Filthy Cake
"Active in Coventry between 2004 - 2009, their fire was short lived, but they live on in whispers in the darkened corners of dive bars in Coventry. Do you want some Filthy Cake? Too bad, this band is a thing of the past.
Emma Sayers - Vox
Martin Lynch - Strings
Jez White - Beats
Emma Sayers - Vox
Martin Lynch - Strings
Jez White - Beats
"Emma's voice is her chosen weapon, strong and loud, exciting but always in control. Her stark, often disturbing lyrics are compounded by the two way audio assault courtesy of Jez on drums and Martin on guitar. How can this be just two instruments and a voice I ask myself? Loud and proud, in yer' face driving rock!"
Pete Chambers - Coventry Music Historian / Telegraph Columnist…
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It Doesn't Make it Alright by Filthy Cake.
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Give it up
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Coventry City Of Culture 2021
Review by Pete Chambers for BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire16 / 2 / 2006
"Those of you who have be paying attention will know that Filthy Cake came up trumps at the recent BBC Coventry & Warwickshire 2-Tone gig when they recorded a thrash-metal version of The Specials' classic It Doesn’t Make It Alright.
It was featured on the live broadcast and did the band no harm in their attempt at world domination and this show was yet another step onwards through the exciting lifetime of a band that have more focus than the Hubble Telescope.
When the band took to the stage anticipation was high and there was no doubt that something very special was about to happen.
As a front-person Emma Sayers ticks all the right boxes. Not only does she posses a superb voice and bucket loads of charisma but this lady towers over most men in the audience and the stage belongs most definitely to her! It becomes her place of work and she knows how to work it - she was surely made to rock n roll.
Emma Sayers of Filthy Cake
Emma is the perfect front person
There again, it does help when you have a couple of musicians like Jez and Martin backing you. Martin Lynch is of the heads-down-and-boogie school of guitar playing, delicious power chord followed by another delicious power chord all topped off with - you’ve guessed it - another equally delicious power chord.
Then we have Jez White at the back beating the skins in a relentless attack of audio assault. This gig was powerful as it was exciting, yet we are talking about guitar, drums and voice - no bass, no keyboards, just three people hungry to rock.
We all loved it tonight, the audience, the band even the people at the back too frightened to move any closer. Filthy Cake staples like Marmapuke and the glorious Done Before all featured tonight, along with the aforementioned It Doesn’t Make It Alright now a set regular done to perfection.
No FC performance is complete without a step further into the dark-side with what has become their own classic Give It Up, and tonight Emma gave her all to the song and its delivery, bringing another dynamic performance of one of the City’s hottest tickets to a close. Now more cake anyone?!"
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From the Coventry Telegraph 2006
By Kate Stanton
" I END up crawling across the floor," says Emma Sayers, keen to get across that the band are best experienced live.
"We all go a bit loopy and go off into our own worlds. I don't even feel like I'm performing, I'm just on my own and screaming.
"There's nothing more liberating - it's like a fit of hysteria," she explains. "Then you come off stage and you think, 'What was I doing?'".
"Yeah, the old grannies love us," confides Martin Lynch. "It's definitely dramatic."
The band's name came from the slightly more sedate activity of eating cake, strangely enough.
"I was sitting in a café where there was lots of cake behind glass," recalls Emma. "It looked so tempting, and I was just imagining a big Mississippi mud cake... just sticking your face in it, and getting filthy. That's like the music, you just get stuck in and don't hold back."
Struggling to pigeonhole their sound, Emma offers: "Someone called it female-fronted garage rock." "Maybe it's funky rock," suggests Martin.
"You can dance to it," Emma explains, "but I do a fair bit of screaming as well. Someone once described it as PJ Harvey vs Rage Against the Machine. It's just whatever comes out really, we just jam and see what happens."
Filthy Cake got together in May 2004, but have been gigging since last June. "Me and Jez were jamming, and decided it would be nice to have a female singer," says Martin.
"My friend saw an ad in Bubble shop window and gave me the number," adds Emma. "She was the first one we auditioned - and then we just couldn't get rid of her," Martin laughs.
"I was also the best," Emma states, firmly, "and I stopped all the others from going into the auditions anyway.
"I beat them up," she says, though she's (probably) not serious. "It was the first proper band I'd been in, I wanted to get into one for 10 or 15 years but hadn't had the courage or the means to do so.
"My first gig... all that pent-up let-me-out anger was allowed to come out at last, it just sort of exploded."
Unusually, the three-piece outfit have no bass player, but they insist it doesn't create a problem. "People always say it sounds like there is one," says drummer Jez White. "They ask if he's hiding backstage because he's too shy to come out."
As for the future, Filthy Cake have plans to gig around the country, and are shortly to record an EP. But they don't plan to exhaust themselves in a quest for world domination.
Martin says: "Fame would be nice but we're not fighting for it. But I think we're damn good and most people who hear it - their jaws are on the floor.
"Usually because Emma's knocked one of them out," he adds.
"We're certainly not just in it for the money, but I think we'd like some recognition," says Jez. "It would be nice to give up our jobs."
Emma nods, wistfully: "My ambition is to travel the world and speak lots of different languages. Maybe this could be my way of doing that."
EMMA SAYERS, singer, 29, works as an interpreter and classroom assistant, lives in Stoke Caludon, and was a student at Coventry University.
MARTIN LYNCH, guitarist, 33, is a landscape gardener, lives in Radford, and attended Coventry Centre for Performing Arts.
JEZ WHITE, drummer, 37, does grounds maintenance and lives in Fenny Compton. He went to Dormer School in Leamington.
IT'S A SCREAM... Lead singer of Filthy Cake Emma Sayers, guitarist Martin Lynch and drummer Jez White, say the band are best experienced live.
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