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Group Members:

Randy Larsen, Vic Szalaj, Matt Becker, Jeff Caxide, Bernie Romanowski, Ben Cowles

Formal Connection With:

Isis
  • Formed: 1994, Rockville, CT
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Pigs Never Fly", "Variable Speed Drive", "Cable

Biography

Though they have changed their style over the years, Cable was originally part of the first wave of bands playing in the so-called noisecore style (as it later became known), combining a hardcore/emo aesthetic with a rhythmically complex, often discordant metal-influenced musical approach. Lineup changes and delays between recordings may have hindered their notoriety over the years, but Cable is respected and acknowledged as influential within their scene, even though other bands within it have become better known. The Rockville, CT, quartet formed in 1994, at which time it consisted of Randy Larsen, Vic Szalaj, Matt Becker, and Jeff Caxide (who later went on to join ISIS). By the time of their debut album, 1997's Variable Speed Drive (Doghouse Records), Bernie Romanowski had replaced Caxide, briefly solidifying the lineup of Szalaj on drums, Larsen on bass and vocals, and Romanowski and Becker on guitars. After a couple of EPs, the band's second full-length (and first for the trend-setting label Hydra Head Records), Gutter Queen, was released in 1999. Cable was down to just a three-piece for Gutter Queen, with Becker having left by this point. The next couple of years saw tours with bands including Neurosis, Today Is The Day, Cave-In, Botch, Isis, and others, as well as a new EP entitled Skyhorse Jams, issued on This Dark Reign Recordings in 2001. The group was back to a quartet lineup for this EP after the addition of second guitarist Ben Cowles. After a long delay, their third full-length, Northern Failures (produced by Today Is the Day's Steve Austin), finally came out in the fall of 2001, again on Hydra Head. By the time of this album, they had reoriented to more of a Southern rock-influenced hardcore/metal style that had more in common with the likes of Eyehategod, Buzzov-en, or Cavity than it did with their own earlier albums. ~ William York, All Music Guide
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This article is about the British band. For the American band, see Cable (American band).
Cable
Origin Derby, England
Genres Alternative
Years active early 1990s - 1999
Labels Krunch! Records (199?-199?)
Infectious (1995-1999)

Cable were a British alternative rock band formed in the early 1990s by Matt Bagguley (guitar, vocals), Darius Hinks (guitar), Pete Darrington (bass) and Neil Cooper, formerly of The Beyond (drums). Cooper left in 1995 to form Gorilla with other ex-members of The Beyond, and was replaced by Richie Mills. Influenced by The Pixies and Steve Albini, they recorded their first session for the BBC's John Peel Show in October 1994.

During recording, the band ran into Oasis at Rockfield Recording Studios and sparked a fight between the Gallagher brothers when a drunk Darius was asked for his opinion of the new Oasis album. Typically honest, he replied: "sounds like the Beatles... a total fucking rip-off and the worst kind of lowest common denominator trash."[citation needed]

In 1997 the single "Freeze the Atlantic" was used in a Sprite TV advert. Despite this and heavy promotion by Infectious Records, as well as critical acclaim from both the indie and metal press, topped with near-constant touring, the band failed cross over to commercial success.

Splinter groups formed from Cable are Je Suis Animal,[1] in which Matt Bagguley is the drummer, Hudson Super Six featuring bassist Pete Darrington, and The Lucky Nine featuring drummer Richie Mills. Richie also now fronts the band MiLLS in which he is vocalist/guitarist. Neil Cooper now drums for alternative metal band Therapy?.

In 2006 an album of cover versions of Cable tracks was released, entitled Souvenir: A Tribute To Cable[2][3], through Signature Tune records. The label name, and the name of the band Pocket Promise (who perform "Comprendez" on the album), are both taken from the titles of Cable songs.

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Discography

Albums

Singles

From Downlift The Uptrodden:

  • 1994: "Hydra"
  • 1995: "Seventy"
  • 1995: "Blindman"

From When Animals Attack

  • 1996: "Whisper Firing Line"
  • 1997: "Blue Birds Are Blue"
  • 1997: "Freeze the Atlantic"
  • 1997: "God Gave Me Gravity"

From Sub-Lingual

  • 1998: "Arthur Walker"
  • 1999: "Honolulu" - Planned single, promo copies sent out; full single release cancelled due to band's split

EPs & promotional releases

  • 1997: "Soundbites" (a promo pack for When Animals Attack album)
  • 1997: Live At Brixton Prison (live EP)

Notes

  1. ^ Je Suis Animal
  2. ^ Drowned in Sound on tribute album
  3. ^ Play.com - Souvenir: A Tribute to Cable

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