Events details
| Arts, Music : THE WOMBATS + SUPPORT | |||||||||
| Open.. from 14/05/2008 to 14/05/2008 | |||||||||
| Starts: | 19:00 | ||||||||
| Description: | At first, The Wombats were a joke they didn't want anyone to find funny. "For our first gig we wore jesters" hats with sunglasses, says guitarist/singer Matthew 'Murph' Murphy. "They had bells on the end," adds drummer/singer Dan Haggis. Murph: "In the middle of the songs we'd break into uncontrollable screaming. The idea was not to be funny." Dan: "If people laughed we'd be like 'ah we dogged it'. We wanted it to die on its feet. Literally people would just stand there and there'd be this awful silence. You know like in The Office when there's a dreadful silence, and the next day weÕd be like 'Ah that was amazing that bit, wasn't it?' We still love dying on our feet sometimes." Murph: "It was a lot of silliness. The idea of the band was to be stupid. We were just idiots." But this was back in 2003, when The Wombats were enrolled in Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts (LIPA). Local lads Murph and Dan, despite playing cricket against each other for their respective schools near Strawberry Fields, only actually met each other at LIPA aged 19 when Murph turned up trolleyed at Dan's flat. Murph thought Dan was "a complete muppet with pink and grey hair", Dan (quite rightly) thought Murph was a "fellow piss-head". So naturally they started playing gigs together (at The Cavern Club, notably) before they nabbed bassist Tord ¯verland Knudsen (fresh at LIPA from his hometown of Elverum in Norway) from the seven other bands heÕd joined within a fortnight of arriving. Armed with such early wonky pop classics as 'The Ostrich Song' and a tune now only remembered by the band as "the standing at the bus stop one", the three - plus an American guitarist called Ben who was in the band for a few months, whose speciality was a Mexican "areeeeba!" noise, embarked on four years of tall tales of boys and girls and marsupials |
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| Venue: Ironworks | |||||||||
| Address: | 122b Academy Street Inverness
Highland
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| Description: | The Ironworks is the only purpose-built live music venue of its kind in the area, showcasing bands and music from all genres. | ||||||||
| Phone: | 0871 7894 173 (venue) | ||||||||
| Website: | http://www.ironworksvenue.com/ (venue) | ||||||||
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