Melodic Indie Pop
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One for all the people out there! Great guitar sounds and vocals work well for me, I like your percussion and bass too, good vocals make for an interesting Pop track! Cheers, Andrew
This one puts me in mind of Maximo Park in places, no bad thing. Nice song, bright production. Enjoyed and rated. Gibbo
Appreciate the journey in music, and life, through hopes of nearly there to the shelf of not quite there, and then...back to dusting things off...drums are a nice feature...vocals drive that whole indie feel...guitars is just what you need...crunchy at times, light at others...got it all here gentlemen...wish you well on the merry-go-round of hopes and transpiration the internet offers...you never know who is out there listening :)
SURFACE – The History The origins of Surface go back to a tiny village called Thurlstone which sits between Huddersfield and Sheffield; a place in which there’s not much to do of an evening besides throwing copious amounts of hard liquor at your face, or worshipping pylons. Not surprising then - one on such evening - that Paul Hutchinson (Bass) Graham Armitage (Guitar) and Neil Woolley(Guitar) decided to get together for a jam session. Paul’s old friend (and former frontman of Burnley stalwarts, Bus-K) Gareth Hughes soon joined in (on vocals, lyrics and making odd noises with rudimentary digital apparatus) and, before anyone could stop them, ‘Blown ‘ were formed. As Blown, the four-piece proceeded to play a handful of gigs around Sheffield and Barnsley the most notable being a home village appearance where 250 locals packed the Black Bull to see what all the fuss was about. A triumphant evening, marred only slightly by the PA being knocked over by a man dressed as Tinky Winky. As is often the way, Blown fell apart 3 days before a scheduled appearance at Sheffield’s Tin Pan Alley (now subsumed within the faceless granite of West One) when Neil discovered that Graham had secretlybeen seeing his girlfriend. Oh, the drama… Blind panic soon set in as a disgruntled Neil decided to take back all the band’s sequencing equipment (which he’d apparently paid for). Undeterred, however, the remaining protagonists managed to salvage some Midi files and completed the final Blown gig as a 3 piece. This leaner, meaner, less financially stable outfit, abruptly discarded all the Blown material,and quickly wrote a bunch of new songs, re-emerging a couple of months later as SURFACE. As a 3 piece - utilising drum machine, sequencer and variously shaped splats of facial hair - SURFACE then launched into an impressive period of gigging, song writing and, (combined with the production skills of Robin Firth), recording. Several impressive support slots were secured along the way, and for a while there, our heroes looked like they might just be getting somewhere… After three years or so though, SURFACE inevitably imploded in a whimper of middle-aged conformity, when Paul moved to Cheshire, Graham bought a house to renovate (claiming that he couldn’t multi task) and Gareth decided to write an unpublishable novel. So near, yet so not very near at all…
SURFACE – The Present Thought they’d gone for good, eh? Well, fair do’s, cos so did they, but… In an unusual move, five years after their last gasp of sparkly indiepop, a company by the name of ditto has suddenly, and without due aforethought, made the music of SURFACE available on itunes and a number of other on line outlets. Word on the street? The drummer still sounds hugely talented. So keep a look-out as Surface are back, sort of. And you never know, if enough interest is generated out there on that cyber-web thingy, there may even be some gigs on the cards. Saints preserve us.
Thought they’d gone for good, eh? Well, fair do’s, cos so did they, but… In an unusual move, five years after their last gasp of sparkly indiepop, a company by the name of ditto has suddenly, and without due aforethought, made the music of SURFACE available on itunes and a number of other on line outlets. Word on the street? The drummer still sounds hugely talented. So keep a look-out as Surface are back, sort of. And you never know, if enough interest is generated out there on that cyber-web thingy, there may even be some gigs on the cards. Saints preserve us.