About Me
In an age where scenes seem to rule over any popular genre of music bands on a local stage are seemingly attempting to emulate what is at that moment sitting comfortably in the charts. Be that emo such as Fall Out Boy, art rock such as Franz Ferdinand or Brit Rock such as the Arctic Monkeys bands all over the country are aiming to achieve the same sound in the belief that the same success could be achieved with this. With these scenes music crowds can become easily alienated from each other causing crowds at local shows to diminish but one band in Inverclyde is bucking this increasing trend.
yaG Backwards where formed in 2003 by 4 friends from Greenock with the aim of not being different or bringing something new to the local music scene but instead writing and playing songs crossing different genres. Once they had achieved a set solely of their own material people in the area started to take notice while they opened for more well established bands. Due to the difference in songs in their sets people running local band nights where able to place them on very different line ups with different crowds (already alienated by the scene mentality) which allowed them the maximum exposure possible, breaking the barriers of the different scenes in the town.
The songs themselves cover a wide spectrum of styles and are usually written with the idea of making the audience be able to get up, dance, sing along and ultimately laugh as well. Songs include; Emo Can Be Fun, There Is Nothing I Hate More Than A Band Full Of Scene Kids and our version of Everyone Has Aids from the Team America original soundtrack.
In the late summer of 2005 the bands first CD, a full-length album called Compact Disc was recorded and a large amount of local gigs where played in a small amount of time to promote it. The end result was the CD selling out at gigs and soon not being available at all. Anyone who was looking for our CD after this where directed to online sites where songs where hosted or band members sent out files over instant messengers free of charge. 2 CDs where also sent to different areas of Australia as interest from our online versions where noticed.
yaG Backwards may come across as an immature group of guys who should probably know better but they practice hard to write songs that a crowd as a whole would love. Almost anyone who sees us admits there is something in the set for them and this draws them back to us time and time again. Our ever-changing sets keep people guessing and they know if something new comes on to the scene that we will be ready to pounce on it and incorporate it somewhere into our own style.
We've played loads of gigs, look:
29th March 2007 - Walkabout, Glasgow
23rd February 2007 - St Johns, Port Glasgow w/ Roadside Avenue, KC Acoustics, Tamikas Treehouse and Redword
5th January 2007 - Gamble Halls, Gourock - w/ Marcha Lenta, Void, Drop Dead Discotech, Escort and Shutdown. All ages For All Ages CD launch!!!
18th November 2006 - The Steamie, Greenock, Over 18s For All Ages CD launch!!!
5th October 2006 - Harwoods, Greenock w/ Donphobia
21st September 2006 - The Steamie, Greenock w/ Kieran Rogers and Uber Schwein-Hund
5th May 2006 - Greenock Town Hall W/Nitro Loves Danger, Casey Shellshock and The Skarsoles
15th April 2006 - The Steamie, Greenock. W/ No one
31st March 2006 - The Darroch, Gourock W/ Blood Emperor and The Trauma.
17th March 2006 - White 52, Greenock W/ Marchalenta, Marwood and Casey Shellshock
9th Febuary 2006 - Oscars, Greenock. W/ Donphobia and Mutiny.
3rd Febuary 2006 - The Darroch, Gourock. W/ Concious Pilot,
and Punk As Folk
23rd January 2006 - The Steamie, Greenock (cancelled after our set, go us!)
30th December 2005 - The Darroch, Gourock w/ Donphobia and Holocaust.
6th December 2005 - Ivory Blacks, Glasgow
4th December 2005 - St Pats, Greenock w/ Uncivil Servants
30th November 2005 - XFM Rock Idol @ Glasgow University Union w/ some other bands
26th November 2005 - Darroch Bar, Gourock w/ Plant
29th October 2005 - The Steamie, Greenock w/ Peoples Alibi
28th October 2005 - St Johns, Port Glasgow w/ Firebrand Boy, Marwood and Uncivil Servants.
13th October 2005 - Loretto Club, Greenock w/ Forced Asphyxia and Blood Emperor
8th October 2005 - White 52, Greenock w/ Dipso and Marwood
23rd September 2005 - Ross' House, Greenock, Compact Disc CD launch!!!
27th May - The Steamie, Greenock w/ SPG
1st April 2005 - White 52, Greenock w/ Nimo, Toy, Redemtion, No Longer Deprived and Forced Asphyxia
31st March 2005 - Connellys, Greenock with Screamer, Sooth and Orko
6th March 2005 - St Pats, Greenock w/ Redemption and Dipso
5th September 2004 - St Pats, Greenock w/ Incident 81
7th August 2004 - Gig On The Quay, Custom House Quay, Greenock w/ loads of bands!
20th June 2004 - St Pats, Greenock w/Nimo, Dipso and DNR
21st May 2004 - Megastars Final, Greenock Town Hall w/ Nimo, Blackstar and Underrated
30th April 2004 - Megastars Semi Final, Port Glasgow Town Hall 2004
1st Febuary 2004 - St Pats, Greenock w/ Heraldo Beige and May Contain Nuts
LOOK AT SEXY X-RATED PICS OF US HERE
^^^Look everybody, somebody took a video of us playing the song about drink driving live! We were all drunk, except for the one who drives, Mick. What a responsible young man he is.
