The Beatles, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, The Killers, Incubus, Postal Service, Damien Rice, Silverchair, Copeland, Ryan Adams, Oasis, Beck, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Shihad, Neil Finn, Blur, Supergrass, Pete Yorn, Imogen Heap, Magic Numbers, Bob Marley...
ATLAS exploded onto the New Zealand music scene with a number one chart
performance not experienced since 1987's 'Slice of Heaven'. From April 2007
'Crawl' charted for seventeen weeks and owned the top position for seven
weeks.
The band's music pedigree gives it a killer punch. While the genesis is perhaps in Zed which had a nine year run as a leading
New Zealand act up until 2004 and featured Ben Campbell and Andy Lynch ,
ATLAS was conceived at the legendary Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. Ben
and his sister, Beth were there working with friends Robert Lamm (Chicago) and, LA based producer, Hank
Linderman (The Eagles, America, Chicago) discussing solo album concepts.
Hank introduced them to American performer, Sean Cunningham, who hails from
Hank's home state of Kentucky, thinking that they may combine their talents
to write songs for separate solo careers.
'It was immediate.' says Ben. 'There's great music in us all and when we
hung out, jammed and played we discovered songs, riffs, connections,
melodies and ideas that were a lot stronger through the connection.'
Also in Los Angeles at the time, playing with the legendary Sting was Ben's
former Zed bandmate and future ATLAS lead guitarist, Andy Lynch.
Cunningham needed little persuasion to head half way around the planet to
Christchurch where ATLAS started to take shape through a number of
development line ups while the inventory evolved. 'Is This Real', a mix of
searing vocals over guitars charted, followed by the ground-breaking
'Crawl'.
When ATLAS re-located to Auckland, Andy Lynch settled into his edgy lead
guitar slot and the line up was completed with the discovery of drummer, Joe
McCallum who was extracted from Christchurch.
Hey guys, vielen Dank and thanks so much for adding and supporting WIDE MONO, you are awesome. Don't forget to tell your friends about us ;-) WIDE MONO, sending best regards from Germany.
Hey guys! Its been a while, so thought I'd drop a line and see how things are going for ya! Things in Chch are good - looking like we're gonna have an awesome sunny winter! So when am I going to be able to come see you guys in the Garden City? Write back when ya have a min.
Haii Dis is Prob a big ask but ma best mate is leaving nd i wantd to giv him a present to rememba so ii was wondering if ii cud get two copies of ur autographs ii live 1hr nd 30 mins awae from chch so it wudnt take lng to send BUT uu dnt hav to jus asking but it wud be great if ya cud anna xoxoxoxox
PLEASE RATE :D It would be so sweet if you could check them out and maybe leave us a little something telling us what you think. AND maybe if you like us, pass it on..because we really just wanna get our name out there, the quality is pretty bad but i think you'll get the idea.
Haha, 100 times? You obviously underestimate the amount of time I have on my hands. 100 times is CHILDS PLAY. :D The awards are in Sydney though, so give me some warning, ay? ;) Keep in touch.
BETH CAMPBELL
BEN CAMPBELL
ANDY LYNCH
JOE McCALLUM
