Trash Money

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Trash Money is the band created by former Sneaker Pimps Joe Wilson and Chris Tate Hunch Pilgrim and sometime Sneaker Pimps live performer. The band started as a duo in 1998. Live they are joined by David Westlake, also formerly of Sneaker Pimps and writer drummer with Ultrafox, Molly Dolittle Slade formerly of Little Killers and Cary Creed.

[edit] History

Sneaker Pimps were notable as one of the best selling British Bands of their era in America but lacked critical success and acceptance in their own country. Trash Money are its logical Antithesis on almost every level. Musically about as far from its trip hop parent as can be, embracing punk, irony, experimentation and lyrically subjects as diverse as jeans, mental health issues and air disasters and actively suspicious of the corporate horrors of the music business.

Their first release 'you lied satan' a single sided vinyl only 7 inch rocketed straight into the coveted pages of NME as 'single of the week' prompting numerous questions as to who the press shy duo at that time were and where they had come from. A steady flow of self financed limited number single releases followed including 'million pound note' which was championed by Lauren Laverne on XFM and also 'single of the week'. September 2006 saw the release of their eponymous 11 track debut album, containing all their previous singles and heralded as 'brilliant but wilfully unsaleable'by Alexis Petridis of the Guardian. The band have a large following amongst fans of cult BBC comedy show 'the mighty boosh'due to their continual referencing of TRASH MONEY'S material on radio shows and in interviews.

‘The singer’s great, the classic front man in old fashioned sense in that he makes you feel really weird and looks mental’- Noel Fielding The Mighty Boosh “Deranged Genius” – NME “Incredibly catchy” – Artrocker “Fantastic noisy electronic rock” -Drowned in Sound “Maximum dancefloor getdown” – SleazeNation “They remind me of a weird Cure” – Alan McGee “Fuzz guitars and bitter musings are back”-Dazed and Confused ‘Like David Byrne having a mental breakdown’-Mixmag