Artist.......: The Wombats
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Feb-06-2008
Str.date.....: Jan/Feb-00-2008
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.thewombats.co.uk/
track title time
Live de la Semaine
01. StΘphane Saunier - Intro
02. The Wombats - Tales of girls, boys & MARSUPIALS
03. The Wombats - Kill the director
04. The Wombats - Party in a forest (where's Laura ?)
05. The Wombats - Dr Suzanne Mattox PHD
06. The Wombats - Moving to New York
07. The Wombats - Patricia the stripper
08. The Wombats - Let's dance to Joy Division
09. The Wombats - Backfire at the disco
10. StΘphane Saunier - Ending
Runtime 30:11 min
Size 40,1 MB
Release Notes:
Performed : January/February 2008 (Canal+ / France)
Jokey pop-punk bands are a mainstay of any town large
enough to have a local bar for them to play in, so it
takes something more for one to break through, such as
lyrics that are as intelligent as they are funny and
enough pure pop melody to balance the punky energy. Enter
the Wombats, a three-man cross between Art Brut's
Wire-like fractured art-punk and Half Man Half Biscuit's
wicked Liverpudlian humor. Not only are the Wombats fellow
Scousers, they have a tangential Beatles connection:
singer and guitarist Matthew "Murph" Murphy and drummer
Dan Haggis formed the Wombats in 2003 when they were
students at the Paul McCartney-founded Liverpool Institute
for the Performing Arts. Drafting in bassist Tord Overland
Knudsen (unsurprisingly, not a native of Liverpool, but a
Norwegian student also attending the LIPA), the new trio
chose their name at random on the day of their first gig.
Though early shows were as much alcohol-fueled dadaesque
performance art as anything else (the three members
dressed in jester's outfits and singing songs with titles
like "Ode to Charles the Goat"), the trio quickly
progressed into a spiky blend of danceable indie rock,
Murph's sardonic lyrics, and high-energy pop hooks. The
Wombats signed to the indie label Kids Records in 2005 and
released three singles, "Lost in the Post," "Moving to New
York," and "Backfire at the Disco," the last of which
reached the U.K. Top 30 singles chart. At that point, the
trio made the jump to the higher-profile indie 14th Floor
Records (Damien Rice, etc.) and released their
breakthrough single, "Let's Dance to Joy Division" ("and
celebrate the irony" continues the chorus), in the summer
of 2007. Debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
followed.