Hi we are sinister footwear a six peice original rock band from Blackpool in the north west of england, we are currently booking gigs for all over the uk and are due to record our 3rd ep in january 2006, after just completing our latest ep The cash Money ep please visit www.sinisterfootwear.net for more info and tunes
Six piece original rock band formed in 2000 with only one key change of personell during that time(we changed our vocalist in 2002), we embarked on this particular project(all musicians have played in various bands prior to 2000)with the intention of making music that a) Rocks b)makes you smile and c)makes you want to dance and we continue to maintain that ethos, we have currently recorded 2 4 track demos with the current line up both of which are available for free download at www.sinisterfootwear.net and also have a live dvd recorded at the shepherds bush empire earlier this year which can be obtained by emailing us via our website
Playing live is the greatest thing about being in a band, we have played gigs all over the uk mainly our hometown Blackpool, Manchester, Liverpool and London, we mainly do the small venues but are always looking to play anywhere anytime so if anyone is interestded in booking us for their night please feel free to email via the band website www.sinisterfootwear.net. As far as special moments go we were kindly asked to play a show at the Shepherds Bush Empire earlier in 2005 and it was fantastic great venue, great crowd, and if you excuse my modesty we put on a great show.
We have very eclectic tastes and tend to want to listen to all styles of music, theres good and bad in all varieties of music, artists who i think are imprtant for all people to listen to wouuld be Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and his magic band, The Band, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, led zeppelin, jimi hendrix, curtis mayfield, gill scot heron, stevie wonder, the beatles, the stones pink floyd, tom waits, freddy king, james brown the list is quite lierally endless
please feel free to conttact us at www.sinisterfootwear.net all emails will be replied too