He just sort of leaves it up to us to do the writing, and he sings the songs.” He’s done a bit of writing when he goes on to Canada with a friend of his, but he’s never really jumped in on it. Bernie has never really been involved in any writing since he joined the band. Why’s that? “Well, I write on my own, but they write together, and I think they just like to write the lyrics for their own songs. One notices that Mick Box and Phil Lanzon are the main writers on the band these days, to the curious point where vocalist Bernie Shaw isn’t even in on lyrics. And because we were doing an Unplugged tour, I think our promoter just put it forward to the people, or the guy who promotes those gigs, and he took us on and we did it.” But as a venue, it was quite amazing.”Īnd, er, why did this happen? “I think quite a few people have actually been down there, in the salt mine, and done it. It was something I would want to do again, but I don’t know if that’s something we could do electrically. It was like playing in a church, in a way it was such a big cavern.
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And I had never done anything like that before. But yeah, I think we got about 2000 people down there, to watch us. So you’re going down these tunnels about 30 miles an hour, around corners, and it was kind of scary… well, not scary, but it was quite an experience to go down there. We got on these little trucks and we were zipping through these tunnels, and you couldn’t stand up because the roof was just above your head. I don’t know what Mick has told you about it. We went down the salt mine, and we went quite a ways down as well, just this huge cavern. I got the story on that from Mick a month back, but I wanted to get Bolder’s impression as well… “Actually, it was amazing. Touring as hard as Heep does takes you places, even into an Eastern European salt mine. And we’re trying to let people know that we are here and we’ve woken up, sort of thing. I suppose it’s the awakening of the band again - you can put it down to that as well, the sleeping giant sort of thing. “To be honest, that’s more Mick’s and Phil’s thing. And even though Sea Of Light is one of our best albums, I think this one tops it.”Īsked to articulate the Wake The Sleeper concept, Bolder demurs. It’s got more Hammond organ on it, more wah-wah guitar, and is just a heavier album, than Sea Of Light and Sonic Origami - there are more laid-back songs on those albums.
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“I think this is a heavier album, more of a Heep album, if you go back to the ‘70s and listen to the earlier Heep. “I think that Sea Of Light is… I don’t know, it’s such a long time since I heard it,” chuckles Bolder, asked to define the lay of the land with this trio of similar albums.
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I usually talk to Mick (and more often than I thought would happen… Ken!), so it was cool to catch up with the reticent Trevor Bolder, bassist for this band of harmonizing heavies.
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Wake The Sleeper can be viewed as the bold vigorous latest model of a Heep deep in a Heepy sound, which began anew with the fantastic and well-regarded Sea Of Light from ’95, through the lighter and less beloved Sonic Origami from ’98, and now into new Hammond-rocked life for the band here ten years (and one retired drummer) later. Their music being made for stage, the band embarked themselves in the adventure of concerts with a first date at the Broadway Globe Theater in Los Angeles in November 2017 and then, there are some several dates to come in the course of 2018.OK, it’s pretty much unanimous – folks are absolutely digging the new URIAH HEEP album. Note that there is a big featuring for the track « River Of Darkness » with the indisputed master of Dreamwave Timecop1983. The album even reached 17th place on the Billboard Dance charts. In August 2016 was released their first 12 tracks album « Endless Summer » which made a lot of noises in Synthwave scene but this is « Nocturnal » LP that arrived at the end of 2017 which had a lot of success on the American online music company Bandcamp (best-seller). The quality of this EP projected them with Synth-pop ambassadors like Electric Youth or GUNSHIP. They began the adventure of « The Midnight » in 2014 with a first 6 titles EP named « Days of Thunder « .
THE MIDNIGHT DAYS OF THUNDER SONGS MOVIE
The movie DRIVE by Nicolas Winding Refn was a revelation, for the two artists, to start a musical project inspired by the 80s. The band was formed in 2012 in Los Angeles during a co-writing workshop. Their music is characterized by modern sounds mixed with 80s atmosphere and significant saxophone parts managed by Thomas Edinger. The Midnight is an electronic music band that consists of an american singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle and a danish composer Tim McEwan.