LWFJay
(Oxford)
Tuesday 6 Nov 2018, 5:37pm
Lest We Forget, an established and innovative progressive metal band from Oxford, are seeking an experienced guitarist who is also able to perform unclean/screamed vocals and clean vocal harmonies (live) to a high standard.
The band will release a new single soon, and have an EP in the pipeline for early 2019, as well as upping the ante in terms of their touring schedule.
Dates already booked:
- Friday 11 January (St Moritz Club, London)
- Saturday 12 January (The Phoenix Bar, High Wycombe)
- Friday 22 February (02 Academy, Oxford)
- Saturday 13 April (The White House, Oxford)
Close to booked:
- Friday 18 January and Saturday 19 January in Wales.
- Friday 29 March in Manchester.
Candidate must:
- Have own high-quality gigging gear.
- Play guitar to a high standard.
- Be able to scream/use unclean vocals and to provide clean vocal harmonies (live) to a high standard.
- Be able to attend gigs up and down the country (minimum four per month).
- Be able to practice regularly in the Oxfordshire area.
- Be capable at chipping in with the writing process.
- Be self-sustained economically, and therefore able to contribute to the band's costs.
- Preferably, the candidate would be able to transport themselves to gigs/recording/practice (but not entirely necessary).
- Be between 20-27 (current band members' ages are between 22-27).
- Be enthusiastic about taking a band to a very high level.
Please find below a short biography of Lest We Forget.
Combining intricate riffs and furious rhythms with anthemic, cascading vocals, Lest We Forget’s unique brand of progressive metal synthesises those two most disparate of things - the complex and the catchy.
The band’s innovative sound derives from juxtaposition. This exists in the dialogue between JH Norris’s clean and Jamie McIntrye’s screamed vocals, and in the conjoining of Harry Lingard-Bright’s soaring lead lines with Dec Doran’s fierce percussive cadences.
Praised especially by BBC Introducing’s Dave Gilyeat, Lest We Forget’s latest release ‘Sweet Serenity’ is the most emphatic manifesto of their style to date, and can be listened to on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6KPIJI6cEqz1R9vbicZRGk?si=FAYyAIruSn6kqA8TwDmv-g) alongside their wider back catalogue.
Since appearing to a crowd of 6,000 at the Proud2 in London’s 02 Arena during the final of Live and Unsigned, at which the band played for high-profile industry professionals such as Kerrang!’s Alex Baker, Lest We Forget have obtained notable support slots with bands such as Yashin, Fearless Vampire Killers, Press to Meco, Wars, Chapter and Verse, and Martyr de Mona, among others. They have sold out the 02 Academy 2 in Oxford, and have performed at prestigious live venues across the country, including The Fleece in Bristol, which hosted the band for a show in which they were the headlining touring act.
Lest We Forget continue to work as an exciting and inventive force in the UK scene. Further releases are scheduled for the near future.
Please email norrisjh@yahoo.co.uk if interested.