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Audio Empire

With black hole eyes I come alive...

About Me

"THE GREAT ESCAPE" as seen on C4's Homegrown

Audio Empire are a four piece rock band based in central Auckland. The four members hail from very different musical backgrounds that have embraced everything from classical training to live drum n bass - the result is a powerful, well crafted sound that aligns much closer to the band's influences than typical "kiwi-rock".

AE have recently released their first single - ‘The Great Escape’ in November 2007 after receiving funding from NZ on Air, and have since gained regular airtime on both C4, Juice TV and The Rock FM. The band has also had a busy gigging schedule playing numerous venues around Auckland and the upper North Island. 2008 is set to be a busy year for Audio Empire with another single and video ready to be released and the completion of their debut album only months away, the Empire is growing...


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2006
Band Website: ur looking at it
Band Members:
Adam Tibble - Lead Vocals / Guitar

Nic Hurman - Bass / Backing Vocals

Dan Sheehan - Lead Guitar

Nick Clarke - Drums



Influences:incubus, filter, helmet, dr nick riviera, soundgarden, foo fighters, tool, shihad, concord dawn, ron burgundy, shapeshifter, faith no more, starship pilots with capes and moustaches, pearl jam, chevelle, thrice, SOAD, cobra commander, APC, 311, smashing pumpkins, deftones, team sleep, stylus, redline, greeks who pay cash, red hot chili peppers, hoobastank, weezer, audioslave, 30 seconds to mars and countless others
Sounds Like: the soundtrack to your life
Record Label: nada
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The trouble with you bloody kids these days.....

Blog time. Haven't done one of these for a while and this is fundamentally premature as I don't have anything to tell anyone. Wait, yes I do. Actually, I don't. Never the less, it hasn't stopped ...
Posted by Audio Empire on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:33:00 PST

Tampering with the facts

A keen eye for detail and a reasonable sense of smell has led me to believe that one of my previous blogs had been 'interfered' with. Not only do I know exactly who the cowardly culprit was in this ac...
Posted by Audio Empire on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:58:00 PST

Great Escape Video. Watch in you youtube. Go on, watch it.

I enjoy the karate kids straight forward blogs as much as anyone. But the truth of the matter is, without some sort of retarded ramblings (and I'm not talking about the van) it just wouldn't be cricke...
Posted by Audio Empire on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:11:00 PST

Video, Shows, Rock Airplay, Ramblings.....

So we have completed the performance part of the vid for The Great Escape and we have to say it looks pretty sweet so far. We have used director Ivan Slavov again, the man responsible for flying us in...
Posted by Audio Empire on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:19:00 PST

NZ ON AIR GRANT!!!! YUSSS!!!

sweet, so we got a New Recording Artist grant from NZ on Air for our track The Great Escape! So this means we'll be able to re-record it and hopefully make a vid too! Stay tuned kiddies for more of AE...
Posted by Audio Empire on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:32:00 PST

VEGAS VIDEO FINISHED!!! WATCH IT!!!!

Usually I would embed an announcement like this in a smothering of non-sensical jibber jabber using far to many words to say very little. Today is no different. Well, after the miracle that is getting...
Posted by Audio Empire on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:59:00 PST

Who Killed Calrissian?

It's not a common event that someone says 'what's with the name change?', but I thought for those of you who enjoy my pointless jumbled garble I'd give you an explanation. The old name, Calrissian, in...
Posted by Audio Empire on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:49:00 PST

You can't smack your kids, but WE CAN!!!!! (and album/gig stuff)

I sometimes wonder if anyone other than ourselves reads these blogs. Post a comment if you read this so we know there's someone out there.... Anywho, we finally finished in the studio, Paul has bugger...
Posted by Audio Empire on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:07:00 PST

Aah bugger it, we'll just finish the album now....

All bollucks aside, after many weeks of turmoil and faced with the deprssing reality that our right hand man/producer is taking his ball and going to the other side of the world (Paul seems to have ta...
Posted by Audio Empire on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:00:00 PST

Nic's Forum - Penis shaped Carrots & Tetanus Pies

I just put this here so them fockers I'm forced to share a sweaty smelly studio with have something to complain about. And frankly, I have to confess it's me with the odour difficulties. So far the re...
Posted by Audio Empire on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:57:00 PST