Biography
London based, headed by Andy Holden, and often featuring the dark crooner Johnny Parry of the Johnny Parry Trio.
They're pretty nice, if you get the chance to see them, which is pretty hard.
Alternative / Electronica / Melodramatic Popular Song
BAND MEMBERS
Andy Holden
John Blamey
Johnny Parry
Roger Illingworth
J.B MacDowell
WEBSITES
www.losttoysrecords.com
www.myspace.com/thegrubbymitts
INFLUENCES
Philip Guston, Franz West, Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Kippenburger, Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Goddard, Mogwai, The Fall, Venetian Snares, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Baselitz, Joseph Cornell, Deleuze, Bergson, Charles Ives, Laurie Anderson, LFO, Mike Kelly, Jason Rhoades, Tom Waits, Pavement, Richard Prince, John Cage, William Carlos Williams, Claes Oldenburg, Dieter Roth, Dylan Thomas, AFX, Laidbach, Richard Brautigan, Four Tet, Chet Baker, Boards of Canada, Walace Stevens, e.e cummings, John Baldessari, Arthur Russel, Scott Walker, Grooverider, Einstürzende Neubauten, Can, Arab Strap, Hans Jean Arp, The Flaming Lips, Frances Picabia, John Adams, Freud, The Bonzo Dog Band, Destroy All Monsters, Lambchop, Lenny Bruce, Yo La Tengo, Deus, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Andy Kauffman, Gavin Bryars, Devo, Psychic TV, Orbital, John McCracken, John Peel, Kurt Schwitters.
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