The Answering Machine
The Answering Machine are Martin on guitars and vocals, Patrick on guitars and Gemma on bass. And a drum machine called Mustafa Beat, who has his own MySpace profile. The three human members of the band come from Crewe, the Midlands and New Mills respectively. The drum machine, we expect, came from the shop. But it was probably made in Taiwan.
Regardless, they all met in the student union bar whilst at Manchester University and bonded over a love of that seminal first Strokes album ‘Is This It’. Despite having been around for less than a year, they’ve already played shows with the Rumble Strips and found time to release a single, ‘Oklahoma’, on legendary Manchester indie High Voltage – all 500 copies of which were hand decorated by the band themselves. How much Mustafa had to do with that we’re unable to confirm.
Recently, Alex Lee Thomson of Rockfeedback was lucky enough to spend some time with the band. Read what topics they nattered about by clicking HERE.
MYSPACE.COM/THEANSWERINGMACHINE: The band’s only official web presence thus far, this site collects some press shots of the beautiful people along with four tracks to stream.
HIGH VOLTAGE: From the records they release to the nights they put on, it’s always worth keeping an eye on what The Answering Machine’s Manchester home are up to.
SCENE REPORT MANCHESTER 2006: Just to prove how painfully ‘on it’ we are, here’s a brief account of our first stumble across The Answering Machine, in their formative stages, nearly a whole year ago now.
LABEL PROFILE: HIGH VOLTAGE: The band’s initial Manchester home boasts the finest roster in the north, and one to rival any other stable throughout our green and pleasant (and invariably grey, wet and pretty f**king horrible) land.
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