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About Me

Bio:DriveByWire operates from the sultry town Deventer; Simone Holsbeek-vocals &guitar ( ex-Cords, ex-Telefunk) , Alwin Wubben- low-down-dirty-guitar & slide, and Remco Cornelissen ( ex- Incense) beating the shit out of the drums. The band is recently joined by RenÃ© Rutten ( The Gathering), who adds heavy-ass bassrumble to the DriveByWire sound. A throat, a buch of guitars, a set of drums and a bottle of single malt whisky is all they need to burn the stage with their heavy grooving desertrock .So how would it sound if you put Korn, the Carpenters and Madonna in a rehearsal room jammin together? Well it sure as hell won't sound as Drive By Wire. A beaten up 69 Dodge Challenger doing 160 through the smouldering desert towards an raging thunderstorm with Chris Goss at the steering wheel and The Stooges kicking it with P.J. Harvey on the backseat, would be the best possible description of the Drive By Wire sound...ooh yeah!

After the release in april 2006 of our debut-album ( follow up is expected fall 2008) we got great raving reviews, in both national and international press. This resulted in a tumultuous club-tour through Holland where we rocked some of the finest venues such as:The Paradiso ( Amsterdam), Tivoli ( Utrecht),Patronaat ( Haarlem), Burgerweeshuis ( Deventer), Effenaar ( Eindhoven), Melkweg ( Amsterdam), Doornroosje and Lux ( both Nijmegen), Vera ( Groningen), lots of summerfestivals throughout the country,and so on, and so on....And we toured through the UK, leaving a trail of smouldering stages and flabbergasted audiences behind us....our first succesful steps to achieve our evil plans for world domination........

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Member Since: 10/31/2005
Band Website: drivebywire.nl
Band Members:Simone Holsbeek ( vocals, guitar) , Alwin Wubben ( dirty low guitar),Remco Cornelissen ( drums) and RenÃ© Rutten, who adds the lowend bass rumble to the DriveByWire sound. Ocassionally DriveByWire is joined on stage by Maz ( Dangermen, ex- Cords) for additional stageburning string-mayhem.********************************************** **********Hans Rutten ( the Gathering) took care of the drums on DriveByWire's debutalbum. Rob Snijders ( ex- Celestial Season, ex- Kong) backed DriveByWire up with his groovy drumming during the gigs in 2006. At some of these gigs DriveByWire was joined by guestmusicians such as; Frank Boeijen ( the Gathering) and Anneke van Giersbergen.
Influences: The Stooges, Melvins, Black Sabbath, Chuck Berry,Kyuss, masters of reality, PJ Harvey, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth.
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Record Label: MyFirstSonnyWeissmuller/konkurrent within benelux.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

[P] 1970-2008

words fail us right now, our beloved friend Pascal Bouma suddenly passed away last weekend. Many may know the gentle giant from the Burgerweeshuis or as heavy-blues-rock dj Groefridder.... ...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:35:00 PST

Metallica, Foo Fighters and DriveByWire?

What about telling the Pinkpop (one of the biggest dutch festivals, this year Metallica, Foo Fighters and Rage Against the Machine are confirmed to play there ) organisation that we would li...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:01:00 PST

Update.....

Hey y'all!!! It's been awhile, but it hasn't been like we were sitting on our lazy asses all the time drinking beer & whisky ( well actually the beer and whisky part is true....but also gigging o...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

Cul de Sac gig review

Howdy, here's a lovely livereview ( in Dutch) of our Cul de Sac gig last thursday: Wanneer de zon in Tilburg is gezakt en de warmte plaats maakt voor een koel briesje is het in muziekcafé ...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Sun, 06 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

Ordering our album

Hey Hey!! Good news, it's now ( especially overseas) more easy to get yer paws on our little gem of a debutalbum, through online cd-order CD-baby... Check this: http://cdbaby.com/cd/driv...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:21:00 PST

STONERROCK.COM

HeyHey! Our newest review as you can see/read, added below.....at the ultimate stonerrock site stonerrock.com ( what's in a name?).....Hell Yeah!! The Netherlands are filled with windmil...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:09:00 PST

Another New Review!!

Hey folks!! And here a new and really nice review of our debutalbum written by Countraven, http://www.symphonyofsteel.net/sos_new/main.php?act=reviews& amp;show=spec&id=1118 Enjoy!!!...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:54:00 PST

New Review

Hiya!! New review in the HARM metal webzine, check it out; http://www.harm.us/reviews/showreview.cfm?albID=5211&vis itor=0 Hell Yeah!! ...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:34:00 PST

How To order The Album

Hey, Since we got many questions about this matter, how to order the driveByWire debut album ( or T-shirts), here's what you should do; Just drop us a line at [email protected] (with...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:23:00 PST

Rocking.gr

Hey ya!! Here another cool review of our album ( check out http://www.rocking.gr/review784.php for the original Greek version) Here is the translation: -----------------------------------------...
Posted by Drive by Wire on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST