A R T I S T :

spider and the webs



M E M B E R S :

tobi vail
- vocals & guitar/drums -
previous bands:
frumpies, bikini kill, the go team, chopped liver, doris, the feebles, frenchie and the german girls, my new boyfriend, severed lethargy, spray painted love

chris sutton
- drums/guitar -
previous bands:
dub narcotic sound system, c.o.c.o., hornet leg

james maeda
- guitar -
previous bands:
serum greys, november witch, boo-boo




D I S C O G R A P H Y :

yeah! fest! compilation
cd
yeah! fest!, 2004 (available only at festival)
featured: do you really wanna?

demo tape
cdr
bumpidee, 2005 (bumpidee 005)
1. do you really wanna?
2. a kid named jay
3. movin' on up (cover)
4. bacon achin'
5. frozen roses
6. save me (roky erickson)
7. it's lovely weather for ducks
8. mister hypnotist

split w/ spider and the webs
7"
local kid, 2005 (gokid001)
1. do you really wanna?
2. bacon achin'

(7" distributed in europe by southern records)



L I N K S :

www.myspace.com
/spiderandthewebs
band's myspace site

www.bumpidee.com
label site

www.localkid.co.uk
label site

B I O :

Formed in the summer of 2004 in Olympia WA by Tobi Vail, James Maeda and Chris Sutton, the Spider And The Webs sound is the result of many disparate factors, but is always minimal, peircing and melodic. As urgent and imediete as you'd expect, "spinning intersections between the past and the future to create the present. Spider And The Webs are NOW meets WOW".

Re-inspired to play guitar by nu post-punk groups like Erase Errata, Meltdown and Quix*o*tic, Tobi's songwriting harken's back to her most musically innovative group, The Go Team. preferring The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants and The Television Personalities to the Gang Of Four, Tobi uses simplicity and starkness as punctuation, creating space for notes to be felt and rhythms heard. her guitar playing is deliberately spare yet meticulous where James' is wild and eccentric, with a 1981 northwest punk/1966 psychedlic flavour - like Ricky Erickson meets Greg Sage in a filed of flowers. all the while, Chris keeps the rhythms solid and driving yet simple, in a modern lovers/tronics kind of way, inciting dancers to chant and yell "SPIDER MAGIC!" until they fall on the floor, exhausted. The singing is classic Tobi Vail style, varying between SCREAMY SCREAMS and WHISPER-CORE. When they switch instruments it is clear their biggest influence is growing up in Olympia, listening to the first Black Flag single while looking at pictures of Mary Weis.

Spider And The Webs have recently toured the west coast of the States with Shoplifting.

A cd of their demo tape is available from bumpidee.

A 7" ep (a split with Partyline) is out in October - just in time for the tour!



O N E . S H E E T :

download one sheet press release for split 7"/european tour (PDF)




P R O M O . S T U F F :

promotional copies of 7" for review and instore play are available by request.

instore posters are available by request.

please email




L I S T E N :

no mp3 available at present

a l s o . s e e:
www.myspace.com/spiderandthewebs
stream of 'do you really wanna?'