2010 For Inside Neon
So that's 2010 over and done with and what an eventful year it's been. Here are the highlights for Inside Neon.
Live Shows (Tribal Rock & The Munk Tour)
We played a total of 5 live shows this year. Two at the start of the year at Space With in Iidabshi which were Tribal Rock shows. We really enjoyed playing with DieByForty, Atom B, xREBELx, Free City Lime and PlayFight. A great time was had by all. Later in the year we played 3 more shows. 2 in Akasaka (Move & L@N) and 1 at Club Lizard in Yokohama. We called these three shows The Munk Tour, and again it was great to play with D.O.G.S., Distant Earth, Sawas Phool, Tommy from Airmail, F.I.X. and Duel. Thanks for all the great times and to everyone who turned out for these shows!
For the band these shows were the real highlights of the year. There is nothing to beat the thrill of playing live, and yeah we f*cked up from time-to-time, but like I said it's all good fun! Thanks to Kanshi Machida, Eiko Hosaka Tiernan, Mizue Suzuki, Mika Nuki and all the others that took pictures of these shows. Thanks for capturing some great moments.
The Introduction Of Munk
We released our first album this year. This was released through my label Nitrogen Music and done digitally through iTunes, Amazon Mp3, etc. Recording the album was quick and mixing was long and painful (for our producer The Kitchen Cynic at least). We released the album in June, and the 8 tracks that made up the album were a good representation of where we were at this time in terms of our sound and energy. It was by no means a perfect record but I feel Jezebel, Release, nineteen45 and In Isolation will continue to be live mainstays in the future.
After the recording Dave Austin, our original drummer, left, but left having laid down some phenomenal drum tracks. Even though I wrote the songs for the album, I feel that this record will always be 'Dave's record' so powerful and expressive is the drumming on it.
Thanks to both Baz Turton and Justin Vun for their art contributions, Baz for the album sleeve and Justin for the In Isolation artwork.
Reverbnation Charts
We really loved everything that the website reverbnation did for us this year. This site helped us to release our music and reach a wider audience through the use of embedded players on facebook and MySpace. Best of all was the reverbnation rock charts, a ranking system whereby we could see how popular we were becoming. We finished the year at #4 in the Rock Charts and I am really proud that we are now, for the time-being at least, considered an established part of the rock fraternity in here in Tokyo.
Rich, Nat, Dave, Chris, Oz and Jeremy
As mentioned earlier, original drummer Dave Austin left the band in mid 2010 so we were left with the difficult task of finding a new drummer. Luckily we found Chris Meggitt! Chris dropped into the band almost seamlessly and allowed us to keep some level of continuity going into the summer. We also invited xREBELx vocalist and guitarist Oz Murillo to play with us in the studio. Although Oz didn't get to play live with us, or record with us, I do really appreciate his contributions in the studio. If anything it made me realize that Inside Neon should be a four-piece band, and that is how things will be from 2011 onwards.
After we had finished the Munk tour Nat York, our bass player, decided to leave the band (for family reasons) and this left Chris and I without a bass player. Lady Luck was once more shinning down on us as Jeremy Eastwood (Distant Earth) agreed to play bass with us for a short time. It is Jeremy's bass playing that you will hear on the upcoming Oceans EP, and Chris and I really appreciate his brief sojourn with Inside Neon.
2011
And so to 2011. This first big thing will be the Oceans EP. There will be four tracks on this record and at least 2 of them will have videos. The first video for the track 'Oceans' will be online in January, and with a bit of luck we should have a video for the track 'Radical Citizens' produced by February. The EP will be released in early February through all the usual online digital retailers. We are really excited about this record as it does represent something of a leap forward sonically for Inside Neon.
In March I will be playing my first acoustic show. This will be at David's Deli and I will play acoustic versions of Inside Neon songs, as well as some other unheard and unreleased tracks. Looking forward to that challenge.
Then for the BIG news, we will be playing some live shows in the summer, and I will be asking a second guitarist to join us for these shows, and, wait for it... we should have a certain bass playing member of the band back in the line-up (hint, hint).
Thanks to everyone who came to see us live, took our pictures, videoed us, bought our records, listened to them online, visited our various media pages, commented on our Facebook page, commented on our tweets, and wished us good luck throughout the year!
See you all in 2011!
Live Shows (Tribal Rock & The Munk Tour)
We played a total of 5 live shows this year. Two at the start of the year at Space With in Iidabshi which were Tribal Rock shows. We really enjoyed playing with DieByForty, Atom B, xREBELx, Free City Lime and PlayFight. A great time was had by all. Later in the year we played 3 more shows. 2 in Akasaka (Move & L@N) and 1 at Club Lizard in Yokohama. We called these three shows The Munk Tour, and again it was great to play with D.O.G.S., Distant Earth, Sawas Phool, Tommy from Airmail, F.I.X. and Duel. Thanks for all the great times and to everyone who turned out for these shows!
For the band these shows were the real highlights of the year. There is nothing to beat the thrill of playing live, and yeah we f*cked up from time-to-time, but like I said it's all good fun! Thanks to Kanshi Machida, Eiko Hosaka Tiernan, Mizue Suzuki, Mika Nuki and all the others that took pictures of these shows. Thanks for capturing some great moments.
The Introduction Of Munk
We released our first album this year. This was released through my label Nitrogen Music and done digitally through iTunes, Amazon Mp3, etc. Recording the album was quick and mixing was long and painful (for our producer The Kitchen Cynic at least). We released the album in June, and the 8 tracks that made up the album were a good representation of where we were at this time in terms of our sound and energy. It was by no means a perfect record but I feel Jezebel, Release, nineteen45 and In Isolation will continue to be live mainstays in the future.
After the recording Dave Austin, our original drummer, left, but left having laid down some phenomenal drum tracks. Even though I wrote the songs for the album, I feel that this record will always be 'Dave's record' so powerful and expressive is the drumming on it.
Thanks to both Baz Turton and Justin Vun for their art contributions, Baz for the album sleeve and Justin for the In Isolation artwork.
Reverbnation Charts
We really loved everything that the website reverbnation did for us this year. This site helped us to release our music and reach a wider audience through the use of embedded players on facebook and MySpace. Best of all was the reverbnation rock charts, a ranking system whereby we could see how popular we were becoming. We finished the year at #4 in the Rock Charts and I am really proud that we are now, for the time-being at least, considered an established part of the rock fraternity in here in Tokyo.
Rich, Nat, Dave, Chris, Oz and Jeremy
As mentioned earlier, original drummer Dave Austin left the band in mid 2010 so we were left with the difficult task of finding a new drummer. Luckily we found Chris Meggitt! Chris dropped into the band almost seamlessly and allowed us to keep some level of continuity going into the summer. We also invited xREBELx vocalist and guitarist Oz Murillo to play with us in the studio. Although Oz didn't get to play live with us, or record with us, I do really appreciate his contributions in the studio. If anything it made me realize that Inside Neon should be a four-piece band, and that is how things will be from 2011 onwards.
After we had finished the Munk tour Nat York, our bass player, decided to leave the band (for family reasons) and this left Chris and I without a bass player. Lady Luck was once more shinning down on us as Jeremy Eastwood (Distant Earth) agreed to play bass with us for a short time. It is Jeremy's bass playing that you will hear on the upcoming Oceans EP, and Chris and I really appreciate his brief sojourn with Inside Neon.
2011
And so to 2011. This first big thing will be the Oceans EP. There will be four tracks on this record and at least 2 of them will have videos. The first video for the track 'Oceans' will be online in January, and with a bit of luck we should have a video for the track 'Radical Citizens' produced by February. The EP will be released in early February through all the usual online digital retailers. We are really excited about this record as it does represent something of a leap forward sonically for Inside Neon.
In March I will be playing my first acoustic show. This will be at David's Deli and I will play acoustic versions of Inside Neon songs, as well as some other unheard and unreleased tracks. Looking forward to that challenge.
Then for the BIG news, we will be playing some live shows in the summer, and I will be asking a second guitarist to join us for these shows, and, wait for it... we should have a certain bass playing member of the band back in the line-up (hint, hint).
Thanks to everyone who came to see us live, took our pictures, videoed us, bought our records, listened to them online, visited our various media pages, commented on our Facebook page, commented on our tweets, and wished us good luck throughout the year!
See you all in 2011!
posted by Rich Loffman @ 11:18 am
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