Skindive's menacing combination of massive metallic guitar riffs, icy, detached female vocals, and harsh industrial beats should immediately recall Garbage. Only here, the nationalities are switched around -- in this case, it's three Irish men and an American woman. Guitarist and composer Gerry Owens is this band's Butch Vig: the music industry veteran who wanted to put together his own band his own way, in accordance with his own exacting musical aesthetic. He set about this task after returning to his native Dublin from London, where he'd spent a number of years playing in several undistinguished outfits. After writing an album's worth of material, he auditioned members for several months, eventually recruiting bassist Alan Lee and drummer Ger Farrell, but failing to find a singer. Enter American chanteuse Danielle Harrison, this band's Shirley Manson, a Los Angeles singer recommended to Owens by a rejected applicant. After receiving a call from Owens, she flew to Dublin, tried out, and got the job. Finally Skindive was a full band, and work began on an album.
It took more than a year for Owens and others to complete Skindive's self-titled debut, but when they did, they had an accomplished and diverse collection of songs. The basic formula is heavily industrial-flavored power rock, but Owens does plenty to complicate the mix, adding layers of distortion to everything -- vocals, guitars, drums -- as well as cold techno beats, orchestral string and horn samples, and more. Owens received production help on the album from Nine Inch Nails producer Adrian Sherwood and mixing services from onetime Skinny Puppy member Dave Ogilvie, who's worked in the past with NIN and Marilyn Manson, to achieve that distinctive slick-but-utterly-sleazy quality. The album's first single is the featured "Tranquilizer."
Jesse Ashlock
Thanks for your support of the last NLO concert the photos are now viewable on our myspace site. We are currently mixing the last 6 songs on our 17 track project. Look for it in stores in December 2009
Yes I wrote nothing for a long long time... I'm sorry. :-)
I have to say that you made it really nice... with the profile. It's looking really good. It's sitting everything at the right place. :-)
I still wasn't successful to watch all the videos to the end... I have such a slowly internet connection. I was sitting here for hours and tried it... it's terrible. But what I saw I really liked. They are very different. So it's not too much. You made it really good. What shall I tell you more? You can relax...haha. Have a good time!
just here for a second before I'll be away until friday evening. I have to take part on a seminar week somewhere in a small lonely german village, but I'm already ill and it's not a good thing to travel being ill... I wish I could stay at home :-(
well, before I go... see you put a link for skindive merch there... hehe!
and some more visually stuff. good... but don't forget.. be careful not to make too much in the end... you could get on the peoples nerves if you make too much. for example with the bulletins... as much as necessary..but not too much. the same with the other stuff... I think you know what I mean. just wanted to say.
by the way, what is danielle doing now? I know about gerry and ger... these guys I've just heard playing here in berlin a few weeks ago... but what happened to the others? :-$
Okay, whatever... that for today...
I see you became more visually... the video is very good...and some more photos are really nice too! That gives a good impression of skindive playing live... a pity there is no chance to hear skindive live again... it's history... but it's a nice touch of history though. What do you think about interviews. There are still some interesting ones in the web... for those who has the time and the pleasure to search for them on their own it's okay, but maybe you could put some good stuff here when you anyway have a skindive site here? Just an idea. And what's about a direct link - 'where to get a skindive cd?' Maybe? There are surely existing some guys who don't have any cd of them yet.
Its looking like the new CD will be released a little later than origionally expected. Thats ok though, because we are hard at work on it and it is going to be worth the wait (should be released in early 2007). As for the touring, that will happen just after the album drops. Keep rocking, talk to you later.
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