The Answering Machine

UK's The Answering Machine Play 4 LOS ANGELES Shows

Madame Wongs On 7.29, Club Underground On 7.30, Fox Theater Pomona On 7.31 & The Glasshouse On 8.6



Photo: Robotangel

LA Dates

7.29 - Madame Wong's

7.30 - Club Underground

7.31 - Fox Theater Pomona

8.6 - The Glasshouse

Radio Performances

7.29 - Radio TX - East Village Radio - In Session with Mike Joyce (Pre - Record)

8.6 - Radio TX - Radio Session on KXLU 88.9FM (Live)

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The Answering Machine formed out of all-night parties and gigs in Manchester. Martin, Pat, Gemma and Ben introduced themselves with the indie-disco favourite ‘Oklahoma’, at a time when they were drawing out stumbled lines, joining dots from one late house riot to another. Young, carefree and impressionable, the band had become the toast of the city and beyond.

On their debut long player, ‘Another City, Another Sorry’, The Answering Machine managed to find a distinct clarity in the haze of growing up within their adopted city, and they lay it bare with all the confusion and isolation endured to discover it.

Yet the band had to contend with more than just the accolade of becoming Manchester’s new favourite sons. Through lust-fuelled, wired, carefree all-nighters, each member as an individual was hopelessly trying to put-off the transition between those late night teenage years and into the realities of where they turn next. It was a process that all their friends were enduring too, and verged on the makings of a mid-youth crisis.

Juxtaposed with those anxieties, The Answering Machine were surrounded by the imposing but quite beautifully influential architecture of their historical city, yet Manchester was now less becoming a playground than a chamber with the walls closing in. As the years receded, the band were caught up in a whirlpool of emotions living in a changing world where Facebook was dictating fractured social interaction and the romanticism of true communication, or least its lack of convenience, was becoming a lost art.

The album plots that path from party lifestyle into the dawn of youthful realisation, those steps in-between and ultimately what comes next. If music’s revered social commentators are typically southern based, The Answering Machine are taking the North by the scruff of the neck, and presenting it with an assured understanding.

Martin Colclough: “We’re still writing about drinking, sex and arguing but those things go so much deeper than surface level and it took us time to adjust to and understand that.

“We’ve had to redefine the boundaries of relationships, and master the act of survival which everyone our age is having to do.

“Ultimately we have written an album that we hope a generation and beyond will be able to identify with.”

The band now return to US shores as they put the finishing touches to their second album. They promise to showcase material from both albums as they play their first shows in LA in over 12 months.

The Answering Machine are:

Martin Colclough – Vocals, guitar

Pat Fogarty – Vocals, guitar

Gemma Evans – Vocals, bass

Ben Perry – Drums

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