The Shanks have just finished recording their "The Last Stand" EP at Rockrooms Studio, Oxford. We would like to thank Joe at Rockrooms for all his efforts.
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WHEN DID WE KNOW WE WANTED TO DO THIS FOR REAL:
Hard to say...it's more of a constant thing, like breathing really, you don't realize you need it till the day someone puts your head under water (not sure what the water stands for though)...
basically, it’s all about being a 16-year old self-confined kid, lying on his bed, listening to the new / old Beatles album and it hits him in the face, but in a nice, overwhelming, electrifying way…there’s no precise point of crystallisation, ever since then we kinda knew what we wanted to try and do was to give some of it back…as a way of liberation, or something like that…
FIRST GIG:
Battle of Bands, we had been together for 2 months, we knew 5 songs, screamed ourselves hoarse, sweated like pigs, lost the round, but had the time of our lives...
WHY WE'RE NOT GIGGING AT THE MOMENT:
Well you know…a man’s gotta eat if he doesn’t want to be eaten…as much as we’d love to just get going, we have to finish what we’re doing to be financially free enough to go for it…
Which explains the absence of gigging for the moment…but from April 2009 on we’ll come back with a vengeance and move to London to get seriously going…(though if you are the head of a record-company and you’d like to lure us away it could be much shorter, you won’t need much effort, we’ll sign up immediately)…
