...BIO...
Formed in a schoolgirl’s Wiltshire bedroom, in 2006 dual guitar-botherers Charlie Romijn and Deej Dhariwal found their glue in the form of 13 year old drummer Guy Metcalfe, who they first discovered playing a local pub in the already well established post-rock band he’d formed with his older brother.
At only their second gig together they met a man who introduced himself as Fat Paul and said he co-owned a record label with Geoff from Portishead, offering to sign them then and there. Thinking it was probably just the drunken chatter of a kindly man, they took this offer with a pinch of salt but sure enough, a couple of weeks later they were stood in the kitchen of a Bristol recording studio drinking tea with Julian Cope and making plans to record their first album for Invada Records; a label they’ve now been working with for 15 years.
This surreal trajectory continued, with the band being invited to play at the legendary ATP Festival for the first time in 2007. In spite of Guy always having to get back early for school the next day, they spent the next few years either in the studio or on the road - playing across the UK, Europe and North America with Portishead, 65Daysofstatic, Beak>, Esben and the Witch and too many more to mention. (Though something that must be mentioned while we’re talking about playing live, is the fact that ROBERT SMITH from THE CURE asked Thought Forms to play at his Meltdown Festival in 2018. They said yes.)
Their self titled debut album for Invada was released in 2009, followed up with 2013’s “Ghost Mountain”, a 2014 split EP with comrades Esben and the Witch and “Songs About Drowning”, the 2016 album which saw Portishead / Get The Blessing bass player Jim Barr officially welcomed into the fold as both band member and producer.
Never subscribing to the arbitrary belief that a band should constantly be churning out music as product for some insatiable PR machine, Thought Forms make a noise together for the sheer f**king joy of it and as such, their connection and creativity is something true and exciting. An amalgam of race and gender and with an age range spanning four decades Thought Forms are a band in an unusual position.
2020 was the first year since their formation that they didn’t play a single live show. For obvious reasons. But when they could, they holed up together at J & J Studio in their adopted home of Bristol and will be releasing new recordings in 2021.
At only their second gig together they met a man who introduced himself as Fat Paul and said he co-owned a record label with Geoff from Portishead, offering to sign them then and there. Thinking it was probably just the drunken chatter of a kindly man, they took this offer with a pinch of salt but sure enough, a couple of weeks later they were stood in the kitchen of a Bristol recording studio drinking tea with Julian Cope and making plans to record their first album for Invada Records; a label they’ve now been working with for 15 years.
This surreal trajectory continued, with the band being invited to play at the legendary ATP Festival for the first time in 2007. In spite of Guy always having to get back early for school the next day, they spent the next few years either in the studio or on the road - playing across the UK, Europe and North America with Portishead, 65Daysofstatic, Beak>, Esben and the Witch and too many more to mention. (Though something that must be mentioned while we’re talking about playing live, is the fact that ROBERT SMITH from THE CURE asked Thought Forms to play at his Meltdown Festival in 2018. They said yes.)
Their self titled debut album for Invada was released in 2009, followed up with 2013’s “Ghost Mountain”, a 2014 split EP with comrades Esben and the Witch and “Songs About Drowning”, the 2016 album which saw Portishead / Get The Blessing bass player Jim Barr officially welcomed into the fold as both band member and producer.
Never subscribing to the arbitrary belief that a band should constantly be churning out music as product for some insatiable PR machine, Thought Forms make a noise together for the sheer f**king joy of it and as such, their connection and creativity is something true and exciting. An amalgam of race and gender and with an age range spanning four decades Thought Forms are a band in an unusual position.
2020 was the first year since their formation that they didn’t play a single live show. For obvious reasons. But when they could, they holed up together at J & J Studio in their adopted home of Bristol and will be releasing new recordings in 2021.