Free Will & The Bad Influences

About Me

"Free Will & The Bad Influences stand out as a breath of fresh air" Nik Shelton - C.E.N.
"While mimicking the greats like Led Zeppelin, Free and The Rolling Stones isn't usually the safest career choice, Free Will & Co. have pulled it off without losing the effortless swagger and soul of the classic rock greats. "Like Your Lover", while being a little bit simple in songwriting terms, manages to sound exactly like a Rolling Stones/ACDC hybrid without being tacky. Great Stuff.8/10" Coli - R*E*P*E*A*T www.repeatfanzine.co.uk:
"A great song. Love the hook and the tempo, very unique too. Full approval !!!!!!!!!!" Lucy Piller - www.allrightnow.com
"Great sound. Heading Home has that bite that rock music has been missing since AC/DC." Mike DJ - www.revolutionstation.org
GIVING ROCK AND ROLL THE KICK IN THE ASS IT NEEDS.
Together since the start of 2005 we've established ourselves on the cambridgeshire circuit and have built up a solid following... we're now taking bookings from further afield. We've done this not by pimping ourselves out to every promoter/venue in the city, but by starting with a couple of open mic/new band nights and letting our reputation grow through word of mouth. We play our own tunes, in a style we call Groove Rock.
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This is a video we put together to Like Your Lover, we'll re-edit it with better quality gig footage at some point...
A Video of us playing at Strawberry fair music and arts festival:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/18/2005
Band Website: igotfreewill.com
Band Members: Vocals : Will aged 21 Guitar : Liam aged 16 Bass: Nick aged 21 Drums: Oscar aged 16 Occasional Wailing Harmonica : Tom aged 21
We're all poor students, so please go buy our choons from indiestore...

Influences: Rather than list every band we've ever listend to, this short list should not only tell you where we got our inspiration from, but also give you an idea as to what we sound like. Our biggest influence is without doubt the british rock band Free but we've also taken inspiration from bands including Reef The meters The rolling stones and Led Zepplin.
Sounds Like: A blend of classic rock and blues with a shot of funk. Simple bass and guitar lines that stick, plus vocals with character and passion. You will want to move. We have been told we sound like: the kings of leon, rainbow, deep purple, reef, free, rooster, doors (their early stuff), the black crowes, bad company, g-love and the special sauce, jet, black rebel motorcycle club, the verve, queens of the stone age, nick cave and the bad seeds, the white stripes, the rolling stones, lynyrd skynyrd, stephen stills, wolfmother, the answer, lady mercedes, electric shades of blue, ac/dc, the alo, the doors, lenny kravitz, the who, captain beefheart, jimmy hendrix, "led zepplin goes to the beach", "the beatles around the time they made come together" and "you guys really take me back to the 60's".
Record Label: offers welcome ; )
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Strawberry Fair Music and Arts Festival - Stage time

Ok, its official - we're playing the Theatrikals stage at 14.10The Theatrikals stage is going to be adjacent to the Fort St George Public House this year. This is the biggest non-corporate sponsored f...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Fri, 25 May 2007 10:15:00 PST

Debut EP - Pre-orders and Release date.

Our debut ep is out June 2nd... 3 of our tunes for £3. You can pre-order by sending us a message with "i want a copy!" as the title. Or, if you're around Cambridge you can pre-orde...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

Youtube video

This is a quick video we put together in about 4 hours to Like Your Lover - we found a competition we wanted to enter and the deadline was that day! We'll re-edit it when we get some free ti...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Mon, 21 May 2007 04:12:00 PST

T-Shirts & Hoodies

Free Will & The Bad Influences t-shirts and hoodies are now available from Billys Skate Shop (Burleigh St, Cambridge) and CamUnity Café/Cellar Bar 8 (Napier St, Cambridge) as well as direct throug...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Sat, 19 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

Tickets available in advance for Junction gig

Thats right, tickets available in advance for Friday the 18th when we'll be playing The Junction, Cambridge... just send a message and we'll sort you out. ...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Tue, 08 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

TICKETS FOR INDUSTRY SHOWCASE AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE

Right, we've got a chance to show our stuff to some industry types, so we need some of you to come and let them know we should play at their festivals and get signed to their ...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:02:00 PST

Allright(now)!

Great news from the Free Will camp... we're getting plugged along with The Answer, Freeway and Super Stack on the official Paul Rodgers (lead singer of Free and Bad Company - yes that is whe...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:26:00 PST

Latest news...

GIGS: Got some new dates which we're very happy to announce... Strawberry fair and Grassroots (festivals), the Cavern in liverpool and also the final of the unity band of the year competion...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST

New recordings : )

Had a great time when we went in to Big G Studeós (ok, our mate's livingroom - but we tell ourselves it gives it that old 70's roughness our music needs to have). Recording our songs live me...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:11:00 PST

Happenings...

Bit of news... we're heading into los studiós at the end of this month to get some new tracks recorded (finally - the old ones are starting to wear a bit thin!) Bit more news... no dates set...
Posted by Free Will & The Bad Influences on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:00:00 PST