Switches - Message From Yuz, Video

Switches
Message From Yuz
Video

Switches release Message Fomr Yuz EP this week on Degenerate Music.

Singer/Guitarist Matt Bishop grew up on the Essex coast, where the edgy glitz of Southend seafront did nothing more than inspire Madison Square Garden fantasies. After hearing T-Rex's 'Electric Warrior' when he was 4 years old he wrote his first song called "It's My Shadow So Leave It Alone". While other kids were at school learning the three Rs he was studying the three Bs, Bowie, Bolan and Blur, skipping lessons to write songs about girls, more than 200 (songs, not girls) by the time he was 16.

Realising that the musical monkey wasn't getting off his back, he learned to play every instrument he could find, then he asked everyone he met what their favourite album was and played it over and over again, searching for its secret....that moment on every album when it all comes together, by accident or design, the essence of music, the holy grail of the song. From Beck to 10cc to Jon Spencer to Weezer to Captain Beefheart and back to Blur, it was getting obsessive and becoming mental, taking over his life, listening and listening and writing and writing and playing and recording and twitching until at last, his friends Ollie Thomas (guitar), Max Tite (bass) and Jimmy G (drums) saved him, by agreeing to form a band, share the obsession and spread the load.

Switches gigged around the south until they begged a support slot with their current favourite band, The Rakes, taking them to the rest of the UK and all the way to Texas for a superb SXSX show. Then back to London where they recorded their debut "Message From Yuz" EP with Paul Schroeder for release on Degenerate Music (distributed by Marquis Cha Cha) on July 10th 2006.

Switches will play the following live dates this summer - (* supporting The Automatic)

JULY
Sat 15 Newcastle, Academy
Sun 16 Oxford, Zodiac *
Mon 17 Birmingham, Academy *
Wed 19 Brighton, Concorde 2 *
Thu 20 Bristol, Academy *
Fri 21 Nottingham, The Social
Thu 27 London, Bloomsbury Bowling - Throwing Rocks clubnight


Other Information:
EP release: 10th July 2006
Label: Degenerate Music