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Phantom Band Biography

The Phantom Band is a Glasgow-based band made up of Duncan De Cornell (on Guitars & Fast Cars) Gerrard "Hartbreak" Harvard (Bass & Big Business), Andrew T Oxford (Keyboards & Cheeseboards) "Richard The Turd" Princeton (Harmonies & Libraries), Damien Duke Stanford ( Drums & The Law) and Greg Yale (Pedals, Gold Medals, Banjos & ASBO's). Their debut album Checkmate Savage is due to be release in January 2009 on the label Chemikal Underground Records.

The Phantom Band is a Glasgow-based band made up of Duncan De Cornell (on Guitars & Fast Cars) Gerrard "Hartbreak" Harvard (Bass & Big Business), Andrew T Oxford (Keyboards & Cheeseboards) "Richard The Turd" Princeton (Harmonies & Libraries), Damien Duke Stanford ( Drums & The Law) and Greg Yale (Pedals, Gold Medals, Banjos & ASBO's). Their debut album Checkmate Savage is due to be release in January 2009 on the label Chemikal Underground Records. Starting out as NRA, becoming Les Crazy Boyz, Los Crayzee Boyz, Tower of Girls, Wooden Trees and more, The Phantom Band are noted for releasing their music under various alter-egos, on limited cassette and CDR, never sticking to the same band-name for long. In 2005, using the adopted name Robert Redford, they released a one-off CDR titled The Mummy and Daddy Dance on their own temporary label "Extreme Nudity", self distributed to independent record outlets in the UK, before removing all reference to it from their online presence and reforming under a new name, Robert Louis Stevenson. The sought-after release now only changes hands on online auction sites, and the only element trackable from the band's current incarnation is the presence of the track 'Crocodile' (formerly 'Crocodile Dundee') on their 2009 album Checkmate Savage. Under the title of Robert Louis Stevenson, they played a number of exclusive live shows in Glasgow (Stereo, Nice'n'Sleazy) and Edinburgh (Wee Red Bar) and released a limited run of 150 audio cassettes under band member Nobodaddy (Andrew's DJing alter-ego) and Hugo Paris' home imprint, 'Sweat on Cassette'. In 2006, the band began using The Phantom Band as their name, in reference to their elusive activities up to that point, and in 2007 released a 7" single Throwing Bones on London based Trial & Error Recordings[1]. The critical acclaim of this single, their first fully distributed release, was the impetus for their signing to Chemikal Underground.
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