To mark ME’s forthcoming live dates with Arcane Roots and Canterbury, the band are offering up a free download from their recent mini album. ‘Insert Voice Here’ is now available to download from Soundcloud. ME’s mini-album ‘Another Story High’ is currently available via Lizard King Records and can be streamed in its entirety here. The band’s debut full length is due for release in January 2013.
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ME have spent the last twelve months in and out of the UK, supporting Kasabian, Evanescence and Death From Above 1979 as well as touring with Panic! At The Disco, Twin Atlantic and King Charles. They have also squeezed in shows at The Great Escape, Camden Crawl and The Reeperbahn Festival in Germany. The band’s six track debut mini album ‘Another Story High’ was recorded with renowned producer Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Temper Trap) and is a release that suggests ME’s debut long player will confirm their status as one of the most exciting new rock bands to appear this side of the millennium.
ME formed in 2008 in Melbourne, Australia although only drummer Spike is from Melbourne itself whereas Damian hails from Perth and Mikey scooted down from the snowy peaks of Mount Beauty. Guitarist Damian, who assembled the band in Melbourne, suggests that if ME have a message it is plain and simple: “We want our fans to be able to rely on us to create songs that provide energy or sadness in equal measure and for those songs to stay with people for a long, long time.”
Live dates –
29 June BLISSFIELDS FESTIVAL
03 July The Social London
04 July The Shipping Forecast Liverpool / Supporting Arcane Roots
05 July Rock City Nottingham / Supporting Arcane Roots
06 July The Empire Middlesbrough / Supporting Arcane Roots
07 July Kasbah Coventry / Supporting Arcane Roots
08 July The Soundhouse Leicester / Supporting Arcane Roots
10 July Boiler Room Guildford / Supporting Arcane Roots
11 July The Joiners Southampton / Supporting Arcane Roots
12 July Crauford Arms Milton Keynes / Supporting Arcane Roots
13 July Louisiana Bristol / Supporting Arcane Roots
16 July Night & Day Cafe Manchester / Supporting Arcane Roots
17 July Stereo 22-28 Glasgow / Supporting Canterbury
18 July The Flapper Birmingham / Supporting Canterbury
19 July Barfly London / Supporting Canterbury
03 August Y-NOT FESTIVAL
ME are –
Luke Ferris (voice, guitar, piano) // Damian Tapley (guitar, voice) // Michael Godde (bass, voice) // Spike Rogers (drums, programming)
They sound huge, dramatic and unutterably exciting” – Kerrang!
“Damian Tapley makes like Brian May wrestling with Johnny Greenwood. On Insert Voice Here, Ferris’s voice is almost gratuitous in its capricious darts up and down the octave range.”
– The Guardian
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