Band / Belfast, GB / here for 15 years
Before Machines
Listen / 2 tracks
About
Belfast-based Before Machines formed in early 2008 and quickly set about earning a reputation for fearsome, energetic live shows around the country. Released in May 2009, the launch of their eponymous EP saw the band play a blistering set to a packed Auntie Annie’s. Their subsequent live shows have only won them more converts along the way, with their combination of angular riffs, powerful bass, inventive drumming and sing-along vocals. The addition of Chris McCorry on guitar and Moog in the summer of 2009 saw the band move in a different direction, thickening the guitar parts and giving singer Andy Melville more space to command the attention of the audience whilst still remaining true to what made the three-piece so vital: killer hooks, unpredictable dynamic shifts and razor-sharp guitar lines. The band entered Start Together studio in early 2010 after a short period of enforced hibernation to fine-tune their sound. The result is their latest release, the double-A side “Hearts/Runaway”. Around this time they were also featured on BBC introducing. More recently Before Machines have headlined Radar, a premier Belfast music show to a packed Speakeasy bar, Queens University. In late 2010 they have been testing themselves further a field around Ireland with a view to more shows around the country and touring in the UK in 2011. Bands Before Machines have played with: Cymbals Eat Guitars (New York), In Case Of Fire, North Atlantic Oscillation, A Plastic Rose, Axis Of, Kowalski, Mojo Fury, Panama Kings, The Good Fight, More Than Conquerors, Cashier No.9, Panda Kopanda. Andy and Chris' previous bands (The Remains of Youth and Jedi Jane) have played with the likes of Stiff Little Fingers, Oppenheimer, LaFaro, Fighting With Wire, Fight Like Apes, La Quiete (Italy) and An Albatross (Pennsylvania), as well as being supported by recent Northern Irish do-gooders Two Door Cinema Club, General Fiasco and And So I Watch You From Afar. Before Machines are: Daniel Black: Bass, Vocals Daniel Larkin: Drums, Vocals Chris McCorry: Guitar, Vocals, Moog Andy Melville: Lead Vocal, Guitar Contact: Andy Melville beforemachines@gmail.com 07921921315 Press: “Urgent and devastating, this EP is a true statement of intent...Bold, thrilling and full of awing potential” - Virginia Arroyo, AU Magazine “It’s clear Before Machines have something special about them” - Patrick Kane, BBC Across The Line “Their noise is tightly focussed, with intricate guitar lines intertwining over a bed of bass and drums...Before Machines are a band with a potentially glittering future ahead of them” - Alex Donald, BBC Across The Line “Gritty yet melodic sonic assaults” - Edwin McFee, Hot Press
Members
Andy Melville Dan Larkin Chris McCorry Daniel Black
