About Me
Summary: A Living Daylight wants to entertain and inspire you, break the next level of music and fashion, to be the song that makes you go crazy with your friends. They want you to break some rules and make some bad decisions...to be your life soundtrack. They want to make you sing along in your car ride in the sun and make you feel like everything’s going to be alright. They're here to inspire and contribute to you personally through sensational inspiration…welcome to the life of the audio sun!
History: Anthony (singer/songwriter) has been playing guitar, singing, and writing songs ever since he can remember…music has always been who he is, his escape, and his consistent frame of mind. He formed many bands throughout his life…always the originator, initiator, planner, communicator, and financial support, though none of which ever really worked out. One of his proudest moments being the band, Eramae, but after the band dismemberment he couldn't take one more shot to the heart, this caused the decision to take his music career in a different direction of arrangement, sound, and structure...so in the summer of 2007 the Daylight began to shine!
What to expect: Through hard work and dedication, three tracks on A Living Daylight's EP, "Daylight Savings" is now complete and available for downloading online and purchasing through I-Tunes and CD Baby. The three songs range from straight pop-rock, celebrity trashing, fun, mainstream radio efforts such as Sunset Blvd, to sentimental heart-felt electro-pop like The One, and then a final journey to an emotional acoustic ballad worthy of a movie score, called Seven. If you buy the CD from CD Baby.com, it comes with a video of their latest song called S.L.B.O.M. (She Looked Better On MySpace), a hilariously infectious tune, resembling the style of Sunset blvd, that's sure to be overplayed on your local radio station by the end of this summer!
Credits: Riz Story, a Huntington Beach based Music Producer and front man of the band Anyone, produced the song "Seven", which also guest stars Chad Tafolla (Eramae, Taken, Bleeding Through) on lead guitars for the song. Steve Muhic, a music producer from Los Angeles, produced "The One" and also re-mixed "Seven", and Michael Rosen (AFI, Santana, Michelle Branch, Papa Roach, Tesla, etc.) produced "Sunset Blvd", then having Riz Story re-mix the track for radio air play.
Sound: A Living Daylight is proudly mainstream pop/rock, but has the talent and emotional capacity to deliver some progressively deeper moods…they want to impress pure joy and entertainment in the listener.
Members: A Living Daylight is Jason Mericle, a phenomenal guitarist, songwriter, keyboardist, programmer, and vocalist; Erin Hamler, a fashionably fantastic vocalist and songwriter on bass, and front man Anthony Carroll on vocals, and guitar. Though Ryan Brown is currently behind the drum kit, they still need a committed drummer for permanent placement, and are actively searching, auditioning, and rehearsing kit masters in the LA area. They're now gearing up in rehearsals to play some prestigious shows from LA to New York by the end of 2008!
Teamwork: The band has themselves have created a full business team, leading the pack is Annette "The Wizard" Starbuck who manages the band and handles all contracts, financials, marketing, and promoting. Recently, the band leased an office in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles to run the business side of the band at a central location...their plan is to do everything themselves; they're not afraid of hard work. They understand that in today's music market, and even today's financial economy, no one is just going to hand success to you, they must go out and get it!! They'll be doing all the marketing, distributing, merchandise, booking, touring, promoting, legality, securing local and national sponsoring, and then ultimately working toward a large distribution deal with a large record label or sponsor.
Media: The band has just signed contracts with a large Music Publishing Company for media placement including Television, Movies, Commercials, etc., and have also signed contracts with 8 time Grammy Award Winning Producer, Malcolm Welsford and his Production Company to record the next set of songs and get them out on the market. Currently, they're in the Local Band Spotlight's consistent rotation on X103.9FM, they've been submitted to 106.7FM KROQ and many other radio stations, they're a featured artist with a consistent positive ratings on Garageband.com, they were nominated for Best Indie Artist in the Inland Empire and we were featured on their 2008 compilation CD at the Inland Empire Music Awards. They were nominated AND AWARDED for Best Out of County Artist for the 2008 Orange County Music Awards! They've received offers to play 2008's SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX., they have offers on the table for the large CMJ Music Conference in New York for October 2008! They've been featured and interviewed on Rock Stars Glued Radio (an online radio station from MySpace), they've been on a reality TV show featuring Ryan Starr from American Idol, featured and interviewed in the Press Enterprise, top 20 on Forbidden Radio and will have an in studio performance and interview with Christine Dolce (Forbidden) on Tuesday June 27th at 5:00 Pacific Standard Time on www.nowlive.com, and they're currently working with the television show TMZ to hopefullysecure and audio spot in the show with Sunset Blvd...and this is just the beginning! There's nothing that can stop this team, they're determined to inspire the hearts, lips, and ears of everyone around the world…listen, love, and enjoy the bright light of life!
