Carl Dowling - Drums/Percussion
Alan Doyle - Voice/Guitar
Neil Eurelle - Voice/Bass
David Walsh - Guitar/Keyboards
Influences
Our vast record collection, relentless work, endless highways, MOJO Magazine, french fries with curry sauce, Gibson 335's, Buffalo blizzards, Rickenbacker 330's, Arthur Guinness, full "fry up", John Molson, Moogs, Korgs, John Labatt, Fenders, the great American diners, Big Bad Bass, Wurlitzers, Lezlie, Diamond Voco-Strings, Rhodes, Kaos, and funny sounding Mics run thru our Big Muffs!!!
Sounds Like
Stand on
"They're now coming on in lyrical leaps and musical bounds. Stand may Travel Light, but they mostly fly first class."
HOTPRESS IRELAND
"This is a gimmickless band. Strong, passionate and deeply melodic.... it is a big, joyful sound." THE BUFFALO NEWS
“A sonically dense record, it is a pitch perfect melange of tight hooks, engaging studio textures and infectious percussion."
ROCHESTER CITY NEWS
Once upon a time, a great group named simply "STAND" produced an album called "Transmissions". That group later pieced together an album they dubbed "Travel Light" which found the group experimenting with standard pop-rock harmonies and easy rhythms. "Travel Light" became the anti-thesis to the suitcase culture and all at once gripped the world as if this Dublin-based group could do no harm. Perfect in many, many ways.
Smother Magazine EDITOR'S PICK 2007
"A tremendous example of the fact that one doesn’t need gimmicks if you’ve got it where it counts. They’ve got harmony, they’ve got rhythm and they deliver from pretty much the first note." THE TORONTO SUN "NXNE Collection 2008"
"On “Travel Light”, songs spiral out, scattering emotional cluster bombs as they go which explode with unexpected force throughout an achingly beautiful sonic landscape." MOJOFILTER-WNYMUSIC.COM
"Imagine the writing of Neil Finn mixed with the wide open spaces of Pink Floyd."
THE IRISH EXAMINER
Carl & Dave-Catskills 2005
Keith & Gram-Nellcote Villefranche-sur-Mer 1971
"They bring an energetic live show with an earnest, gritty aesthetic."
THE NEW YORKER
JULY 25 2009
We wrote the below words a month ago. Wow. What a f$@ing month its been. We landed in NYC on 6.20 and played this gig that just exploded for 2.5 hrs out on Queens Boulevard. (After all, no matter what happens "We are Queens Boulevard.") We picked up our van and trailer and drove 10 hours to Buffalo in questionable shape.
hoping to the heavens all the gear we needed was in the trailer. We checking into the amazing John Storyk (google time) room that is the Goo Goo Dolls home ( no need to goo goo google) studio. No shameless shout out...those lads hooked us a major solid, as you say. Fair play, as we say. What a receptive music scene in that city. Well we, buckled in and knocked out a song a day with Marc Swersky with the producers whip and Mike McCoy, per usual, recording it all. Took one night off to do an impromptu show outdoors for the fine people of Buffalo. Justin Rose drove the Mothership that is GCR AUDIO through the puffy white clouds he and his man Ben had laid in advance in the room. We all flew back to Dublin 11 days later. After living with the studio mixes for a week, we shipped them out to Mark Needham at his Ballroom Studio to be mixed. They are coming back one at a time and we are just mouth agape.
More later.
STAND
JUNE 2009
Time passes. Things change. T shirts disintegrate. Time, the road, the lack of the road, can explode bands like a dandelion. Sometimes they scatter for good and sometime they scatter to rest and rearrange and reassess. They rejuvenate they read they write and then reunite. That's what we just did. Many months ago we found four sturdy chairs, all of them a bit different than the other, and we put them in a lovely room outside Dublin. We all have to live our separate lives but we would meet in the room every other few days then every other day then every day. For hours or minutes, because each person in each chair has that different world to assess and confront outside that room. Horrid cliche, but the music brings us....oh we cant even write that. We also have tea.
Now we have a trunkful of songs and tickets to come over the ocean to America in a yellow submarine to record them. Throw ourselves together completely for a few weeks and laugh and sing and shout and band about for this is the best part of being a band. Being that band. We land in NYC on Friday June 19th and we will go from plane to stage. We will play the songs we started on those chairs, along with a relic or two. The next day we will move the bandwagon to Buffalo NY and meet up with our chosen production team to pound these ideas into shapes on tape. Though semi reclusive in the B-Lo, we hope to come out of the studio on North Street to play a stage there. Mix master release, all while the leaves are still green on the trees.
See you soon.
STAND
BAND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB HANN
Just got an email from Bowery Ballroom announcing their CMJ lineup and there it was...STAND! Got a little goosebumpy, actually. Have an awesome night tomorrow! (Well tonight, too...there's no reason why tonight shouldn't be awesome as well!)
Love the new single guys, think it sounds great! Can't wait till you make your way back to the Buffalo area! Remember our manager said to let him know if you need a place to crash while in the area!
Kick ass at the show tomorrow, as I'm sure you will!!
Michael Brunnock will be performing with his Irish Band "Little Palace" November 5th 8pm Whelans, Dublin November 7th 9pm Headfort Arms, Kells, Co. Meath November 12th 8pm The Backroom, Navan, Co. Meath Little Palace will be releasing their New Single "Beekeeper" from their latest album Invitation Time. We all hope to see you there. Keep Music Alive go hear a show.
It is freezing here in austria. I have a cold and the medicine does not help at all. today is the biggest folk festival in my area and i am sitting at home infront of the tv. Hope you have a great evening at bowery ballroom!!! HAVE FUN!! Greetings from icy Austria Daniela :(
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