"The Mirror Trap"
"The Mirror Trap"
About
The Mirror Trap is the blood in our veins. We have no option but to do this.
Biography
We want to melt your hearts, boil your blood, and send your body into raptures. We want every noise to mean something, to some part, of someone, otherwise there is no point in bothering. Music is a definite form of escapism, possibly the greatest way to forget the immense claustrophobia of modern society, but at the same time it is a tool which can be used to combat it. A soapbox from which you can scream for change, beg forgiveness and unite. There is always a choice, it might be really scary, but it is there. I am not going to claim that we are going to change the world, but I'll die happier known we have tried.
After spending a long time going through the musical motions of recording demos, sending emails and playing in every dive bar we could get into we decided that the great rock n roll fairytale was probably not playing out for us, so have set to doing it for ourselves, starting with the recording of our debut album, The Last Great Melodrama, which we released in November 2011. In the Autumn 2012 we recorded a new EP called The Visible Hand, and started a small cult in the process.
We have blagged ourselves some amazing support slots, most notably with Placebo at HMV Picture House in Edinburgh and have toured with The View and Glasvegas. Some other highlights from 2012 so far have been playing on the T Break stage at T In The Park, and recording a live sessions on Radio 1 for Mr Ally McCrae and BBC Radio Scotland for Vic Galloway.
We each bring our own varied musical loves into the band, these include Queens of The Stone Age, Interpol, SUEDE, Velvet Underground, Radiohead, Kasabian, Magnetic Man, Joy Division, Ryan Adams, Elliot Smith, Rihanna, The Horrors, Nirvana, LL Cool J, Death Cab For Cutie, Burial, Marvin Gaye, Magazine and many, many more.
We also take a great deal of influence from people like Jean Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Fernando Pessoa, Marilyn Monroe, Rasputin, Charles Darwin, Jonny Depp, Dr Who, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka and Jack Kerouac.
Description
Currently recording album 2.
Band Interests
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Artists We Also Like
Interpol. Queens Of The Stone Age. Suede. Secret Machines. The Cribs. The Big Pink. Arctic Monkeys. Stellastar. Them Crooked Vultures. The Boxer Rebellion.