Bardot / All Grown Up On TV / Are You Receiving Me? / The Way You Talk About It

WHITE LABEL

Well meaning indie pop that's all jangly guitars and catchy melodies, Strange Mutant Virus are a four piece who trot out a neat line in Belle And Sebastian meets Ash power pop.

Latest EP, IS IT BARDOT? is a collection of songs that find the band in decent enough form, hardly groundbreaking stuff but all very pleasant just the same.  Lead track BARDOT is your typical indie pop affair, jangling guitars and arch vocals colliding in a way that suggest Half Man Half Biscuit meets The Wedding Present down the local indie disco.  The pretty ALL GROWN UP ON TV is perhaps the EP's standout moment here, a sixties pop influenced gem that wears its John Barry and Burt Bacharach influences clearly on its sleeve.  The middling indie pop of ARE YOU RECEIVING ME? finds Strange Mutant Virus delivering upbeat power pop in a Buzzcocks kind of way whilst THE WAY YOU TALK ABOUT IT ends things with a bit of a whimper, the bands vocalist struggling to convince in the songs more emotional moments.

Decent rather than great, IS IT BARDOT? finds Strange Mutant Virus delivering a quartet of songs that whilst having their moments, find themselves struggling to entirely convince or engage on the whole.

BIOGRAPHY

Inception Date : 2/10/01 

Average Age : 28 

Type of Music : As with most creative entities we don't like to set these kind of limits on ourselves. Influences can be as diverse as Stravinksy Hendrix, Miles Davies to the Sex Pistols. I can say that the composition techniques That feature in our music at the moment include The Pixies, Radiohead, Nirvana and The Beatles' 

Comments : Other people have said that we remind them of The Clash, The Cure, The Only Ones, Ash, Weezer The usual comment is "You guys f***ing Rock !" 

Tushar : 

The result of a mass hallucinogenic experience at the Orbital Club Rave . There came into existence a cloud of purple haze. As this condensed, the form of a human being emerged, this became what we know today as Tushar ! We decided quite logically that he must have a great sense of rhythm and so persuaded him to join the band as a drummer with the promise of loads of lollipops per month. 

David: 

David appeared out of thin air, magically drinking away in a pub, we got talking about life, film and then music and discovered he played the bass! We managed to bribe him with a life time supply of fine scotch whisky to play bass with us and so the story begins.... 

Derek : 

Both Freudian and Jungian therapy sessions have failed to make this entity a socially happy member of society. He still believes himself to be the reincarnation of Crazy Horse while at the same time holding fast to the idea that he comes From Alpha Century ! This bloke maybe certifiably insane.

LINE UP

Derek Calle

Ian Catt

Tushar Joshi

Billy Smith

DISCOGRAPHY

IS IT BARDOT? EP (White Label>2007)

Bardot

All Grown Up On TV

Are You Receiving Me?

The Way You Talk About It

LINKS

Strange Mutant Virus>www.strangemutantvirus.com

FURTHER LISTENING

Ash

Belle And Sebastian

The Buzzcock