Bands:TTNG(UK), Mylets(UK), Emptybottles(HK)
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TTNG(UK)
TTNG (previously known as This Town Needs Guns) are a British rock band from Oxford. The band formed in 2004 in Oxford. The original lineup consisted of Stuart Smith on rhythm guitar and vocals, Tim Collis on lead guitar, Simon Thompson on drums and Ian Lewis on bass. Thompson and Lewis left the band in 2005, to be replaced by Dan Adams on bass (replaced by Jamie Cooper after the recording of Animals in 2008) and Matt Bennington on drums (replaced by Chris Collis, brother of guitarist Tim, in 2006). In earlier careers, bassist Jamie Cooper had worked as a graphic designer, drummer Chris Collis had been a librarian at the University of Oxford, guitarist Tim Collis was a primary school teacher, and lead vocalist Stuart Smith worked building websites for a publisher. On 11 May 2011, it was announced on This Town Needs Guns' website that lead singer Stuart Smith would be leaving the band to start a family, and that he would be replaced by Pennines' singer and guitarist Henry Tremain. Bassist Jamie Cooper also left the band in late 2011 to focus on a career in graphic design. Tremain has since taken over on bass guitar duties, converting the band into a power trio.
Over the years the band's musical style has progressed and changed, although the focal point of their style has been the guitar work of Tim Collis interspersed with, at points, highly complex drumming and sparse, melodic bass. Early releases however, featured more distorted chord progressions, as well as a strong focus on the interlinking melodies of both Collis and Smith's guitars. More recently however, the band's music has become more technical; making more use of asymmetrical time signatures and complex accenting between guitar and drums, plus an abandonment of distortion and guitar effects, giving way to more complex melodies. The Sydney Morning Herald describes the band's music as having "intricate pop guitar work, with a touch of jazz and Spanish influences".
With the release of 13.0.0.0.0 the band announced that they would be calling themselves TTNG. They stated that the name was ironic because guns are hardly present in their hometown of Oxford, and the UK in general. Now that the band is more known around the world, the name is no longer clearly ironic.
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Zoo Records
Tel : 2309 2911
旺角彌敦道608號Chic 之堡3樓325號鋪
Shop 325, Level 3, No.608 Nathan Road, Mong Kok
Art and Culture Outreach|艺鵠
Tel: 2893 4808
14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
(Exit B of Causeway Bay MTR station, opposite to Tin Lok Lane)
地址:香港灣仔軒尼詩道365-367號富德樓14樓
(銅鑼灣港鐵站B出口,步行至天樂里)
Opening Hour: 12noon- 7pm(TUE-SUN)
White Noise Records
Tel: 2591 0499
1/F, 720 Shanghai Street, Kowloon
(Prince Edward C2 EXIT, close to Metropark Hotel Mongkok)
九龍上海街720號1樓(太子站C2出口, 近旺角维景酒店)
觸 Studio Zuk Studio
Tel : 2395 3332
[好景店 Ho King Branch]
九龍旺角花園街2-16號好景商業中心26樓 2601室
(港鐵油麻地站A2出口)
Room 2601, 26/F, Ho King Commercial Centre, 2-16 Fa Yuen Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon. (Yau Ma Tei MTR Exit A2)
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