Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Rock star Rebel
Does Guitarist from relentless really seem like the good guy we all know and love? The band has been together for over 6 years however became well known after 3 years! These guys haven’t given up after all these years; they kept trying and soon got their dream. Relentless has had their new album ‘lived it’ released in early October reached ‘LOUD’ magazine’s number 5 spot.
Band guitarist, Tobias Casells wasn’t always the little angel as we all suspected. We caught up with him before they were hours away from their 3rd world tour.
So Mr Tobias Casells, how are things in relentless now since the last time we met?
“It’s all good. We’re all stoked to be on our 3rd world tour, seems like forever since we got to connect with our fans, they mean a lot to us. If it wasn’t for them our band would probably still be living in our van with our instruments and living off Jack’s (lead vocalist) McDonald’s job doing nothing with our lives”
How have you and your band tried to promote yourselves to get yourself where you are now?
“Well we literally just went out in the middle of London and just started playing until we got to a point where the police told us to get off the streets as he said we were making too much noise, it started a huge argument and out of fury and rage ‘I punched the policeman until he was unconscious and got sent to jail for assault.’ When I got out I realized what a stupid 19 year old I was. However once I got back we went out to London again and one day we soon got our brake as Oli (Skyes) was just walking past us he told us we were a sick band and that we should go out on tour with them, we couldn’t believe what was happening ”
You’ve been to jail? That doesn’t seem like you at all?!
“yep, I changed once a came out. I realized I was stupid and was just picking a fight with a policeman. I was 19 I had to grow up. After I came out I
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Monday, 4 November 2013
Kerrang! Magazine case study
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine for to rock music fans published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981. Kerrang! was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. Kerrang is named after an onomatopoeic word that is created from the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.
Angus Young of AC/DC appeared on the first cover of Kerrang! It was initially launched as a monthly magazine then steadily began to appear on a fortnight and in 1987 it went weekly.
The first Kerrang! magazine was edited by Geoff Barton. Kerrang!'s popularity rose again with the hiring of editor Paul Rees circa 2000 when the nu metal genre, featuring bands like Limp Bizkit and Slipknot were becoming more popular.Rees went on to edit Q magazine and Ashley Bird took over as editor from 2003 to 2005. However the magazine's sales went quickly into decline in 2003 and Paul Brannigan took over as editor in May 2005. In 2009 Nichola Browne was appointed editor. She later stepped down in April 2011. Former NME features editor and GamesMaster deputy editor James McMahon was appointed as editor on 6 June 2011.
Angus Young of AC/DC appeared on the first cover of Kerrang! It was initially launched as a monthly magazine then steadily began to appear on a fortnight and in 1987 it went weekly.
The first Kerrang! magazine was edited by Geoff Barton. Kerrang!'s popularity rose again with the hiring of editor Paul Rees circa 2000 when the nu metal genre, featuring bands like Limp Bizkit and Slipknot were becoming more popular.Rees went on to edit Q magazine and Ashley Bird took over as editor from 2003 to 2005. However the magazine's sales went quickly into decline in 2003 and Paul Brannigan took over as editor in May 2005. In 2009 Nichola Browne was appointed editor. She later stepped down in April 2011. Former NME features editor and GamesMaster deputy editor James McMahon was appointed as editor on 6 June 2011.
Key Artist Case Study
My key artist case study is going to be a band called Bring Me The Horizon.
Bring Me The Horizon are a heavy metal/metal core rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. The band formed in the year 2004 from members of other bands within Sheffield. Their debut album "Count Your Blessings" was released October 30th 2006. They are currently signed to RCA Records around the world and Epitaph Records exclusively in the US. Visible Noise Records, but were first signed to the record label Thirty Days of Night Records. They were also the first band to be signed to that label. They have toured in the past with bands such as Lostprophets (headline), The Blackout; Killswitch Engage (headline) and The Haunted. They did a headlining tour of the UK during March and April with the now defunct metalcore band I Killed The Prom Queen.
The band consists of lead vocalist Oli Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls and keyboardist Jordan Fish.
Bring Me The Horizon are a heavy metal/metal core rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. The band formed in the year 2004 from members of other bands within Sheffield. Their debut album "Count Your Blessings" was released October 30th 2006. They are currently signed to RCA Records around the world and Epitaph Records exclusively in the US. Visible Noise Records, but were first signed to the record label Thirty Days of Night Records. They were also the first band to be signed to that label. They have toured in the past with bands such as Lostprophets (headline), The Blackout; Killswitch Engage (headline) and The Haunted. They did a headlining tour of the UK during March and April with the now defunct metalcore band I Killed The Prom Queen.
The band consists of lead vocalist Oli Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls and keyboardist Jordan Fish.
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