HUNTING THE MINOTAUR

Hunting The Minotaur were a Hard Rock Quartet hailing from the south coast. The band was formed back in August 2008 (at that time called Flavour Country) when their guitarist Benji moved on to play drums for the band Joey Nightmare (Check them out). Joe was then introduced to the band, and after signing a management deal Hunting the Minotaur was born. They recorded their first single 'Wasteland' with legendary producer Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Oceansize, Biffy Clyro, Feeder...) which was released on the 16th of February 2009 and had frequent radio play on Radio 1 and XFM and found itself as no. 6 signle of the week in Kerrang Magazine. After a vast amount of hard rocking gigs, some not so rocking gigs (all the way to manchester for 9 people... jeez!), a couple of mini-tours, a couple of festivals, a live radio session, recording sessions, a ton of rehersals, alot of hard work, shit loads of laughs and a few tears; the band unfortunately found their number was up and decided go their seperate ways. They are all working on new exciting projects so keep your ears and eyes peeled boys and girls.

THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL '09


DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL '09




As a band we would just like to say a huge thank you to everyone that come to our shows and supported us. And a big thank you to all the people who worked so hard to get us to where we did. We had an amazing expereience in this band and we hope you enjoyed the ride.

{George Samuel McCanna}
Vocals // Rhythm+Lead Guitar


{Michael James Kerr}
Bass Keytar // Synth // B.V's


{Tobias Joseph Lancaster}
Drums // B.V's


{Joseph Arnold Dennis}
Lead+Rhythm Guitar // B.V's



Management:

{Phillip Tennant}
Doublemono Limited

e-mail: doublemono@hotmail.com



Booking Agent:

{Summer Marshall}
CAA

e-mail: SMarshall@caa.com







GIGOGRAPHY:

06/AUG/08
QUE PASA (First show with Joe)
WORTHING

08/AUG/08
PRIVATE PARTY
PATCHING

12/AUG/08
THOMAS A BECKET (Acoustic Set)
WORTHING

16/AUG/08
THE BOYS CLUB
CHICHESTER

17/AUG/08
THOMAS A BECKET
WORTHING

18/AUG/08
THE PIER (First show as HTM)
WORTHING

18/SEP/08
THE FLY
LONDON

26/SEP/08
LA HAVANA
CHICHESTER

27/SEP/08
BOILEROOMS
GUILDFORD

16/OCT/08
TANGERINE
WORTHING

31/OCT/08
CHICHESTER INN (HTM Halloween Special)
CHICHESTER

03/NOV/08
AUDIO (w/ GRAMMATICS)
BRIGHTON

11/NOV/08
THE CELLARS (Im in Melon Heaven!)
POURTSMOUTH

12/NOV/08
PRINCE ALBERT
BRIGHTON

14/NOV/08
UNDERWORLD (w/ FAILSAFE)
LONDON

15/NOV/08
WATERSHED (oddly we were the oldest ones there)
LONDON

20/NOV/08
TANGERINE
WORTHING

21/NOV/08
BARFLY (The first time we discovered the welsh didn't like us)
CARDIFF

09/DEC/08
DUBLIN CASTLE (w/ HAUNTS)
LONDON

10/DEC/08
COALITION (Club NME)
BRIGHTON

31/DEC/08
TANGERINE (George lost his voice 30mins before show)
WORTHING

13/JAN/09
CAMDEN BARFLY
LONDON

14/JAN/09
HAMPTONS
SOUTHAMPTON

15/JAN/09
THE HUB
EXETER

16/JAN/09
THE CELLARS
POURTSMOUTH

27/JAN/09
ENGINE ROOMS (w/ HAUNTS)
BRIGHTON

28/JAN/09
HAMPTONS (w/ HAUNTS)
SOUTHAMPTON

30/JAN/09
BARFLY (w/ HAUNTS)
CARDIFF

05/FEB/09
TANGERINE
WORTHING

12/FEB/09
WILMINGTON ARMS
LONDON

16/FEB/09
'WASTELAND' RELEASED ON LIMITED EDITION 7" VINYL

18/FEB/09
PAV TAV (Possibly the worst gig ever)
BRIGHTON

19/FEB/09
O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON (Signing autographs in McDonalds)
LONDON

20/FEB/09
CLUB 7
WORTHING

27/FEB/09
FREEBUTT (First show with Philly, our legend of a sound engineer)
BRIGHTON

06/MAR/09
XFM LIVE SESSION @ CAPITAL RADIO
LONDON

07/MAR/09
BORDERLINE
LONDON

14/MAR/09
BOILEROOMS (They wouldnt let us go home!)
GUILDFORD

21/MAR/09
RUBY LOUNGE (All that way for an audience of 9 people)
MANCHESTER

03/APR/09
WATERSHED
LONDON

09/APR/09
229 (BMI Sessions)
LONDON

16/APR/09
OCEAN ROOMS
BRIGHTON

08/MAY/09
BORDERLINE
LONDON

16/MAY/09
GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL (w/ LITTLE BOOTS & TEMPER TRAP)
BRIGHTON

18-23/MAY/09
FORTRESS STUDIOS (Recording session, watched a whole lot of star wars and ate a whole lot of chicken)
LONDON

24/MAY/09
CAMDEN BARFLY
LONDON

03/JUN/09
COALITION (Club NME)
BRIGHTON

12/JUN/09
DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL @ DONNINGTON PARK
DERBY

15/JUN/09
CONCORDE 2 (w/ SOULFLY. Last ever Show)
BRIGHTON

To Buy our debut single 'Wasteland' click the link below:







"Hunting The Minotaur is a strange offering. It’s a little bit electronic, a medium bit prog and a big bit atmospheric. All of this is lavishly swathed over a very indie sound. Think Muse meeting Kings Of Leon and you’re getting the gist. On stage it’s all delivered with a faux snot-nosed indifference and, somewhat randomly, a keytar!"

- 'PUNKTASTIC'

"Ulitmately we like this one 'cause it packs onion's"

- 'ZANE LOWE - RADIO 1'

"Worthing quartet Hunting the Minotaur certainly like to retain an air of mystery around themselves. Trying to track any hard information on the band is like trying to break into the kremlin - bloody hard work...
...They'll definately appeal to fans of Muse and Biffy Clyro so we're expecting big things from this lot in '09"

"We tipped this lot as Ones To Watch in 09 back in issue 117 and we know we’re onto a winner. Having recently witnessed them live at London’s Barfly on a miserable winter night, the south coast quartet didn’t fail to impress – bringing a warm glow to our cold journalistic hearts...
...Big things are definitely going to happen for Hunting The Minotaur in 2009, trust us. Get onboard now."

- 'DARREN TAYLOR - ROCKSOUND MAGAZINE'

"Look; any band with Minotaur in their name is worth checking out. And when the band churn out gnarly snarly punk like this everyone wins"

- 'KERRANG'

"Hunting the Minotaur would have My Chemical Romance in a fight. Easily. And possibly blindfolded."

- 'CHRIS MARTIN - NME RADIO'

"Up'n'comers Hunting The Minotaur are all destruction and distortion, with two riff happy guitars battling each other over furious drumming and bigger than life bass sounds. Its full frontal rawk"

- 'The Great Escape'