listen...............................
We are a 6-piece experimental band with a diverse range of musical influences
from post-rock to electronica, post-punk avant-garde classical.
We've played alongside some corkers such as; A Silver Mount Zion, Pram,
Leafcutter John, Seb Rochford, Caroline Weeks, Birdengine, Sons of Noel and
Adrian, Riz MC, Frank Chickens, Le Band Extraordinaire and more...
Our songs combine an orchestra of electronic and acoustic instruments (23 was
the last count) which we like to swap during songs. Often likened to film
soundtracks, our pieces often develop like a symphony, from a single improvised,
delicate musical gesture progressing into an immense, pulsating rock-out with
soaring classical-style soprano vocals, flute and autoharp (Elizabeth Walling),
tireless avant-garde drumming, glockenspiel and synth (Max Hallett),
super-melodic guitar, synth, piano and trumpet (Thom Punton), ambient and
beautiful live electronics both analogue and digital, accordian, wooden flute,
guitar, glockenspiel, synth, cornet and electronic bowed cymblals (Ed Briggs),
pounding piano chords, menacing string-like synth resonances and euphoric synth
riffery, guitar and sax (Dan Leavers), vocals (from screamo to beautiful choral
harmonies), piano, clarinet, synth and sax (James Barton) and we've all been
known to bang a drum or anything else that's laying about.
We have just released our first EP entitled CHINA - it's a 17-minute epic in
three parts. We're proud to have written, recorded and produced this all
ourselves. EP is available to buy below at £5 plus £1.50 postage.
To book us, play with us, join our mailing list or just tell us that you love us
and want to have our babies, please write to:
info@ascandalinbohemia.com
reviews...............................
"In this day and age of identi-kit indie bands in skinny jeans, oozing attitude with salon-tastic hair-do's (am I sounding jaded??) it's a refreshing change to come across one that seems to have quite simply torn up the rule book and wandered off in an all together different musical direction. " BBC SOUTHERN COUNTIES, JULY 2008
"Taking it back to the sounds of the perfume garden"
BBC
SOUTHERN COUNTIES, JULY 2008
"A Scandal In Bohemia, their sound as moving, grand and as wonderfully
pretentious as their name."
Fact Magazine, August 2008
"a trip to the Limits to hear A Scandal in Bohemia, who have previously appeared
alongside better-known post-rock groups such as A Silver Mt. Zion. The
five-piece band are young and formidably talented with obviously extensive
classical training, each member able to switch instruments at will...with vocals
provided by three different band members and superb drumming. The music itself
has very strong contemporary classical elements alongside strong post-rock
dynamics with a thrilling progression through many of the songs from delicate
melodies to climactic walls of noise, and the overall effect is very powerful
and an extremely impressive live spectacle."
Review by a Last.fm blogger
http://www.lastfm.fr/user/northcape (writing on
Loop Festival 2008)
"Tracks which sound like someone searching for a station on a Thirties radio.
Their jazz-tinged songs fade into each other and build gently before collapsing
in a swirl of brass, scratchy samples, manic drumming and looped vocals."
THE ARGUS, Brighton, April 2007