Rad Fest

Museum Mouth

I’m reserving this page for profiles of some of the indie bands on show, I hope to give you an insight in to soma bands that you may not have come across – although I know this may be difficult as many of you are as musical nerds as me!

I twizzled my pin and picked out Museum Mouth to begin with. They are a three piece young band from Southport, the oldest member being twenty one and the youngest (Savannah Levin) sixteen. They say their songs are auto biographical because there home town is beautiful yet dull and devoid of inspiration. Although dull can inspire, check out The Jam and a Town Called Malice.

Museum Mouth write about stuff that will resonate with any teenager, love, passion, mania of youth and of course angst. The lyrics are a cut above some of their contemporaries, rhythmic but powerful. They have released their debut album “Tears in my beer” which distills ten songs down to twenty minutes, no filler or fluff at all in these tunes. Amazingly only Karl Kuehn (drummer and singer) knew how to play an instrument until recently.

After deciding he wanted a band he taught Levin and Graham High (guitarist) how to play. After getting a break from Rad Fest organiser Huggins they are beginning to get a live following with quite a bit of buzz online about their sound. They all contribute to writing and have a wide range of influences from modern day pop through to hardcore indie and punk. The band laugh at themselves for being haters of everything and the title is a little self parody of their attitude.

They have had two previous EP’s, the rough and ready “I am the idiot of the Jungle” which they recorded themselves and “Stop talking. By their own admission stop talking is a little over produced, the band have recognised and have tried to scale back their sound to a more raw feel for the new album. They are now pretty famous for their short tunes which tend to hit you immediately, Jerk Girls hits you with a great screaming chorus that you can’t help but sing along with. Although they have some slower tunes at live gigs they smash the place up with fast paced tunes and they slam all their energy into the short tunes. The guys will have difficulty keeping the band together as they go to their separate schools over the next couple of years but we hope they stay as a trio, there are definitely sparks there!