CHARLIE BEALL(LEAD VOCALS) JAMES BELL (BASS/VOCALS) TOM GOODFELLOW(GUITAR/VOCALS) CHARLIE 'STIX' LAYTON(DRUMS) ALAN THOMSON(KEYBOARDS)
Influences
DAVID BOWIE, THE POLICE, DEPECHE MODE, THE SMITHS, SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE BEATLES, BLUR, BECK, INTERPOL, PIXIES, THE WEDDING PRESENT, CHILI PEPPERS, WIR SIND HELDEN, LEMONHEADS, KEITH RICHARDS, NEIL YOUNG, THE ARCADE FIRE, RADIOHEAD
Sounds Like
'MANY A BAND WOULD COMMIT ACTS OF EXTREME VIOLENCE TO GET THEIR MITTS ON THE HOOKS, MELODIES AND CHORUSES EXHIBITED BY SEEING SCARLET ON THIS, THEIR DEBUT ALBUM...A REAL HEADRUSH.' FUSE MAGAZINE
'LIKE HARDENED GLASS THESE SONGS DAZZLE AS MUCH AS THEY CUT...IT'S TIME TO SEE RED' THE FLY MAGAZINE
'MELODRAMATIC, BREATHLESS…WORLD, MEET SEEING SCARLET — WE’VE A FEELING YOU’RE GOING TO GET ALONG VERY WELL. ****' LONDON LITE
'FORERUNNERS OF THE RIOTOUS SOUTHEAST LONDON MUSIC SCENE' TIME OUT
FANTASTIC BEYOND BELIEF' LONDON LITE
'ANTHEMIC, HORIZON-STRETCHING NOIR POP' THE FLY
'WITH AMBITIOUS, STRIDENT & STADIUM-CRAVING MELODIES THIS NEW LONDON BAND IS LED BY A CAPTIVATING FRONTMAN' MUSIC WEEK
'THEIR CONFIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING...SIGN ME UP, I'M SOLD' GIGWISE
'THIS POP-FUELLED INDIE ROMP STEPS OUT OF ART-ROCK INTO SOMETHING MORE MAINSTREAM AND ALLURING' MUSIC WEEK
'GLORIOUS...POWER POP AT IT'S FINEST...WE WANT MORE, MORE, MORE!' GLASSWERK
'A STUNNING, MULTI-LAYERED FRENZY OF COMPELLING TUNES...SOMETHING SPECIAL' 12/13 - ROOM THIRTEEN
'A VERY WELCOME BLAST OF POP THRILLS...I'M HOOKED' 8/10 - WHISPERN AND HOLLERIN
'ALL THE AMBITION OF RISING STARS...WE'LL ALL BE 'SEEING SCARLET' SOON' THE STEREO EFFECT
'UGLY GIRL IS A FOOKIN' ACE SLAB OF INDIE-ART-ROCK-BRIT-PUNK' GIGWISE
'PRISTINE, DRIVING MELODIES...SO COMPELLING...THE BEST KIND OF SHORT, SHARP SHOCK' - DAMN PEST
'STANDOUT TRACKS WE WILL ALL BE ALIENS AND VITE! VITE! ARE STILL BOUNCING ROUND MY HEAD AS I TYPE THIS' ARTROCKER
'BLISTERING...ANTHEMIC TUNES A LOT OF BANDS WOULD KILL FOR' LOSTMUSIC
'BILE, STRUT, ATTITUDE...BIG, GROWN-UP ROCK MELODIES, GLORIOUSLY FUCKED ABOUT' UNPEELED
'CATCHY RIFFS AND ANTHEMIC ARRANGEMENTS...DOWNRIGHT SUBVERSIVE' THE FLY
'DRIVE SOUL, AND A DISTINCTIVE VOICE. THIS IS BRIT-PUNK FOR THE NEW AGE AND SEEING SCARLET HAVE THE LOOK, CHARISMA AND ATTITUDE TO BE IT'S FORERUNNERS' ARTIST OF THE WEEK, KARMADOWNLOAD
SEEING SCARLET’S MUSIC
including MENTAL NOTES (Part One), debut single NEVER GOOD ENOUGH/UGLY GIRL,
bonus songs and video downloads can be purchased now, plus biog, more pix etc at WWW.SEEINGSCARLET.COM
Seeing Scarlet burst onto the live circuit leaving accolades in their wake, then set to work on their debut album. Captivating from start to finish and set against a backdrop of melodies that bury themselves deep inside your brain, Mental Notes is a snapshot from their lens, a cross-section sliced from shared experience.
Response to their first limited edition single Ugly Girl / Never Good Enough was immediate: it sold out rapidly and made waves in critical quarters…. “Alluring” (Music Week),“stunning” (Room Thirteen), and “glorious” (Glasswerk).
Seeing Scarlet fell from the four corners of Britain and its crumbling Empire (London, Harrogate, Bournemouth and South Africa, obviously). The day after flying over from the Southern hemisphere to start sixth form in London, Charlie Beall met Tom Goodfellow in the boy’s toilet at a girl’s school (the meeting wasn’t planned), and asked him if he could play guitar. Alarmed by Charlie’s stare, Tom nodded – and soon he could. On meeting bassist Jim Bell at his university quarters a couple of years later the three started to hatch plans of forming a band. Further down the line they found Charlie ‘Stix’ Layton pummelling a drumkit in a room in Old Street, and the final piece fell into place.
Since then audiences and critics alike have fallen not only for Charlie's incomparable vocal style and soul-pinning stare, but for the bands passionate intensity in delivering their music. On record too that intensity speaks for itself; seeing scarlet's songs turn on a knife-edge between dark and light, documenting moments of anger, alienation, escapism and wonderment.
This is a band with all the dark intrigue of Depeche Mode or Interpol, overlaid with the wit and disdain of the Smiths. It may take a while before we figure out what lies behind that stare but with songs like these we know we’ll enjoy the ride.
Gentlemen, we are incredibly missing you muchly in Llangollen, when oh when will you be gracing us with your presence so that we may glance upon your wonderous selves in awe of you amazing musical abilities and curly haired-ness?
Yay! Love the new songs, especially Out of This World - the way it starts off all stringsy and ballady then gets a little bit reggae - good job - melodic and catchy but not predictable. When oh when will you come back to Wales? It's quiet and musicless here with too much gin x
Um, I appear to be having a Scarlet-free summer. This is essentially to be regarded as A Bad Thing. Now I'm finally free from exams and can attend every gig I please, you don't appear to be playing any! Boo!
more gigs soon? (the correct answer is yes) oh and tom, i totally forgot to text you my address for that stuff you were gonna send me, so i'll do that now. also, send me yours if you want me to send the heart strings album to you. love and that xx
I'll be there lovies!! Although I might just be curled in a corner feeling like shizzle, Steevi is very unwell. Wouldn't miss this for the world tho'..
snot fair!! i'm spitting my dummy and i'm not coming out to play!!! do you think if i really really wish hard enough one day the scarlet ones will come up north for a few plinks on the vocal chords'n guitars and a couple of tick tacks of drummings?
Hey guys, was great to hear the new stuff last night. Was just wondering, is there any way to get hold of a physical copy of Mental Notes (both parts) as opposed to downloading them? Like a stamped addressed envelope kinda deal?
Dear Scarlet ones, there is another Pronto event at the end of June, just dropping a line to see if you might be interested in spinning some chooons? Hope you're enjoying the lovely rain. See you soon. XXX
Jim, it was a pleasure to finally meet you yesterday - get in touch and we'll see if we can sort some cheapo studio time over the next few months or summit..
