Mike Hyder (Vocals/Electric and 6 & 12 string Acoustic Guitars/Slide Guitar)
Dom Lash (Electric Bass/Double Bass/Wurlitzer Electric Piano)
Dave Hart (Percussion/Multi-Instrumentalist)
Influences
A melting pot of influences from nearly 5 decades of rock music.
Sounds Like
Neo-classic rock grooves & in your face riffs, wrapped around the coolest melodies. A modern Classic British rock band.
BRAND NEW TREAT ALBUM 'PHONOGRAPHY' AVAILABLE NOW!
ORDER YOUR COPY DIRECT FROM www.thetreat.co.uk
'One of the best albums of the year' - Let it Rock
'An excellent overall package that hits the spot' -Terrascope
''wow!' - Richard Allen (DJ Magazine Programme)
'The music has a far greater range, and as a whole the album is better
produced showing a real maturity'-Room Thirteen
As playlisted on Total Rock.com, ARFM Soundscapes & BBC Oxford, among others.
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In an age when lawyers and accountants run the music industry and often force artists to fit a watered down ‘market’ of ever diminishing returns, producing an array of albums all of which could have been made by the same band in one weekend using one idea written on the back of a postage stamp, THE TREAT have set about independently carving their own niche and unique style. Uncompromising and singular in their vision, producing music of the highest quality they can achieve.
If you would like to hear and support a group of musicians who play with passion and heart, music they truly enjoy and believe in, which has it’s roots in traditional CLASSIC ROCK, to which they have added a modern sheen, then READ ON. For YOU, THE TREAT could be just that. Rock with a muscular centre beating at it’s heart, but which has the vision, the ability and spirit of adventure, to incorporate and acknowledge the shades of blues, folk, ethnic, prog, psychedelia and whatever else happens to be influencing the band at the time. Albums, as John Lennon once said, are often a diary of a band and record where the group are, artistically, at a given point. THE TREAT are a confident group, furrowing their own artistic path, who refuse to be subservient to passing vagaries of fashion, or to be bludgeoned into submission of whatever happens to be ‘cool’ that week, in the eyes of a handful of self-styled dimwits.
By now, those of you that have followed the band’s progress over two albums and have witnessed the group’s electric and acoustic shows will know THE TREAT are here for the long haul. They have grown up listening to rock music’s rich heritage and legacy and are doing their best to add to it. THE TREAT are not interested in being a ‘flash in the pan’. Surely, you know what we mean ? The type of band that gets 2 NME front covers, glossy pics showing off high cheekbones & pouting lips, two hit singles, one halfway decent album and gets jettisoned to the dustbin of oblivion 18 months after the NME ‘discovered’ them as the next big thing. Tragic.
So, if you are looking for a band that have their roots in classic rock, but have their own unique, eclectic spin and are not afraid to experiment or take chances then you should be adding THE TREAT to your CD collection. By turns passionate, exhilarating, fun, dark, melodic and joyous, one of the best bands to emerge in recent years on the music scene in the UK. THE TREAT are indeed just that.
We hope you don't mind if we inform you that our 'PUNK OPERA: 'CHELENNON' album is finally RELEASED and AVAILABLE !!! It's based on John Lennon political and rare songs and interviews. If you are interested to learn more about this concept album just visit our myspace or the following website:www. ilemusic. com Thank you for your support!!! The OZ from St. Petersburg, Russia
Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. Thankyou so much for the lovely and positive comments...I guess I do what I can where I can and firstly and foremostly for me it's about the music...
Have listened to a couple of your songs and really loving what I hear....agent 555 has a really good sound about it!!
Take care and hopefully will see you this end soon....if you need any demo CD's passing onto venues I'd be happy to help
Hello how are you? , all going well we hope, not heard from you in a while,
WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!! Helvelyn2 are broadcasting to the world LIVE by web cast from the famous Berlin Studios!!! Thurs 28th Feb 9pm UK time www. globegig. com Make sure you log in to see the performance and drop in to the chat room too! PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO EVERYONE - WE WANT THE WORLD TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO!!!!!! Cheers Helvelyn2
McGreetings THE TREAT , Cheers for being our friend on myspace , Rock on and please Keep in touch as we value your friendship and support very much! All the very best to you, from McDave and the boys of Pegasus in Bonnie Scotland. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Hello there THE TREAT , I thought i'd drop you a line to thank you for counting us among your MySpace friends. Feel free to say hi or to give our tunes a listen. Have a great week end and all the best to you and yours, from Pegasus in Bonnie Scotland.
Watch our live webcast on November 9th and have a chance to win a brand new Peavey guitar plus other great prizes! Click our profile pic and read our blog for more info. You won’t want to miss it!
Just letting all our friends know about our releases. To say thanks for all your support there's a free exclusive download on our myspace of a track called FIND ME A WAY All the best John, PJ, Paul and Dan UXL
On Monday 4th June 2007 between 1.30pm and 3.45pm a rehearsal for Liverpool’s Big Sing will be held at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Thirteen schools from Merseyside will be represented by their choirs to sing a new charity song called Warchild.
The song Warchild originally written by musician /actor Chris O’Neill, from the award winning film Backbeat, where he played the part of George Harrison. After seeing the plight of starving children shown on the ITV programme This Morning, when they were raising awareness for the charity Warchild.
The new recording will be available for a very small charge on download from www.indiestore.com/chrisoneill. For every £40 pounds made from these proceeds, incredibly, we can feed a child for a whole year who has been orphaned by Aids in Africa! A very small price to pay to save a child’s life. Peace and love to you all Chris.
yo yo yo....
we have a new track on our profile, if you've nothing better to do this horrible rainy bank holiday weekend why not check it out and let us know what you think?
toodle pip...
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Just stopping by to say hello. You can download two of our songs for a short time, we're replacing them with new material soon. Thanks for your support!
Hey, hope you don't mind this small promotional comment. We are releasing the new Down For The Count single "Less Than Three Is Enough For Me" tomorrow (May 21st) and just wanted to let you know that it is now available to download from our 7Digital Indiestore for just 79p:
The song is taken from their debut album 'Broken Record Tactics' which is released on June 4th and is now available to pre-order from PEP-ROCKRECORDS.COM for just £6.99 (including P&P). Thanks a lot for reading this and if you haven't already then please head to our page and listen to some of the songs off of 'Broken Record Tactics'. Cheers
Hey! THE TREAT hope you dont mind us keeping in touch and sending you this info,out first album Let Loose can be purchased on Myspace ,it will soon be out on ITunes Napster etc... and also can soon be ordered as a standard CD through various online sites and our website www.originalvixen.com ,will keep you posted,keep in touch ,
Prisoner.
And in between smoking big fat cigars and slapping ourselves on the back we've booked 3 rather wonderful bands to play at said good ship on the 10th of May. Thats THIS THURSDAY!
10 years
50 releases
12 peel sessions
100's of gigs &
countless hangovers
to celebrate......
19th May
The Tunnels
Aberdeen
Saint Judes Infirmary
Thomas Truax
Paul Vickers & The Leg
7pm £6
20th May
The Market Bar
Inverness
Thomas Truax
plus TBC
doors 7pm free entry
21st May
ABC Glasgow
Saint Judes Infirmary
Thomas Truax
Paul Vicker & The Leg
7pm £6 adv
OVER 14s GIG
22nd May
The Liquid Rooms
Edinburgh
Saint Judes Infirmary
Thomas Truax
Paul Vicker & The Leg
7pm £6 adv
31st May
The SL Records Tenth Birthday Bash
Hosted by Goulag Beat at Ego, Edinburgh
Live Performances by
The Aphrodisiacs
Lords of Bastard
plus Silvia Substance and her band of puking punk DJs spinning the discs.
11pm £3
