The Mime Set

With new album in the can and ready to be released, plus a string of interesting shows, commissions and side projects (LCUK, The People People and Princess One Point Five) The Mime Set... more

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With new album in the can and ready to be released, plus a string of interesting shows, commissions and side projects (LCUK, The People People and Princess One Point Five) The Mime Set are set for touring in Australia and Europe into 2008.

The supernatural intensity of The Mime Set’s live shows has mesmerised audiences in headline slots and supports with Baseball, Sixfthick, Hugo Race & True Spirit, The Spoils and Silver Ray, plus special events like the National Gallery of Victoria’s opening of the retrospective exhibition ‘Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography’ and the Wellington, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festival successes of their “soundtracked spoken word” collaborations ‘Death To Your Dreams’ and ‘LCUK: Falling In and Out of Luck’.

Wall-of-noise guitar loops/fx and a tensile voice mark the fractured beauty of The Mime Set’s debut EP ‘sleeping is the hardest part’ and the harder sounds on upcoming debut album ‘Into The Water’.

The addition of a rhythm section, Justin Avery (ex- The Dumb Earth) on bass and Chris Chapple (ex-Autohaze) on drums, in late 2004, The Mime Set has created striking uneasy listening art-rock drawing comparisons to Kristin Hersch, The Dirty Three, Love Outside Andromeda and PJ Harvey.

Band Members

Andrew W, Ms, Sam, Justin A, Jon S, we need a permanent drummer

Band Influences

• PJ Harvey
• Cocteau twins
• Einsturzende Neubaten
• Crime & The City Solution
• Kate Bus
• Kristin Herch
• The Dirty Three
• The Clouds
• The Dumb Earth
• Bonny Prince Billy
• Gram Parsons
• U2
• Midnight Oil
• Tendrils
• Beasts of Bourbon

Keywords

Melbourne, intense, visceral, dark, post-rock, post rock, guitars, fx, noise, loops, strong, vicious, epic, rock, indie rock, indie, female, interesting

Boooring……

Seems like the band owners have been pretty boring here, you should get in contact with them and find out why it's empty!