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TAR - Disbanded

t.a.r

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T.A.R is a Punk Rock band from South East Kent. The band was first formed in early 2004 with Aaron, Chester, Gillard, Twiggy and Matt Davey on Trombone. After a day's recording that May, they hit the local band circuit by the summer of that year playing as an instrumental 5-piece in various venues in their home town, selling copies of their first, self-titled demo CD.
It wasn't before long that they were approached by vocalist Joel Harber, who joined the band shortly, with Aaron and Chester taking backing vocals. After only 3 gigs (including the bands biggest gig to date at the Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall to over 500 people), the decision was made to get rid of Joel, and Chester was to take the role of lead vocals, with Aaron taking a much stronger role as backing vocals. Everyone agreed that this worked a lot better, but with their new style of song writing, it still wasn't quite right, so after much consideration, the decision was made to cut down to a 4-piece with the loss of Matt on Trombone.
With the new 4-piece lineup ready in mid-2005, they went back to the studio to record 2 songs in their new style ('Is This Your Solution?' & 'Now and Then') that were to appear on a split EP with local Punk band Meltinpik. However, due to Meltinpik's split halfway through their recordings, the 2 tracks were never released, and found their place once again as a demo. With this 2-track demo, and an increasingly tight relationship as musicians, the band started to gig more and their fanbase began to grow, with talk of tours with various bands and potential promotions deals. After a while, various factors got in the way of the band and the decision was made to split in the summer of 2006. Their last show of the time was to be back at the Leas Cliff Hall with Jesse James and local heroes Battleska Galactica to their second largest crowd yet.
Having had much time off of the band to get things back together, the 4-piece began to jam together again that winter, and with a noticibly better attitude from everyone towards the music, the decision was made to reform, and with a mix of old favourites and new material, the band went back to Hidden Track Studio to record their first proper release - 'Is This Your Solution?' Having spent much time and effort getting the exact sound they had wanted, the 7-track EP was finished in early 2007. To properly mark a new era of the band, the addition of band-friend, Max Tilson on Guitar was made, allowing Twiggy to incorperate Keyboards into the music. With the new 5-piece lineup, the band sound fuller than ever and took on their first nationwide tour this summer.
Unfortunately all good things come to an end, and as of September 29th, for various reasons, the band is no more.
Debut EP - 'Is This Your Solution?' is available for just £5 through The Music Room in Folkestone or from any of the band members personally.
"TAR remind me a bit of very early Howards Alias with a bit more aggression. There's definitely a vocal similarity anyway. This is their debut EP and, sadly, their last as they've recently announced they're splitting up. And it's shame because this record shows plenty of promise. It's really fun, well produced (except for some dodgy brass towards the end of the first track) and has plenty of interesting songs. 'Mistaken', for example, is fast and free-flowing and really has a bit of bite to the sound. There's plenty of energy here - a bit like NoComply at times - and I imagine this would have transferred well to the live arena. Although they're splitting up, this band are certainly worth an inspection." Punktastic.com

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Member Since: 7/11/2004
Band Members: Aaron - Drums/Vocals
Chester - Vocals/Bass
Gillard - Sax/Backing Vocals
Max - Guitar/Backing Vocals
Twiggy - Guitar/Keyboards
Influences: Capdown, Five Knuckle, No Comply, Howards Alias, Adequate Seven, Ye Wiles, RX Bandits, The Fillaments, Farse, Reuben, Foo Fighters, Primus and any other bands who play good music for the love of it.
Sounds Like: High speed punk drums, walking bass lines, syncopated clean and heavily overdriven guitars, dirty keyboards, catchy sax lines and yin yang vocals.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The End!

That's right. As of September 29th we will no longer be together. It is after this that Gillard and Aaron are both off to Uni, Twiggy is moving to Canada until next summer and it seemed like a good ti...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.7,8&9

Part 7 So, haven't updated this for a while. A few weeks back, our 7th day in the studio was spent on Saxaphone recording. I wasn't there. No one else posts blogs. End of.   Since then: - Part 8...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:54:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.6

Right, so today started off better than yesterday. We all arived at the studio on time and managed to finish off all of the bass parts, which didn't take too long. We started off by finish "Mistaken" ...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:46:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.5

Right. Today didn't start quite as smoothly as before. It all started for me (Chester) when I was woken up ½ an hour before we were meant to be at teh studio by Twiggy and Gillard at my door hung over...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:03:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.4

Hi, today we finished off all of the distortion and recorded our clean guitar sounds. We started out by recording all of the distorted parts for our new, previously untitled track called "Who's to Say...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:53:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.3

Hello again. Today we started recording the guitar tracks and managed to finish teh distortion tracks for 5 of the songs. Twiggy used his Gibson SG Special through a Marshall JCM2000 TSL100 head, but ...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:14:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.2

Today saw the rest of the drum tracks being recorded. We started the day recording an older one called About You which some of you may know. It's one of our oldest songs so anyone form the old days sh...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:19:00 PST

Recording Diary Pt.1

Over the next couple of weeks there will be recording diaries added mapping the progress of our new CD to be released sometime in the unspecified future. Today has been our first day back at Hidden Tr...
Posted by TAR - Disbanded on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:20:00 PST