During the prelude to Martin Scorsese’s film about The Bands last concert, â€The Last Waltzâ€, there is a message – much like the one on the cover of David Bowies â€Ziggy Stardust†album. It tells the viewer/listener to turn up the volume on their viewing/listening device. â€To be played loud†or something like that. It is actually true for any kind of music, that the louder you play it - the better it sounds.
Keep that thought in mind.
Turn Down Elliot is five guys from the northern coast of Sweden. At the beginning they were four and called themselves â€Soundiatiaâ€, but now they are five. The name, Turn Down Elliot, comes from a song by some other band. Some of the guys haven’t even heard it. One of them is afraid people will think Turn Down Elliot is some kind of hate band, set out on a mission to smirch the good Elliott Smith [bless him]. But of course, Smith used two T’s at the end of Elliott. No one could fail to notice the difference.
They’ve been playing together for more than a year now, David, Daniel, Emil, Tyler and Niklas. At the Trästock festival, the Bodø hardcorefestival, in Piteå and around Skellefteå. And they have recorded some songs too. The radio hit song, the cosy pop song, the speedy angry song, the college movie song. Oh, and that beautiful one, about the guy who wanted to be a girl.
Do you remember that thought? Whisper: â€to be played loudâ€. Obey it. Turn it up, let the air vibrate with vacuum-like tension. Hear that crackling noise as the still soundless waves of anticipation break loose from your loudspeaker and collide with the dust swirling around the room. Let the machine sing: Keep Me Down, that Turn Down Elliot masterpiece. And the rest, as they say, is history.