Graham: Guitar/lead vocals
Peter: Bass
Darren: Drums

THREE LITRE are based in Reading (also home to the lovely COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE-who they just happen to be drinking buddies), Berkshire.

Their last single ?g.o.d.d.e.s.s? released in October was very warmly received by the media/public alike. Received airplay on 6 Music, Radio One, XFM, Reading 107 , Blast and the world famous KROQ in LA,USA. The band have also featured in The Fly, Music Week, Logo, Organ and Rock Sound .

They might have had several drunken nights out with the COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE boys, but they obviously do not sound anything like them. They also have rather sensible, if at the same time sexy haircuts.

THREE LITRES write songs, remember them? Songs that put a big wet kiss on your face, and a huge skip in your step. Great observational lyrics. It is actually hard to pin point down the actual sound of the boys. Basically it is pop with an enormous fuck off capital P. Arse! It is PPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

?I HATE CHRISTMAS? (produced by Adam Whitaker- Julian Cope) isn?t actually an anti Christmas ditty, but a great love song (if a somewhat torn) . Based on a true story- how Graham only gets to see an old flame at the festive time of year as she comes back to Reading every year to see her folks and this brings all the old memories flooding back. Listen to the lyrics.

There are real moments of lyrical genius here.

THE DARKNESS ARE FANS OF THREE LITRE

THE LATE JOHN PEEL HAS DESCRIBED THREE LITRE AS ? RANCID,?

Record Review

There's a slightly different take on seasonal hate in this re-release Christmas single from Reading's Three Litre. "It's not the Crass commercialisation" - it's the fact that every Christmas an old flame returns to the singer's hometown and brigs all the old, bad memories flooding back. This sentiment comes in the form of a storming indie-pop song with just the right amount of sneer in it, the jaded words balanced by the use of very seasonal bells (both sleigh and church) in the melody. Any Christmas song which contains the lyric "I got my red nose from the grape and grain, deer/But I'm down to a bottle a day" gets my vote, and the anthemic tuneful sing-a-long chant of I hate Christmas strikes me as just the thing to stick on the stereo after the inevitable turkey gorge-feast... Bah, Humbug.
Holl(i)y - R*P*E*A*T 22

He hates Christmas because it's the only time he sees her and he sings, "don't think that you can win me by sliding down my chimney". In addition to such a seasonal love song, Three Litre decorate red and green Christmas punk in 'Lost in the Country' while offering a bizarre Tracey Chapman-flavored track, 'The Pebble song' ornamented with falsettos and sudden drum crashes. Cute and Entertaining.
Astrid Harders - Rock Sound Magazine.

This is a bitter sweet song about the mixed emotions evoked by the festive season, which I wish I'd had at the time! Despite the throwaway title, the lyrics are thoughtful and well observed comments on the human condition accompanying gigantic pop songs, "pop with an enormous f*ck off capital P" as the press release puts it. Lovely.
R*E*P*E*A*T Fanzine.

?G.O.D.D.E.S.S?? despite it?s pop baggage it has a 50?s bubblegum feel to it, kinda like the Rezillos finding themselves locked in the same studio as Rocky Sharpe and the Replays and Eddie Cochran. ?A girl from the industry? starts out like Bowie?s ?Ziggy? before strolling daydreaming like in a fluffy love sick novel, quite harmlessly sweet. Ending with ?I can do anything I want (because you love me)? which is more like it, tangy West Coast summer pop in the mould of Chris Stamey, throw in the Split Enz, Jags and Distractions and you get a tastily snappy hip swinging new wave ditty, nuff said.
Mark@losingtoday.com - Losingtoday

Live Reviews

"Next onstage was the ever-popular Three Litre. This band needed little introduction, their unmistakable no-frills pub rock coupled with Graham Burgess's offbeat lyrics (and the pink spangly guitar) have already attracted a cult following.

They kicked off with a rather unorthodox kazoo solo from the charismatic front man before launching into a stack of now-familiar singalong rockers, which included the new single "G.O.D.D.E.S.S" and its b-side "Girl From The Industry".
Simon Eales - Josaka - Read Full Review