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Gigs
Sat 29 Apr 06
Dressy Bessy /
Radiator Experts
Bunkers Hill,
Nottingham
Wed 19 Apr 06
Cannonball Jane /
Radiator Experts
The Social,
Nottingham
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Album
The debut album, "Times are bad for Dreamers" was released in January '04. More Details.
info@radiatorexperts.co.uk| "One of Nottingham’s best kept secrets although that’s probably their own fault the lazy b*ggers. Only kidding. The Radiator Experts make the kind of indie pop that doesn’t exist in Nottingham any more since The Liberty Ship went their separate ways. Expect much tweeness and a lot of star jumps as this ace Bis meets Talulah Gosh lot play their sweet, sweet songs before a disinterested audience. If only it weren’t this way…" SANDMAN MAGAZINE- September 2005
"The Radiator Experts are that most rare of things; a Nottingham indie-pop band. And a rather fine one, too. 'Times Are Bad For Dreamers' is their second album, I believe, and is a massive improvement on earlier releases. There's a dainty charm to much of Rad Ex's work. Yeah, they can't play their instruments so well, but that's the beauty of it. 'Upside Down' was a mighty fine Jesus and Mary Chain song, but this is nearly as good. It's all terribly shy vocals and fuzzpop guitars and I love it. And that's basically what you get all the way through - it's not rocket science, but then most of the best pop music isn't. And this is most certainly POP! music. And, if you're true to yourself, you can never really fail to love an album that includes a song called 'The Wallpaper Revival'. A small masterpiece, then." SANDMAN MAGAZINE- July/August 2005? |
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"They're a bit plinky-plonky in places as you might expect with a raw bedroom sound, but a good song is always a good song and they have at least half a dozen, such as Upside Down - the obvious single from this demo CD. I think they're influenced by the same obscure US bands that influence Homescience. And their effervescent sound reminds me in places of (circa 86 band) The fizzbombs (more recently The Secret Goldfish) whose "Sign on the Line" just had to be about the fizziest record ever made. And Poetry Recitals contains the immortal lines: There wer girls riding motorcycles/ to the poetry recitals; today you like quite oriental/ I sometimes wonder if I'm going insane." Out of the bedroom and into the studio seems the next obvious move." Wide Open Road- August 2004 "Brisk zesty and thoroughly deserving of your adoration, the first crack-of-the-(liquorice)-whip from Nottingham's perplexingly monikered two-part-boy/one-part-girl pop machine believes passionately in the transcendent properties of the summer and of a young ladies haircut just so , is smart enough to create its own idea of cool and to run with it, and it joyfully scatters its store of bonbon melodies (and we're talking Gummi De Milo quality here) like carelessly-chucked confetti at a Beach Boys wedding. They impishly choose to start the ball rolling with the most eccentric piece of the entire sequence - that'll be the strangely uplifting ivories-like-icicles disarray of Playin Piano (On Your Teeth) - the band soon settle into playing their confident and distinctive easy-chord game as perfected on no-fi hits Upside Down and Heavy Rock Girl sounding for all the world like a buzzing transistor radio receiving two stations simultaneously (one playing the rasping trash guitars of early Pavement, with toe-tapping 60's schlock pop on t'other). One wouldn't expect a song called Poetry Recitals (featuring by the way a spunky bass-line to rival that of the Smiths Cemetery Gates) to be anything other than unrepentantly good-natured and sweet, but don't go expecting our bunnies always to be happy and sour notes never struck. Sunny Days in Paris for instance, kens well the currency of the romantic loser. Furthermore it will proceed to drown its sorrows in a stream of Space Invaders effects, and I like it. Then there's the crawling frustration of This Wallpaper Revival, which details in dry laconic fashion the perils posed to the couple by the infinite variety offered by the world of interior design; and of course The Clock on the Wall which murmurs something in your ear about the dark mysterious heart off the odd song by the Monkees or the Chocolate Watch Band, then has its wicked way with Lenny Kravitz'z Delicate for the chorus. If I could make one wish for this band, it would be for singers Ben and Becky to duet more as their names clearly suggest they should. As for you, reader dear, I advise you'll be wanting this in time for summer." Butterfly Crush- May 2004 "Okay, let me set the scene; It's a beautiful sunny day, there's an Ice Cream Cola float in one hand, the cover to this Cd in your lap, with the fingers on your free hand snapping, and your boy/girlfriend on a sunbed next to you, doing exactly the same.. Actually, it's frickin' freezing & there's 6 inches of snow on the ground, but that's the image this Cd conjures up in your mind. ..pretty much every track on here is so memorable & catchy- and some surprisingly short- Standouts are Upside Down, a cute killer of a tune that'd make St Etienne green with envy, with Becky taking lead vocals, Alzheimers sees Ben's Byrds-esque vocals come to the fore, over a fuzzy, Subway Sect-like sweet & tasty post-punk rhythm, Like Girls Like You - probably my favourite, with great lyrics & a tune like strawberry bubblegum for your brain- but its immediately rivaled by the Buzzcocks-lite groove of Basement- and the clapalong I Can't See The Sun.. and the head-swaying Heavy Rock Grrl.. Oh, I can't decide what my fave is. That's gotta be the sign of a great album, eh? In fact, why bother choosing? Just grrooove along to the Boy/Girl Summer Fun Band" - 4.5/5 Juicy Fanzine- February 2004 "Times are bad for dreamers really is a fantastic debut-consider my already fairly high expectations surpassed!...11 top songs in less than half an hour" - Peter Millar, editor of butterfly crush fanzine- February 2004 New Demo: Radiator Experts "...the Radiator Experts (upbeat lo-fi pop band; sometimes they sound kind of powerpoppy but with quirky bits, other times they do a less noisy summery pop thing. This excellently named band are much poppier now than they used to be; this is some of the best stuff I've heard from them!)" - Aquamarine on-line zine # 24 May 03 "the Radiator Experts...play whistleable West Coast-centric melodies with a nonchalant gum chewing cool" - Butterfly Crush fanzine issue #4 May 03 "...sounding like a groovy mix of the Beach Boys, Kaito and a soupcon of the Byrds (with a drum machine) and Kylie - in that when you listen to it you can't get it out of your head...this absolutely #$%!ing ace" - Juicy #5 Fanzine April 02 "...Sounding like Belle and Sebastian offshoot Looper, it's cute tinkly keyboards aplenty." - Channel 4 Teletext March 02 review of the more post rock styled David Weatherall EP. "E6-ish quirky power pop from the Radiator Experts" - boa melody bar Interview in Juicy #5 Fanzine April 02Introduce yourselves... Who/What are your main influences? Who would you most like to support on tour? As a kid, did you think clowns were funny or scary? What song have you got in your head right now? Whats yer fave...Choc bar/ Simpsons character/ animal/ flavour
of crisps? Anything else you wanna say? |
"A rather superb name and wonderfully endearing in their naïve happiness and sugar-smiles. You've a penchant for surf pop, right? I think you'll love Times are bad for Dreamers with its unapologetic glee and love of a sunshine set of chords. Girl-boy vocals and tunes aplenty, songs short and sweet as they should be. What more could you want?" Slamshut- March 2004