Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park (sometimes spelled Maximo Park) are an English indie rock band who formed in 2000.

Maxïmo Park
Maxïmo Park in 2005
Background information
Origin	Newcastle, England
Genres	Indie rock Post-punk revival
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Warp Records
Members	Paul Smith Duncan Lloyd Archis Tiku Lukas Wooller Tom English
Website	www.maximopark.com

Maximo Park at Leeds Festival 2005

History

Maxïmo Park formed in 2000 (with frontman Paul Smith coming from Billingham in Teesside). To Start off with, the four founding members played only a little amount small shows, with Archis Tiku on vocals, constantly switching the instruments he played. Almost about to split up, but instead they decided to look for somebody else to sing vocals. Singer Paul Smith was discovered by the then-girlfriend of drummer Tom English in a pub while he was singing along to a Stevie Wonder song. Having found someone with a stage presence, they started to write their first songs together, all despite the fact that the frontman never imagined himself as a frontman of a band. Paul Smith had never sung on stage before.

Around March 2004, a friend of the band's paid for 300 copies of a 7" red vinyl single "Graffiti" and later released a vinyl of their tracks ("The Coast Is Always Changing"/"The Night I Lost My Head") that they’d recorded in their house in Fenham. After some time of doing shows around their home town, Steve Beckett of the dance-electronic label Warp Records found one of these records and decided to sign Maxïmo Park to his record label.

Members

• Tom English – drums
• Duncan Lloyd – guitar
• Paul Smith – vocals
• Archis Tiku – bass
• Lukas Wooller – keyboard

Discography

Albums

• A Certain Trigger

• Missing Songs

• Our Earthly Pleasures

Other websites

• Maxïmo Park official website
• Maxïmo Park MySpace
• An acoustic session for Vox podcast Archived 2018-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Karaoke Plays Review Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Maximo Park, Newcastle 15th Dec 07 Review Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine

Interviews

• The Scenestar Maxïmo Park Interview July 2007
• Interview by Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite 2006)
• Die Klangschau: 15 Songs chosen by Maxïmo Park Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine and interview Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Maximo Park video interview with stv/music, June 2007 Archived 2007-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Video interview with Paul from Maximo Park Archived 2007-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
• SUPERSWEET interview Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Interview by Natalie Shaw for Clash Magazine Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine