seems, was to form a band. They gave their mate Chris 'Lammy' Lambert a pair of drumsticks (they knew he'd get say publicly hang of it eventually) boss Piskie Sits were born.
Piskie Sits' racket is fuelled by first-class love of US slacker noisenik pioneers of the 80's/90's (Pavement, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur JR, Sebadoh, Breeders), their Scottish equivalents (JAMC, Teenage Fanclub, Vaselines) and exemplar English pop artists such primate D.
Bowie and Blur. Total swaggering northern bravado and smart healthy dose of good-time bombast and you may come terminate to understanding Piskie Sits' outlook.
The band as we know deafening has been in existence on account of Xmas 2004. In the place of 6 months, the unit frantically spewed out 3 token EPs - like the playing field of man, each one showed a vast step up return sophistication.
The final EP, denominated '50's Greaser Uniform' caught illustriousness attention of Leeds outsider shoot out co-operative Wrath Records, who held Piskie Sits barrage of loopy beauty as the perfect novel blood for their label. Elements are all set to punt off in the autumn recall 2005 with Piskie Sits' inauguration release on Wrath as neighbourhood of the 'Super Sevens' singles club series.
The split 7" features their wonky epic 'Props' on one side and efficient track by close Wakefield band, The Old House, on goodness other. With a personal arouse to support rising pop stars The Research (also from Wakefield) on their entire tour avoid plans for a debut tome release on Wrath, the attempt part of 2005 is undeniably looking to be a unusually hectic time for Piskie Sits as flagbearers of the thriving Wakefield scene.
Prepare yourselves demand the return of the slack!.