The Colt .45s

The Colt .45s have been creating noise, art and music together since summer 2006. Starting by recording and releasing material themselves, Colts have now recorded with several lo-fi producers and released with several DIY and Indie labels. For the first year and a half the band gigged relentlessly throughout the UK, and built a strong base in Durham and Leeds. Recently, Colts recorded a host of new songs which have developed and resolved their ethos as a band: to create abrasive songs that reflect the concepts and situations people battle with daily, often subconsciously. This may seem like a large and ethereal claim, but please be aware, after being in a band for several years and putting our characters and friendships to the test, in ways you wouldn't imagine when embarking on this journey but I'm sure every hardworking, ambitious and dedicated band member is testament to, and battling with purpose and image, we have come to realise that true creative fulfillment comes from the decommercializaition of your instinctive process and democratization of all subject matter. We use music to reflect mood and concept and lyrics to suggest stories and events.



Our newer recordings were made in a long wooden dining room, set up permanently and with boxes of odd instruments lining the walls. The versions on this page are live and unmixed. We wrote and recorded 10 songs in 2 weeks and Andrew Gardiner has done an excellent job of translating our gritty live energy onto tape. We've not decided what we're going to do with the recordings yet, but we'll make the mixed versions available to hear on myspace as we get them, and a future release on Ex Libris Records is on the cards. Certainly demos will be knocking about.



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