Love Ends Disaster!

Infobox musical artist
Name = Love Ends Disaster!

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Img_capt = photo by Amy Bramall
Background = group_or_band
Origin = flagicon|England East Midlands/London, England
Genre = Indie rock
Alternative
Years_active = 2003–present
Label = This Is Fake DIY Yellow Noise Denial Records
URL = http://www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk/
Current_members = Matthew Oakes
Matthew Dix
Jonathan Dix
Robert Sadler
Mark Thorley

Love Ends Disaster! are an experimental indie rock band heralding from Nottingham and Loughborough, England.

Band members

* Matthew Oakes – lead vocals
* Matthew Dix – bass guitar
* Jonathan Dix – guitar
* Robert Sadler – guitar and vocals
* Mark Thorley – drums

Career

Love Ends Disaster! got together in the city of Nottingham with a plan to take the local pub scene by storm playing renditions of such chart favourites as Michael Jackson’s ‘Black Or White’ and Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. This quickly and thankfully came unhinged when they realised they weren't any good at playing other people’s songs.

After recording their first demo with two microphones and an Alba tape deck in a meat warehouse, they were picked up by Denial Records, the label behind the first studio recordings of Bloc Party. Two critically acclaimed and successful EPs followed, Stories For The Dislocated’ and ‘Faster, Faster’, drawing comparisons with Talking Heads, British Sea Power, The Only Ones, Radiohead and Sonic Youth. They found themselves sharing stages with the likes of These New Puritans, Youthmovies, Yo La Tengo and Babyshambles.

Recent single, ‘Ladders’ was a favourite of both Colin Murray and Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 and gained regular rotation on XFM. Having signed with This Is Fake DIY Records, the band are currently working on their debut album and recently released a second single ‘Suzanne’ / ‘Dinosaur’ in November 2007.

The band are due to perform on the 2008 Summer Sundae Main Stage with Supergrass and The Coral and will be a featured band on www.fuzzed.tv in the summer.

Press

"...The debut 5 track CD E.P. from Love Ends Disaster! has the same listening sensation we got when we heard the first Bloc Party 7". It's 5 sharp 3 minute bursts of post punk that recall the jangling guitars of the Postcard-era / The Wedding Present, the vocals of Pete Murphy from bauhaus, the melodies of the Psychedelic Furs and in track 5 they have the new 'Killing an Arab' for this generation. Within the year this band will be massive. We've not been wrong before."

[http://www.roughtrade.com Rough Trade]

"...Ladies and gentlemen let me give you the first GREAT single of 2005.... every song on the E.P. could quite easily stand up as a single in its own right, and since Oasis' halcyon days of the mid-90s not many artists can claim to have matched quantity with quality."

[http://www.drownedinsound.com Drowned In Sound]

"...Love Ends Disaster! meanwhile go from strength to strength with every show. Despite the Bloc Party endorsements and rave reviews picked up by last year’s ‘Stories For The Dislocated EP’, it’s fair to say neither of these do the band justice compared to their captivating live show. Singer Matthew Oakes stares at the front row like a man possessed, pounding to and fro across the stage while his band’s incendiary mash up of angular, punk-pop, jangly ska tunes create a mangle on and off the stage. ‘Ginko Disco’ is a melange of disco punk that recalls Devo at their most eclectic while ‘Warning Robots’, complete with it’s ‘Red Dwarf’ signature tune middle eight rips through the floor like a jet powered buzzsaw. If this isn’t their year then I’m a Chinaman…"

[http://www.rock-city.co.uk www.rock-city.co.uk]

Discography

Record releases

Year	Title	Label	Other information
2005	"Stories for the Dislocated"	Denial Records	Debut E.P.
May 2006	"Faster, Faster..."	Denial Records	Second E.P.
March 2007	Ladders	Yellow Noise	Debut Single
November 2007	"Suzanne/Dinosaur"	This Is Fake DIY	Second Single

Compilation albums

2005
Small Town America used the track "Ginko Disco"on Public Service Broadcast no.6

2006
Vinyl Junkie Recordings used the track "Ginko Disco"on Sound Of An Era

NG Records used the track "Cut Your Hair"on Nottingham (a compilation of the city's vibrant music scene)

External links

* [http://www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk Love Ends Disaster! website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster Love Ends Disaster! Myspace]
* [http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/ This Is Fake DIY]
* [http://www.yellownoise.org Yellow Noise]
* [http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/7772/Love-Ends-Disaster.html Interview with This Is Fake DIY Magazine, November 2007]