Who we are and how we arrived here. Includes discography. Click here.
Gigs
Where you can see us, and the ones you've missed here.
For info / bookings, email containerdrivers@yahoo.co.uk
Download some tracks here.
Some sites we like here.
Drop in and say hello here.
18/07/08 - Wedding Present support slot
We're delighted to announce that we will be supporting the Wedding Present at the 12 Bar in Swindon on Friday 20th July. It's already sold out, I'm afraid to say.
2/07/08 - Debut single out now!
Our debut single, 'It Must be the Pipes', is out now on CD via Topplers.
Other News
8/03/08 - Ice Cold IceYou can watch a clip of us playing 'They Found it Buried in the Ice' at our Liverpool gig on 20th February on YouTube. Click here for They Found it Buried in the Ice.
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Volume 2 of The Beautiful Music's Television Personalities tribute / covers project is now available. More
details can be found on the official Myspace page. Early copies come with a second CD of extra material, which includes the Container
Drivers doing a ropey live version of 'A Picture of Dorian Gray', a studio version of which was our contribution to the first volume of the project... which is...Still available! 'If I Could Write Poetry: A Tribute To Television Personalities'. A 20 track compilation album from Canada's The Beautiful Music, featuring cover versions and tributes to this cult British band. The CD includes our version of the TV Personalities 'A Picture of Dorian Gray'. Early copies of the album also include a bonus 10 track CD that features our live version of another TVP number, the classic 'Part Time Punks'.
Previous Features
The Container Drivers have a track on the Fall tribute 'A Tribute To The Fall - Perverted By Mark E.' Put together by the Woog Riots, the CD was released on 3 May 2004 on the German ZickZack label. Read the background story about how we came to record our tribute to The Fall here.
Copies can be purchased from the Woog Riots.
Woog Riots: http://www.woogriots.de.
ZickZack label: http://www.zickzack3000.de.
Part 2 of the 'Perverted by Mark E' tour saw the Container Drivers accompany the Woog Riots, Knarf Rellöm and the Crashing Dreams to south Germany and Switzerland.
Read Keg's tour diary and see some photos too.
Bull and Gate 'Perverted' night, 9th October. See some photos here.
The Container Drivers returned to Germany in June 2004 for three gigs to promote the 'Perverted by Mark E' tribute, with the Woog Riots, Rockformation Diskokugel, Knarf Rellöm and others. Despite fighting off an attack of the 'flu, it was a triumph!
Read Keg's tour diary. Tour photos are here.
The Container Drivers travelled to Darmstadt in May 2004 to appear at the launch party for the Fall tribute CD. Compered by DJ Klaus Walter, the evening witnessed live performances by Gerald Wrede, Krite, the Woog Riots, the Container Drivers, Chris Cacavas and Rockformation Diskokugel. See photos of the evening here.