The Brute Chorus - Chateau

What do you do if you the pub you run (The Hawley Arms) is staffed and frequented by some of Londons best new bands and you've always wanted to put a few records out? Start a Label.

Therefore Alan 'D Day' Days Bumpman45's first release is a double whammy of psyched out garage folk music from Hawley residents ' The Brute Chorus�. A-side Chateau is the song of a taciturn lover literally besieged by love taking the forms of an unwanted visitor and then a wolf at the door. Like a nightmare Red Riding Hood turned inside out "you look just like a wolf my dear, though you�re wearing clever clothes" - frontman James Steel claims he dreamt the tune one night and wrote the song within minutes of waking up.

AA side is a blistering duet with band friend and former Fiction signing Tigs. The two singers take it in turns to tell a tale of infidelity, theft, revenge and murder over a pounding skiffle rhythm adorned with synthesizers, kazoos and a banjo played by another friend Mat Martin; all served up Fairytale of New Yorkstyle.

The Brute Chorus, comprise of West Country-vicar�s son James Steel (Guitars, Vocals), Cumbrians Nick Foots (multi-instrumentalist & vocals) and Matthew Day (drums & percussion son of a Quaker morris man) who both grew up in the shadow of Sellafield - and Andy Holt (bass) from County Durham who came to London from the four corners of the land to pursue their interests at music college in Greenwich. They�ve been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since March. They�ve been taking it to the people with sets at The Secret Garden Party, Danny McNamara�s The Aftershow in Manchester, a monthly residency at Camden�s infamous Hawley Arms pub and became Myspace front page featured artists along the way. They live together in a flat in Whitechapel formerly inhabited by Bow Wow Wow, so they claim.

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