Pink Floyd
Led Zep
Hawkwind
Cat Stevens
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bowie
Neil Young
Nick Drake
Levellers
The Police
The Smiths
Elbow
Radiohead
Porcupine tree
Anathema
Sigur ros
If its quality its respected.
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Original sounding band who have always strived to make sure that the material they produce is different and interesting. Hope you like it.
LIVE REVIEWS
I have high expectations and they are all met. Gaia are clearly at home performing live and play beautifully crafted, folk-tinged, anthemic rock. It's all solid acoustic guitar work building and layering into big choruses, topped with squally, echoing guitar solos. Their faithful fans are enthralled and nod sagely. If you are uninitiated though, Gaia won't grab you by the throat when they play, they'll sort of put a friendly arm around your shoulder. They are like Arsenal without the Tierry Henry bloke, the interplay is fantastic and they are a pleasure to watch.
Live Sheffield Sandman
Gaia are a Barnsley foursome. Gaia's hard-edged, visceral, acoustic sound recently won them many fans and virtually sold them out of CD's at the Rotherham Rocks MMV festival in May.
Live Hard Rock House
These Barnsley based beardy prog stoner boys are ace as owt. Sounding like post Syd / pre Dark Side Floyd with some grinding political lyricism. Expect songs fantastically played without any pomp, camp or fuss. The best collection of beards in Barnsley.
Live Student Guru
"Saving Grace" is the jewel in the crown with its big sound and soaring outro - quality stuff. With Verve-esque guitar effects heaven "Turn the Other Way" and Saving Grace", Gaia have two truly excellent tunes.
Live CD of New Roscoe - Leeds Leeds Music Scene
Local promoter KMM said this in a recent review: Well crafted toons beautifully delivered by a band completely at home on the stage. Those that have seen them on previous visits to The Snooty will no doubt agree this is praise well earnt.
Live - KMM Promotions
Pulled off with style and genuine emotional force, slow burning, moody, post-grunge rock that crashes out into rock explosions All of which suggest a band of some talent.
Live
Eerie Powers
All the way from oop north in Barnsley Gaia turned up to amaze everyone. We were so impressed. Their style blends a lot from early Hawkwind with their driving bass lines and Uriah Heep with a touch of Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) style electric slide guitar thrown in for good measure. This with luck won't be your last chance to see them. We're hoping they're going to come back and entertain us all over again at the summer festy
Live
Unity Promotions
Friday is a date that I’ve been looking forward to for a while now. A band from Barnsley called Gaia got passed on to me by bAd DoG Paul, who simply said these guys are great! So I got them to play The Moon and Sixpence earlier in the year and they weren’t great at all… they were amazing (as everyone in The Moon kept telling me for days after) Well, they're back this Friday. With the buzz that is going around if you want a seat for this night you better start queuing up in the afternoon! Their style blends a lot from early Hawkwind with their driving bass lines and Uriah Heap with a touch of Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) style electric slide guitar thrown in for good measure.
Live
The Glossop Advertiser
A four piece from Barnsley with a tip of the hat to Floyd, a hint of Folk, a nod in the direction of Psychedelic and a sprinkling of hard-edged rock. With such a combination of styles and influences I found this 11 track album to be an intriguing listen. There is a gentle fragility to the opening acoustic strumming of ‘Southern Comfort’ that reminded me of Syd Barrett’s erratic solo albums. This takes us into the second track ‘Household Objects’ (another Floyd reference in the title but I shall let the train spotters amongst you work it out) and it’s already clear that Gaia are just that little bit different. They have come up with one absolute gem of a song here, ‘Saving Grace’ that builds to a huge chorus from a gentle opening and really is a top quality effort. If any major labels are reading then this band are worth signing on the strength of this one song alone. This is most definitely the ace in the pack; in short, a classic. What this band do best is convey emotion and feeling through their laid back style and this is best found on the likes of ‘Words of Love’ and ‘Turn The Other Way’, the latter another track that comes with more Floydian moments such as echoing guitars and children’s voices. Well crafted and well worth seeking out. An eleven track album of highly original stuff.
Soulwind (Album review)
Hard rock house - Dean Pedley
2000 - MIA JUP E.P
Four Track E.P.
1.Mia Jup
2.Whole inside
3.Sirens song
4.Electric
2002 - MEDUSA
Four Track E.P.
1.You and all
2.Too late now
3.Pretty smile
4.True love
2005 - SOULWIND
Debut album
1.Southern comfort
2.Household objects
3.True love
4.Saving grace
5.Hole inside
6.Sorry it turned out you
7.Terrorphobia
8.Words of love
9.Mia Jup
10.Love me do
11.Turn the other way
Soulwind was the bands first effort in self producing a full album from start to finish from the setting up of the first mic to printing the CDs.
Gaia have been giving Soulwind away at gigs and from the site and there are 4000 copies floating around the UK and beyond. Its now time to put a little charge on them to recoup some of the cash the band has spent to get it in your hands for free. Soulwind was a benchmark in the journey of Gaia and we thank all who made it possible especially Boothy.
2009 - SUN INTO GOLD
Album Two
NOT in track order
1.Flicker
2.Dirty cider town
3.Jezebel
4.Baghdad babies
5.To know
6.Sun into gold
7.Shylock
8.Homelands
Sax - Andy Shades
Violin - Fast Eddie
Keys - John Armstrong
Sun into gold shows Gaia in a more different light than the previous album and its style lends towards a more maturer sounding band whilst still keeping the dynamics and adventure of Soulwind.
If you would like order Sun into gold pre release and get it sent as soon as we have packaged it then you can do so by clicking the "buy now" button and following the instructions.
GAIA - (GUY - A)
Mother Earth - Greek Goddess - Lovelock Theory
HISTORY
Gaia are an amalgamation of three bands and have been playing on the live original circuit in the North of England for over ten years. Gaia have played most of the prestigious venues in the North and regularly travel the circuit from Newcastle to Bristol promoting their Folk Rock Psychedelia. Festivals played so far are BOMfest, Northern green gathering, Chunky festival, West festival, Big day out fest festival, Denby Dale festival, Devonshire Green festival, Green festival, Floating Lotus festival, Sunrise festival, Rokfest, Tommyfest and are looking for festival opportunities. (please get in touch).
RECORDING
Gaia have worked on several projects/demos in the last ten years and in 2003/4 started to refine the fruits of their labour of love when they self released Soulwind which was written, recorded, produced, financed and distributed by the band. Soulwind has over 3000 copies circulating in the U.K. and the album has gone as far as the USA (where the band was offered a distribution deal), Canada, Poland and Australia. Gaia have finished working on their second album at The Hive studio in their home town of Barnsley and are presently in the final mixing stages. The second album is called Sun into gold which will include 8 tracks and will be ready for release when it is finished. The new material is again an evolution of the band as friends and as a team with tracks like Jezebel, Dirty Cider town, Homelands, Shylock and Flicker taking Gaia into the next stage of their dedicated, passionate, and sometimes obscure destiny.
Gaia have gigged all over the North doing hundreds of gigs from Newcastle to Bristol. They have recently been on a U.K tour of venues to promote their second album "Sun into gold" but are more suited playing festivals and this is the route the band would eventually prefer going down. The band have played alongside such greats as Desmond Dekker,Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), Nik Turner's Space Ritual, Galactikos, (Ex Hawkwind) - Kerbgrinder, Vaughn, fronted by Danny Vaughn (formerly of Waysted and Tyketto), Here and Now and Mark Morris (The Bluetones) The lads are well up for playing charity gigs and good causes like the Big Issues gigs, Cancer fundraisers. If you know anyone, or happen to be involved in a festival or gig and want Gaia to play then get in touch.
The band kickstarted the BOM collective which has now become a committee, receives funding and is responsible for the organising of BOM fest an annual outdoor music festival in the town with such names as Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), Senser, Nik Turner (Ex Hawkwind), Nick Harper and Nucleus Roots supporting their efforts. Go to www.bomfest.com for further info.
From the Barnsley area of England, Gaia opened Rotherham Rocks Festival 2005 and, after hearing them live, a CD purchase seemed ideal. The band consists of Dave Hancock (acoustic guitar, lead vocals) Iain West (bass, backing vocals) John Rose (electric guitar, backing vocals) and Steve Booth (drums). This quartet are performing a few shows around the country and are well worth a visit, but the CD is a worthwhile listen, and features some fine mellow tunes.
The CD clocks in a dash over fifty six minutes, contains eleven tracks, and all relate to the eighties, the miners strike, Thatcher, etc, you get the picture. I must admit, there is a lot of feeling in Dave Hancock's vocals, one of the best emotional voices I've heard in a long time, and it's if every song tells a story and how life was back then.
Opening track Southern Comfort has the 'got no job and no fags because I'm broke' sort of situation, but this song has a strong message not only in the lyrics, but in the guitar playing from John Rose. Lots of reverb and a little distortion make this one of the strongest tracks on the album. Third track True Love has a nice dreamy feel to it, again Dave's voice is very emotional and the lyrics are just exact, and it should make a good single too.
Influence wise, I can pick out sixties feelings from the Beatles Help period and a splash from The Yardbirds. Add a touch of Neil Young, and Atom Heart Mother/Meddle period Floyd, a little Radiohead, Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief. There is a suggestion in the electric guitar of Dave Gilmour in John's playing on most of the tracks too, but I can't help thinking that this should be a big label release. So if EMI are reading this, sign this lot!
Highlight for me is track six, Sorry It Turned Out You which has a strong psychedelic approach, which has a nice harmony all round, and with songs like this, they must have a solid future ahead.
There is no poor song at all on the album, it just flows through moods and feelings, and with this their first effort, I hope the next one turns out in a similar vein.
Danny Mayo Hairless Heart Herald
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NEW ALBUM - COMING SOON
Engineered, Produced, co mixed and Mastered by Alan Cockayne
Cover art by Alex Hamilton
Concept design and production by Antonio Seijas
SOME SHOTS FROM THE SUN INTO GOLD ALBUM COVER
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'WOBBLY/NorthZone Live gig - 12 Sept. 20:30 - Sportsmans Inn,Kebs,Hebden Bridge/Tod. SpacyDance/Rave/DUB-Reggae/Soul-funk....u name it!!! + dj set - FREE ENTRY!!'
Thanks for supporting the first ever International Brigade memorial trust benefit gig. All the IBMT members send there regards to you all. We all appreciate the distance you travelled to perform at this event, many many thanks for honoring the Brigadista's with your mighty effort. Salud, Paul!
Sorry that things have not worked out regarding the date. If we all climb off our high horses we might just call it a cockup and lets face it shit happens. Anyway the Kirkburton Field Party is on 4 JULY Start 1.00 ish till whenever. I would be honored if you come along later. You could throw Andy in the pond but not me coz I am too fkin ard. Yer
