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• BBC Interview (Oct 2004) which asks Pram about my fungal description of their music (see gig review from Feb 2003) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/music/2004/10/pram/pram.shtml

"On a website (andypryke.com), you were compared you to Shiitake Mushrooms and truffles as 'You can only be experienced and not described'...

Max: Like it!
Matt: What's the mushroom?
Max: Shiitake?you mean you've never tried them?
Matt: Not sure I like the sound of truffles?I prefer Shiitake mushrooms?it sounds better.
Sam: I think we've got quite a lot of layers like a mushroom. (laughs)"

• Description, history and Discography - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:30zsa9tgy23f
• Interview from 1997 - http://www.bearos.freeserve.co.uk/pram.htm
• Interview - http://www.o-reading.co.uk/live/interviews/pram/pram.html
• Description of musical style and review of TheMuseumOfImaginaryAnimals - http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.28.00/pram-0039.html
• Review of Somniloquy & Dark Island,plus buy Pram CDs online -http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/pram_summary.htm
• Pram are currently on Domino Records - http://www.dominorecordco.com/

Saw a great pram gig at the MedicineBar. The band has 2 new members, a guitarist - who I reco.gnised from somewhere, and Lucy??? who plays Trumpet (etc.) with MistysBigAdventure. One thing which stands out with Pram is the versitility of the musicians, with most of the members playing 2,3 or more instruments. Rosies etherial voice and the complex layering of instruments made a sound which was pure qualia, capable only of being experienced but not described, like the taste of ShiitakeMushrooms or Truffles. The set included a couple of tracks which I know quite well, though I'd have to listen to the albumns to work out what they're called, as well as (I assume) tracks from their new albumn DarkIsland. The new albumn wasn't available at the gig, I'm not sure if this was due to distribution arrangements or if it just hadn't been pressed yet.

Also playing were MikeInMono and Floach

Pram have a new album out on DominoRecords called DarkIsland. Haven't heard it yet, but it's got good reviews:

• http://www.headquarter-entertainment.de/english/bands_pram.php

They're also gigging, with MikeInMono and Floach on the 7th of Feb 2003 - http://www.capsule.org.uk/coming/pram/pram.htm - plus a load of other places in the UK and Europe - http://www.securesite8.com/~dominor/tours.php

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