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Description Charismatic Musicians & Live Sound Engineer wanted for new British Rock Band in London. First album written and ready to record, rehearse and tour. Unique and original sound with extremely commercial songs containing articulate, humorous lyrics, strong melodies, hooks and riffs requiring talented musicians with passion and commitment. Songs with important, intelligent, engaging, political and popular themes. Age and experience are not necessarily relevant, but raw talent, charisma, flair, visual style, professional work ethic and the ability to excite and blow away an audience with energetic performances most certainly are. Experienced Lead Vocalist, Producer & Songwriter with four octave voice incorporating rock, jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, soul and opera is looking for talented musicians who want to be a part of something big and historic. Only musicians ready to quit their day job in the next few months and embark on national and international tours should apply. Rehearsals and recording will take place in London within the next month or so. The first gigs for the seven piece band will be in the London area and then cover the rest of the country and international venues thereafter. Influences are many but primarily ; Meatloaf, The Prodigy, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Gary Numan, Sex Pistols, Shirley Bassey, Whitesnake, Gary Moore, Movie & Theatrical soundtracks, Electro, Techno, Industrial, Rhythm n' Blues, Orchestral, Opera etc etc MUSICIANS WANTED ; DRUMMER Powerful, energetic and charismatic rock drummer with an open, experimental and imaginative mind able to play many styles from dance beats, hard rock and complex percussion arrangements alongside the playback of pre recorded and sampled sounds and a range of dance beats from assorted genres. LEAD KEYBOARDIST Must be versatile in many different styles from classical and orchestral to techno, electro, industrial, sampling and imaginative new sounds. A bit of energy, flair and charisma in concert will certainly be welcomed. 2ND KEYBOARDIST/SAMPLER/PERCUSSIONIST Must be versatile in many different styles from classical and orchestral to techno, electro, industrial, sampling and imaginative new sounds. A bit of energy, flair and charisma in concert will certainly be welcomed. LEAD GUITARIST With a talent for improvisation and an ear for memorising tunes. With a love and capability of playing almost any kind of style from the Blues and tear-inducing ballad styles to bone-thumping heavy metal power chords in the style of Whitesnake, Ozzy Osborne and Gary Moore. A keenness for experimentation with FX pedals, feedback and brutal power chords is also desirable. And of course the ability to perform dextrous, speedy and show-stopping hard rock guitar solos in the classic style or with a bit of original style whilst wowing audiences with performances of energy, flair and charisma. Mainly to play lead licks, solos and some rhythmic parts whilst the Additional Guitarist plays mainly power chords and some rhythmic parts, although these varied duties could be shared and delegated on different songs.. ADDITIONAL GUITARIST With a talent for improvisation and an ear for memorising tunes. With a love and capability of playing almost any kind of style from the Blues and tear-inducing ballad styles to bone thumping heavy metal power chords in the style of Whitesnake, Ozzy Osborne and Gary Moore. A keenness for experimentation with FX pedals, feedback and brutal power chords is also desirable. And the ability to wow audiences with performances of energy, flair and charisma. BASS PLAYER With a talent for improvisation and an ear for memorising tunes. With a love and capability of playing almost any kind of style from slap, funk, the Blues and tear-inducing ballad styles to bone thumping heavy metal power chords in the style of Whitesnake, Ozzy Osborne and Gary Moore. A keenness for experimentation with FX pedals, feedback and brutal power chords is also desirable. And the ability to wow audiences with performances of energy, flair and charisma. LIVE SOUND ENGINEER/SUPPORTING MUSICIAN/BACKING VOCALIST Live Sound Engineer ; this could work as a shared position between two support musicians/percussionists/keyboard players/samplers/backing singers who could take it in turns to both Sound Engineer and then perform on stage with the band on alternate gigs until a full time Live Sound Engineer is recruited. Please send a bit of information about yourself and you should hear back within a few days. Please send the following ; A bit about yourself. Your age. Your height. Your music experience. Your favourite types of music and bands The standard you play at as well as the different styles and types of solos you can perform. Do you sing to a proficient level and do you want to perform backing vocals? Your Contact details Whether you are available to tour professionally and full time within the next few months. Please also send one or two recent photographs or links to recent photographs. (you're welcome to add a © watermark to the photos if you like.) Details about your instruments and equipment. Formats welcome include Word, pdf, Mac or odt Please send to; bigandhistoric [at] gmail.com Please note, where it says [at] in the above email address, this is just to prevent spammers sending spam. Just change the [at] for the @ symbol when emailing and don't leave any spaces. Contracts will be used for all the band's musicians from the outset that will outline royalty and shared income distributions and the required professional conduct, so only musicians with the highest professional aspirations and discipline should apply. And yet, despite all that necessary formality ; LET'S ROCK AND ROLL AND HAVE SOME REAL FUN TOGETHER... Individual meetings will be arranged in the coming weeks where musicians will then be able to hear some recordings. Thank you and hope to hear from you very soon.
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Description: Charismatic Musicians & Live Sound Engineer wanted for new British Rock Band in London. First album written and ready to record, rehearse and tour. Unique and original sound with extremely commercial songs containing articulate, humorous lyrics, strong melodies, hooks and riffs requiring talented musicians with passion a... Read more
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Posted: 10 years ago by bigandhistoric
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