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The Filthy Souls:

Dave Green: Guitar, Vocals
Anthony Lavin: Guitar, Backing vocals
Marc Hogan: Drums
Bass: Barry Robinson

Dave Green has been around - and it shows. At only 22, this singer/songwriter from the North-West of England has not only a creative maturity well beyond his years, but strength of voice that transcends both era and classification.

At ages 14, Dave, Anthony and Marc cut a CD under the name ‘The People’ and subsequently signed on with Canadian music manager Daniel Brookes. By 17, Dave was invited to sign with another of ‘Brookes’ bands - ‘Roller’, in which he undertook two tours of the United States and Canada opening for 54-40 and Danny Michel. In this time, both Anthony and Marc went their separate directions to focus on their own styles of music and to further progress their talent.

In 2004 Dave undertook 6 months of writing and recording in Canada with such industry notables as Rich Beddoe (Finger Eleven), Vincent Sciara and Ken Corke (Skye Sweetnam). Since having successfully opened support shows with the likes of ‘The Damned’, ‘We Start Fires’, ‘The Futureheads’ and ‘Ali Love’, Dave has been in the studio with producer John Kettle (Marble Index, Moco), where he focused on developing a new sound and worked on and completed his full-length C.D.

In October, 2007, Dave invited back the talents of Hogan and Lavin, and successfully auditioned Barry Robinson as bassist to complete the line-up of The Filthy Souls.

In Vancouver Dave recently shot two videos for the singles ‘Shootin Stars’ and ‘The Boys Will Be Out for a Fight’. The Filthy Souls music has already been heard at numerous festivals, including recent success of ‘In The City’, as well as on the Fox Television series ‘Vanished’ and Manchester’s ‘Channel M’.

More recently, the band have seen interest expressed from Crown Music Management (Sugar Babes, Keane, Orson, Prodigy) and have had multiple meetings with their management team who love the band’s sound and dedication to their love of music.

The band are planning a trip to Los Angeles in July 2008 to introduce their music to the US market. However, the trips main focal aim is to create interest from US record labels. This biography is to introduce you to the band and to see if you could assist in any way………

nothing cliche about CTE
dudes believe everything they say or do. real deal. i Smell a HATERRRRRRRRR.

You read too much Rolling Stone, and this sounds like it was copped from the band’s website. This band is a bunch of hacks with cliches - anyone can thrash and pound while the singer moans about “empty streets” and “broken dreams”.

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Ryan Hall, start your own rock rag, and immediately pop me a subscription. I love it.

When people ask who my favorties bands are I immedial say The Doors, quickly followed by CAGE THE ELEPHANT! Love them. They rock my soul.

and Jared Champion drums like a champion.

Oh wow. The first article I’ve read in this whole damn contest that actually has substance!! I am quite impressed, Ryan Hall.

Not to mention, your comparitives to other awesome bands in closing was a great idea–it makes me actually want to listen to them.

Hey Daneil…Jared is a bad-ass drummer…sloppy? no…maybe he was drunk…or you’re just jealous…:)

This is my absolute fav band…I remember when we were little and you used to sing glycerine in the basement Brad, man we were dorks huh??:) Keep it up guys…YOU ARE AWESOME!!! Gotta tell Matt i love you too….i promise once i pop this kid out i’ll come to your shows…I just don’t want sophia to go deaf in utero…LOVE YA!!! And thanks for writing about our boys…in BOWLING GREEN, KY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to school with this writer. The boy has talent. Now only if he had the looks to go with it.

Keep up the writing Ryan, it’s got some mad flow (and this is coming from someone with an actual degree in Journalism, not like these other crapsacks who think because they use some ‘mad verbage’ they can comment on your slick skills.)

Good luck boss. You’ve got it wrapped up.

These guys have “IT”, you can hear it in the music and feel it at their shows. Solid write-up Ryan Hall.

I went to school with half the band ,who are from Bowling Green, and pretty much grew up with them. Some of them are like family to me, and are childhood friends to my husband. they have really came along way and have work hard to get were they are now. I wish the best for them. they have a long road ahead of them.

Dope article for sure. Cage is tight but you should have done Ratatat or Mew, those bands are the HEAT right now!

They are the shit, those boys are going places…

Grew up with these boys, use to drive’em to school! Use to get drunk with’em, hell still do that! I know their gonna hit it big and soon, to bad I’m in Iraq and don’t get to watch. Ryan, one helluva an article I thought I was reading RS! this guy daneil, who posted “sloppy drummer” needs work, band has potential!! I’ll break his freakin’ legs when I get home! These guys are original and if they need work go watch them again, because they rock harder every time I see them play.

AMAZING BAND!!!! Impressive live show!!

Good stuff. I just went to their website and purchased the cd upon reading your review. Hope to see more of your stuff.

That’s some good shit Kid! Flows like hell. That Dude person is just jealous, don’t sweat it. Hit me up later…

Hey y’all, I wrote this late at night and had a couple of brain farts. I know the boys are from Bowling Green, and I forgot to put ” ” marks around one quote fragment. Chill out. Effective and creative incorporation of quotes from the subject(s) of the piece is part of good journalism.

pretty impressive!!

Cage the Elephant is a bad ass band that is from BOWLING GREEN! It appears to me that the writer states things that are disclosed on your bio for SXSW. I thik a great writer should use his own words and not try and borrow other peoples creative phrases.

You’ve got the RS adjectives-packed-beyond-capac ity style in your back pocket.

Good shit.

seen them 2x in nashville, tn and they need work. lots of potential though, but really sloppy drummer.

So talented… Are you sure you are not an established journalist?

my favorite band of all time…. love them!!!! but…. they are from Bowling Green, Ky!!!!!

damn good!!

pretty pretty pretty good