About Me
Azzuri are a Scottish, five-piece, guitar band from music-tinged Lanarkshire. A joyous blend of strong melodies, catchy lyrics, beautiful guitars and dreamy harmonies in abundance, are quickly gathering the band admirers and supporters to the cause in both the UK and beyond. The band introduced themselves in summer 2004, with the self-release of an eponymous debut album, which was received with great acclaim, and led Scotlands main national newspaper, The Daily Record, to run a full-page article on the band with the headline Move Over Franz Ferdinand. In April 2005, Azzuri launched their second release; double A-side single Too High/Nighty Night, which consolidated the bands reputation for producing radio friendly, emotion-inspiring anthems. To date the band has received, airplay on Radio 1, Radio Scotland, XFM, Radio Clyde, Beat 106, BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal, Radio Magnetic, Pulse Rated, Tartan Podcast and Subcity Radio, and a television broadcast viewed by 2 million people on Swedish national TV. American Promotions Company Howard Rosen also offered to promote the band throughout the USA on CHR-Pop Radio.
In September of that year, Azzuri performed a well-received headline slot at Glasgow's 'The Arches', as part of Musicworks 2005, around which time the bands line-up was bolstered by the addition of new keyboard player 'Peter Wood'. Shortly afterwards, the band released new EP Say Hallelujah, which entered the Ragtime Chart as the highest new entry in the UK at No 7 and also saw an increased level of interest in the new Azzuri line-up. The year began with Scotlands top-selling evening newspaper, The Evening Times, featuring the band as ones to watch in 2006. Armed with more new material, a new member and another release (new EP Me, Myself + Why?), on 19th May, the future certainly looks bright for Azzuri.
"Gorgeous, melodic, epic. proves there's a depth to the glitter caused by Franz Ferdinand."
(Daily Record)
"Intelligent, soaring, genuinely impassioned.....Azzuri quietly rock and in a less 'indie' way than you'd expect."
(Is This Music)
"A joyous blend of Beach Boys-esque harmonies, catchy lyrics and more uplifting than a bag of Prozac tabs!"
(Big Issue)
"strong melodies, beautiful guitars and dreamy harmonies in abundance."
(Music News Scotland)
"Hypnotic, well-crafted pop songs, with more soul and heart than Travis could dream of."
(Elevation Station)
"...great in every aspect and a beautiful blend of originality and commercialism which makes a marketing heaven."
(Eat This Music)
"joyful, empowering and poignant all at the same time."
(The Note)
"Emotive, dynamic, well written and extremely catchy."
(RCT Music)
"totally uplifting, inspired....Azzuri rock, with soul and heart!"
(Glasswerk)
