Windmills | en

The Windmills were Tony Pankhurst, Roy Thirlwall, Dan Pankhurst and Rob Clarke. They dragged themselves from the Thames Estuary mud many years ago, learned to walk, invented the wheel and fashioned simple instruments from electricity and firewood. Turn your face to the watery English sun and you might pick up their lovelorn and bitter primordial twitchings drifting with the mist over the Essex flatlands. .

There are currently three bands with the name Windmills. 1. An experimental pop/indie rock loop artist from Western BC, Canada. (2011-present) 2. A DJ/multi-instrumentalist duo from the United States. (2010-present) 3. Indie pop trio founded in Kankakee, IL and currently based in Champaign, IL 1. Born out of the beautiful Okanagan Valley, Windmills emerged in April of 2011, and in an incredibly humbling and extremely busy year has played over dozens of shows and has had the opportunity to open for a wide variety of talented bands such as Library Voices, Hey Ocean, Wake Owl, Bend Sinister, Wool on Wolves,...

Windmills by the Ocean is the title of a recently unearthed recording from August 2003, the sole output of Boston natives Mike Davis, Dave Dunbar, Brooke Gillespie, Bryant Clifford Meyer and Thos Niles. Since the project's beginning and end, the creators have continued on in such bands as 27, Anodyne, ISIS, and Red Sparowes, but the relevancy of this intense recording can be most appreciated now, three years after it's conception. The variety and depth to this (mostly) instrumental music documentation reaches far beyond those of any mere side-project, and the heavy-music genres are in dire need of something this...