Who knew? After several years toiling (and troubling) around the UK, The Authentics have emerged into the limelight again with a brand new outstanding live show with big drums and heavy guitars topped off with a cauldron of smooth melodies - the band their drummer at Halloween Spook-tacular show sure have all the ingredients for their killer pop-rock songs.
With 40+ gigs already played in 2007 all over the UK, The Authentics finish their current tour of live shows in their hometown of Leicester on Wednesday 31st October. This creepy Halloween special will be the band’s last show of the year and their drummer’s (David New) farewell gig before a New Year break for recording a new single. The screamingly good event takes place at the Level One Club of DeMontfort University Student Union, Mill Lane, Leicester.
Following up their stormy hi-volume debut album “Blondes Make the Best Victims?” in which the band was described in the UK press as “forever producing soundtracks to late night binge-ups, drug-addled shindigs and crotch-grabbing soirees” (Rock Something, March 2007) the band have seen themselves being part of the digital community with the CD being available for download at Apple's iTunes store and other online outlets.
Their LP was also described as having “Easily accessible lyrics, anthemic choruses and toe tapping beats (which) make this album addictive from the opening riffs. The band has plenty to say and the music to back it up”. (Glenn Butler, Powerplay Magazine Issue, 84 Feb 2007).
The band will be playing their big pop hooks which anchor catchy and commercial-sounding songs spearheaded by new hit “Ton of Bricks” and “The Witching Hour” which compliment the classic rock influenced and fan favourites “Supercharged” and “Burn What Remains”, the latter of which was turned into a video on their Myspace page.
Giving the Leicester scene a much needed jolt of that old punk energy, the band have brought their in-your-face stage show to 2007 summer audiences at the Trashstock and Hard Drive Festivals as well as high profile supports with Winnebago Deal and a recent opening for The Glitterati in Nottingham.
After the success of the “Going Down South” Tour in September which coincided with their appearance on a DVD giveaway for Fast Car Magazine, the best selling motor publication in the UK, the band have high hopes for their forthcoming final show in front of their home crowd.
Other highlights of 2007 include the band’s Guest Quest competitions which gave attendees of gigs the chance to win band merchandise using Facebook and Myspace to spot themselves at the bands’ shows, supporting the Red Cross Charity at Leicester’s Music Café in March and interviews on Takeover Radio allowing their younger fans to get involved with the band’s music.
Using their newly formed Street Team the band also created their own brand of condoms and have now chalked up over 26000 web hits to their official site after extensive gigging at packed venues in Sheffield, Lincoln, Nottingham, Brighton and London’s famous 12 Bar Club.
All the classic Authentics elements are in place: crisp and loud guitars, propulsive pop drums, bottom end bass and smooth vocals that inevitably lead into a catchy chorus payoff so don’t be scared, witches and vampires gather and come see the band in their “authentic” line-up as the full moon rises.
www.theauthentics.co.uk
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