joe_a
(Nottingham)
Tuesday 15 Oct 2019, 12:13pm
Hi! My name is Joe, i'm a 21 year old student living in the middle of Nottingham. For my uni course this year, I have to put in 40 hours of self conducted freelance work related to music tech (my course). One of the things we can do is work as a live musician, playing in bands and playing gigs and such. I want to be in a band anyway, so this seemed like a no-brainer lol. I've played bass and guitar in a couple bands before and loved it. I've been playing for 5 or 6 years and take best to rhythm guitar over lead but I can handle some lead playing, but nothing shreddy.
My favourite genres are hard rock, alternative, post rock, progressive rock, math rock, and progressive metal, however 2 out of the 3 bands I've been in have been acoustic pop covers and I had a blast playing with those bands! So i'm up for anything really.
The bands and artists that I really love and take influence from are Tool, Periphery, Plini, Polyphia, Intervals, Covet, Animals As Leaders, Dream Theater, Deftones, Meshuggah, Ghost, as well as classics like Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, etc.
I'm interested in either just doing covers, or writing originals. I'm comfortable with either.
The cool thing is though, as a student at Confetti in Nottingham, I can get us access to extremely nice recording studios, so if we write anything that we really wanna put out, we have a great place to record it.
Gear wise, I have a Boss Katana 100 (which is a ridiculously versatile amp), an Epiphone Les Paul set up for standard tuning or Drop D, and an Ibanez Iron Label set up for D Standard, Drop C, and possibly as low as Drop B or Drop A#.. and if it really comes to it, I have an 8 string back home I could fetch if needed lol.