Music!
By NanoBear | September 3, 2010
Now that I’ve averted a minor hard drive apocalypse, time for another post.
After 4 years, I’m finally playing another gig! Had to brush the dust off my trumpet, but now I’m playing some hard rocking stuff with a mate’s rock band.
The name of the band is ‘One Thousand Years.’ They released an EP a couple of months back, on which they asked me to play some horn parts on one track, and now we’re getting close to the official launch. I get to play on a couple more songs at the gig. After so many years without a gig, I can’t wait to get back on the stage for what will hopefully be the first of many more gigs.
Check out the gig poster:
Some things people have written about the guys:
“One Thousand Years have not only energy and presence to burn, but are drumskin-tight on stage. A band out of their time, singer Chris Boyd could pass for Joe Cocker’s stunt double. They served up a heavy, blues-infused rock set that sounded like it could have been released in 1972. The crowd lapped it up, especially when Boyd leavened their crunchy guitar riffs with a brief harmonica solo”
- Travis Johnson, X-Press Magazine
“Record store workers, get out your sticky labels, I’m coining a new genre for this record: “tasteful hair metal.” Though this local EP definitely bears the influence of Motley Crue and Aerosmith, the production drags it kicking and screaming towards early ’70s glam rock. Much of it reminds me of Poison’s cover of Suffragette City, but there are other well digested influences here too, from Rage Against The Machine to southern rock. There is a scene starting to emerge for hair-related music in this city at the moment. The shows are fun to get drunk at, but One Thousand Years are the first act to come up with a memorable CD.”
- Tomas Ford, The Drum Media
You can have a look at their facebook page here, and listen to a few tracks on their myspace page here
Hope to see lots of you at the gig!
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Ch ch ch changes
By NanoBear | September 2, 2010
Still working on customizing the page.
For those of you who have been here before (very few of you), you will have noticed it bears absolutely no resemblance to my old page. Basically, life is changing, so the page is as well.
back to my search for new stuff to put on here…
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