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About Me

STANZA is a band that focuses on melody, great riffs, guitar solos, harmonies and catchy songs that you can sing along to. STANZA is made up of DAVE JACKSON on vocals and guitar, ROB CASTRO on bass and RICKY BAVISTER on drums. The band played around some of London's top venues including The White Hart and The Spice of Life throughout 2006 and also played their first festival. The band are currently on a break after the lead guitarist Serj left late 2006. From summer 2007 expect a new lineup and plenty of gigs with a likely residency at Bed Springs @ The White Hart (it helps that Dave promotes the venue)!
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Member Since: 12/1/2005
Band Website: stanza-london.co.uk
Band Members: DAVE JACKSON: Guitar, Vocals...................................... ROB CASTRO: Bass......................................... RICKY BAVISTER: Drums................................
Influences: The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Who, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, The Police, The Jam, Guns n Roses, U2, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Jeff Buckley, Oasis, Blur, Garbage, Supergrass, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, The Lightning Seeds, The Eels, Eminem, Coldplay, David Gray, Travis, Muse, Feeder, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Gorillaz, Kasabian and about 1 million other bands and musicians!
Sounds Like: Catchy Tunes, Strong Melodies, Harmonies
Type of Label: None

My Blog

END OF AN ERA

Our gig last Friday at The Comedy was a lot of fun. We got to play a couple of new songs (I say new although I wrote one of them 7 years ago). Another Mistake and Never Had That Feeling worked as full...
Posted by STANZA on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:50:00 PST

LAST GIG OF 2006 THIS FRIDAY 3RD NOV @ THE RED ROOM

Our last gig of the year will be this Friday 3rd Nov at The Red Room at The Comedy Pub, 7 Oxenden St, Picadilly Circus. We're headlining so on around 10.30ish. Hope you can make it!!!
Posted by STANZA on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:31:00 PST

Some results from the recording sessions

I've put up 2 tracks from our demo recordings. They're yet to have Serj's lead guitar added so they're not quite finished yet but they sound better than the dodgy mini disk recordings we had. The...
Posted by STANZA on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:27:00 PST

WE'RE FINALLY RECORDING A DEMO

We started to record a 4 track demo yesterday so hopefully in the next few weeks we'll have the tracks complete and on the page for your listening pleasure. We're recording Step into the Breeze, Maybe...
Posted by STANZA on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

Dodgy recording but 2 tracks for the price of one

I've put up a new track which actually includes 2 songs 'I Know You Know' and 'This Isn't Real'. The two tracks are our most rocky tunes and they're in the same key so we often end our set by pla...
Posted by STANZA on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:30:00 PST

The Spice of Life Gig

Last night we played at The Spice of Life. It was one of our best shows to date and it was special for me because The Spice is my musical home. It was a great feeling to be on stage with the full band...
Posted by STANZA on Sun, 28 May 2006 10:48:00 PST

RED ROOM GIG MOVED TO FRI JUNE 16TH

Unfortunately Pete will be out of the country on May 19th to attend a funeral so we've moved our gig at The Red Room @ The Comedy to Fri 16th June. We'll be headlining so on stage at 10.30. Forthcomi...
Posted by STANZA on Thu, 04 May 2006 06:14:00 PST

Dave's Birthday Gig

We played a gig at The Caernarvon Castle in Camden on Saturday night. We were really excited about this gig as we always seem to put on a good show at the venue and it was also my 25th birthday celebr...
Posted by STANZA on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:09:00 PST

The Comedy Gig

Last night we played at The Red Room @ The Comedy Pub near Picadilly Circus. I've played a couple of acoustic gigs there and it's one of my favourite venues so it was great to play there with the...
Posted by STANZA on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:18:00 PST

Extremely rough versions of our tunes

I have added full band versions of 'Step into the Breeze' and 'Maybe' which were recorded by mini disk at our last rehearsal. The levels are far from being great but it gives you a raw version of...
Posted by STANZA on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:02:00 PST