Sunday 20 Dec 2020, 2:06am
This is a very rare opportunity to join the band Young Decades with eight years of ground work and the firm ambition and all the ingredients needed to become a professional band. First off - we rehearse in Stoke and we gig mainly in the NorthWest except when the gig is worth going further, like key London gigs and Festivals. This advert is aimed at Cheshire, Manchester, Staffs, Derbyshire and anyone further afield willing to practice in Stoke.
ABOUT US
2013-2019 we were COLOUR, grew a small fanbase and had some success (BBC new band of the year, won Govt funding, Festivals, Clash, Q, R6 Music, Amazing Radio, Gigs and BBC Live Sessions across the country).
In 2019 we rebranded to Young Decades to have a fresh start and to address all of the improvements we felt we needed to make in order to make it. Since then we've worked really hard and we've had an astronomical rise from a standing start in June this year, surpassing COLOURs lifetime streams in 5 months and gaining interest from an international gig agent.
Though we're deadly serious about our ambitions, the music is always the fun part, the 3 of us are like family and we have a lot of fun practicing and hanging out whenever we can and we're looking forward to having a new member to get involved in all that too . Two of the band live near Crewe, the other in Rutland and we currently rehearse in a great room in Stoke.
YOU
We'd love a serious drummer who can give a spark to our live show and be ready to go pro.
We've spoken to a lot of drummers, though a lot of them say they want to be a drummer for a career - few of them are actually prepared or willing to do what it takes. We're looking for a drummer genuinely ready and wanting to make the jump from amateur to pro musician - and therefore ready and able to do what’s actually needed to get there, just like we are.
We need a confident solid drummer. Though we don't need a virtuoso prodigy - you must be confident in recording and setting up drums for the studio, comfortable playing with a click live, knowledgable about your instrument and able to work with us on composition of beats. You must have a car and be able to sing.
THE SOUND
Google/Spotify "Young Decades" - please don't apply if you don't like it. We're essentially an all singing rock band making a range of different music within our own style - fast/slow, synthy/rocky/acoustic, anything we think sounds great - much like the below bands.
Music influences: The Killers, Phoenix, MGMT, Arcade Fire, U2, Bowie, Police, Friendly Fires, Queen – plus so many more.
Drum influences: Stewart Copeland, Jon Bonham, Keith Moon, Ronald Vannucci, Suren de Saram, Jack Savidge, EDM - SOLID but interesting.
BUSINESS
Our main focus is creating awesome music that we hope other people will love too, but great music needs to be heard. As such we're active on promotion and the business side of being a band. Running the band is exciting, it's like running a startup business and exposure is out there for the taking: social posting, winning playlist spots, advertising campaigns, email campaigns to radios, PR, videos, live sessions with BBC stations, gigs (soon) are just some of the things we get done in a typical release campaign - and we need someone up for it and willing to speculate to accumulate.
From lessons learnt with COLOUR we now have only 2 clear aims:
1) to continue the rise in streams
2) to cultivate a live fanbase in the UK
It'll take time money and smarts - but if successful we will have all the leverage we need to confidently enter talks with management and labels.
If we get the right team together - nothing will stop us, if that's you please get in touch:
- Private message us here
- Add me on FB: www.facebook.com/james.tidd
- Email: band@youngdecades.com
Looking forward to meeting you
Cheers!
Tidd, Scott, Liam
Young Decades