STAND-UP GUY STAND-UP GUY STAND-UP GUY
Bursting slab of tonal affront, back and forth in a time turned wild. Avalanche riff break to freezer-burn melody, tearing time-fabric beat................ STAND-UP GUY, four-piece metal band from Belfast Northern Ireland.
ÂThe Stand-Up Guy plays music to consolidate the aching in his heart. He wants to nail it. Then fucking bury it. It's metal. Raw, shimmering, shivering wound, bloody spittle spoken.Stand-Up Guy in 2007 issued their second album, AVENUE UNAWARES. Nine observations on the nature of hurt. Sixty-four minutes of stark, engaging rock.
Stand-Up Guy came to be in the year 2000. Guitarists Ian and Paul, Lisburn residents who had played under the banner Sift, coalesced into Shakedown, a noisy groove troupe making their bones in a rat-infested barn in Ballyclare. Forced to break as members were unable to commit, Paul, Ian and bassist Philip felt they had a friendship and writing bond they wanted to explore, and so began Stand-Up Guy. Two drummers later, Conor Mullan of Londonderry took to the throne and line-up stability ensued. Conor also lays down the shifting currents of Countervela.ÂStand-Up Guy bear comparison to: Deftones, Zao, Neurosis, Crowbar.ÂRELEASES:
HAS ANYTHING YOU'VE DONE MADE YOUR LIFE BETTER? - 3-track EP, self-released June 2001, song 'Workplace' included on 'Best of British' Terrorizer CD, Aug 2002
IMMOBILIARE - 3-track EP, self-released August 2002
IN FIXATION, CONSPIRE – full album released on Distortion Project Records, November 2004
AVENUE UNAWARES - full album released on Distortion Project Records, June 2007
REVIEWS:
'Has Anything You've Done Made Your Life Better?':
‘CD Of The Month’ - Irish Metal Forum, July 2001; ‘Demo Of The Month’ - Terrorizer, November 2001
'Avenue Unawares': "this album has been a slowly cauterising burn; the feeling of being privy to some uncomfortable goings on is palpable; like some nightshift of an album, it works its own necessary business while the rest of the world sleeps comfortably; Katatonia now a surprising tonal comparison" - 4.1 / 5 - Ciaran Tracey, www.metalireland.com
ÂSHOWS & TOURS:
The Stand-Up Guy has played support to Red Sparowes, Unsane, Kylesa, Killing Joke, Cult Of Luna, DevilDriver & Nevermore, and has toured supporting Murder One, Medulla Nocte, Darkest Hour & Dawncore.Stand-Up Guy have embarked on many of their own tours of mainland UK and Ireland with such as Skypilot, Countervela, Black Sun, Zillah & The Final Sigh, as well a Scandanavian tour with The Dagda.