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I like to go back a few years in time and dig up a real good ”oldie” and quite often it’s something from the 80’s era… The song ”Turn Up The Radio” is from the album ”Sign In Please” 1984, by the Californian glam-rockers Autograph. The band were formed by the lead singer and guitarist Steve Plunkett, guitarist Steve Lynch, drummer Keni Richards and the keyboard player Steven Isham in 1983.
I think the song ”Turn Up The Radio” is a mix of Van Halen’s melodic guitars and the nice rhythm that is in Def Leppard songs (like their hit ”Pour Some Sugar”) with a catchy lyric and good vocals on top of it all. The song holds the good parts of the early 80’s that made music of that era good and fun to listen to.
Autograph split up in 1989 but reformed/restarted the band in 2011. Starting with guitarist Steve Lynch and bassits Randy Rand meeting up at NAMM (a music convention in Anaheim, California) after mending their relation Steve and Randy decided to start jamming together again. They also reached out to the original singer, Steve Plunkett. Sadly he was tied up with his own business and didn't had time to join them. But he gave them his blessing to restart Autograph again. They contacted Simon Daniels, (the lead singer and guitarist of the band Jailhouse) after have seen videos of him on YouTube and with Marc Wieland on drums the new line-up where completed.
With the current line-up featuring: Simon Daniels, Steve Lynch, Marc Wieland and Randy Rand Autograph are back and last year, 2015, they released three new songs digital and a five song EP. They held a release party for the EP at the Whisky a Go Go. The EP are only available at Autograph's website and at their live shows. For more info about Autograph and their gigs you can head over to their FaceBook page, twitter or website.
I’m always on the look out after new bands or music to write about, this time was no different. I found a song online that I thought was good, called ”Lie To Me” and the song got me curious about the band.
The New Breed is a rockband from Cheshire, United Kingdom and they are getting popular online after putting out a live recording from the first song they wrote as a band from the first gig that they did on socialmedias. The song ”Lie To Me” have received a lot of good response and are also available as a free download. You can listen to the song and download it from the mini-player I’ve put in below. The New Breed are now current with their debut EP, which will be released sometime in the spring of 2016.
This is a band I think we will hear and see a lot of in the future, because they’ve got a sound that is missed and wanted by many. A sound that sort of echoes from the mid 70’s to the early 80’s, but not glam, with heavier tones, but not to dark and layers of music inspired by many genres people can recognize, so called retro-rock.
It’s more depth in their music (without being depressing), than say the modern pop-punk, pop-rock-scene that is very popular these days (that music isn’t bad, but sometimes you want something a bit more serious and with more substance), that’s if the EP sounds like ”Lie To Me” and as the teasers implies. You can watch some of the teasers in the clips below.
Despite how busy The New Breed are in the studio now, I had a chance to ask them a few questions.
Here is my interview with Tom, one of The New Breed’s guitar players.⬇︎
Who are the members and who’s doing what in the band?
J Michael Ward on lead vocal, David MacBryde on lead guitar, Tom McKay playing rhythm guitar with Joey Wilcock and Michael Whitmore rounding out the rhythm section, playing bass and drums respectively.
When did you start the band and how?
Our first rehearsal as a full band was sometime in February last year, but most of us have known each other in some way or another for a few years at least, whether that was because of previous bands or word of mouth. Tom and Dave grew up together through school and both started playing guitar at about the same time. Fast forward a few years and Dave found Joey and Mike online, and a few years more takes you to February 2015; Jay enters the picture (after a few attempts to get him down to jam) to complete the picture.
Any thoughts on your upcoming EP? Will it be available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify etc? Can you share the release date?
A lot of time has gone into this EP, with what feels like an age waiting for it to all come together! But there is now light at the end of the tunnel. We’re all really stoked with how it sounds, and can’t wait to be able to share it with anybody who wants to hear it. We had 4 days down at SkyHammer Studio, and Chris the producer there worked us non-stop, with us racking up a 17 hour day on Sunday!
We don’t know at this point where it’ll be available online, but it will be available online for sure! Looking for a release date at the start of Spring, in plenty of time for the Summer. Check out our Facebook for information on all things The New Breed, including a few teasers of the EP itself.
Any tour or gigs coming up?
We’ve got a few gigs coming up, mainly around the Manchester/Cheshire area; no plans to tour just yet, but let’s see what happens when we get this EP out! You can keep up to date with all our gigs over at the Facebook page –www.facebook.com/thenewbreedmusic- watch this space...
What/who is your biggest influence when it comes to making music?
That depends completely on who you ask – but we have a massive range of genres that we listen to between the five of us, which lends itself, in our opinion, to some interesting song writing. But if we had to pick a few bands it’d end up being a mix between classic and modern rock; bands like Aerosmith and AC/DC or Rival Sons and The Temperance Movement with the odd bit of older blues thrown in for good measure - although Mike's hard-hitting style comes more from heavier rock.
Anything else we/the readers should know about The New Breed?
We always aim to bring everything we’ve got, wherever we play, and as much as this interview was about the imminent release of our debut EP, we believe music is made to be heard live. Come down, check us out and see if you agree; we hope the ringing in your ears lasts, and the impression we leave continues to captivate long after that.
Thank you, The New Breed, for taking the time to do this interview. I wish you good luck and hope the EP will come out real soon.
If you want to see The New Breed live, they are playing Saturday, March 19th at Percy’s Cafe Bar with free entry. So if you’re in the neighborhood stop by and listen to some good music.
For info about more gigs, head over to their Facebook page, by using the link below, and don’t forget to stay tuned for my review about The New Breed’s EP!
