Uffmoor Woods Music Club

Horsemen

Mark — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:58:14 +0000

We’re currently working on a new instrumental project, Horsemen. You can check it out at horsemenband.com. Expect an album sometime in 2012, together with a new Uffmoor release.

‘Use Camera With Swamp’ now on iTunes and Spotify

Mark — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:36:11 +0000

You can now feast your ears on early Uffmoor Woods Music Club material via iTunes and Spotify. These recordings feature myself on guitars, vocals and keys, Pablo Diablo on bass and backing vox, Enthusiastic Dave on Drums and the AP on lead guitar on ‘Under the stage’.

Here’s the tracklist:

In the Basement!
Under the Stage
Belcher Island Debutantes
Farewell Master Kiwi (Don’t Call Off the Wolves)

Brand new material is on the way: watch this space, as they say.

Uffmoor on Facebook

Mark — Sat, 14 May 2011 13:17:01 +0000

Impressed by their underhandedness and smear campaigns, I’m trying Facebook out as a mouthpiece for the band. ‘Like’ this if you like this. In other news, I’ll be fixing up some underloved guitars and doing a bit of recording and mixing soon. Hope to have some songs out for the summer of a wintery vibe.

Uffmoor makes the top 10 forests of myth and legend!

Mark — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:34:42 +0000

and well-deserved too. What a spiritual home it is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/apr/11/10-best-woods-forests-myths-legends

Distant Signal on iTunes

Mark — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:17:08 +0000

I play guitar in this band. It’s loud horror rock, a little something we like to call Zombie Mosh.

iTunes Download: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shotgun-orchestra/id426688169

Amazon MP3 Download: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shotgun-Orchestra-Explicit/dp/B004SBC36G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300314779&sr=8-2

Now on Spotify!

Mark — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:13:41 +0000

You can now listen to Love in the Time of Cannibals on Spotify. Enjoy!

The What Stripes?

Mark — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:28:22 +0000

Seven Nation Barmy

Review in Morning Star Online

Mark — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:00:58 +0000

Thanks to Kirstie May for this review of Love in the Time of Cannibals.

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a pretty spaced-out sonic journey.

From the tuneful folky opening track I Spit On Your Grave, Uffmoor Woods Music Club, the brainchild of Midlanders Mark Cooper and Paul Baker, nail their quirky colours to the mast. Sample lyric: “I spit on your grave was a great film in places.”

Elsewhere, the crisp ringing keyboards on Midnight Fugue bring a filmic flavour to proceedings, while highlight Our Hero Finds A Book marries the sweetest parts of Aberfeldy with the DIY spirit of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.

The downbeat title track seems slightly out of place, but elsewhere on the record there are splashes of skill which promise great things ahead.

Kirstie May

Do not adjust your audio device

Mark — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:21:22 +0000

Paul and I are working on getting the next batch of songs ready for release. There are some new ideas and we probably could have ready for Christmas.

Part of the reason we want to get the next Uffmoor record out by then is that we’ll also be working hard on the Distant Signal release, which will definitely be something special… and another project.

Another finger in another musical pie. Three great guitarists from the Halesowen area have signed up and we’ll be heading into the recording room around Christmas and the new year. More details to follow soon. Can’t wait.

Stay tuned.

…and on Amazon

Mark — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:15:16 +0000

You can pick up the latest EP on Amazon MP3, if you’re not iTunes inclined.

In other news I tried out one of the Fender Lonestar Strats in a music shop the other day. They’ve got the classic 70s headstock apparently (I wouldn’t have known that had the shop bloke not pointed it out, still not sure what the significance is) and a humbucker. Not sure if I’d need a humbucker on a strat, although it would be handy in certain situations. Smooth sound, cheaper than a standard and American made. Anyway, I put it back on the rack, thus ending my Wayne’s World moment.