The Aeroplanes
'The Aeroplanes are destined to be one of those great British bands that come along every generation. A phenomenon'The Times
'. . .a swirling rush of The Las tuneful knack, Oasis brash bombast and the soaring wonderment of Radioheads High and Dry. The Aeroplanes easily wrestle the stadium rock mantle back from the dullards. Stratospheric!'
NME (May 2006)
'The Aeroplanes are Liverpudlians with a hotwire for classic indie songwriting. They have the knack for framing universal sentiments in bitter sweet melodies'
The Fly (March 2006)
'If you're looking for something with universal appeal then you just might have found them. The Aeroplanes have the potential to be indie songwriters with some export.'
Music Week (4th March 2006)
'Traditional influences, from the Stones loose limbed Exile on Main Street era, from edgy histrionics of Oasis and the unavoidable similarities, to Lee Mavers are all there in the mix but it's the sheer scope of their vision that leaves the comparisons redundant.'
iC Wales (April 2006)
'Think U2, Radiohead, The Police and you are getting near.'
Manchester Evening News
The Aeroplanes released their second limited edition EP in May 2006. It peaked at number 67 in the UK charts and reached the giddy height of number 5 in the official 'Chain with No Name' charts. Not bad for a band putting stuff out on their own label!
Fronted by Chris Kearney, The Aeroplanes have taken the sound so associated with Scouse bands over the last fifteen years and moved it onwards and upwards. Since forming the band eighteen months ago, former schoolmates Kearney, Paul Crowe, Stuart Palethorpe and Ian McMillan have received critical acclaim from the two leading industry tastemakers on either side of the Atlantic: Record Of The Day (UK) and Kings Of A&R (US), as well as winning over some celebrity fans (Liam Gallagher, Kate Moss) in the process, "they just started coming to some of our London shows", says Chris simply.
And it doesn't stop there. Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) liked the band so much he has used one of their tracks (Dont Stop Me) in his new movie The Moguls.
"Jeff got in touch after his producer passed him the track; he told us our music blew him away", says Chris. "He asked us if he could use it in the movie, and we just said yeah. The film is about these suburbanites who decide to get together and start making their own porn/swinger movies and apparently our tune is used in one of the sex scenes, which is great, I always wanted to write some music that could end up in a porn movie!"
In addition to doing all the things a good young band should, including playing at In The City, Barfly, The Marquee, and Water Rats, in December 2004 they set the record for the most downloads of an unsigned band via the itunes web site (22,000).
The diversity of the material the band are currently writing (produced by Mike Crossey of Arctic Monkeys fame) will undoubtedly enable them to cross the barriers and boundaries routinely put up by the niche-orientated media: "The album is gonna be one of those debuts that will blow peoples' minds, concludes Chris. We want one of those monumental albums that takes you on a journey from track 1 to track 12 and when you get there you just wanna start it all again.
MANAGEMENT:
John Tyson: [email protected] David Pichilingi [email protected]
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