Manchester Psychedelica Band The Watchmakers are playing at Cosmosis – Alternative Festival Of Psychedelic Music and Arts 2 weeks today on Saturday 14th March. From time to time, this is a band to recommend that deserves to be brought to your attention. No record labels, PR companies, bands or band’s management will ever have made these recommendations. It is simply one music fan putting their taste on the line in the hope of sharing good music.
The Watchmakers, a psych rock ‘n’ roll 4 piece with a penchant for good clobber – Rich Maitland on vox, Ian Maitland on drums, Adam Lewis on guitar & Andy Lewis on bass. from Salford, Manchester.
We’ve all been bashing out noise on instruments but as a band together its pretty new. We kicked off with things at a night with Clint Boon last November and its on an upwards spiral from there.
Are there any obvious influences in their music?
I suppose it depends on the extent of your musical knowledge as to what you’d call obvious. The first demo, Before Questions Became, I think you can hear traces of The Beatles, Chemical Brothers, Amorphous Androgynous, and the Stone Roses to name a few, but the band try and take on inspiration from across the board.They are not purveyors of the traditional ‘verse-chorus-verse-chorus’ type songs and I think that comes from inspiration with listening to unconventional bands like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 and Can and David Axelrod.
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