Tuesday 31 July 2012

Aimie Laws Singer/Songwriter ( Canada )

This is about a young lady Singer / Song Writer called  AIMIE LAWS She has a sweet but also powerful voice that I would say reminds me of a mixture of Avril Lavigne vs Belinda Carlisle, Her songs are verry well written and her guitar work is second to none, This Canadian lady can really sing and play well, Please read her biography bellow.
 

Aimie Laws

Salmlon Arm, BC, CAAlternative / Rock / Roots
Aimie Laws

About

Members: Aimie Laws - Songwriter/Vocals/Guitar
Sounds Like: Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks, P!nk, Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne
Label: Independant
Manager: Aimie Laws
Bio: Aimie Laws was born in Salmon Arm, BC Canada; where she is now known for being “A shinning star on BC's emerging artist horizon...” -Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival

“Aimie Laws is a vocal powerhouse...” -Patrick Ryley/Astral Media Group
Laws' debut album“Only Human” (alt/rock/roots)

 

Aimie's Blog
Feb 26, 2011
to check out Aimie's blog please visit her official site! www.aimielaws.com/b...     
Songs
The Easiest Thing
Only Human

Hello, Goodbye

 

 
 
Aimie Laws was born in Salmon Arm, BC Canada; where she is now known for being “A shinning star on BC's emerging artist horizon...” -Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival

“Aimie Laws is a vocal powerhouse...” -Patrick Ryley/Astral Media Group
Laws' debut album“Only Human” (alt/rock/roots) has been described as “...what we all need to hear, reassurance that we will go on, we will survive... Only Human the title cut, opens with a nice mellow bent guitar sound reminiscent of some of our favorites from the psychedelic seventies and winds it's way back to a poetic proclamation...Laws also proves she can rock as well as sooth with songs such as Take it Away.” - Southwest Flair Magazine
Recently Aimie, who has been described as “...incredible...a great songwriter...” (www.awesomeokanagan.com) has just finished her 2011 “Rock 4 MS” Fundraiser Tour, where she was joined by some of BC's top performing artists. She was even invited, & welcomed back by one of the High Schools they performed at to talk to the students about being an independent entrepreneur in todays society of social networking and how she created herself into the artist she is known for being today...
“...a professional in the entertainment industry , Aimie succeeds to grasp the spotlight in hand and focus the goodwill on those in the shadows around her.” -Patrick Ryley/Astral Media Radio
Laws is preparing for her follow up release, pushing to have it finished by summer 2012. So I think it is fair to say that Aimie has got a great career cut out for herself in the ever more dificult music market, Well done Aimie and good luck for the future !

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Friday 27 July 2012

The Shoots, Indie Rock Band from South wales

Hi, I just had a follow on twitter form a band called  THE SHOOTS, After listening to them on their website I think they are well worth a mention on this blog, The Band has a distinctive sound, In fact when their Girl singer is on vocals,They sound quiet like Blondie, And they are one of my favourite bands, So lads'   let the lady sing, She sounds better than you do! Musically this band is superb and although the lead guitar is a bit overpowering,The sound of the guitars are great, Perhaps the sound engineer should pay more attention to the vocal so that the music does not drown the vocals, apart from that , They are a brilliant Band, Please read biography bellow'


The Shoots  South Wales, UK Indie / Alternative / Punk /Rock Band.

The Shoots
  • Band Logo
  • Rach Blasting It Out

About the band

Members: Rachel, Voyley, Keeno, Bryan, Aled

So, If you like good honest Indie Rock music, You will not go wrong with this band,Look out for them , They are going to be big news!


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Thursday 26 July 2012

More Female Rock Bands Please

Hi it's me again, I know that I have said this before, But I need more female Rock Bands and female artists to feature on this blog, So If you are a Girl Rock Band or a Girl pop band or just a singer etc, I would like to hear from you, Just leave a message here or go to my website on
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Thank you for your support and for reading this blog.

Last Bullet Canadian Rock Band

Here we have a fabulouse band from Toronto Canada, called LAST BULLET They are a Rock Band with fabulous sounds, The songs are all well written and have great musicianship with fab sounding guitar riffs , This is a must hear band so take a look at their biography if you dare!





Carefree
Girl's gone wild
What is it meant to be
Rock til we die

General Info

  • Genre: Rock
    Location Toronto, Ca
    Record Label  Unsigned
  • Bio

    CHECK OUT www.lastbulletmusic.com or www.facebook.com/lastbulletmusic           High Energy, Sex Fueled, Guitar Driven, Riff Based, Vocal Ripping, Mind Numbing, Booty Shaking, Head Banging, Beer Drinking, Leather Wearing and quite simply... BAD ASS. Last Bullet is the complete extreme of every single attribute that makes Rock N' Roll what it is. They are an unshakable and devoutly powerful testament to the timelessness and the invincibility of Rock. Formed from the depths of Toronto in the fall of 2009, they soon realized that their brand of Rock was the missing piece to a very stale Rock n Roll scene. They are unique to their scene and willing to convert each and every doubter, one by one to join their movement. Their first studio album titled "Last Bullet EP" was engineered by talented new producer Chris Snow and mastered by critically acclaimed engineer Harry Hess, who has worked with many great Canadian bands such as Billy Talent, and the Cancer Bats. Since the release of the Last Bullet EP, Last Bullet has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with many great artists such as Teenage Head, Bleeker Ridge, Die Mannequin, John Corabi, and Uli Jon Roth. Last Bullet has been able to break onto the radio scene as well with endless amounts of online radio stations spinning tracks off of the "Last Bullet EP," but the biggest accomplishment thus far is the release of the single "Girls Gone Wild" in full rotation on 100.3 FM The Bear in Edmonton, and a few other stations in B.C. It is extremely rare for an Indie band to get full rotation on FM radio these days. Realizing that, Last Bullet is extremely thankful to everyone at the radio stations, everyone on Team Last Bullet, and every single fan for making this possible. The buzz is spreading, the crowds are getting larger, and they're just getting started! The world needs a solid injection of some Last Bullet to keep things in check, and they're about to up the dosage in 2012...
  • Members

    Brian Fontes, Brenden Anthony, Michael Silva, Will Shannon, Leo Defina.
  • Influences

    Guns N Roses, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, Metallica, Led Zeppelin...   
So there you have it, a graet Rock Band that realy is Rockin'




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Monday 16 July 2012

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals from America.

It has just come to my attention that a band called Grace Potter & The Nocturnals are beginning to make a name for themselves, The Band from America has a young lady leading them on a Gibson Flying V, Most impressive, Please read their biography bellow !

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

 
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Their background info
OriginWaitsfield, Vermont
United States
GenresFolk rock, blues, roots rock, hard rock, country rock
Years active2004 (2004)—present
LabelsHollywood
Websitewww.gracepotter.com
Members
Grace Potter
Matt Burr
Scott Tournet
Benny Yurco
Michael Libramento
Past members
Bryan Dondero
Catherine Popper
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals is an American rock band from Vermont. Formed in 2002 in Waitsfield, VT, they began their career as an indie band, self-producing their albums and touring extensively in the jam bands and music festivals circuit, playing as many as 200 gigs in a year. In 2005 they signed for Hollywood Records and since then they have published three critically acclaimed studio albums, encompassing rock subgenres such as blues rock, folk rock, hard rock, and alternative rock. Their third, self-titled album (2010) has been a major commercial success, topping iTunes charts and receiving international attention.
The band's appeal and public image is largely due to lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter (born 20 June 1983), who is well known for her vocal qualities (sometimes compared to rock and blues cult singers like Janis Joplin or Koko Taylor) as well as for her vibrant energy on stage. Besides playing in the Nocturnals (of which she was a founder, along with drummer Matt Burr and guitarist Scott Tournet), she has released solo material and collaborated with other artists.
The current lineup of the Nocturnals includes Potter, Burr, Tournet, guitarist Benny Yurco and bassist Michael Libramento. A new studio album, The Lion the Beast the Beat, was released in June 2012.

 

 Career

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' lead vocalist is multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended Harwood Union High school before going onto St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally. In addition to lead vocals, Potter plays Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer Electric Piano and electric and acoustic guitars. The other members of the band are Scott Tournet, on guitars (including slide guitar) and harmonica, drummer Matthew Burr, Catherine Popper on bass guitar and vocals, and Benny Yurco on electric guitar and vocals. Bryan Dondero played bass guitar, upright bass, and mandolin with the group until his departure in early 2009.
The band was originally formed in late 2002 when Burr saw Potter perform folk songs in a student-run venue called The Java Barn on the St. Lawrence campus. Burr approached Potter about starting a band, citing James Brown and The Band as musical influences he heard in Potter's voice and original songs. In the spring of 2003, Burr invited guitarist Tournet to join the group, thus cementing the founding members of the band that would become Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
The group independently recorded and released one album, Nothing But the Water in 2005. An older album, Original Soul (2004), was a solo release from Potter. Following extensive airplay on Vermont Adult Album Alternative radio station WNCS the band signed a deal with Hollywood Records in December 2005 and re-released Nothing But the Water on May 23, 2006.
In 2005, the band was nominated in two categories at the Boston Music Awards, for "Best Local Female Artist" and also for "Best New Local Act". They also performed at the awards ceremony.
In 2006, the band won the Jammy Award for "Best New Groove" and was nominated for two more Boston Music Awards: Album Of The Year (major) for the re-release of Nothing But the Water, and Female Vocalist of the Year (for frontwoman Grace Potter). Potter played Hammond Organ and sang lead vocals alongside Joe Satriani, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis, Willy Waldman, and Stephen Perkins during that appearance. They played a cover of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer", to a standing ovation.
The group released its second album, This Is Somewhere, on August 7, 2007 on Hollywood Records and toured that fall supporting Gov't Mule for its October and November North American tour.
Their song "Apologies" was featured on the American television shows All My Children, Kyle XY, One Tree Hill, and Brothers & Sisters, and the song "Falling or Flying" was featured on the hit drama shows ER and Grey's Anatomy and appeared on Volume 3 of the latter's soundtrack.
The band supported The Black Crowes on their North American tour in the summer of 2008.
On August 2, 2007, the band made their network television debut on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This was followed by appearances on ABC's Good Morning America on August 7, 2007 and CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on August 10, 2007.
 
Grace Potter in concert in 2007
In 2008, the group opened for the Dave Matthews Band for three dates: a two-night stand at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, New York June 20–21, and June 24 at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. The band played a full set at the Mile High Music Festival on July 20.
In November 2008, Bose began using "Ain't No Time" in their North American iPod SoundDock sales displays.
Hollywood Records released the news on May 11, 2009 that T-Bone Burnett would be producing a new project with Potter, tentatively scheduled for fall of 2009. The project was deemed as a solo collaboration and both Potter and Burnett spoke very highly of the project to the press. By November 13, the band posted a new release date for the album, pushing it back to spring 2010. Hollywood Records shelved the T-Bone Burnett album in favor of a true band album, released June 8, 2010.[17] The album was produced by Mark Batson, with "Tiny Light" as the first single. The video for "Tiny Light" was shot in Los Angeles during February 2010 with director Paul Minor.
During the 2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, along with playing their own set, joined Gov't Mule and moe. on stage for their shows. Potter and Tournet joined Gov't Mule onstage, while with moe. they one-by-one replaced the band during moe.'s five hour set and played four of their own songs to be replaced back by moe. in a musical collaboration known as "A Hostile Takeover".
In 2010, the band appeared on Almost Alice, the companion soundtrack for Tim Burton's feature film Alice in Wonderland, with a cover version of Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit".
The band appeared at Hangout Music Festival on May 15, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Potter appeared as a guest on stage with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, singing vocals for "St. James Infirmary Blues" and joined Gov't Mule on a cover of "Gold Dust Woman".
In late May 2010, Vermont specialty chocolate maker Lake Champlain Chocolates created a new chocolate bar in conjunction with Grace Potter called Grace Under Fire. The dark chocolate contains pistachios and red pepper flakes.
On the eve of their eponymous album release date, the band announced on Facebook and Twitter that they were going to perform a free concert on Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace the following day. The hour-long concert attracted thousands of viewers and became a huge local media story. The band sold merchandise and hosted a meet and greet with fans for three hours following the concert.
The group released their third studio recording, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, on June 8, 2010. On July 19, 2010, as a launch to their second single from Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the band premiered the video to "Paris (Ooh La La)" on Hulu.
Potter also wrote a track titled "Something That I Want", which was performed on One Tree Hill. In 2010, she re-wrote some of the lyrics and Disney chose it to be featured during the closing credits of their 50th animated feature Tangled, which Potter sang by herself. The movie soundtrack was released on November 16, 2010.
The group made an appearance at the 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines on July 3, 2011.
The group has performed at FloydFest, an internationally acclaimed music festival located in Floyd, Virginia, for the past three years.
On February 9, 2012, Grace Potter announced the title of their upcoming fourth studio album, The Lion The Beast The Beat, noting that they collaborated with The Black Keys member Dan Auerbach. Song titles such as "Star", "The Divide", "Parachute Heart", "Never Go Back", and the title track.
Recorded between tours during the summer and fall of 2004 at the band's Waitsfield rehearsal space, Depart So Slow featured the songwriting of singer/guitarist Scott Taylor with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals providing musical backing. It was engineered and mixed by Nocturnals guitarist Scott Tournet.
In 2008, Potter recorded a version of "I Want Something That I Want" with Bethany Joy Galeotti (One Tree Hill) on a track from the acoustic sessions from One Tree Hill. In addition to this collaboration, Potter also served as guest composer in the seventh episode of the show's sixth season, "Messin' With the Kid". Potter appeared as herself on the show, performing "I Want Something That I Want" with Galeotti's character Haley James Scott. She also performed "Ah, Mary".
In 2009, Potter was featured on the track "Ordinary Man" by fellow Vermont singer-songwriter Gregory Douglass on his album Battler.
Potter contributed again to One Tree Hill in the show's eighth season. Various artists covered Gavin DeGraw's hit song "I Don't Want to Be" to be played over the show's opening credits. Potter contributed her cover for the eighth episode of the season, Mouthful of Diamonds.
Potter sang on the track "You and Tequila", on the September, 2010, album Hemingway's Whiskey by country music singer Kenny Chesney. Chesney joined the Nocturnals when they opened on October 30 for The Avett Brothers at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
In 2011, their song "Paris (Ooh la la)" was featured on the season 2 promo for the TNT television series Rizzoli & Isles. In July, 2011 Grace was with Chelsea Handler on her T.V. show. She is also launching a line of chocolates along with her band, The Nocturnals. Grace provided the voice of Carol, the owner of Christmas Carol's, a bar in the Disney Christmas special Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice in December 2011.
  • Grace Potter - vocals, guitar, piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, keyboards (2002-present)
  • Scott Tournett - guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, lap steel, harmonica, backing vocals (2002-present)
  • Benny Yurco - guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals (2002-present)
  • Matt Burr - drums, percussion, backing vocals (2002-present)
  • Michael Libramento - bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals (2011-present)
  • Bryan Bondero - bass guitar, upright bass, mandolin (2002-2009)
  • Catherine Popper - bass guitar, backing vocals (2009-2011)

 Discography

 Albums

 Singles

  • "Ah, Mary" (2007)
  • "Apologies" (2007)
  • "I Want Something That I Want" (2008)
  • "Medicine" (2010)
  • "Paris (Ooh La La)" (2010)
  • "Never Go Back" (2012)
  • "Stars" (2012)

 Guest singles

YearSingleArtistPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US CountryUSCAN
2011"You and Tequila"AKenny Chesney33362
  • US: Platinum
Hemingway's Whiskey

 Music videos

YearVideoDirector
2010"Tiny Light"Paul Minor
"Paris (Ooh La La)"
2011"You and Tequila" (Kenny Chesney with Grace Potter)Shaun Silva
2012"Never Go Back"Isaac Rentz

So there you are, the story of

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.




 



 
 
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Sunday 15 July 2012

How I became a musician and my life etc

This is to tell you about my life and how I became a musician and what it has done for me,











 

   Hi Its nice to know that there are so many musicians and music in this world, I am just one of them, I begun life as Christopher Paul Barnes , I was born in a place called 23 Comus road, Upper Holloway , London , N19, I was 9 years old when i was Bought my first accoustic guitar, My late brother John showed me how to play three chords on the guitar, I drove my parents Alfred & Rose up the wall with that guitar ! One day ,My dad said to me, Son, If you keep advancing with your playing as you are, I will buy you an electric guitar, So of course I practiced even more and I got very good indeed !, Then came the week of my 13th birthday and I found myself being taken down to our local music shop in Holloway road, The shop was called Berry's Music shop, Little did I know what was next to happen, After looking around the shop' My dad said , Do you like that guitar in the widow son' Yes I said, It's lovely, Without hesitation he went and bought the guitar for me ,It was priced £28, But he was not happy just getting the guitar' He decided to get an amp as well' So we came away from the shop with a Hofner Colorama guitar and a Watkins Westminster 10 watt amp. After that there was no stopping me, My Idol at the time was The Shadows, I wanted to sound like Hank Marvin, After a couple of years' I got so good that the guitar was too slow on action for me and was stopping me from progressing any further, So my dear old dad decided to get me another guitar' This time he got me a Hofner Verithin electric smiecoustic guitar, This one had a Bigsby tremelo arm and was much faster on the frett board'
I progressed so much that by the age of 13, I joined my first band, We didn't have a name, We were just known as the band! We played at the goumont in Holloway road on Saturday mornings in front of about 800 kids with songs like Dave Clark 5 s Glad all over etc, It was good fun. After a while we all got fed up and the band split up'



 Joe Meek in his studio 1966
When I was 14 years old I was told by a friend that he knew a band that needed a guitarist, So I went for it' I ended up in the band , It was called Mick Daly & his northern stars, We all became good friends , The members were Mick Daly on drums & vocal, Horrace De Bourge on rhythm guitar & vocal, & myself on Lead guitar & vocal, We were popular in the north london pubs and played a number of regular places, After a time I realised that the band would never come to anything, So I started looking for other bands to play in' One night I was visiting a local pub Called the Half Moon in Holloway road, As I sat down with my bear ( I was only 16 ) I started watching the band on the stage, I realised that I needed to play and contemplated on new sounds and music' Although I was still with my little band, I needed something different' One day as I was walking down Holloway road to the music shop' I saw some people taking equipment in to what I thought was a shop'Being nosey I realised it was a band, So I went in to the shop called Shentons and asked the man what was upstairs, A recording studio he replied, So plucking up the courage, I went up there, Knocked on the door and Joe Meek answered it, I said I am a guitarist singer that needs studio experience, Can you help me, Come in he said, I was nervous so I was a bit reluctant at first, Its ok he said I wont bite you' After a tour of the studio, It was decided that I would be able to learn how to be a sound engineer' I saw plenty of famous artists and bands such as the Checkmates, The honeycombs, Hienz, etc,At that time,My brother John had joined a band called The Rapids,He told me that they needed a lead guitarist and singer, So I joined them, We went to Joe's recording studio and after some practise runs ,We recorded an EP, This was in September 1966, The tape was sent off to Westcliff on sea in Essex to be cut as a demo in January 1967,  One day in 1967 I was at home with mum & dad and I picked up the Islington Gazzette, To my horror, Joe Meek had commited suicide on the 3rd of february, I only saw him a week before when we discused about making a comic record ' So that was my training gone along with the chance to make a record ' You could say that I missed the boat yet again' After that shock, I played with my little band for about another 6 months, Then one day I went back to the Half Moon pub In Holloway road, On the stage was a country band they were called the Larietts, After a couple of pints of beer, I got up and asked if I could play and sing a couple of songs, They said yes' I ended up joining that band and I stayed with them until 1969, I had to leave the band because my mum and dad was moving to south London, I had to go with them, I was nearly 19 at that time' We ended up in a place called Bellingham , I didn't play for a year and got fed up with being bored. One day my dad saw an advert in the local news paper for a guitarist vocalist, I Applied for the position and joined the band ,It was now 1970, The band was formed with a drummer called Gordon Summers ( Nicknamed Jazz ) an organ player called Peter Curtis, a rhythm guitarist called Terry Gadd, A bass player called Terry Harris and a Singer called John Maher, Also two girl singers called Sue and Margret, We called the band The Instigation, Well John was not a very good singer , So we got rid of him, After a while,We had some problems with the girls and they left the band, Then Terry the bass player and Terry Gad both left the band, So we reformed , Peter reverted to playing bass, And then we were three, then Jazz got us a gig at the Harrows pub on the A127 near Wickford for 7 nights a week, But we needed a fourth member, So a guy called Paul Carass joined us as a bass player and pete went back to playing organ, We had a great sound , We all sang songs and had great harmony together!( at that time I changed my name to Paul Burns) We went pro and played in that place for nearly 2 years. I had to leave because of the stress of playing 7 nights a week was making me ill. So I gave up playing for about a year' I started playing in a little local band with my nephew David and his friends , After a while He called the band the samples, I played with them on and off for a good while, In 1979 I was Approched by a member of another band while playing in a CIU club, So I went to hear them as their guitarits was getting the sack, I joined that band, We ended up calling our band Lazer, It consisted of a bass player called Peter Sugden ( Molly Sugdens nephew ) A guy called Robbin on rhythm guitar, A guy called Johnny Geen on drums ,And myself on Lead guitar / Keyboards and vocal, We also had a girl singer called Lizz And an Elvis impersonator called Tony Ormerod, We played the CIU circuit for about 5 years, Then due to a dispute over a record deal , I left the band and did not play an instrument for 15 years before comming back in to the music again, Now I only play for pleasure as a hobby due to illness, Thats it folks, Hope you enjoyed my life story, If you have , Please come back here again and maybe leave some of your own stories or comments thanks 'https://www.google.com/http://paulburnsmusicsite.webs.com/


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