"Mixing jagged riffs with natural and beautiful verses...this is a refreshing listen." BIG CHEESE MAGAZINE
UK rockers MUNROE EFFECT hit the road NEXT WEEK for a string of UK dates in support of new EP 'You Are GoldMouth', released on November 17.
Formed in Portsmouth in 2006, the band quickly found their feet, undertaking early tours with Oceansize and Future of The Left. They consolidated this hectic touring schedule with a true stroke of luck when they entered a Coke/Itunes competition judged by XFM's Eddy Temple-Morris. They saw off 700 other bands to make it into the live performance final at London's ULU.
"We went on to play and lost the Audience Vote to some guys dressed like A Clockwork Orange", laughs Frontman Dan Sutton, "But we still came away with an iPod each and a £1800 Apple laptop. Within a couple of weeks we sold the four iPods on eBay and the laptop to our sound man Phil (who does the sound for The Subways and Babyshambles). We used the money to pay for van insurance and new brakes so we could stay on the road touring."
This kind of pragmatic determination underlines just how serious the Munroe Effect are about taking their music to the masses and have since undertaken tours with The Subways, Reuben, This City and Fighting With Wire.
Equal parts free flowing melody, angular jagged heaviosity and layered soundscape beauty, catch these unique guys at one of their following shows:
Wednesday-05-Nov Portsmouth Railway Rifle Club
Friday-07-Nov Bath Ye Old Farmhouse
Saturday-08-Nov Southsea South Parade Pier
Sunday-09-Nov London Camden, Barfly
Friday-21-Nov Crewe The Box
Saturday-22-Nov Bolton InterKonnect Festival
Thursday-27-Nov Newport Meze Lounge
Saturday-29-Nov Portsmouth HMV Instore Gunwharf
Tuesday-02-Dec Guildford Platform 9
http://www.myspace.com/munroeeffect
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MUNROE EFFECT hit the road for UK tour NEXT WEEK
Munroe Effect release their 'You Are Goldmouth' EP on Nov 17 2008