Julie Plante - Vocals, piano
Jeff Leyda - Bass, cello
Neil McKay - Guitar, keyboards, programming
Christoph Hall - Drums, Percussion
Influences
Abecedarians, Big Country, Clan of Xymox (Medusa rules!!), Comsat Angels, The Chameleons, The Cult, The Cure (up to The Head On The Door), Dead Can Dance, DEVO, Echo and the Bunnymen, A Flock Of Seagulls, John Foxx, Heaven 17, The Human League, Ikon, Joy Dividion, Low-life, Lycia, The Mission UK, New Order, Gary Numan, OMD, Brain Setzer, The Sisters of Mercy, Teare For Fears, Ultravox, Visage, X-Mal Deutschland, enough for now
Sounds Like
We've been compared to The Cure, The Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and X-Mal Deutschland
In the autumn of 1989, Neil McKay put up an ad for a second keyboardist to make dark and ambient electronic music with. Jeff Leyda answered the ad seeing the influences Neil listed were bands that he liked. There was one small problem, Jeff played bass, not keyboards. That was OK since Neil had just started to write for the guitar. Soon, he and Jeff ran through some Cure and Joy division songs and knew from the first time playing together that they were meant to make music together.
The Bora: This was Jeff and Neil's first band. We had two vocalists, Keith Smith (second guitar) and Drea Libnoch (keyboards). The Bora lasted about 8 months before disbanding. Jeff and Neil stuck it out and decided to look for a new singer(s).
The first incarnation of Autumn was from the summer of 1992 to the fall of 1993. The sound was a little different because of the vocalist who decided we were headed intoa darker direction whcih she didn't care for.
So, finally, after several singers and over four years later, they met Julie. At the audition, Jeff and Neil heard Julie's voice for about a minute befoer they knew she was the one they had been searching for. Within two months Autumn were playing shows and gathering a following. They were also recording demos. Quite busy for only being together for a couple of months but Julie certainly brought new life to the project!
In July, Faith and The Muse came through Minneapolis and Neil gave a demo William Faith (Faith and the Muse signed to TESS at the time). Not too long after that, This Ascension (also signd to TESS at the time) came through and Autumn opened for them. This Ascension were so impressed, they invited Autumn to play with them in Madison, Wisconsin which didn't happen (some issue with the club owner) and in Chicago, Neil joined This Ascension on stage for the song Light And Shade. A frienship was formed not knowing that Matt, the drummer for This Ascension, owned TESS and had been talking with William Faith about us.
We were soon signed to TESS in the summer of 1995 and made two albums, THE HATING TREE (1996) and RETUEN TO THE BREATH (1999). For a short while, Autumn were labelmates with Clan of Xymox (Neil's favorite band of all time)!! TESS went under shortly after but Autumn continues out of the love for music and their fans.
Autumn is currently preparing material for a third album and has most of the songs complete. They have also been in the studio recording demos.
-neil (guitarist)
March 27, 2006
This is it! THE show of the year. we are celebrating the release of our new cd
"ANNO MMIX" with a FREE show. we have gathered our closest friends in
CWN ANNWN, URN and RISINGFALL to celebrate with us.
PLUS - we will be selling metal vinyl, videos, dvd's and cd's from the ROOT OF
ALL EVIL empire! so even if you don't like the bands, come to shop!
this will be the last show til the winter so DON'T MISS IT! It's FREE for fup
sake!
Thanks for accepting my request... It's a real pleasure as your 'Hating tree' album was one of those which really made me travel in other places without moving...just great !
Do you need a new webpage for your band? Or maybe a nice, printed poster or a book with photographys and text in it to sell to your fans? I just got my company going here in sweden, and I'd like to help all my friends here first of all. Everyone will get a nice myspace-friend-price! If you stay in sweden we are able to shot musicvideo and promo-pics as well =)
Drop me a line at info@solskugga.nu and tell me what you need!
Just letting you know that i've added 'Desert Winds Of Jezebel' to November's playlist... :o) Good luck with finding a new guitarist and best wishes to you too Neil.
this coming thursday, november 13th - COLD COLOURS opens for the legendary ICED EARTH at STATION 4 in st. paul. joining the bill are EARLY MAN and our best buds in CWN ANNWN. we play first at about 5:30 so get there early!
thursday october 13th ICED EARTH EARLY MAN CWN ANNWN COLD COLOURS @station 4 4th and sibley - st paul, mn ALL AGES SHOW!!! doors at 5pm tix at station 4, discland (bloomington) and ticketmaster
this will be our last show for a long time as we are in search of a drummer. if you or anyone you know is interested in filling the vacant drum throne - please contact us at coldcolours@yahoo.com or through our myspace!
you know what neil? I forgot - the song we opened with IS on our album, just not in such a dancy form. It's called Crystal Silence. Duh, I'm out of it sometimes! :)
All who attend will receive our new shirt for free:
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