Freefall
N8
Stone- Vocals |
Steve
White - Bass |
Chris
Fletcher (Fleck) - Guitar& Vox |
James
Deacon (Deacs) - Lead Guitar |
|
Dan
Medland- Drums |
It
all started at one of those rediculously huge Oasis shows
that only happen in the UK. On that hot summer evening, five
school kids from Fakenham stood transfixed in a crowd of hundreds
of thousands of screeming freaks. Filled with the sonic energy
of earth shaking rock, the boys agreed that they would make
a band and make it big. In an all for one and one for all
effort to realize the vision, they scrawled band positions
on slips of paper, threw them into a hat, passed it around,
and in a moment, they were a band. They called themselves
'Willem' after avant guard painter Willem DeKooning.
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Willem
did what bands do. They wrote songs, rehersed, smoked cigarettes
and played universities and showcase venues all over England.
Highlights of the band's crowd-building travels included winning
the Budweiser National 'Battle of the Bands' competition,
and playing for an enthused audience of 10,000 at a festival
in Chelmsford.
In
2001 the lads took their lives, their music, and all of their
2000 show-money to America. They bought a van, named it Marlene,
and hit the road looking for gigs. They called the band FreeFall.
FreeFall
not only survived five months of loud shows and wild parties,
but travelled TWICE from coast to coast! They even managed
to jam a few gigs in Canada. The band played Boston, New York,
San Francisco, Los Angeles and every other town they could
find with a bar full of ears. Along the way, the band hooked
up with a ton of new fans, wrote a bunch of great new songs,
and generally carried on like rock stars.
With
well-crafted and accessible songs, excellent showmanship,
and a die-hard attitude, FreeFall attracted American producer
Bradley Royds to help record the band's debut Cd. Working
in both UK and US studios, they captured a sound that is flush
with overtones of both contemporary and classic rock bands
like Oasis and the Rolling Stones, and was deemed by one US
critic as "fresh enough to save modern radio." The
FreeFall Uk Cd (FfuK) was completed in 2003 and is available
at RUniverse.com.
Throughout
2003, FreeFall staged live shows in the Norfolk pub scene
and on the aggressive Camden circuit in London. They did what
bands do, writing new songs, developing a much harder sound,
smoking, shagging, and getting restless for the attention
of the world.
In
2004, the band was on fire. The sound got harder, the shows
were tighter, and more than ever, the boys rocked! They called
the band 'The Hiding.'
And in a
Its
spring 2005, and the band is experiencing positive changes.
Dan Medland has traded his drum sticks for a whip, and he's
now the ratt bastard manager the band always needed. N8 and
Deacs have been working on sound and songs with new drummers
and playing acoustic shows in London. Steve and Fleck continue
to float between home town Norwich and London.
The band (with yet another new name??) is slated to begin
recording a new Cd this summer,
and will continue to knock you down with sonic rocks in a
series of live shows (dates tba).
EMAIL -The Band: FREEFALL30@HOTMAIL.
EMAIL
- Management: Dan@iemusic.com
Producer: Bradley Royds: royds@aol.com
