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Amstirdam

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About Me


Combine the soothing country flair of one long haired evangalist, with a diverse chord obsessed bleach blonde music buff and you have Amstirdam. So individual and quirky is this outfit, the final product leaves a concoction which can be easily digested by almost anyone who takes the time to listen to it. For the music goer who enjoys a bit of everything, theres country, rock, pop hooks and almost any funky genre one might muster. The band initially formed after both members previous bands dissolved, and their friendship and passionate enamourment with music brought them together. Real work began mid 2006 on a couple of previously shelved songs the two had, and gradually expanded on others to produce simple but effective structures and articulate lyrics.
As of February 2007, the line-up for the band is now ready. Joining the band full time we have David Irvine on bass guitar and John McIntosh on drums/percussion.
Amstirdam's debut E.P "Another Night" is now available to purchase at upcoming gigs.
Amstirdam have been busy writing new material and work has already began on the recording of the bands second E.P. It should be finished soon and a launch party will be organised in the near future. so watch out!!!
TEXT "WINADEAL 0257" TO 60300 please to help us win a recording contract. We came 19th in the Sun's WINADEAL competition and we still need your votes to help us get in the top 3 to get through to the final. Please help us ... we want this sooo bad!!! thanks luv you all xxxxxxxx
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/30/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/amstirdam
Band Members: AMSTIRDAM IS:

Chris Kelso: Guitars, Vocals, Songwriter

Fraser McBride: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Songwriter

John McIntosh: Drums, Percussion

David Irvine:Bass Guitar

ALL SONGS CO-WRITTEN BY CHRIS KELSO AND FRASER MCBRIDE

Previous Gigs:
22 July 2006 - Lawthorn Farm Pub
29 July 2006 - The Arena, Kilmarnock
16 Oct 2006 - West FM Amplify 06 Semi finals, Grand Hall Kilmarnock
4 Nov 2006 - Palace Theatre Cafe Bar, Kilmarnock
29 Dec 2006 - Hunting Lodge, Kilmarnock
27 Jan 2007 - Irvine HAC
20 Feb 2007 - 13th Note, Glasgow
24 Feb 2007 - Portman Hotel, Kilmarnock
28 Feb 2007 - Cathouse, Glasgow
03 April 2007 - Barfly, Glasgow
04 May 2007 - Portman Hotel, Kilmarnock
23 June 2007 - Hunting Lodge, Kilmarnock
07 July 2007 - Oceans11, Kilmarnock
22 July 2007 - Fanny by Gaslight, Battle of the Bands, Kilmarnock
31 Aug 2007 - The Arena, Kilmarnock

NEXT GIG - TBC

Influences: Chris: The Smiths, Johnny Cash, Incubus, Minor Threat, The Screaming Trees, All That Remains, The Who, At The Drive In, Cave In, Biffy Clyro, Glassjaw, Deftones, Gerry Rafferty, Led Zepplin, Idlewild, The Cure, Iron Maiden, Tool, The Mars Volta,Pearl Jam, Opeth, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Dire Straits .. THERES TOO MANY!

Fraser: The Who, Eagles, Mcfly, The Killers, Alan Jackson, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Idlewild, Travis, Lonestar, Lynard Skynard, Mark Knopfler, Oasis, Queen, Micheal Jackson, Eric Clapton, REM, Robbie Williams

David: Black Sabbath, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Queen, Joe Satriani, Machine Head. Pretty much everything :) x

John: Funeral for a Friend, 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, All that remains, aww the usual metal stuff, Lynard skynard, The Who and aww that stuff aswell ye get the picture :D

Sounds Like: A bit of everything ... acoustic, country, blues, rock, pop, indie ..... there's a song for everyone!
Record Label: .none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

WE ARE IN THE TOP 40!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY ... wooohoo .......... we are soooooooooo happy and thankful! We made the top 40 in the Sun's WINADEAL competition which means we get to perform infront of record labels executives and producers w...
Posted by Amstirdam on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

WIN A DEAL COMPETITION

We are 76 in the scottish Sun's 'Win a Deal' competition and we need your help. you need to be in the top 40 to progress to the semi finals and to help vote for us all you have to do is simply: txt "W...
Posted by Amstirdam on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:53:00 PST

READ READ - LOADS O NEW UPDATES!!!

Awrite guys n gals, Just to keep you guys updated - we've just uploaded a new song onto our myspace page, ckeck it out. we've been really busy writing, recording and practicing new material for our al...
Posted by Amstirdam on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:33:00 PST

Start the revolution ............

Long time since our last blog but just thaught id do one to update u all on whats been hapnin! We now have our permanent band lineup now in place. Showcasing David Irvine on bass guitar and John McInt...
Posted by Amstirdam on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:54:00 PST

new member

As most of you will probably have realised there is a third addition to the Amstirdam team; After the recent Hunting lodge gig, fraser and myself felt that calling upon the duties of youthful pro...
Posted by Amstirdam on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:44:00 PST

Big thanks

well, what a rollercoaster of a week. i mean, jesus christ...firstly a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE thank you to our two fill in session musicians, iain cameron(a legend on drums and a true honour to have worked ...
Posted by Amstirdam on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:25:00 PST

AMSTIRDAM ROCK THE GRAND HALL - & NEW SONG UPLOADED!!!

awrite guys n gals,We've been really busy recently ... writing new songs, recording, and rehearsing for our biggest gig to date! We've just been contacted to tell us we got through to the next heats o...
Posted by Amstirdam on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:12:00 PST

Palace Theater Gig

Ah, right just a wee reminder of the Palace Theater and the line up for the night Starstudded 78/ This band hail from Glasgow, and everyone seems to really like them, so im keen to hear their set. Plu...
Posted by Amstirdam on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:14:00 PST

At The Camp

Quite a good air seeping through the Amstirdam camp. Loads of new material (maybe even heading in a new, weird, wondeful direction in some cases), now all we need is Frasers bleeding recording equipme...
Posted by Amstirdam on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:23:00 PST

Latest on the front

Right, well the Lawthorn gig, and the Arena gig went as swimmingly as one could've hoped. There was a great response from the crowd, who probably had no idea who hell we bloody were. Even after one to...
Posted by Amstirdam on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:25:00 PST