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The Amber Herd

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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Psychedelic / Rock

    Location Nottingham/ Chesterfield, UK

    Profile Views: 63777

    Last Login: 11/9/2012

    Member Since 2/17/2006

    Website theamberherd.com

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. The Amber Herd: mixing post rock spaciousness with vicious walls of sound at pleasingly regular intervals. Notts-based five piece who’ve spent the last few years clawing their way through the soft white underbelly of the local Nottingham scene and are now slipping up past the ether to deposit themselves somewhere near the stars.... .. .. The Amber Herd have been busy over the last twelve months, playing venues in Nottingham and further afield with some great bands including The Delays, That Petrol Emotion, Blackbud, Sound Of Guns, Luxury Stranger, Arms and Sleepers (USA), In Isolation, Made of Leaves, Model Morning and Frontiers. .. .. Last year was great for us and we played some really well- received shows at The Rescue Rooms, Bodega, Seven, The Maze and Loggerheads. We released our debut, double A side single- Stage Fright/ Foot Tapper recorded at Stuck On A Name studios in Nottingham. Since then we have been featured in session on Dean Jackson's Show on BBC Radio Nottingham and also had the single played on John Holmes' show. .. .. .. .. .... .. .... Following our debut shows at The Rescue Rooms (supporting That Petrol Emotion) and The Social (supporting Blackbud) we were filmed for the Evening Post's "This is Live" ( aired in September) and the I'm Not From London movie. .. .. We played our first headline show in London on Saturday 16th January at The Good Ship in Kilburn and following that wrote some new songs, finished recording our new single, played a live radio session and got ourselves a new bass player! .. .. We launched the new single -a double A side featuring Red Gold and Thursday- to the world at an extremely special show upstairs at The Central in Nottingham on Saturday 1st May and subsequently played a packed Bodega with The Delays. .. .. The new single is out now on iTunes and Amazon to download and we have some very lovely and highly collectible numbered copies available to purchase by mail order. .. .. ...... .. .. TO BUY A LIMITED EDITION CD (£3.50 including P&P) CLICK HERE: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. If the above link does not work click here .. .... TO BUY FROM ITUNES OR AMAZON MP3 CLICK HERE: .... .. iTunes .. .... .. AmazonMP3 .. .. .. ............ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ......Myspace Layout Generator.. by LayoutGeneratorMyspace.com........

  • Members

    ..Neil Beards.. - Guitars & Vocals .... Mark Lasbury.. - Drums/ Percussion & Synth ....Rachel Edge/ Ollie Powditch.. - Piano, Synth & Vocals.... Paul 'Wez' Wentworth.. - Guitars & Vocal....Rob 'Fitz' Fitzmaurice.. - Bass....

  • Influences

    ..Handstands, headbands, bandstands. Progressive rock, regressive clocks, Brighton Rock. Dr Who, Dr Strange, constant change. Second sight, dust in sunlight, Marmite. Fecund trees, cream teas, custard creams. Fallen leaves, runner beans, broken dreams.....

  • Sounds Like

    .... "....like alternative music when it was still alternative" .. .. ".... both blissfully melancholic indie and uplifting stripped-back folk and comes to a sprawling, open-mouthed finish with an almost Velvet Underground-esque wall of sound, acoustics flitting between prog keyboard stabs and all buried under Neil Beards's darkly overdriven Mary Chain guitar. Nottingham's best kept secret?" .. www.thiscitymagazine.co.uk .. .. .."...slow-burning set of dense and atmospheric post-rock, at times hushed, at others fist-clenchingly anthemic.".. www.thiscitymagazine.co.uk.. .. .. ".....a cracking band....one to be watching...".... Alt:Lion 5 podcast - www.leftlion.co.uk .. .. .. "Phenomenal band from across the pond in Nottingham, UK..The Amber Herd traps you in a euphoric Wall of sound you can't break out of...Nor would you want to! Take a listen!".... Technological Sun (USA) .... .. "Mindblowing!".... URN (University of Nottingham Radio) .. .. .. .. "THURSDAY" - LIVE AT THE GOOD SHIP, KILBURN, LONDON. 16 JANUARY 2010:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "RED GOLD" - LIVE AT THE GOOD SHIP, KILBURN, LONDON. 16 JANUARY 2010:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..THE AMBER HERD LIVE AT THE BBC - ACOUSTIC SESSION - "MAGNOLIA" & NEW SONG "THURSDAY": .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. STAGE FRIGHT AT SEVEN - MARCH 2009: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. AND HERE'S AN EDITED VERSION OF "MAGNOLIA" FROM CASTLE DONINGTON PARK FARM - AUGUST '08: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Bio:

The Amber Herd: mixing post rock spaciousness with vicious walls of sound at pleasingly regular intervals. Notts-based five piece who’ve spent the last few years clawing their way through the soft white underbelly of the local Nottingham scene and are now slipping up past the ether to deposit themselves somewhere near the stars....

The Amber Herd have been busy over the last twelve months, playing venues in Nottingham and further afield with some great bands including The Delays, That Petrol Emotion, Blackbud, Sound Of Guns, Luxury Stranger, Arms and Sleepers (USA), In Isolation, Made of Leaves, Model Morning and Frontiers.

Last year was great for us and we played some really well- received shows at The Rescue Rooms, Bodega, Seven, The Maze and Loggerheads. We released our debut, double A side single- Stage Fright/ Foot Tapper recorded at Stuck On A Name studios in Nottingham. Since then we have been featured in session on Dean Jackson's Show on BBC Radio Nottingham and also had the single played on John Holmes' show.


Following our debut shows at The Rescue Rooms (supporting That Petrol Emotion) and The Social (supporting Blackbud) we were filmed for the Evening Post's "This is Live" ( aired in September) and the I'm Not From London movie.

We played our first headline show in London on Saturday 16th January at The Good Ship in Kilburn and following that wrote some new songs, finished recording our new single, played a live radio session and got ourselves a new bass player!

We launched the new single -a double A side featuring Red Gold and Thursday- to the world at an extremely special show upstairs at The Central in Nottingham on Saturday 1st May and subsequently played a packed Bodega with The Delays.

The new single is out now on iTunes and Amazon to download and we have some very lovely and highly collectible numbered copies available to purchase by mail order.

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TO BUY A LIMITED EDITION CD (£3.50 including P&P) CLICK HERE: .. .. .. .. ..

If the above link does not work click here

TO BUY FROM ITUNES OR AMAZON MP3 CLICK HERE:

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AmazonMP3
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Member Since:

February 17, 2006

Members:

Neil Beards
- Guitars & Vocals

Mark Lasbury
- Drums/ Percussion & Synth

Rachel Edge/ Ollie Powditch
- Piano, Synth & Vocals

Paul 'Wez' Wentworth
- Guitars & Vocal

Rob 'Fitz' Fitzmaurice
- Bass

Influences:

Handstands, headbands, bandstands. Progressive rock, regressive clocks, Brighton Rock. Dr Who, Dr Strange, constant change. Second sight, dust in sunlight, Marmite. Fecund trees, cream teas, custard creams. Fallen leaves, runner beans, broken dreams.

Sounds Like:

"....like alternative music when it was still alternative"

".... both blissfully melancholic indie and uplifting stripped-back folk and comes to a sprawling, open-mouthed finish with an almost Velvet Underground-esque wall of sound, acoustics flitting between prog keyboard stabs and all buried under Neil Beards's darkly overdriven Mary Chain guitar. Nottingham's best kept secret?" www.thiscitymagazine.co.uk

"...slow-burning set of dense and atmospheric post-rock, at times hushed, at others fist-clenchingly anthemic." www.thiscitymagazine.co.uk

".....a cracking band....one to be watching..."
Alt:Lion 5 podcast - www.leftlion.co.uk

"Phenomenal band from across the pond in Nottingham, UK..The Amber Herd traps you in a euphoric Wall of sound you can't break out of...Nor would you want to! Take a listen!"
Technological Sun (USA)

"Mindblowing!"
URN (University of Nottingham Radio)



"THURSDAY" - LIVE AT THE GOOD SHIP, KILBURN, LONDON. 16 JANUARY 2010:


.. "RED GOLD" - LIVE AT THE GOOD SHIP, KILBURN, LONDON. 16 JANUARY 2010:


THE AMBER HERD LIVE AT THE BBC - ACOUSTIC SESSION - "MAGNOLIA" & NEW SONG "THURSDAY":


STAGE FRIGHT AT SEVEN - MARCH 2009:

AND HERE'S AN EDITED VERSION OF "MAGNOLIA" FROM CASTLE DONINGTON PARK FARM - AUGUST '08:
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    Fantastic gig last night @bodeganotts with the wonderful @lornatheband and @augustactually only wish we could do that every night!

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    Understanding heavy metal with @lornatheband - awesome!!

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    ♫ Today: Nottingham, United Kingdom - May 3 at Bodega http://t.co/9amViPCY3b

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    The Amber Herd has a show on 2013-05-03 at 20:00 @ Bodega Social in Nottingham http://t.co/BVRzamYifM #concert

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