ALBANY DOWN 

Rock / Blues / Blues Rock

Last login: 2011-12-15 17:09:09

The Albany Down sound has a vintage sensitivity but contemporary aggressive energy. Influences include Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Guns N Roses, Cream, The Who and The Rolling Stones.

PAUL MUIR is the band's excellent front man - delivering powerful vocals with just the right balance of arrogance and angst.

The floppy-haired bassist is BILLY DEDMAN - he has a prowess for solid bass lines - but demonstrates the aptitude and dexterity for a higher vision and pulls off some nifty bass solo pieces.

Drummer JONNY BESCOBY is as fast as the white water at the Grand Rapids, after a heavy downpour. Often the funky beat needs a drummer with loose wrists and an understanding for rhythm with a grooving back-beat. Jonny is prescient enough to provide reliable and thunderous percussive downpours in the more conventional blues settings.

PAUL TURLEY on lead guitar makes most of the magic happen on stage. He puts on an accomplished performance with a few daring and flaring Hendrix-style licks but reverts down to a sensible chug-a-chug chord or two when things are brimming.

Albany Down can be counted on for insistent guitar hooks, stripped down licks and rattling good-time rock.