Tokyo Empire are an exciting Indie Rock band from Strabane, Northern Ireland. With a vast wealth of musical experience between the 4 of them, the band hope to bring their brand of melodic and upbeat pop/rock to as big an audience as possible.

Members:

Chris Sharkey - Vocals
SOD - Guitars
David McGaughey - Guitars
Sean McDermott - Bass


They’re awash with the depth and danger of maritime nightmares. They’re the place where coruscating noise meets haunting pop melody and brutal lyrical honesty. They’re Sonic Youth, Pavement, The Strokes and Echo And The Bunnymen eating each other on a raft adrift in the Arctic Ocean. 

They’re Death At Sea, the best band to emerge from a vapid Liverpool scene in decades. And they’ve come to give rock the kiss of life.

Death At Sea released their debut limited edition 7” AA-side single ‘Drag’ / ‘Selfless’ through Kissability / Transgressive. The band recorded the tracks in their living room, working on “the most broken, run-down set-up ever. Broken headphones, broken microphones, no money… we had to tie things together for them to work, literally with school ties”, the band came up with their first clutch of classic tunes almost immediately. Future hit ‘Drag’ – “When he’s with her, she bleeds glitter” – is a sexy and seditious slab of misanthropic glam grunge.
The band are currently putting the finishing touches on their debut long player. 

Death At Sea are Ralph, Sam, Rory and Simon. The band will be touring  this year in support of their forthcoming album.

Like the biggest oceanic predators, Death At Sea will keep moving or die. Get devoured.

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“Music to get high and drift through your twenties to” This Is Fake DIY

“Songs that pass the old grey litmus test: hours after hearing them they’ll still be rattling around inside your skull” NME

Rock Band from Derry City, Northern Ireland.

Remember the spirit of 88.  Dole queues getting bigger, the Conservatives in power and class war on the streets.

But at the same time, shining out of the gloom, came the birth of Acid House.  One of the most significant cultural movements of the 20th Century.  Before corporate clubbing in faceless venues with bland promoters always looking at the bottom line, this was community and creativity and spirit.

Now the Tories are back and the number of unemployed is rising again, but thankfully for those of you too young to remember the first time round or those of you who should know better but don’t, we give you The Tea Street Band

They are causing a minor riot every time they play.  In the past 6 months they have organized a series of warehouse raves featuring classic Acid House sets with guest DJs such as Andy Carroll (Cream, The State) as well as modern contemporaries James Rand (Chibuku).

Tea Street Band are a bastard mutilation that in its most extreme combines 808 State with Doves and the gang mentality of The Happy Mondays.  

Their balaeric anthem ‘Fiesta’ is a already a massive hit with the disillusioned youth in Liverpool. A strange and heady concoction that is making their growing fanbase keep coming back for more.  

These kids where not there the first time round but they are doing their best to lead the assault on a new balaeric summer of love in 2012.

Fuck me a real rock n roll band!  This will be a hedonistic adventure to remember.  

The End (beautiful friend)

Hi, I'm a drummer and composer from Ireland specialising in aleatoric and indeterminate pieces that focus on incorporating percussion instruments with soundscape based material.

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