Islands Lost At Sea
Acoustic / Breakbeat / Hip Hop / Indie / Thrash

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The Band

Adam - Bass, Double Bass, Beats, Synths
Bodge - Guitars / Backing Vocals / Beats
Dan - Vocals / Guitars

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Islands Lost at Sea were formed in 1958 as the British answer to the American rock n’ roll explosion. Sadly they were musically incapable of competing with the ‘hot new teenage sound’ sweeping the nation causing popular music magazine of the time ‘Rock On’ to describe the experience of listening to them as “the least enjoyable thing that could happen to a hip young cat, aside from urinating blood”. Throughout the next 45 years the Islands shed and bred band members, and gained a reputation for being woefully inept at every new genre of music as it arose. Merseyside, glam-rock, prog- the Islands tried them all, proudly wearing their inability like a military medal, if indeed there was a military medal for consistent failure.

In 2004 the baton was passed to three new members. Dan, Adam and Bodge who decided it was time to do something progressive. And so it is- Islands Lost at Sea currently make the worst music of a genre that isn’t due to be fashionable for another six years. Their method is to use an entirely unnecessary amount of instruments to make music that none of them like and that sound like nothing else. Electronica, acoustic balladry, Hawaiian folk music, twisted blues. Quite simply- in 2012 everyone will be making music that sounds like Tom Waits meets Lemon Jelly. But probably a lot better. In music you can either make your name by being the first or being the best. Fifty years of musical miscarriages have proved that there is little point in the Islands pursuing the latter option.




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