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 Germinal's Profile |
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Alternatively Dark Psychedelic Space Rock |
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| Location: | Cardiff, |
| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Last Login: | Mar 7, 2008 (220 days back) |
About Me |
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| Germinal started life as a solo project for Purvis. Later joined by Road and the hybrid evolved. The further mononomenclatured Hardy and Baynham followed and the resulting extraordinary 2005 album 'From Hibernation' record on Elemental Sounds and Lockjaw followed on from the 2001 'Contagion is a Good Thing E.P'. 2007 and a new bass player enters the affray, Staples, the band has never sounded better, a new album is currently being brewed, somewhere very very dark. RECENT REVIEWS: (subba-cultcha.com) - Rocks brightest hopes get to grips with our Q&A… A new interview is online at http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.php?id=4636 (The Mag) THIS IS WIDESCREEN MUSIC. They grab the attention from the start. "Clean" has a monster hook and builds into an obsessive-compulsive roar with equal parts Dave Gahan and Trent Reznor. Whoever thought of fitting Johnny Marr guitars to choral fantasia (amongst other things) should be given a medal. "Layers" hangs around for a while, quite low-key, before becoming something quite different, a nihilistic giant like Scott Walker's "Nite Flights". Germinal have the wit and imagination to make both hits and great albums. This trip through the DNA of industrial/goth/noir/whatever you want is truly magnificent (Big Cheese) The resulting album 'From Hibernation' is packed to the gills with sonic heroics and strong songwriting and is refreshingly aloof of trends and fads. (Subba- Cultcha) From Hibernation is as straightforward as rulers and chock-full of sexy effects and barren guitars, all the while the aforementioned Purvis wails like a lusty widow full of want. Road is the 'Cheese'. Yum yum. (Unpeeled) 'BIGGER THAN TEXAS'. 'First Up there are cooly classy songs, secondly, they are smothered, muscled up, rubbed down and rammed full of electriod riffery of the most attractive and addictive kinds, but, as the man says, do what I will. All right then, this is a fine rock album of tunes that are empowered with sleaze and electricity They will, mark me, be fucking huge. (Zonapunk) Great newness, great band, one of the revelations of 2006 (Dieshellsuit) Drama, yes drama is what Germinal have and the builds within songs like One Great Emotion and the David Bowie style vocals add to the dimensions of the album, succeeds in not sounding like the wash of generic bands being pushed right now. Guitar driven Baby Doll stands out for sheer musicianship and extravagant guitars (Buzz Magazine) Germinal offer psychedelic space rock, all acoustic strumming and effects pedals, with added gothic baritone vocals. ONE GREAT EMOTION and the nine-minute GREAT MOURNING, get the balance spot on; the one track that will really haunt you is BABY DOLL, whose pulsing bass drum and tyre-screech guitar recall The Idiot-era Iggy Pop. (Hardwire) "This release offers us a taste of what similar bands have forgotten about - Originality" (The Sunday Independent) "An exhilarating & often wonderful trip through Purvis' psyche" - "Germinal sound like nothing I've ever heard before - that's why I like them" |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 3/14/2006Band Website: germinal.info Band Members: Purvis: Main Vocals, Guitars; Hardy: Guitars, Backing Vocals; Road: Drums, Backing Vocals Influences: Muses, Cohen, Nine Inch Nails, Beefheart, Pumpkins, Morricone Sounds Like: Germinal Advert..The extraordinary current release This is widescreen music Stills from the 'Skin' video Record Label: Elemental Sounds (in association with Lockjaw) Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Alternative) |
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My Blog |
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NEW NEWS NEW |
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| Greetings from the war room:Work on the new album (See Germinal Ad) is trotting along at a steady pace. Clear But Cloudy Day is a confirmed album track as are Without Love, Reasons and Baby Beriut.Edi... Posted by Germinal on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:34:00 PST |
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Featured Band |
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| Germinal are currently 'featured band' here:http://www.myspace.com/smashingpumpkinswalesUp to date news on everything happening in the forthcoming months so go and have a spy! Posted by Germinal on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:35:00 PST |
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DVD GIVEAWAY |
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| We now have 20 free dvd's left. See previous blog for how to obtain one of these Germinal rare discs.A - G - Faction Posted by Germinal on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:46:00 PST |
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Free DVD and Website update |
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| DEAR PEOPLE,The main Germinal Website is now back online with the latest Germinal news for August. www.germinal.infoFREE DVDWe are giving away 25 limited edition numbered lightscribed DVD's of the 'SK... Posted by Germinal on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:15:00 PST |
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RoadBlog |
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| Hello all,You may have noticed the main www.germinal.info web site is still not active, annoying technical problems after a change of server unfortunately, it will be up very soon with a few new bits ... Posted by Germinal on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:02:00 PST |
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Road Ahead |
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| How many headings can I make a pun with? Who knows!Well the big news is that a limited edition DVD will be available shortly, containing the full skin video, a few short films, some rehearsal footage,... Posted by Germinal on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST |
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Road musing |
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| Well all,It's a funny old world, just ask George Bush, a true comedians comedian.Here in the dark world of Germinal, we are laughing but you just can't see it.You're all telling us we need to come and... Posted by Germinal on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:00:00 PST |
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News of New Things |
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| New photos in the photo section. Taken at the Clwb Ifor Bach show 14/4/07New songs on player from the From Hibernation album.Currently the main germinal.info site is down as the servers are being chan... Posted by Germinal on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:06:00 PST |
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GIG & SET LIST |
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| A very big thankyou to those who came to the Germinal outing on the 14th. We hope you enjoyed the set as much as we enjoyed playing it. Thanks also to the Gar band. See you all soon. Germinal Setlist... Posted by Germinal on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:49:00 PST |
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Evening All |
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| And so it is that the four members of Germinal are all very excited. For tomorrow is the first show with the new line-upHow many of you will be there? the show is now set and the set-list is a corker,... Posted by Germinal on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:43:00 PST |
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