Bio: The Sticks are a stripped down garage party band from Brighton. They are but two in number. They bash drums, claw at guitar - often swapping over instruments between songs live ... (more)
Bio: The Sticks are a stripped down garage party band from Brighton. They are but two in number. They bash drums, claw at guitar - often swapping over instruments between songs live - and yelp with melodic abandon and delight. The Sticks were recently dubbed as 'semi-amateur', this may be true.
Barely knowing a guitar chord between them, they bang out their own curious musical arrangements. With cheap, unreliable equipment they manage to tease out a cacophony of crashing drums and raucous guitar melodies. The key elements of the duo's sound are undoubtedly drawn from the rudimentary ideas found in the more inept efforts of mid-sixties teen bands such as The Chimney Sweeps and The Keggs, as well as their modern day equivalents The Black Lips, The Coachwhips or The Hospitals, say. (less)
