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| sennen began in the year 2000, when childhood chums larry (guitar/vox) rich (guitar/vox) and rew (bass) teamed up with brownie (drums) and phil (guitar) at university in norwich. their early experiments centred around playing shows in norwich consisting of enormous godspeed you black emperor-style post-rock noise assaults. the band ambled around somewhat aimlessly for a while, until the early incarnation of sennen ended when phil left town in 2002. the other four consequently abandoned their back catalogue and started afresh, adopting the revolutionary policy of writing "some songs". the results added larry and rich's delicate vocal melodies to the familiar ungodly feedback racket that they were already getting rather good at. in 2003 they all piled into rew's mini metro, and travelled down the a47 to owen turner's sickroom studios. here they recorded the three tracks that made up their first demo. these songs were sent away and provoked some interest from various record company types. sennen ventured out of town and started playing to half empty rooms in london as well as norwich. more tracks were recorded with owen throughout the next few months, and more demos were made and given away at gigs. at this point the band were better at cutting up card and licking envelopes than the were at playing instruments. 2004 arrived and laid out - one of the tracks recorded with owen - got plenty of radioplay on 6music and xfm, and steve lamacq chose sennen as his "session unsigned" band of the week. more gigs were played, including support slots with explosions in the sky and the telescopes. a few days were spent doing gigs with new pals lyca sleep. time on the road proved tough though, and rich and brownie almost came to blows in the van following an argument about toilet stops. however, this struggle with adversity only made the band stronger. after playing a club ac30 night in kings cross, sennen were asked to contribute a track to a split single coming out on the club ac30 label. this time they went to john vigar's tontena studios. the result was forty years. more radio play followed and most people who heard the song seemed to like it. drowned in sound said "sennen have conjured up their most pristine five minutes to date. 'Forty Years' embellishes the thin line between sedate pop music and coarse, embittered white noise." more shows followed with the likes of six by seven and 65 days of static. having "gone pop" with forty years, sennen returned to john's studio with the intention of making something a bit louder and a bit darker. the sessions resulted in four new tracks, i couldn't tell you / its not like it used to be / one and the same thing / widows. the band were keen on the idea of releasing these recordings as a four-track ep. hungry audio records had been showing interest in sennen for quite a while, and kindly offered to release it for them. soon however, hungry audio suggested that the band had more than enough material to release a good full-length album. the band agreed, and the ep idea was subsequently abandoned. instead, the original four tracks from tontena became the basis of the new record, and an additional three tracks were added from the earlier sickroom sessions with owen (opened up my arms, laid out, and all the time) to complete the widows album. the album was released in october 2005 to critical acclaim from the likes of rock sound, kerrang, maxim, and drowned in sound - and crept into various end of year polls. sennen played more shows with the likes of ulrich schnauss, mono, and mark gardener. as the album sold well, more people came to the gigs. in early 2006, the band returned to the studio once again to record some of the new songs that had become regulars in the live set during the previous few months. let you down and all we gotta do will be released as sennen's first single on hungry audio records in the summer of 2006  | |
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