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High Voltage

About Me

Hi to you all and thanks for visiting our High Voltage MySpace page. High Voltage are Cornwall's newest classic rock covers band, and are now out on the road playing in an ale house near you!
Here's a bit of background info on the band. After 12 months or so of trying to put together a rock covers band, the four of us finally hooked up in January 2008. The band comprises of Evo on bass guitar & lead vocals, Graham on drums & backing vocals, The General on guitar and me, Mark, on guitar & backing vocals. The head quarters for the High Voltage operation is based is St Agnes.
When we formed the band, our mission statement was very simple: play some kick ass classic well-loved rock songs with a nod to the originals rather than mimic them like a true tribute band would. Oh yeah, and to throw in the occasional obscure track for good measure to get you lot thinking "Bloody hell, i haven't heard this song for years!!"
Between the band members, well over 200 gigs have been performed in previous band projects. Since performing our first gig as High Voltage at the end of June 2008, we have had a great deal of support and soon filled the diary til the end of the year. We were also fortunate enough to play at this years Surftsock Festival in St Agnes which for such a new band was a great opportuinity to showcase the band to a large number of people. The diary is already starting to fill up with bookings for 2009, so it looks like we're in for another busy year! We won't be standing still with material like so many other cover bands either, new songs will be added as an on-going process so as well as your favourites from our current set-list, you'll also hear new stuff being added all the time. We also intend to add some more of our own songs into the set just to show that we can do a pretty good job at writing our our stuff rather than just copying someone elses!!
The music we are playing at present ranges from old school classic rock from the 70s to modern day future classics, including songs by bands such as Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, The Stereophonics, Primal Scream, Feeder, the Foo Fighters and Queen. There will definitely be something for everyone! The band has the classic twin guitar classic rock sound due to a combination of Evo's powerful vocals, Graham's Bonham-esque drumming style and The General and I sharing lead and rhythm guitar duties (typically a Les Paul and Marshall/Boogie combo) resulting in a powerful classic rock sound you know and love! Well, that's it from me except to say thanks again for visisting and please keep checking back for additional gig dates when we'll look forward to playing in a drinking establishment near you soon! We really appreciate your support and enjoy seeing some familiar faces at our gigs. If you have any suggestions for songs for us to perform, send us an email via myspace and we'll see if we can add a couple of your suggestions to the set!Take care and see you soon.
Cheers,
Mark
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Member Since: 19/03/2008
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/hvhighvoltage
Band Members: Evo - Bass & Lead Vocals (Westfield bass through Behringer 450 watt rig)
Graham - Drums, Backing & Lead Vocals ( 5 piece 'Track' Rock Kit with many upgrades, inc: Mapex black chrome 'Black Panther' 14x6.5 high power snare, 6,8,10 inch Roto Toms, Zildjian Cymbals)
The Riffmiester General - Rhythm & Lead Guitar
Mark - Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals (Tokai Love Rock/Blade RH4 Classic/PRS SE Singlecut Soapbar through a Marshal JCM 2000 TSL 100 watt head and 4x12 cab)

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Influences: Basically Classic Rock Bands, such as:
Led Zeppelin,
Aerosmith,
Black Sabbath,
Ozzy,
AC/DC,
Thin Lizzy,
Status Quo,
Queen,
Thunder,
The Stereophonics,
Guns n Roses,
The Beatles,
Rolling Stones,
Foo Fighters,
Primal Scream,
ZZ Top etc etc.

High Voltage Live Pt 1:

High Voltage Live Pt 2:
The Copperhouse

Sounds Like: A good ol’ rock band playin’ good ol’ rock n roll!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

2009 overview

Hi to you all and hapy new year! So, it's now almost 12 months since the four of us first got together and started work on this band. After 6 months of rehearsing and trying various songs we eventuall...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:20:00 GMT

SURFSTOCK!!!!!!!!

Well it's finally been confirmed we are playing at Surfstock on August 30th, that's a Saturday afternoon.  Time yet to be finalised but we are very excited about it.  To get this gig in our ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:20:00 GMT

Promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2rZeK33ueI
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:53:00 GMT

First gigs getting closer!!

Hi all, and welcome to the latest blog from HV-HQ! So there's not long to wait now until our debut gig at the Peterville Inn in St Agnes on the 28th June, and too be honest with you, we can't wait! Th...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:14:00 GMT

St Just Primary School

Just a note to say a big thankyou to Mrs Diane O'Brien, Head Teacher at St Just Primary School, for allowing us to transform one of her classrooms into Abbey Road Studios for a day! All of us in ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:34:00 GMT

Acoustic set

Another week and another rehearsal done! We have decided to give the ears of the members of the audience (well, hopefully someone will turn up!) a bit of a rest from the no-holds barred rock onslaught...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:03:00 GMT

Work in Progress!

So, 5 rehearsals down and so far so good! We are progressing steadily and are building up a nice collection of classic songs which we will be adding to in the coming weeks. We have now got our debut g...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:53:00 GMT

Our Band Logo!!

Just a short note on behalf of the band to say ’thanks’ to Jason and Michael Hicks for their work on creating the band logo. They have put a lot of effort into creating something which we ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT