Dave - Piano, Orchestra, Vocals (studio only as his ears have exploded)
Influences
Biffy Clyro, Hundred Reasons, Pixies, Idlewild, Husker Du, Nirvana, X/1999, Jimmy Eat World, Mono, Reuben, Tokyo Babylon, Ross Kemp and anything about the end of the world.
Sounds Like
Hundred Reasons, Biffy Clyro, Idlewild and Fightstar apparently.
Songs about the end of the world, love, loss and petty revenge explored through the abuse of a bunch of guitars, drums, and some vocals; 'North For The Winter' are 3 Oafs and a Lady From North Hampshire. Likened to local heroes 'Hundred Reasons and eclectic Scottish trio 'Biffy Clyro', they play intelligent alternative rock with big choruses and bucket loads of heart.
"Dark and brooding when required, they play with passion and conviction throughout. A band most effective when going for the skyscraping half-time breakdown, on the whole they are a well-honed Britrock machine." - Chris Carter, Warwick Uni BOTB Judge
"Intelligent yet poppy, abrasive, delicate and eccentric."
"Not just joining the rock scene, but truly going about finding their place, this band care about their music; this shows in their performance and dedication to their art. North For The Winter are a band who want to be able to say that they came and made their mark." - Fire In The City
News
18/07/09 The summer is nearly here (woop!) and we'll be looking to rock out and make the most of the good weather - admittedly its likely we'll do this by staying locked away in rehearsal rooms! We still have some t-shirts available to buy (they look like this). Also, Rob himself of 'Ninehertz' webzine has recently reviewed our new album. Jump over to the NFTW Blog to see what he had to say!
15/05/09 We, at NFTW HQ, are finally pleased to announce the release of the band’s 4th album to date, entitled: Perfect Automation. This production is available FOR FREE in both CD and digital download format.
To grab a free CD, come to any of our upcoming gigs we’ll be handing them out, or track down and shout at one of the band members until we surrender a copy to you. If you’re an interwebz fan or just want the MP3s, visit the Media section of our website to download the entire album: http://www.northforthewinter.com
Enjoy, and if you like it, please drop us a line or leave a comment!
04/03/09 We're back, again. After a long absence we've got our shit together and are playing again. We played the Warwick Uni BOTB on Tuesday night and narrowly avoided going through to the finals (2 judges put us through, the other didn't*... sadface). But on the plus side we've got a bit of a taste for this playing live malarkey again, watch this space.
*Naturally, the 2 bands that went through, Club Silencio and Drongo Sealion Magic, went on to win 1st and 3rd place in the entire competition - well done to both bands, you guys were genuinely very good!
20/08/08 So we're back, we have a new singer... The Full album 'And What Of Your Loyalty' will still be available from us (for free, at least for a little while, postage will cost though!).
24/04/07: We are pleased to annouce the our first release on "Fire In The City", a double a-side single of "Questions" and "Battlefield". The single will be available for free download on the label website from 30/04/07 and will be complete with artwork and a video for "Questions". Exciting times in the NFTW camp!
03/03/07: GOOD NEWS! We are delighted to inform you all that the Ayrshire indie label "Fire In The City Records" will be putting out some of our stuff. We can't say an aweful lot at the moment but you can expect a free download only single to be announced shortly. I'm sorry we can't say more at the moment but rest assured that as soon as we can announce anything we will!
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Described as: 'like Soulfly if Trent Reznor were part of the band,' their debut album "There's No Profit in Truth", mixes the pent up frustration of acts such as Rage Against The Machine with the raging, highly charged riffs of classic Machine Head. Good, honest, politically aware and highly charged Metal at its best...
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oh ho ho nice one! keep us updated on how it goes?
Rosberg I'd love if he wins always been a Williams fan i think brawn have been running qulifing trim at the tests so : / they might have a small tank aswell but it'll be good, hopefully the races'll have more overtaking
also i have a suspicion that the mac cars have been sandbagging, if they're this unprepared for the start of a season then lewis better jump ship : /
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