MAD DOG MCREA A PROFESSIONAL TOURING BAND, HAVE BEEN WORKING THEIR MAGIC AROUND THE GLOBE SINCE 1995. WITH THEIR UNIQUE BLEND OF RAW ENERGY AND KALEIDOSCOPIC ACOUSTIC ORCHESTRATION THEY HAVE SOARED TO INCREDIBLE NOTORIETY IN THE CLUBS AND PUBS OF DEVON AND CORNWALL AND HAVE ALSO TOURED EXTENSIVELY IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS IRELAND, SCANDINAVIA, USA, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND AND A SIX MONTH RESIDENCY IN THE ISLAND OF PHUKET (THAILAND).

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About The Gala Band

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We have just been signed to the the Bristol, Oxford and Leeds based Dreamboat Records who are releasing our debut E.P Little Revelations, which is currently being mixed by Jim Moray and will be released on 30 July, 2007.
 
Hello and welcome to our myspace page.
Here's a little about how we got here: we (Hannah and Ben) started playing and writing music together several years ago, for a bit of fun. After a few months we decided to take things a little further by performing at some small venues and open mics around Bristol as Hannah and Her Sisters. One night Hannah went to the pub and bumped into an old school friend, Jon Fisher (except she was convinced his name was Simon). Jon was a drummer. We invited him along to play with us and after a short while we decided to make it official. Hannah and Her Sisters were no more. We became a new band. The Gala Band. After a short time as just the three of us we were lucky enough to acquire a tremendous bass player in the form of Everton.
 
We are going to use this page to post up a mixture of tracks recorded with the whole band (demo 'No. 1') and other 'works in progress' which are still being fiddled with. We hope you like what you hear.
 
The Gala Band are an emotive piano/ acoustic guitar/ alt-pop/ folk 4 piece from Bristol. Their music is a carefully blended mix, from quirky, gentle and meaningful songs, to striking, powerful epics. The beautiful female vocals, looping guitars and carefully crafted songs created by an established song writing duo are what make this group stand out as something a little different. Regularly compared to the likes of Cat Power, Elbow, Regina Spector and Fiona Apple you can begin to build a picture of what you might get from the band. Their inspirations are drawn from a spectrum covering Miles Davis to Elliot Smith, Eliza Carthy to The Ghost Busters sound track and everything in between. Quite a mixed bag!
 
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About The Dharma Bums
 
The Dharma Bums are a 7-piece band based in Plymouth. We utilise a van-load of instruments to produce original progressive-intense-folk-rock material, with influences ranging from Van Morrison and Joanna Newsom to Bright Eyes and Radiohead. Over the last 6 months we have played numerous venues around the south west and south coast, receiving extremely positive feedback and reviews. If you haven't seen us yet then please check out our band calendar and come along.

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