Absentee (band)

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Absentee playing live at the Summer Sundae festival 2006
Absentee playing live at the Summer Sundae festival 2006

Absentee are a band from London in the UK, signed to Memphis Industries. They are Dan Michaelson (vocals/guitar), Melinda Bronstein (vocals, keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel), Babak Ganjei (guitar/lap steel), Laurie Earle (bass) and Jon Chandler (drums).

The band have had two major releases so far. Donkey Stock in 2005 was a six track EP, which helped get the band noticed. In 2006, the band released a full length album called Schmotime, which was well received by the music press, including a 7.1 Pitchfork rating. Much was made of the up-beat nature of the songs, in stark contrast to the morbid nature of the lyrics - 'There's a body in a car somewhere' - for example.

The album was produced by James Ford, of Arctic Monkeys and Mystery Jets fame.

The band are currently touring around Europe. They supported Bloc Party at a gig at the Olde Firestation in Bournemouth on 24th January 2007.

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[edit] Pre-formation

Before forming the band, Dan Michaelson and Melinda Bronstein collaborated to make the self-produced mini-album Hawaiian Disco. Five songs from that mini-album, and other unreleased material was used in the 2003 film Twisted, shown in the Raindance Film Festival.[1][2]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

  • 2006 "Something to Bang" #180 UK
  • 2006 "Weasel"
  • 2006 "We Should Never Have Children"
  • 2006 "There's A Body In A Car Somewhere"

[edit] EPs

  • 2005 Donkey Stock

[edit] Albums

  • 2006 Schmotime

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Absentee", DrownedInSound.com; URL accessed May 20, 2006.
  2. ^ "Full Cast and Crew for Twisted (2003/I)", IMDB ; URL accessed May 20, 2006.

[edit] External links


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