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Earlier this summer, Organised-Sound.com caught up with Four Year Strong - fresh off Give It A Name and in the process of embarking on Give It A Name... Introduces, they were in high spirits. Having foolishly given them a huge bag of candy before the interview began, we found ourselves enjoying less of an interview than a children's party as Four Year Strong became four years old... By Liberty-Belle Howard and Rosie Nicchitta... This room has tragedy on the walls.
Right now is an amazing time for British music, and with so many talented bands already flying high, it may be difficult for any newcomers to break through. However, All Forgotten have already earned a solid fan base whilst managing to secure places on some of the most hotly tipped bills of the year. And with two tours already lined up for the winter months, they show no signs of slowing down. By Amy Draper and Sarah Jamieson... Do you feel the weight of the world singing sorrow?
Since 1997, Bryce Avary has shown a level of complete adoration and dedication towards his music, almost unbeknown so far in this industry. Yet it is through his constant hard work that he has become the sole producer of some of the most beautiful and emotionally driven music, loved worldwide. We were lucky enough to speak to the one man behind The Rocket Summer on his second UK headlining tour of 2008. I'm building four walls right around you.
At present, the British music scene is ready to burst at the seams with the vast amount of talented bands heading out of the shadows, cast by their American couterparts. Tonight is Goodbye are one such band, and with their gorgeous EP 'Castles' released in June, it's hard to understand why we didn't pay more attention much sooner. By Sarah Jamieson and Faye Gordon... "Play me a song; it's been too long since I've heard you sing."
This year's Give It A Name Festival provided yet another opportunity for UK audiences to spend the weekend with some of the most fresh and popular bands of our current music scene. Among the lengthy list of American favourites, one of the most highly anticipated were the very wonderful Mayday Parade. They tried to upstage us; we walk like we're famous.
Approaching the end of 2007, we spoke to these boys as the freshly signed act of Roadrunner Records. Even in the mere five months that have passed since then, Kids In Glass Houses have gone from strength to strength, securing fans countrywide, whilst sitting in one of the most sought after support slots of the year, alongside Paramore and New Found Glory. Plus, they threw out a few videos that reached the number one slot in many an MTV2 chart, as well as becoming a regular favourite on Radio 1. All in a day's work. By Sarah Jamieson and Faye Gordon... Don't forget about the blue sky, sunrise, and all the space between.
When a band tries and fails to get themselves to the UK on two separate occasions, you have to at least respect their effort. Yet, third time seemed to be lucky for the guys from Valencia, as they overcame the obstacles and visited our shores this month, to show us Brits exactly what everyone in America's been raving about and help us get the summer of 2008 off to a wonderful start.... Leave the edge and fly; we're finally alive.
Being self-proclaimed 'dorky little high school kids', We The Kings began their band with the intent of grabbing girls. Now, however, they're grabbing audiences as they take to UK stages supporting Boys Like Girls and Cute Is What We Aim For. Organised-Sound were lucky enough to catch up with the band's brothers to talk about first-time festivals, Abbey Road and fish and chips... Fuck regrets, and let's burn this city down.
Back in late 2007, All Time Low were a band virtually unknown to UK audiences. However, after being enlisted to open for the mighty Plain Whites T's on their sold-out September tour, those boys from Maryland started the ball rolling. After receiving a massive reception, primarily due to their infectious pop punk melodies and intense live show - along with a reputation for everything fun and inappropriate - they've returned to our shores, just a short seven months later. But now, they're here to conquer the UK... There's no such thing as healthy competition.
The town of Reading is quite obviously well-known because of the legendary Reading Festival. However, its home-grown bands and artists, such as The Cooper Temple Clause, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Pete & The Pirates are far from legendary and have all had varying degrees of success. Kill The Arcade, however, are a Reading-based band that are definitely on the right track to well-deserved success... This is the bottom of the bottle saying 'swim or sink'.
The last time we spoke to these boys was only four months ago and they were ending 2007 on a high, having just lived some of the best moments of their lives. Today, we sit here with all five of You Me At Six, as they are mere metres away from one of their long-time idols, Tom Delonge. Oh, and they're about to support his band on one of the biggest tours they've had the chance to play so far. Tonight is opening night, and down below the dressing room we talk in, that very same hero is sound checking in the huge Manchester Academy; a daunting thought for the very bravest of us. So, we figured it'd be the perfect opportunity to have a quick (okay, a not so quick) catch-up chat before they move onto bigger and better things, such as playing to ten thousand people next month, maybe... By Sarah Jamieson and Amy Draper... Word travels fast when you're on the road.
Very few bands nowadays hold the credentials that these boys have under their belts, but they sure as hell aspire to it one day. With six full-length albums, three EPs, two DVDs, an alter ego band, a greatest hits and a career spanning over a decade, it's pretty impossible to think that these guys aren't brilliant. But, I think it's safe to say that this band are, hands down, one of the greatest pioneers of pop punk to grace this tiny planet. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, New Found Glory. This could be the summer of love.
He's self-made, he's all on his own and he's bringing the party your way! We caught up with the pop-punk-dance sensation Luis Dubuc of The Secret Handshake earlier this year on his tour with The Rocket Summer. By Sarah Jamieson and Amy Draper... Happy Valentine!
Tonight, Electric Six are playing a small venue to a surprisingly young audience. I was lucky enough to sit down (or stand up in a corridor, if you're going to be pedantic) with front man Dick Valentine for a candid and engaging chat about fame, touring and... the stock market. Most of the time, I can't tell whether or not he's joking, but to be honest, I wouldn't have expected anything less from the man who penned 'Gay Bar'... Long before we were in your ears, we were praying for the crowd.
Just over two years ago, the young guys of Between The Trees had a best friend in need of help. Now, the story of Renee Yohe and her struggle continues to sweep the world in the form of To Write Love On Her Arms, while they spend their nights on the stages they have earned, singing the songs she's inspired. I know fairy tales aren't real, but I get the feeling this is as close as you can come to a perfect ending. Yet, this is so obviously only the beginning. By Sarah Jamieson and Amy Draper... Encircle me: I need to be taken down.
Usually when a band or artist has five studio albums under their belt they also have considerable global success to match. However, sometimes a musical gem slips through the bogus media-hype net and remains a precious secret among loyal fans. Tegan and Sara are one such gem. The Canadian twin sisters recently released album number five, 'The Con', in the UK, which was produced by Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla. With their UK tour creeping closer, Organised-Sound sat down with Sara in a Kensington hotel to chat about Bruce Springsteen, hiding under tables backstage at shows and playing 2008's Carling Reading and Leeds festival. We were the smart kids with too much to say.
Nowadays, it's not often that an American band can be together for five years, release two albums - one of which hitting the Top 20 spot in US charts - and star in their own TV show... in a bubble, without visiting the UK at least once. However, that has been the case with US pop-punk heroes Cartel. How they managed this, I'm still not entirely sure, but with a legion of British fans waiting over three years for a UK show - most of the Organised-Sound team included - and a greatly received spot on the sold out Plain White T's tour earlier this year, I've got a feeling we won't have to wait too long for a return. Standing on the ruin of a beautiful empire.
After standing out in the cold for what seems like hours, being let into the relative warmth of Southampton Guildhall comes as a bit of a shock to OS. So much of a shock, in fact, that very little notice is taken of which of the labyrinthine passages we are led down en route to LostAlone's sparse dressing room, a thought that is soon pushed to the back of our minds as we are introduced to the band. I've had it with this crowd, and I'm done with this town.
Tonight our interview is scheduled for 6 o'clock, so we, of course, share a few giggles over the irony of it all. However, You Me At Six are one step ahead of us, and take that little bit too long with dinner, leaving us 'til about 6:20 - not that we mind, it just spoiled our fun a little.... I'm dying gradually to get there.
Well, who would've known, back at the start of 2007, what would be in store for those five boys from the Welsh Valleys. Yet, I can safely say that Kids In Glass Houses have gone on to being one of the year's major success stories, and it truly feels deserved. After a year constantly on the road, two headlining tours, several major festival appearances and a newly recorded album, I think you'd have to agree. Going from appearing on the 'Give It A Name Introduces' tour, back in April, to being demanded to upgrade their Halloween headlining show at London's Islington Academy, they've so far gone from strength to strength; but this is only the beginning.... Born to be one with which the public scorns?
It feels, right now, as though Say Anything really are emerging as the rock world's newest pioneers: accomplished, yet unafraid, the band are always out looking for something new. However, even fans found it a little hard to believe when the band announced that their newest album would feature not one, but two discs, that held an overall amount of twenty seven tracks. Whether this be a dream come true, or a nightmare in the making, the band were ready to take it up one notch, and, by God, they seemed to pull it off.... Rewrite these words upon my grave.
A little over three years ago, Fightstar was merely just an impossible dream, laughed at by many. Right now, however, the story couldn't be more different.... Plastic Toys: Never Knowingly Out-Thrusted.
Plastic Toys are a band on the up. Forming out of the ashes of various local bands, including Karmic Jera, winners of the 2000 Kerrang! International Battle of the Bands, they've been working hard for this since 2004. Still on the support circuit, they are beginning to make a name for themselves and forming a dedicated, hardcore fan base. After supporting Mindless Self Indulgence, they caught the eye of Organised-Sound, and as a paid up member of the 'We Love Plastic Toys' club, as soon as they set foot in Winchester an interview was inevitable... Sign here or make your mark.
I think it's safe to say that when someone can name themselves as the biggest shit-talker on the internet these days, you'll most probably be all ears. And that rings truer than we'd imagine for author Christopher Gutierrez. Now, I hear you. You're thinking "What the Hell is he on a music-zine for?"... Try to crawl into my head.
Tonight, the venue that Shiny Toy Guns will appear at is so tiny that it's hidden behind a bus stop. Seriously. This is a place that's almost impressively far away from their prevous show's arena of Balado, for T in the Park festival. This is the kind of show you'll brag about attending in a few years time, when they're hitting up the largest halls in America to sold-out crowds... Start a riot in me.
Due to popular demand, tonight's show has been upgraded from the original venue of Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall. The show will now appear at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall - a venue that, just last week, was host to the legendary Nine Inch Nails, a band that were formed before tonight's headlining act's frontwoman was even born. Welcome to the simply unbelievable success story that is also known as Paramore. The last night in my body.
...When we manage to squeeze out of the doors, we come to a standstill as we witness tonight's support act running around, signing autographs and selling CDs. The Receiving End Of Sirens look to be in their element.... You're never gonna sleep again.
Today you could say I'm reasonably nervous. It would probably be an understatement. I've been looking forward to speaking to Cancer Bats for roughly two months, after some complications caused our original interview to be postponed, but I've gotten a little shaky beforehand... Your Name On My Tongue.
Holy Roman Empire are a female-fronted Chicago five piece heading for big things. With their debut album "The Longue Durée" recently released, and a US tour with Rise Against starting this week, they're tipped to be one of the hottest new bands of the year... Put your money where your mouth is!
Late last month, Give It A Name loomed in the near distance and there were four bands out on the road to promote the festival, as part of the "Give It A Name Introduces" tour. The idea behind the tour was to send some of the newer acts to intimate venues all over the country and prepare them for the massiveness that is the festival itself.... Amateur Night At The Apollo
Cobra Starship are late. Nobody seems to particularly mind. One thing I've learnt recently is that people who work with Fueled By Ramen are surprisingly laid back, given the cult-fame status of the artists, and the mass hysteria of their teenage fans... By Liberty-Belle Howard, Sarah Jamieson and Harps Bains... We are the sound: We don't belong.
A few years ago, when the words "Canadian music" were mentioned, our minds would automatically jump to images of the pop-punk of Sum 41 or, the even moreso "pop-punk" of Avril Lavigne. Now in 2007, Canadian music is showing itself as serious competition for the American market, and screamo geniuses Alexisonfire are right in the thick of it.... By Sarah Jamieson...
There is no time to fall from grace.
Brigade, one of Britain's best and brightest rock groups, are currently on the rise and are one of the most refreshing bands to come from an almost bland scene of the same old genre. Last year, their debut album 'Lights' was extremely well received by fans and critics alike.... |
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