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TWO THOUSAND AND NINE
TH E AM B I E NC E A FFA I R
LOW LY K N IG H TS
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The Meath/Dublin duo have been compared to The Dodos but Jamie and Mark’s racket is a much more soothing sound. Live, they’ve been known to combine Final Fantasy and Feist into a singularly organic mash-up.
Born from a one-night-only idea, Lowly Knights have grown from a musical side-project for the great and the good of the Belfast scene into a meeting of 12 minds and 24 hands.
Photography by
CLAIRE WEIR
How did your music come about and why are you making it... “I was playing on my own for a couple of years and knew I needed a drummer to enhance the quality of the songs I already had and to inject some creativity into the new ones. Our music is currently based upon looped vocals and guitars, together with drums and percussion. We are making our music because we want to create songs that are unlike what has gone before” - Jamie
“Neil and Cazi from the Lowly Knights are the two most beautiful men in music, inside and out. But seriously, they’re just so fresh and exciting, and they sing about things that most bands are scared to deal with. Plus, they have a one-year-old, about four drummers and a choir in the band. How cool is that?” Panama Kings on Lowly Knights Get familiar: ‘The Rifles’ EP Get clicking: www.myspace.com/lowlyknights
“Because there are only two instruments, there is a limitation, but I really enjoy the challenge in adapting and changing the way I play in our set-up. For me, what we play now is just the beginning as there is loads of room for experimentation” - Marc Get familiar: ‘I Recoil’ Get clicking: www.myspace.com/theambienceaffair
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