Albany Down is an original rock band based near London.
The sound of Albany Down is stripped-down-to-the-waist no nonsense rhythm and blues with a bit of jazz-funk to mix it up, quite 80's in places, but with a vintage heartfelt sensitivity and contemporary aggressive energy. Influences include Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, The Who and The Rolling Stones.
Paul Muir is the band's excellent front man - delivering powerful vocals with just the right balance of arrogance and angst.
The bruiser in the porkpie hat is bassist, Billy Dedman -his bass play fast and deadly. He has a prowess for solid bass lines - but demonstrates the aptitude and dexterity for a higher vision and pulls off some nifty bass solo pieces.
Drummer Jonny Bescoby is as fast as the white water at the Grand Rapids, after a heavy downpour. Often the funky beat needs a drummer with loose wrists and an understanding for rhythm with a grooving back-beat. Jonny is prescient enough to provide reliable and thunderous percussive downpours in the more conventional blues settings.
Paul Turley on lead guitar makes most of the magic happen on stage. He puts on an accomplished performance with a few daring and flaring Hendrix-style licks but reverts down to a sensible chug-a-chug chord or two when things are brimming.
Albany Down can be counted on for insistent guitar hooks, stripped down licks and rattling good-time rock.
International Release for German Classic Rock Band Shout, Music in the Tradition of Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Foreigner etc. for Song Files check out My Page, or click on the Album Cover below !! Thank You for listening !!
Yes, that's right, we have just released our debut album, Back to Square One! You can get your hands on ten tracks of guitar driven ska for just £8 (including P&P) by going to visit our new online secure shop at http://www.truebeat.co.uk/products_4.html
We hope you enjoy listening to the album as much as we've enjoyed making it.
We've just added four new tracks to myspace completed at the Weekend, with Phil Innes at the controls. These are the first recordings to feature Alan Ibbotson on drums, and we are all really happy with the results. It's a shame that we've not been able to get back into the studio before this but we've been able to build up new material in the meantime.
The timing was perfect as we all went down with Swine Flu after the session, with Guy just able to complete the last vocals before admitting defeat!.
"Judgement Day" is a totally retro song with a very 70's (complete with cowbell) Bad Company-Free - AC/DC vibe with a storming solo from Guy at the end.
"I Know" - Very fast with a great hook - very unlike anything we've done before, a sort of punk/blues take on things - great vocal and lyrics. The opening section is from a German radio broadcast being picked up from Guy's heavily overdriven Peavey 5150 valve amp - can anyone translate? :)
"Chains" takes us back to our blues roots, with Guy sounding rather like John Lee Hooker in the opening section, before the song hurtles into a very Led Zeppelin style meltdown, complete with some suitably wailing guitar.
"Salvation" is a slowie with added Hammond! - some nice guitar licks too! - almost prog rock at the opening section (reminds me of Andy Latimer and Camel), before building around a very moody bluesy set of chord changes into some very epic choruses. Phil added the keyboard parts - and we got a bit carried away - sounded almost like "Highway Star" for a while - But Phil very diplomatically as ever got us back on track. We argued for weeks about this song prior to the recording - as to whether or not it made the grade - I'm glad we kept it!
Smoking guns for bad boys on the dancefloors. Tracklist: 1.) Peter Gun – Tribe 27 2.) Peter Gun – Magic Monkey Mastered by Charles / Solead @ Préférence Mastering.
Hey guys, hows it going? Just a quick note to say were playing the haymakers (chesterton high street, cambridge) on 26th of september with Them Is Me (ex-REEF) on saturday the 26th of september... Tickets on sale here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/51119 Hope you can make it! Free Will & The Bad Influences
Whats up!? how are you!? having a good weekend? Thanks for the add!! Let us know what you think of our old recordings.. as you may know.. new ones are coming soon!!! Cheers! thanks for the support!
hey hey cheers for acceptin the request! hope it's all good you guys playing the horn BOTB on sept 1st? If so, look forward to seeing you guys there take it sleazy Danny SPEEDSHOT
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