L B W
-
T W E N T Y S I X T E E N
-
-
T W E N T Y S I X T E E N
-
F E A R L E S S // M U S I C
-
O N E
-
Aloha, Ahoy
Aloha, Ahoy
Music is a beautiful language that you do not need to speak to understand.
Whether you play music, share music or just enjoy music, it's a creative art that is pure magic.
To be able to create something beautiful from silence, be that a classical symphony, an acoustic melody or a rockin' riff heavy tune, to be able to tap into that & bring something to life, is an incredible thing.
Dance has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember, there's something [for me] so natural and freeing about being able to tap into the music and allow your body to become part of that sound.
I've talked to friends many times about this feeling of nirvana you experience when you're so in the moment, my friend Hayley took me surfing as a teen and that first experience of being in the ocean was life changing. It was like the feeling of dancing, of listening to music but being completely surrounded by nature. A moment of understanding just how incredibly fragile & insignificant you are within the universe, yet how very alive and part of the energy, part of the fabric of life, a humbling feeling. In turn that experience inspired my dancing, my choreography.
For me playing, writing and listening to music becomes that experience, of tapping into something truly magical.
It's no breaking headline to anyone who stops by LBW often, that I love metal, rock, punk and heavy music. For me there's something incredibly calming in it. It's like when it's turned up loud & I'm listening, I can move between every drum beat, every riff, as if I'm lost within this symphony completely detached from the world.
For me, the heavy music is a way to switch off from things, I can drown out the thoughts rolling like tides through my mind & simply focus on the music I'm listening to.
That for me is a beautiful experience, life is so constant and sometimes I think you just need a few minutes away from that to regather your thoughts, yourself.
When I first caught Slipknot's live set, the noise, the energy, the magic certainly spoke to me.
I was able to switch off and focus purely on that energy being created by nine men on the stage.
Outside of my own experience, it was the atmosphere in the room, the vibe that was being shared by every person living and breathing the sounds emanating from the stage.
I'd searched stage after stage to find more bands that provided this magic in their music.
There were, are hundreds, thousands of great bands out there, but that energy is something that is rarer to find.
Until I was at Download 2016.
I watched a band that as they set up, I waited as they readied themselves on the stage.
'Thank you Download, we're really excited to be here.'
'We are Wage War'
The energy in the room seemed to intensify, the entire tent was jumping. I felt a surge of that magic as I had done so previously with Slipknot, emanating straight from the guys on stage.
The realisation came quickly that I had finally after months, years of searching, had finally found that band, the band I was looking for.
The bands album Blueprints is available now on Fearless Records. Check it out on Apple Music and iTunes.
Having played Download, the band have been smashing it on the 2016 Warped Tour and still have plenty of awesome shows to come. The album is proving to be a massive success and the bands fanbase is expanding the world over.
I totally recommend checking out the guys tunes and getting to a live show, the energy is unreal.
I chatted to the band after their set and they were so down to earth and clearly stoked from their set. Lovely guys, great tunes, fantastic band.
Do not let 2016 pass you by without Wage War making your playlist.
And a quick nod to the guys pushing this awesome band across festivals, gigs and stages around the world. I discovered this label a while back and every band to come out of Fearless has been absolutely cracking.
These guys have the magic formula and their bands are really making waves across the music scene ocean.
Check out the label and the awesome bands they are sharing. More on these musicians to come here at LBW.
As I've talked about that magic, I've talked about the bands that you really need to check out, follow, I've featured their live shows, their songs. The bands below are bands that I have also found through going to gigs and when I watched them play, that magic I talk of, they've got it.
They've found the formula and you need to keep an eye on the horizons of these bands because they're destined for exciting music adventures.
Reading // UK
These boys are currently recording new material and will be playing gigs and festivals in cities across the UK and Europe, as well as being played on regional, national and European radio. Exciting horizons for these Reading boys.
Brighton // UK
Currently in Europe, shows up and down the UK and playing festivals a plenty, the boys in Almeida are rocking every crowd they play to and this band are excelling in the emerging music scene. Do not miss the things to come from these Brighton boys.
Talking of awesome bands, I've met some incredible artists in the last two weeks, tomorrow you can check out the time I spent with The Twin Dracula in one of Reading's coolest venues.
A band not to be missed.
Keep a weather eye on that horizon and turn up, tune in and rock out to more music at LBW shortly.
Love & Peace
-
- Content belongs to it's respective owners -
- L I T T L E B E A R W O L F - KG Ⓒ 2016 -
No comments:
Post a Comment