Now or Never / Out of the Question / These Things Move In Threes / She's Got You High / Song B / Sick Deal / Light Up This Room / Starlight / This Is Easy / What Would Steve Do? / Down Down Down

COLUMBIA RECORDS

Hailing from Bexhill-On-Sea, five piece indie rock outfit Mumm-Ra are a band delivering impossibly catchy pop; just think early Blur collaborating with the Kaiser Chiefs whilst Pavement twiddle the controls.

Debut album THESE THINGS MOVE IN THREES showcases the bands winning way with melody and scruffy guitars, a collection of songs that shimmer, scuff and charm their way to your heart.  Opener NOW OR NEVER is a slice of slow burning epic indie rock that imagines a scruffier version of Snow Patrol, Mumm-Ra delivering stadium filling anthemic rock choruses whilst orchestral flourishes rise and crash and shimmering guitar crescendos do their thing.  The more straightforward indie guitar pop of OUT OF THE QUESTION and title track THESE THINGS MOVE IN THREES are less ambitious in scope but no less impressive in their upbeat melodicism, frontman Tate throwing out infectious harmonies whilst guitars and drums erupt and explode all around him.  Previous single SHE'S GOT YOU HIGH is three minutes of sun drenched indie pop glory, Mumm-Ra banging out the song with all the wide eyed enthusiasm and fresh faced attitude you could ever need, practically challenging you not to be singing along within seconds of hearing that devastatingly catchy chorus.

Elsewhere, the electrifying rockisms of SONG B and THE SICK DEAL are enough to rival Muse in the overblown stadium stakes, devastating guitar histrionics merging with powerful drum patterns.  The gentle acoustic lilt of LIGHT UP THIS ROOM is a lesson in tender restraint, Mumm-Ra further expanding their sound to encompass a broad musical spectrum whilst on closing number DOWN DOWN DOWN the band push things even further with a song that builds from haunting piano chords and atmospheric guitar swells to a place where Mumm-Ra can count Sigur Ros, Coldplay and Radiohead as their nearest musical rivals.

Proving themselves a band capable of developing their sound beyond your typical indie rock simplicity, THESE THINGS MOVE IN THREES finds Mumm-Ra delivering a debut album that constantly surprises as well as it delights.  THESE THINGS MOVE IN THREES is a debut record full of ambition, ideas and most importantly killer tunes.

BIOGRAPHY

9th July 1985... on this day Joe M. Rodgers of Tennessee was nominated to become Ambassador of the United States of America to France. He would succeed Evan Griffith Galbraith.

Meanwhile in Essex, Niall Richey Buckler, founder, chancellor and warmonger of Mumm-ra was born. The consequence was that fourteen years on, an idea that had been fermenting for his whole life bore consequence, a flower bloomed and the band was formed. We five unsuspecting teenagers were drawn together by a mutual disaffection for what we saw as the drudgery and boredom of various aspects of youthful culture in our school. Together, we developed a fondness for making noise and later, songs, of a kind.

The songs were an expression of the effects our surroundings had on our imaginations. We inhabit a little town called Bexhill-on-Sea, a once thriving Victorian resort on the South Coast of England that has long since slid into a small, grey existence where the elderly inexplicably congregate. But it is, if you look around, an intriguing place and as youngster eager not to slide effortlessly into the boredom we saw all around us, we found that all we needed was some imagination.

Looking around we saw the same beauty in the greys of the concrete that we saw in the sea. The uninspiring was, to us, an inspiration. Here the duck-pond was an oasis. Here long walks were an adventure. Great reward could be found in a simple cup of tea and Tesco was not a multi-billion pound corporation; it was the generous provider of sugary-based delights.

So, we began creating music that stretched our experience of every aspect of our lives into new and invigorating shapes. According to some, in our infancy, we were as indigestible as a cheese and gristle sandwich. But to us writing songs became something that we just had to do. Soon we found that local gigs in pubs, rowing clubs, churches and schools were beginning to be met with bemused acclaim from locals young and old.

Over time, with the inevitable onset of competence, and dare we say musicianship, our sound and ambitions gradually changed. Also in this time, the few friends and affiliates we had acquired either went mad or left us here in Bexhill. One of these was our old friend and former keyboard player, who in a lapse of sanity that involved a toy gun, a local post office and a bungled escape found himself serving a stretch at her majesty's pleasure.

It wasn't too long before the Bexhill town border was crossed and we began to say 'hello' to the world beyond. An epiphany, of sorts, happened at the Crowhurst Village Hall where all sorts of show-business impresarios turned up having first become lost in the wilds of East Sussex. Thankfully, the local horticultural society had their best 'you're-not-from-round-these-parts' specs on that day and re-directed the London sorts from the pub in which they found themselves to the right venue. Luckily, we proved quite popular.

The last six months have seen us honing what we do best – writing pop music that sweeps and sways and hopefully does justice to the music that makes us get up in the morning - the lush beauty of The Beach Boys via the pastoral quirks of The Kinks to the outer limits reached by The Beta Band and Sigur Ros.

A UK tour has been confirmed supporting the marvelous Fields from late April to mid May where we will be selling our 2 track 7" and that is to be followed by an EP sometime in July. In that same month we will make our first trip over oceans to play in Japan under Mount Fuji.

We are: Tate, Noo, Oli, Niall & Gareth.

LINE UP

Tate

Noo

Oli

Niall

Gareth

DISCOGRAPHY

WHAT WOULD STEVE DO? (Self Released>2006)

What Would Steve Do? (Demo)

BLACK HURTS DAY AND THE NIGHT ROLLS ON (Bexhill>2006)

Song B

There She Is

Light Up This Room

The Temple

OUT OF THE QUESTION (Bexhill>2006)

Out Of The Question (Radio Edit)

Clocks Tick Louder At The End Of The Night

When The Lights Go Out

Out Of The Question (Video)

WHAT WOULD STEVE DO? (Bexhill>2007)

What Would Steve Do?

Cute As

Without You

What Would Steve Do?

SHE'S GOT YOU HIGH (Columbia Records>2007)

She's Got You High (Single Version)

She's Got You High (Instrumental Version)

THESE THINGS MOVE IN THREES (Columbia Records>2007)

Now or Never

Out of the Question

These Things Move In Threes

She's Got You High

Song B

Sick Deal

Light Up This Room

Starlight

This Is Easy

What Would Steve Do?

Down Down Down

LINKS

Mumm-Ra>www.mumm-ra.com

FURTHER LISTENING

Blur

Pavement

The Kaiser Chiefs