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The Red Wings

About Me

The Red Wings are a band made up of three local punk-rock band members that take the music from their favourite videogames and arrange it for rock instruments in varying styles from heavy, driven punk/metal to soft, acoustic rock. By using guitar, bass, drums, and a selection of synthesised instruments played via keyboard, the band aim to create music that is recognisably videogame music, but also markedly different.
Each and every piece the band creates is individually arranged, with new sections often added or existing sections heavily edited. The band believe that the advantage of playing videogame music is in the emotions it evokes – nostalgia and memories of years of gaming, be it from recent Playstation 2 games or the old-fashioned bleeps of the NES. A wide variety of musical styles can also be explored within the wider genre of videogame music, providing interesting and constantly changing challenges for the band.
The band is currently putting the finishing touches to it's first album and is considering the option of Live Performances. The band's first CD will be a totally free download album, and they hope to play more live events soon. if you have any ideas, be it a convention, a gig or something entirely different feel free to contact us at [email protected] or via MySpace message regarding playing live.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/12/2007
Band Website: http://www.redwingsmusic.com
Band Members: Alex Donaldson - Arrangement, Keyboards/Synthesisers & Drums.

Sam Patrick - Arrangement, Mixing & Guitar.

Lloyd Brown - Arrangement, Mixing & Guitar.

Influences: VG Composers: Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Yoko Shimomura, Jun Senoue, Marty O'Donnell, Jeremy Soule, Grant Kirkhope, Richard Jacques, Frank Klepacki, Graeme Norgate, Tenpei Sato to name but a few..

VG Cover Bands/Artists: The Black Mages, CarboHydroM, Minibosses, Powerglove, Armcannon, Year 200X, Nanaki's View, Big Head Mode and... anyone and everyone making awesome game music!

Most of all:You! You all inspire us, guys. Thanks a million!

Check out Lloyd's other bands here:

Sounds Like: Your SNES, Your NES, Master System, Mega Drive, PS1, Game Boy, DS - hell, any damn game console if it were to stop producing low quality beeps and start rocking out with real, live instruments.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New track - even more Final Fantasy VII!

Hey everyone! It's been a long time since we did a new track, hasn't it? It's time we gave you something new... so here y'go.Fresh off the necks of our guitars, keys and electric drum pads today is Ah...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:00 GMT

NEW TRACK ONLINE! Sonic goodness!

Hi everyone!First of all, thanks for being on our friends list and thanks for reading this bulletin. Second... oh, we've got a new track up.We're revisiting Sonic for the first time since "The Genius ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 15:38:00 GMT

Clashing on a Big Bridge (New Track!)

Hey everyone! It's been quite a while! We're just in the midst of finishing our first CD which will be coming to a free download near you and we're also making our very first start on our second CD, l...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:08:00 GMT

TRW on LOSER: A Sega Genesis Tribute

Hello all!First of all, thanks to everyone who has been messaging us on our MySpace, YouTube and Official Website pages. We read every damn comment and we really appreciate it.We're very happy to anno...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:26:00 GMT

New Track Online! Its Chrono Trigger!

Hey everyone,Since it's coming soon to the DS and at last will finally be coming to Europe, we figured it was about time we covered a (second) track from Chrono Trigger, following on from our version ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:35:00 GMT

We now have some banners for links! New track online tomorrow...

Hey everyone,Just a quick blog post/bulletin to show you the following - we have a new banner for those willing to link to us, avaliable in two different sizes:Also, we've got a new track - from Chron...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:35:00 GMT

Celebrating Mega Man 9’s announcement.... Dr Wily Stage 1 from Mega Man 2!

..Yep, You guessed it - a Mega Man 2 track - THE Mega Man 2 track...Dr. Wily Stage 1!..Yeah, we had to. Everybody does this track - and that's why we had to do it. One more track that is part of our r...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:09:00 GMT

New Track! Aerith’s Theme!

Hey everyone!Just a quick bulletin here to let you all know we've now got a new track online - Aerith's Theme from Final Fantasy VII. This one's a bit different. A bit acoustic, a bit orchestral, but ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:51:00 GMT

Brits, check out this gig we support...

Hey guys,All you British RW people, check out this gig - we're not playing, but one of us is, and we'll all be there cheering him on...Featuring the amazing Dynamite Dreams, RW's Lloyd's very own Losi...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:39:00 GMT

New Track - The Decisive Battle Scene

I've just put up a freshly completed track as a celebration for us hitting 10,000 plays in our music player. This one is a Final Fantasy VI medley type thing. As the name suggests, the track consists ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 00:45:00 GMT