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Safe 2 Say are a 4 piece rock band who formed in early 2007, the band played their fist gig on the 31st of March, to a home crowd. Encouraged by good reactions all round the band have continued to write progressively better songs while still keeping to their roots.
After recording their first demo on the 8th Of January 2008 they exploded onto the gigging scene playing all over Scotland in some of the best venues around from Aberdeen to Ayr! The demo has currently sold over well to fans at gigs and has had good reviews from industry experts and others.
The band has recently recorded a follow up 3 track EP "3 Sides To Every Story" that we expect will do even better than the demo. It has recently received good reviews in fuse magazine and isthismusic.com. Message us to get your hands on it!
The main aim of the band is to let as many people hear them as possible, and to keep progressing as a group.Want some stickers and badges? Just ask we'll send you some!
Message us here for a copy of "3 Sides To Every Story" or any other merchwww.safe2saymusic.comwww.bebo.com/Safe2sayand on XFM Uploadedwww.xfmuploaded.co.uk/safe2sayReviews Of "3 Sides To Every Story":Rock Sound Magazine (Jan 09) 6/10"Brand new ep from Scots indierock quarter Safe2Say. The rip snorting anthem the Fall jerks the thing into life, followed by the breathless Little Miss Chevious. Fast, frantic with big, bold choruses, Safe2Say are developing into a polished, precise band who’ve already built a solid live following." - Fuse MagazineDownload here (We're on page 33) Fuse Mag"This is a remarkable improvement from their last demo in terms of the production, drums, vocals and song-writing. In fact pretty much everything! Their emo kind of sound is now harder to pin-point with fast melodic punk parts mixed with big riffs, gang vocals, layered harmonies and well structured time changes that bring to mind early Lost Prophets. This will certainly receive more listens and I look forward to hearing more from them now." - Kirk Burton - IsThisMusic.comAndy G - Dead Earnest ReveiwsOddly enough a quartet that I've seen live on a few occasions who've kind of impressed me yet left me feeling like I'm not yet seeing the real potential of the band. But this EP dispels all those misgivings and proves that, given a good performance over a cracking PA system, that this band has, indeed, got what it takes.The EP opens with “The Fall” a red hot and roaring slice of intense indie-punk, something that works so well because it manages to combine a massive sea of buzz-saw, scything riffing with guitars just going all over the place while the solid rhythmic foundations manage to propel it all along and at the same time be the glue that keeps it all together. Yet, for all the twisting and turning roar of the engines, there's a real direction, a real sense of compositional determination and a brain as well as a heart behind this surging monster of a song. The vocal are delivered with rage and angst, sung rather than shouted but sounding shouted, as the vocals splinter like rifle-fire on the occasions where the lead vocal diverts from its driving rage-fuelled purpose in life. The whole thing bursts, sizzles, erupts and lurches, but manages to keep you hooked without anything resembling a hook, musically or vocally. In a weird kind of compositional universe, it's stunning!They follow this up with “Little Miss Chevious” that starts where the previous one left off, then suddenly slows to just vocal and , drums and chiming guitar before roaring into gear and driving forward once more, this time vocals sparring with each other as the song twists from the heat and turns from the relief, once again splintering and raging, but so cohesive that you just remain completely captured by this hollering multi-layered track that's got more corners than a country road, more twists than a poker tournament and another solid performance on a well written and arranged slice of roaring indie-punk that you can't help but admire and enjoy.“Ashes For Lashes” opens with muffled sounds before the drums kick in, the duelling vocals take off, the guitars ring out and then the whole thing goes hell-for-leather into a slice of emo-punk that really hammers down and delivers the goods on a song that has so many layers and textures to it, you're gonna need several hearings just to take in all that it has to offer, as it rocks and rages to perfection, lurches and drives, twists and turns and has this incendiary sea of riffing and spiraling guitars that puts the icing on what is a solid and totally amazing cake. For this style of “thinking man's indie-punk” with as much atttitude as thought as performance, this is at the top of the tree – now let's see if we can get a live performance that reflects this!! - Andy G - Dead EarnestLive ReveiwsAndy G - Dead Earnest ReveiwsRed Battle Semi Finals"I only caught the last two numbers, but what did become apparent from these tracks was that you have a lead singer who's really letting go, clearly with a lot to get off his chest, as it were, as he sings but belts out the lyrics in a manner to which you really take notice. Over this, the band unleash a sea of splintered rhythms and a maze of riffs that stop, start, shudder, thunder and generally flare from the PA. The way the songs are arranged, allows the band to drop back only to erupt subsequently, although the only real flaw here is that when they do explode, somehow it's with a bang rather than a sonic boom and I think the drummer just needs to hammer down harder and the bass pound mightier for these dynamics to work to perfection. The singer's got a strong sense of impassioned anger to his vocals, givingt a vibrant performance somewhere between sung and shouted. All in all, a heady band who I'll catch somewhere down the line, for sure." - Andy G - Dead EarnestRed Battle FinalsUp next were Safe2Say who I missed in the semi-finals. Their opening track featured the drummer laying down this thunderous backbeat as the vocals soared out, duelling and splintering all over the show. A heavy burst of distant rhythm guitar and bass work were jumping all over the place while the drums proved to be the dominant feature as the vocals - and the song - takes off in raging fashion. Theor set was a set of "splintered" punk rock with more twsists and turns than a maze, hollered dual vocals, rock solid drumming and furious guitar work being paramount, on songs that rise like a rocket and plummet back to earth with alarming regularity, only to rise once more.Theirs is a sound that rages, roars and rocks, sometimes a bit like unfocused musical rifle-fire from a blindfolded batallion al aiming at the same target, but overall, while it possibly wasn't the best set they've ever played, it burned and sizzled for sure. - Andy G - Dead Earnest What we've done:8th January 2008 - Recorded "Like It Or Not" DemoBeen played on "The Sunday Showcase 106.3" in Aberdeen and the north!Played many of the top venues around Scotland19th and 20th July 2008 - Recorded "3 Sides To Every Story" EP2nd August Headlined Glasgow Barrowlands 2Been a Fighting Chance Promotions "Featured Band"And beat 10 other bands to become "Band Of The Week" with 93% of the vote!Joined The DeadRiot Clothing Family 28th August 2008 - First played on Tay FM's Wake up with Webster ShowBeen featured twice in Fuse MagazineBeat 18 other Dundee bands to the RED Battle Dundee finalsShared the stage with...Buck Rogers, The Trade, State Of Affairs andloads of other local and national bands...Past Shows2009January
--23rd January - The Doghouse - Dundee (A Lot Like Eskimos Tour Support)
2008December
--27th December - The Plough - Forfar
--21st December - Genna's - Dundee - (DD Promotions)
--20th December - Club One - Forfar
--10th December - Dog House - Dundee (RED BATTLE FINALS)
--9th December - Classic Grand- Glasgow
November
--12th November - Dexters - Dundee (Red Battle Semi-Finals) - Through to the finals!
--9th November - Cape (Formally Varsity) - Stirling (Bulge Promotions)October
-- Safe2Say featured on isthismusic.com
--13th Oct - Dexters - Dundee (Red Battle) - Through to the semi-finals!September
-- Safe2Say in this months Fuse Mag
--19th Sept - The Academy - Coatbridge (Live Promotions)
--6th Sept - Doghouse - Dundee (Trades EP Launch - 300 people there!)
August
-- Safe2Say First Played on TAY FM
--29th August - Pitstop - Forfar
--7th August - Drouthy Neebours - Dundee
--2nd August - Barrowlands 2 - Glasgow
July
--25th July - Ice Arena - Dundee
--19th July - Exile Studios - (Recording) Aberdeen
--20th July - Exile Studios - (Recording) Aberdeen
--5th July - Factory Skatepark - Dundee
June
--21st June - The Plough - Forfar (With Buck Rogers, The Trade)
--13th June - Chambers Dundee (DD Promotions)
May
--23rd May - The Pitstop - Forfar
--19th May - The Tunnels - Aberdeen
April
--Safe2Say in this months fuse mag
--27th April - Bannermans - Edinburgh
--12th April - Hustlers - Dundee
--8th April - Rockers - Glasgow
--6th April - The Post Office Bar - Broughty Ferry
--5th April - Reid Hall - Forfar
March
--Safe2Say played on Original 106 Sunday Showcase
--29th March - The Ark - Ayr
--20th March - The Plough - Forfar (U18's Night)
--16th March - The Tunnels - Aberdeen (Better Than This Promotions)
--6th March- Club Mondo - Dundee
February
-- Safe2Say featured on isthismusic.com
-- 27th February - Bannermans - Edinburgh
-- 12th February - Whistlebinkies - Edinburgh
January
-- 8th January - Sea Gate Studios - Dundee (Recording)
2007
September
-- 12th September - Satchemos - Dundee
-- 14th September - The Shore - Dundee
August
-- 10th August - The Shore - Dundee
July
-- 18th July - Westport Bar - Dundee
June
-- 8th June - The Shore - Dundee
April
-- 4th April - The Bond - Dundee (Dundee Uni BOTB)
March
-- 31st March - Rugby Club - Forfar
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