The Home Guard
24,149 plays (841 listeners)
Peterborough, England
To get the best idea about The Home Guard in the shortest time possible, have a quick listen to 
Champagne Socialist and Other People. The former is a bass-driven indie rocker with a Britpop and synthy new wave flavour, whilst the latter is a progressive folk ballad with pianos, flutes and a heavy guitar section - but try not to let that put you off!
As these two songs demonstrate, one thing The Home Guard really strive to do is incorporate a range of genres into their music. You’ll hear elements of indie, progressive rock, britpop, folk, glam rock, new wave, art rock, and a few more besides. For this reason, it’s very difficult to pigeon-hole The Home Guard: their favourite tag they’ve received on Last.fm is “progressive indie”, and they wish they’d thought of it themselves.
The Home Guard’s main influences include Queen, Jethro Tull, Madness, Elvis Colstello, Blur, Van der Graaf Generator and The Beatles, but for a more extensive (and slightly esoteric) list, see their MySpace profile. By recording material based on the sort of music that they themselves enjoy, coupled with their rather varied collection of influences, it’s no surprise that they hardly fit in with mainstream trends. If any of The Home Guard’s music sounds close to the current musical fashions, rest assured that this is purely coincidental!
Champagne Socialist and Other People. The former is a bass-driven indie rocker with a Britpop and synthy new wave flavour, whilst the latter is a progressive folk ballad with pianos, flutes and a heavy guitar section - but try not to let that put you off!As these two songs demonstrate, one thing The Home Guard really strive to do is incorporate a range of genres into their music. You’ll hear elements of indie, progressive rock, britpop, folk, glam rock, new wave, art rock, and a few more besides. For this reason, it’s very difficult to pigeon-hole The Home Guard: their favourite tag they’ve received on Last.fm is “progressive indie”, and they wish they’d thought of it themselves.
The Home Guard’s main influences include Queen, Jethro Tull, Madness, Elvis Colstello, Blur, Van der Graaf Generator and The Beatles, but for a more extensive (and slightly esoteric) list, see their MySpace profile. By recording material based on the sort of music that they themselves enjoy, coupled with their rather varied collection of influences, it’s no surprise that they hardly fit in with mainstream trends. If any of The Home Guard’s music sounds close to the current musical fashions, rest assured that this is purely coincidental!
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For No One
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Nothing Can Stop You Being Mine
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For No One
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Sweating Blood
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Turn Me Up
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Poor Man's England
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Everyman
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Rendezvous
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Other People
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The Orator
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Shoutbox
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vjsupersaint wrote:
http://rock.warmwebradio.com/#home Catch The Home Guard on tonight's show. From 2100-2300 CET. Or 2000-2200 GMT. Worldwide listeners will need to check their clocks with these timings. The show is hosted by Sussilo. But she's too modest to say so. I'm not, modesty doesn't do when this great lady. Gives her all to getting great lesser known artists heard. Please bring all your fans/friends with you. The show is really worth listening to. Thanks to all that do from Mike.
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WadeBrady wrote:
No worries mate! really cool Enjoyed it! Will be listening again! Also play music and there is some free downloads on our last fm is you want to check em out! http://www.last.fm/music/Heritage+Centre Take it easy Ciaran
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Fall__ wrote:
i enjoyed listening to your music,congrats and good luck with your next songs
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Ola_Hansen wrote:
Well, I like your music!
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BenWH wrote:
If you guys are at a loose end tonight, we're playing just down the road at the Solstice if you fancy a beer.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Congratulations to The Home Guard on reaching your first 20,000 plays Yippee.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Oh my golly, nearly 17,000 plays now. That's well I'll say the rest later today. It's a fantastic effort by everyone involved in our little listener power exercise. Here's to The Home Guard going on from this now. It will be no more than is deserved from such a great band. What a great bunch of listeners you've got here on Last.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Don't Panic! Captain Mainwaring. The Home Guardathon is now on and running until Sunday 13th September. 1200 BST. Thanks from Mike. Oh and come join our quest to get this great great band heard if you so wish to. We are here. http://www.last.fm/group/The+Home+Guard Have a great day all. And keep playing The Home Guard please. Not long to go until Sunday now.
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cwmusson wrote:
Going to see Otway in Cambridge tomorrow night at Junction 2. I think everyone should see Otway at least once. Even during a homeguardathon, If anyone will be also having a party to relieve the boredom on the 10.43 train from Cambridge to Ipswich, please say hello. I will have an Otway Band t-shirt on. Cheers Chris
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longraphics wrote:
Some really good songs there! Enjoyed listening to them....Best wishes, Bob
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luckystoned wrote:
good stuff :P
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Don't Panic! Captain Mainwaring. The Home Guardathon is now on and running until Sunday 13th September. 1200 BST. Thanks from Mike. Oh and come join our quest to get this great great band heard if you so wish to. We are here. http://www.last.fm/group/The+Home+Guard
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Sax-Moryson wrote:
I think it will something really big , Gina
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IQ-TyQe wrote:
Congratz on the new album! My favourites are: Dead On My Feed (Again) and Sweating Blood.
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TheTrees08 wrote:
Good luck with the homegaurdathon,im going out now so im going to leave the pc on playing your new album, take care Simon.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Can all fans of These great lads. Please take part in The Home Guardathon. Running until Sunday 13th September 2009. For further details please see either group for The Home Guard. Or just come see me. I'll sort ya out.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
Congratulations on the full album release. And this new website looks pretty hot too. http://www.thehomeguard.info/ For those that have never been or seen.
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sussilo wrote:
Today I got your new album a really pleasant surprisel. I felt like a child on Christmas Eve :) I have just listening to it once and the whole album is so GOOD. Mine three top tracks from the album is Turn Me Up, Nothing Can Stop You Being Mine and Dead On My Feet (Again) Thanks Chris and Dan for the nice words you sent with the album :)
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cwmusson wrote:
I've just finished listening to Forlorn Hope And Glory which arrived in the post today. What a superb album!. All the tracks are good. I particularly enjoyed Year Zero, One For The Road, Dead On My Feet (Again) and Other People.
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vjsupersaint wrote:
The second masterpiece got to me this morning. And now I'm addicted to it. Not buying Forlorn Hope And Glory should be deemed a crime. As it should be for A Head Of Steam. These albums have so many songs to suit all tastes. It's about time you two left The Leper's Colony. Love the new work fellas. Thanks for all this brill music you make.
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Featured Tracks
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Champagne Socialist full track | 2:25 |
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Other People full track | 4:07 |
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Sweating Blood full track | 3:30 |
News
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Recent Activity
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vjsupersaint unlinked The Home Guard from Unsigned Christmas. last week
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AudioAlysis and janasniedze added The Home Guard to their libraries. last month
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Acuvi wrote about The Home Guard in Too good to be ignored.. last month
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SideFlower added The Home Guard to SideFlower’s library. last month
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vjsupersaint wrote about The Home Guard in Winter Music Fun 2009/2010. October 2009
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IanAR connected The Home Guard to the group Newbie Streamable Artists. October 2009
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MiKGMac tagged The Home Guard with indierock, rock, indie and one other tag. October 2009
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Seidengespinst tagged The Home Guard with guitar pop and indie pop. October 2009
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TheHomeGuard updated the wiki page for The Home Guard. (diff) October 2009
- The Home Guard posted a news item ‘Vids, glorious vids’. October 2009
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