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We’d like to introduce you to Sunshine Club’s debut album, 'Mary Lee.' Below you will find a full band biography. Have a listen to this truly compelling compilation of rock 'n' roll music. It will hit the spot in a way that many albums rarely do these days and we know you will love it. We have worked with Sunshine Club for the past seven months and have not seen a more excited, enthusiastic reaction to a New York band for a long time. They have gained a rapid rise in popularity amongst some key players in the music industry and their fan base broadens continually. Word has already spread to the UK about these guys. This Spring 2007 they will play a round of shows in venues across London, Birmingham and Oxford, U.K. Take a listen you will love it!!
Sunshine Club is:
Damian Pearce Vox and Guitars
Brett Hammond Guitars and Vox
Martin Ewens Bass
Like a classic rock ‘n roll tale, Sunshine Club formed in the epicenter of artistic productivity, the Chelsea Hotel. And over forty years after former residents and the band’s most prominent influences, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, debauched, wrote and riffed, Damian Pearce (vocals) and Brett Hammond (lead guitar) met, nearly completing the quartet that would produce the angst-ridden, raspy vocals, melodic maturity, and just plain wicked rock ‘n roll that is Sunshine Club. The story begins in the hallways of the infamous art, rock, and art-rock Mecca, where Damian, a young small-town Pennsylvanian with a penchant for the blues, meets Brett, a Birmingham rocker and guitar virtuoso. An unlikely combination, but one that idealistically marries delta blues vocals with loud, gritty guitar arrangements in the vein of Brett’s homeland natives—Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Sunshine Club’s sound was later completed with fuzzy, retro bass lines, courtesy of Martin Ewens, who spent many years touring Europe and the U.S. with Brett in Bigmouth, the U.K.’s indie rock darlings. But Sunshine Club isn’t just a Zeppelin-infused, abrasive-in-a-good-way rock ‘n roll band—Damian’s song-writing sensibility, covers topics ranging from the forgotten Warhol days, to pained love, to drug addiction with a command of lyrical metaphor that is way beyond his years. The debut record Mary Lee was completed in Brooklyn at Bunker Studios. Recorded live on two-inch tape, it effortlessly achieves a classic rock n’ roll sound, which combines the shamelessness of The Stones and the lyrical realness of Cash. And for the last eight months Sunshine Club has been playing songs from Mary Lee at various venues in New York City, becoming regulars at Mercury Lounge. So take word from filmmaker/writer David Silver, who has chronicled the lives of such musical greats as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen; “Relentless riffing, insistent, hypnotic, sexy, shrewd music - this band has sixties’ heritage, but is definitely something new’’.
Margaret Meehan
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