this is a myspace page for a german billy talent forum.About Billy Talent
in facts:
- their hometown is Meadowvale/Streetsville Mississauga Ontario, Canada.
- Bowman (a good friend of the band) started a Band called To Each His Own (with Aaron on drums, Jon on bass, Ben and Bowman on vocals and the cousin of Bowman, Damon, and a friend, Kevin, on guitars) for a high school talent show the next year
- Ian was in another band called Dragon Flower.
- To Each His Own broke up - and PEZZ was born.
- Ian and Bowman were also in the Band called Soluble Fish at the same time and both bands would play and set up shows together
- Pezz recorded the first record "Watoosh!" in 1998.
- after some time, they had to change the bandname, because of another band named Pezz, which had the rights. The new name, Billy Talent, is from a character in the movie "Hardcore Logo"
- Ben was a producer at 102.1 the Edge in Toronto.
- Jen Hirst at Warner Music Canada got them a demo deal and signed them.
- 2001 - first EP- "try honesty".
- they toured through north america and supported Sparta and Goldfinger.
- they went to the studio again in 2003, with Gavin Brown.
- Sum 41 and the Beatsteaks (German Band) helped them out when they toured with their first album
- they had a big success with the record "Billy Talent" and took some time out after that to spent time with friends and family.
- the second record with the simple titel "II" went straight to number one in germany
- Billy Talent toured around the world for about 16 month.
- In November 2007 was the release of the DVD "666" which includes 6 songs from 3 different concerts (Brixton, Düsseldorf and Rock am Ring)
- The Band is currently working on the next album!!!
try honestly.EP:
try honestly-single:
billy talent 1:
the ex-single:
river below-single:
scandalous travelers-dvd:
devil in a midnight mass-single:
billy talent 2:
red flag-single:
fallen leaves-single:
surrender-single:
"666" DVD:
this is also a page for fans to meet fans!!!
