too many werewolves

Cellar Songs. An album of songs recorded in a cellar in Headingley, Leeds, in the Winter of 2007.

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cellar songs

1. get some exorcise *

2. imlpants

3. an introduction to Kant in five easy pieces

4. robot party I : inquisition

5. robot party II : redemption

6. the cryptic universe

7. the relentless pounding of platypus feet

8. the icicle man

9. waiting to die

10. lonliness

11. afternoon tea

*thanks to Mr. Pants for the song title

Background

Too Many Werewolves goes back in origin to the small (by some standards microscopic) , sporadically-spread, intermittant and disconnected metal scene emerging from the Christian Brothers’ College Cork (in Ireland) school on Wellington Road, at the top of Sydney Hill around the year 1997. The band emerged from the ashes of Dunsinane who were at one point the only entrants for a battle of the bands competition and still lost. However the band went on to win a Slogadh award for songs written or re-written in the Irish language. That band morphed into Decoy-X via a name change and a musical rethink , a band whose music was described as ‘funcore’, heavy, groovy riffs, gentle vocals and a general sense of humour. A bit like the Pixies meets the Deftones. The band played at venues like Fred Zepplin’s and the Pav, including a stint at the anti-Jazz festival. The only song that survives from that band here is the song ‘the Relentless Pounding of Platypus Feet’ which was originally a song called ‘The Bleak World of Pop’. The guitar and bass playing faction of Decoy-X (M. C. Hickey and Damian P. Wims) took their penchant for metal, experimentation, absurd titles and lyrics to form Too Many Werewolves, originally called Too Many Vampires ( in reference to Joel Schumacher’s film The Lost Boys) and played a few acoustic gigs (since the music is mostly industrial electro/acoustic in style) in pubs around Cork, culminating in a farewell gig at the Lon Dubh (now The Blackbird) in Ballycotton. What is Too Many Werewolves ? – it is musical gutter poetry aimed at the existential questions of who am I, what is the meaning of the Universe, where am I supposed to be going, what time is tea ? It is dark, acoustic and at times electrical guitar-driven industrial pop (because there are drum machines, unimaginably canned and monotonous at this point, because I didn’t learn to program the drum machine yet and samples).

Mark C. Hickey is currently based in Cork, Ireland. I haven’t a clue where Damian is.

Musical influences : V.A.S.T., Porcupine Tree, Nine Inch Nails, Alice In Chains, Deftones, Massive Attack, Pist.On, Echo and the Bunnymen, Muse.