Website CMW bandcamp Genres Indie pop, Punk rock | Origin London, United Kingdom | |
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Associated acts The Tuts
Perkie
¡Ay Carmela!
Block Fort
Baby Arms
Daniel Versus The World Past members Sam Brackley
Danny Gardner Members Harriet Doveton, Jennifer Doveton Albums I Thought It Was Morning, Anyone and Everyone, Split with Spoonboy & Colour Me Wednesday Record labels Lauren Records, Dovetown, Discount Horse, Dovetown Recordings Similar The Tuts, Spoonboy, Onsind, Vienna Ditto, The Spook School | ||
Colour me wednesday i m not coming to your bbq
Colour Me Wednesday is an indie pop/pop punk band from West London, UK, built around sisters Jen Doveton and Harriet Doveton. The band are noted for their melodic guitar pop, politicised lyrics and DIY punk method, including producing their own recordings, artwork and promotional videos. They released their debut album, I Thought It Was Morning, in 2013.
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- Colour me wednesday i m not coming to your bbq
- Colour me wednesday incompatible trailer
- Biography
- SinglesEPs
- Albums
- Compilations
- Compilation appearances
- Songs
- References
Colour me wednesday incompatible trailer
Biography
Colour Me Wednesday formed in Uxbridge in 2007, initially performing local gigs with various line-ups, and settled as a permanent band in 2009, with Danny Gardner on bass and Sam Brackley on drums. They self-recorded and self-released their debut CDr EP What to do in an Emergency that year.
In 2010/2011 a series of self-produced YouTube videos for tracks from their follow up Sampler EP brought them to wider attention in DIY punk and indiepop circles, and the band was invited to play the Indietracks festival in 2012 and 2013.
In 2013 Carmela Pietrangelo (also of ¡Ay Carmela!) joined as new bassist. In June, the band released debut single "Shut" as a digital download with accompanying video, taken from the album I Thought It Was Morning, released by Discount Horse Records in July and described by The Girls Are as "an exceptionally assured debut"; the album was self-recorded and included new versions of EP tracks as well as a collaboration with former King Blues keyboardist and solo artist Perkie. It was re-released in Japan and Canada the following year; "Shut" was also issued on vinyl in Canada.
2014 saw the band release a split album with Spoonboy on California's Lauren Records, supported by a US tour including appearances at Plan-It X festival and New York Popfest. A promo video was released for lead track "Sugar-Coated".
In 2015 Colour Me Wednesday made a return to the Indietracks festival, joined by new drummer Jaca Freer (also of ¡Ay Carmela!) and live guitarist Laura Coles (also of ¡Ay Carmela!/Block Fort). This line-up released its first recordings in 2016 as the Anyone and Everyone EP, available on multiple formats in the UK, US, France and Japan (as part of 2670 Records' Incompatible compilation). The EP was supported by a UK and European tour; the group also played at Madrid Popfest.
Colour Me Wednesday have been likened musically to contemporaries Lemuria and Waxahatchee and older indie bands such as The Sundays, The Popguns, The Breeders and Blake Babies, and lyrically to ONSIND as well as earlier political new wave bands such as The Clash, The Jam and The Housemartins. They have played with Lemuria, Waxahatchee, Laura Stevenson, Kate Nash, Thee Faction, Josie Long and Grace Petrie.
Guitarist Harriet Doveton is also bassist for The Tuts. Jen Doveton also performs as Baby Arms.
In January 2017, Colour Me Wednesday announced that they will support LVL UP on a UK tour in March/April, after which they are due to begin recording a second album.
Singles/EPs
Albums
Compilations
Compilation appearances
Songs
Purge Your Inner ToryI Thought It Was Morning · 2013
ShutI Thought It Was Morning · 2013
BBQI Thought It Was Morning · 2013