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SAFETYSUIT (album in stores NOW!!!)
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"Debut album 'Life Left To Go' - OUT NOW!!!"

Nashville, Tennessee
United States

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   SAFETYSUIT (album in stores NOW!!!): General Info
Member Since10/29/2004
Band Websitesafetysuitmusic.com
Band Members

Doug Brown
Dave Garofalo
Jeremy Henshaw
Tate Cunningham

Management:
Rich Isaacson/Allison Hales
Phone: (212) 219 2525
Email: Rich@fuertegroup.com; Allison@fuertegroup.com

Booking:
The Agency Group, New York
www.theagencygroup.com

Influences

U2, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Matchbox20, Muse, The Eagles, Crew, Uncle Gary and Your Story

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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 3 2008 8:30P
“Red White and Boom” - Genoa Park Stage Columbus, Ohio
Jul 4 2008 8:00P
Summerfest – US Cellular Stage w/ Seether Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 5 2008 8:00P
Mad Hatter Covington, Kentucky
Jul 10 2008 7:00P
dTOUR @ Concord Mills Mall Concord, North Carolina
Jul 11 2008 8:00P
Headliner’s Music Hall Columbia, South Carolina
Jul 13 2008 8:00P
dTOUR @ Opry Mills Nashville, Tennessee
Jul 15 2008 7:00P
Diesel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jul 16 2008 7:00P
I-Rock Detroit, Michigan
Jul 18 2008 8:00P
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom w/ Seether Hampton, New Hampshire
Jul 19 2008 8:00P
Crocodile Rock Allentown, Pennsylvania
Jul 20 2008 8:00P
Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel w/ Seether Providence, Rhode Island
Jul 21 2008 7:00P
Higher Ground Ballroom w/ Sick Puppies S. Burlington, Vermont
Jul 23 2008 8:00P
The Chance Poughkeepsie, New York
Jul 24 2008 7:00P
Town Ballroom w/ Seether Buffalo, New York
Jul 25 2008 8:00P
Piere’s Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Jul 26 2008 9:00P
Frankie’s Toledo, Ohio
Jul 31 2008 8:00P
Pops Small Room St. Louis, Missouri
Aug 1 2008 8:00P
Outland Ballroom Springfield, Missouri
Aug 2 2008 2:00P
WestFair Amphitheater Council Bluff, Iowa
Aug 4 2008 6:00P
The Marquee Tulsa, Oklahoma
Aug 5 2008 7:00P
Palladium Ballroom w/ Seether Dallas, Texas
Aug 6 2008 7:00P
Verizon Wireless Theater w/ Seether Houston, Texas
Aug 8 2008 7:00P
Stubb’s BBQ w/ Seether Austin, Texas
Aug 9 2008 7:00P
Scout Bar w/ Seether San Antonio, Texas

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   About SAFETYSUIT (album in stores NOW!!!)
Anything—and everything—about SAFETYSUIT can be summed up by the band’s name.

“I think the key word is ‘safety,’” explains singer/guitarist Doug Brown. “The four of us in the band have been friends forever. We feel comfortable around each other. We’re in a safe environment…and that makes us feel free to be who we are. And, if we can inspire that moment or that feeling in our fans, we’ve succeeded.”

Which begins the story of SAFETYSUIT, an extraordinarily talented, musically confident young band that does, in fact, inspire. Their songs capture the grandeur and depth of U2, with an imaginative pop sensibility at its core and a dizzying wall of guitars as its backdrop. “It’s not rocket science,” says Brown. “Quintessential good melody and good lyrics, that’s what makes a song.”

Oddly, the band’s influences share very little with the group’s final sound. “Hey, I like Rob Thomas – the way he twists a melody has always caught my ear. I grew up on the Allman Brothers and the Beatles. I like a lot of modern rock. And the Eagles – you won’t hear that in our music, but there’s a band that really showed me what a group of people can accomplish musically.”

When Brown speaks, it’s with assurance, as if he knows what he’s doing and where he’s going. It’s a feeling that began in, of all places, Tulsa. Here, before there was a SAFETYSUIT, there was Crew. And this early incarnation of the group was, indeed, friends. Their journey started the moment Doug, drummer Tate Cunningham and bassist Jeremy Henshaw (along with two other guys; guitarist Dave Garofalo joined a little later) entered a local Battle of the Bands contest at the last minute…and won.

It continued throughout the next year, as Crew became a local phenomenon, drawing up to 1000 people per night on the local circuit. But to grow as a band, the band needed a new direction. “We wanted to move, and move to one of the three major music hubs,” remembers Brown. The group wanted space to think, to grow and, most importantly, to focus. With that in mind, the usual rock music meccas (Los Angeles and New York) gave way to Nashville.

Despite the new locale, the lack of a local fanbase, no deal and no manager, the group assembled in Tennessee and obsessively began to rehearse. After a chance meeting, they recorded an EP with Greg Archilla (Matchbox 20, Collective Soul, Buckcherry) in the summer of 2005. “When we were done with that, we felt we were as ready to play as ever,” says Brown.

So the gigs began – at nice places, dives, theaters, clubs, wherever, often 2-3 times a week. And, as expected by the band, the fanbase grew. Labels started sniffing around. And the group discovered what would become its second home, a local haunt called 12th and Porter, where the group began a residency. “Actually, the best show we ever did was at 12th and Porter, and it was the night Universal showed up,” says Brown. “Everyone brought everyone that night. Twenty minutes before the show, somebody came into the green room and announced there was a line around the block. All I remember is …I walked out on stage that night, the lights went up, I saw the crowd…and the whole thing was a blur afterwards. I was in a zone the entire time. When the last note of the last song hit, I sort of woke up. It was …amazing.”

With a Universal deal in hand, the band met with a number of big-name producers, before ultimately deciding to stick Archilla (“We’re stubborn,” says Brown. “We like Greg. He doesn’t mess around, he tells it like it is…and he plays golf. So that’s awesome.”) The final result, Life Left to Go, is unabashedly catchy. It feels like that album that’ll live in your car stereo for months on end. But the title, like the band’s name, has its own story. “It’s named after our last song on the record, which is our least commercial song ever,” admits Brown. “It chronicles the thoughts of someone who wants to end their life. Then it presents the counter of that, the person begging them to stay. It’s a song to let people know that, no matter what, somebody notices them, that someone cares.

“That song is a big deal for us,” Brown continues, then pauses. “I don’t want to wave any sort of flag, but the focus on music is always so ego-centric. We wanted to flip that. I wanted this to be a song about the artist giving for a change.”

It’s a feeling you’ll hopefully discover when SAFETYSUIT heads out of Nashville this spring and hits the road. As Brown promises, anyone who comes to their show should feel better afterwards than before they came in. As is with their music, it’s an inspiring thought.

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Lauren





Jul 6 2008 6:25 PM

You guys were fabulous last night at the Mad Hatter! Thank you for taking the time to meeting us hour early line standing fans…but we got lucky to meet you amazing guys! Keep on ROCKING! Can’t wait to see you live again, but until then my car and ipod will just have to do! ;)
Rory





Jul 6 2008 4:57 PM

u guys were badass at summerfest. i hope you come back next year.
CORI





Jul 6 2008 2:14 PM

hey guys! My boyfriend and I came to see you guys at Summerfest and you were awesome live!!! We love you guys! We were the two crazy ones waving our arms in the air...you saw us and gave us a 'shout out' haha...can't believe I just used that term! I was kinda disappointed at the crowd...they were kinda sleepy...but now that they know you they'll love you just like we do! :) Anyways -I'm so glad we got to see you! It was awesome...it made my week! Keep it up and hope to see you soon!!! :)
C Mac





Jul 6 2008 8:57 AM

You all were awesome. George Clooney, sorry if I wouldn't shut the hell up about your famous doppelganger.

Play in Cincy again soon. I demand it.
Rach [sleepwalker]





Jul 6 2008 10:09 AM

Hey, I was looking through the photos I took in Columbus the other night - I got a few decent ones, and I'm sure Mike did too... Is there a band email I can send mine to so you can check them out?
W¥ÂTT





Jul 6 2008 11:40 AM

hey. you guys were awsum at red white and boom. i realy look forward to seeing you guys live again.
Zach Merck





Jul 6 2008 11:41 AM

Guys, we are going to have fun Wednesday. Get stoked.
Z
bobby light





Jul 6 2008 12:12 AM

hey guys... i think its cool you actually take time to reply to fans... makes me like ya even more.. i really think you should put "the moment" on your space cuz that is by far my favorite song... i can rock out to that all day lol... llater days
The Dead Body Man





Jul 6 2008 6:34 AM

hey, it's mike. another great show last night in covington, i really enjoy seeing you guys. i'm excited for toledo. one question, you guys open with a song called "crash," i don't have this song on my copy of your album, is there anywhere i can download that?
SammiSilhouette™





Jul 5 2008 6:43 PM

I Saw u guys last night for the first time in milwaukee and fell madly in love with ur music!!!!! u rock!!!!
Geeta





Jul 5 2008 9:19 PM

When are you coming to Oregon?
Sarah





Jul 5 2008 9:26 PM

The Summerfest show was awesome, and it was so cool of you guys to meet the fans afterward and sign merchandise. It was so nice to see/meet you guys! Come back to Wisconsin soon. -Sarah :)
Kelly


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Jul 5 2008 9:46 PM

Yes, it needs to hurry up and be August already. Have you played in Houston before?
♥Emotional About Cheese♥





Jul 5 2008 5:43 PM

hey whats the deal with the concord mills thing?
r u guys going to b inside?
in the parking lot?
I NEED DETAILS!!
Miss Sam is an Audiophile.





Jul 5 2008 12:49 PM

hey boys!
Thanks for opening for Seether.
Your set was pretty epic.

My friends and I were nerding out on the fourth row. Perhaps you saw our mad dancing skills. xD

Take care,

x
miss sam
Travis





Jul 5 2008 12:58 PM

boise concert was amazing,glad i got to meet u guys! you were all way cool and signed merc for everyone, way cool guys! later
Sarah Rose





Jul 5 2008 12:25 PM

So you guys coming back to cloumbus yet? haha jk
But really that concert was amazing and now my default picture has me with the t-shirt on that I bought there!
Didn't know if you know this but I became a part of the SafetySuit Street Team like a month or so ago and I love doing it. I tell all my friends all about you guys. Im very active on that site too. Im like number 6 on there so I do my best to get you guys noticed!
Well hope to talk to you guys more!
-Sarah
♥.[.MaggiE.].♥





Jul 5 2008 12:34 PM

Thanks for an AWESOME show at Summerfest last night!!!!
Come back soooooooonnnn!!!
♥ Maggie
Megan7





Jul 5 2008 11:47 AM

yeah u guys should deff come back to columbus asap that would be sweet!!
K LUV





Jul 5 2008 10:30 AM

Hope the 4th in Wisconsin was good to you all.

Be sure to rattle their heads at the Mad Hatter, Kentucky won't know what hit 'em.
Prodigal Son Returns





Jul 5 2008 9:06 AM

You guys were amazing at Red White and Boom in Columbus, OH. See you in Toledo on the 26th
Big Willy Style!!!!





Jul 5 2008 12:22 AM

You guys fuckin rocked at summer fest!!!!! hope to see you there next summer!!!
jay-me





Jul 5 2008 2:21 AM

so you guys def made my red white and boom way better than ever before! you guys kicked ass and should def come back to columbus again! keep on rockin!
emily ♥





Jul 5 2008 5:49 AM