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So there’s these four reject space cadets from Northampton, England, Earth. They are The Retro Spankees and they make this hyperactive, DIY, Ctrl Alt Pop sound.
Their debut album “I Know You Are But What Am I?” - an enthusiastic romp through two minute pop songs released on Kooky Discs in 2006, followed by EP dedicated to the late great Richard Whitely entitled “Vowel Play” led to performances alongside gigging comrades Bearsuit, Misty’s Big Adventure, Das Wanderlust, Applicants, Polysics and more!

They’ve starred alongside Noddy Holder in the video for Misty’s Big Adventure’s ironic hit “Fashion Parade” and also briefly been the backing band for the legendary graphic novelist Alan Moore. Pretty Cool huh?
They went away to make some babies, wear some suits, paint their faces and change their bassist. Now they are back with a meagre vengeance and are out to prove that they have, well, nothing to prove.

They’ve made a new record, and they call it Meagre Vengeance. If their first album was a kid at school, this one has left school and entered the work place. It doesn’t like it’s job very much. It doesn’t like the people it serves, it doesn’t like the people it works with, and it really doesn’t like the people it works for!
It’s calling out to others that feel the same saying, “Hey you guys, we’re better than this. We’re capable of so much more than this and there’s nothing we can do about any of it. Let’s ride this Underling Express. Let’s back chat the Man. Let’s under achieve. Let’s weird out our colleagues. Let’s be Meagre, and have stupid noisy fun whilst we’re doing it!”
Oh yeah, and Grandmaster Gareth from Misty’s Big Adventure eats a carrot on it.

A music studio in Limehouse, London

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Douga is a band based in Manchester, formed by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Johnny Winbolt-Lewis. Douga have grown from wide-eyed, exploratory experimentalists to become a BBC 6 Music-featured act, who have now created a record gripped with a gentle but firm sense of cohesion and clarity. The group have built their album on the foundations of Johnny’s love of kosmische music, through rhythmic repetition and psychedelic drones.

"Douga serve up a mind-melting blend of traditional songwriting and endless, restless experimentation"
City Life

"There is an enigmatic beauty in the compositions Douga make with beautiful orchestrations which live and breathe alongside distortions and more aggressive arrangements"
http://stipe07.blogs.sapo.pt/douga-the-silent-well-510451

"Psych-flecked Americana from Manchester"
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-douga-partly

"Douga produce eerie atmospheric indie which exhibits a dreamy quality...[Mono No Aware] An utterly beautiful collection of songs from a frankly lovable band" http://barrygruff.wordpress.com

"Douga consistently reinvent themselves....perhaps the closest reference point I can give you here is that of Syd Arthur, who are similarly uncategorisable, and I mean that in a good way." 
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2017/12/11/douga-hidden-tapes-golden-tide-make-merge/

"Combining elements of Americana, psychedelia and an unmistakable tinge of Manchester grit, Douga go to great lengths to get their sound just right."
http://www.forfolkssake.com/news/36388/exclusive-album-stream-douga-hidden-tapes-and-the-golden-tide

"charming, chiming and occasionally unpredictable jams with clever lo-fi pop twists and understated arrangements."
http://www.thisistruluv.com/douga-kids-tomorrow/

"Nuanced, intelligent and ambitious"
http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=11204

"rich in sonic textures and psychedelic influences"
http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/music/the-silent-well-an-interview-with-douga/2014/06/30/

"the debut record by Douga is a minor scale gem. By turns gentle, languid, distorted, and psychedelic, The Silent Well will remind listeners of bands like Yo La Tengo, and feels like a trip into a haze of psych-rock bliss."
http://symbioticreviews.com/2014/07/17/symbiotic-recommends-10-albums-june-2014/

"Douga are a band for musicians and real music lovers. They’re no “flash in the pan” indie act with their debut feeling like a solid statement going forward. We look forward to hearing more from these guys."
http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/uk/2014/04/uk-artist-week-douga/

"The songs are brilliantly conceived, with pretty melodies and seductive chords, the rhythm section is as fine as any you’ll see and the beautiful washes of delayed noise and dreamy psych that bookend each song are the key ingredient that turn this band into the top-notch entertainers that they are. It’s aesthetically comparable to ‘A Storm In Heaven’-era Verve, but there’s something new here too. Go find em." 
http://dbhmusic.wordpress.com/page/2/

"It’s hard to say exactly what sort of music Douga make, and if this is not necessarily by design, it’s no real accident either. Former Plank! drummer Johnny Winbolt-Lewis has formed this foursome of like-minded experimentalists to explore his love of kosmiche music and sonic textures, with some intriguing results"
http://www.forfolkssake.com/song-of-the-day/28006/447-douga-blue-is-nothing

"Their melancholy and smouldering output seems to fit into the Neil Young territory, somewhere between After the Goldrush and before Like a Hurricane"
http://www.manchestermusic.co.uk/live/archivelive.asp?item=2144

The songs that belong to The Freeloaders and are here as a tribute to the memory of Guy Lucas- musical luminary, inspiration, wit, and a dynamic and propulsive force on the Australian independent music scene, bursting out of the garage in a veritable paint-cannon spray of psychedelic sounds and left to an an undeserved obscurity. 
He has left us way too soon.
 All of the songs of mine were recorded using Audacity, the free, open-source, cross-platform, sound editing program and were all, in them main, constructed from guitar parts which I recorded at home on an XP windows pc..
Where samples have been used i have made an effort to credit their origins.
   I decided to start to try and create 'songs' when i suffered an illness that left me visually impaired for a year or so, during which time i realised fairly early on that my future hopes as a successful visual artist weren't looking too good at that point and perhaps i should try to find success in some other field equally as difficult and nigh on impossible to succeed in as a way of receiving public notoriety and in making a living.
   It is impossible for any artist to create a truly great piece of work unless they are creating it solely for their own personal satisfaction with no regard for the reception it might have amongst others. 
    This is what makes the artist so often seem 'weird' and 'crazy' to people who do not understand the process of artistic creation and what inevitably must lie at its fundamentalist core, the dismissal of  the value for praise and esteem in the eyes of the society within which the artist finds their self living, and because of this indelible notion this is so often their source of the artists' isolation and alienation.
    The genius of the artists work is inevitable, since they are catering to their own tastes and so, when successful at this, they cannot fail to create a masterpiece.
   It was Gustav Flaubert who wrote that if a writer were to approach the act of writing of a novel with absolute and complete honesty then it would be impossible for that writer to fail and to not create a masterpiece.
The true artist, therefore, is born, not made. The true artist can fall into a puddle of mud and will walk away having created a work of Art., and though the skills of the artist must be honed and refined by the ongoing practice of those abilities, they may lie dormant (even if needs be, for years) and yet will always resurface undiminished. Sometimes they will be even greater for their fresh approach, unrestrained by what has perhaps become to them 'de rigeur' and a threat to thread what is repetitive, unoriginal and stale into their work.
   These inherent qualities,which make the true artist what they are, exist in the exact opposite, and often in greater proportions in what the sociopathic, fame-seeker and the 'wannabe' exhibit as their work and through it quite obviously hold so dear. 
   A single moment of observation exposes the evidence in it that a desire to be  greatly esteemed , honoured, (to the pint of being worshiped) and remunerated to a far greater extent than is fair and  just sadly, screams with the howling chorus barks of rabid dogs through the narcissism in their work so very obviously.displays.
This is not Art.
   In the field of artistic creation, my personal motto  is this:
'If you're going to try and go for the impossible, then you might as well set your sights on everything!'

Beccy Young // Voice
Jed Skinner // synths and programming
Matt Woodward // drums and programming

Stargaze Recs // Dither Down Recs // Rotating Souls Recs

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