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The Modern Way

About Me

The band was formed by Johnny Di Girolamo when he came to Brighton ... He met Chris Ryan at Brighton Institute of Modern Music and was very impressed with Chris's melodicism and tasteful playing. The search for a bassist was a troublesome one, and as it turned out - quite surreal too. Out in a bar one night, Johnny bumped into old school friend Rich Crawley, who he hadn't seen in three years. He mentioned jamming and they swapped MySpaces. A couple of days later Johnny got an email from Rich saying he wanted in. After problems with an unreliable drummer, Brett Miles was called in to do a session, and the chemistry of the band just clicked... Brett felt comfortable and the band loved his style, and he became the final member!
Now The Modern Way are booking gigs and are about to bring their brash, raw melodies to a venue near you...
So keep one eye to the future...
The Modern Way are coming
FOR MORE INFORMATION/ BOOKING GIGS ETC PLEASE CONTACT US AT
[email protected]
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Music:

Member Since: 5/30/2006
Band Members: Johnny Di Girolamo: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Chris Ryan: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Rich Crawley: Bass, Vocals
Brett Miles: Drums
Influences: Some of the Modern Way's musical influences include:

Johnny: The Beatles, John Lennon, Waterboys, Julian Cope, The Clash, The Who, The Jam, The Rolling Stones, Hoboken, Motown, New Model Army

Chris: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, The Jam, The Clash, The Cure, Hall & Oats, Jet, Oasis, Coldplay, The Beatles, Snow Patrol

Rich: RHCP, Green Day, Oasis, Incubus, RATM, Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zep, David Bowie, Michael Jackson & Eric Clapton

Brett: Incubus, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Eric Clapton, Lonestar, Silverchair, Queen, Kooks, RHCP, Police
Sounds Like: Quirky melodic British rock, with horrendously catchy choruses and universal themes. Think 'The Cure' meets 'The Undertones' meets 'The Jam'!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Songs, Pics and The Joy Of Spring

hey everyone!we have a new song up: a rehearsal version of "Can't Take It". we are really happy with it, its a pretty rocking song!we hope you all feel the same!anyways at rehearsal we had a rather w...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:16:00 GMT

New Songs, Pics and The Joy Of Spring

hey everyone!we have a new song up: a rehearsal version of "Can't Take It". we are really happy with it, its a pretty rocking song!we hope you all feel the same!anyways at rehearsal we had a rather w...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:16:00 GMT

january updates..gigs, new recordings

hey everyone!we have sent out loads of requests for gigs...with one almost certain and a few others very likely, so we will put those up as soon as they happen! practice went really really well last n...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:09:00 GMT

love spreading

the art of love spreading by chris ryan 1. everyone needs love. i do from more than one person (thanks stacie) and johnny he he he 2. dont shag without protection.  (johnny) 3.&nb...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:28:00 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

hey guys!happy new year from all of us!we will be flying out of the blocks this year, gigging, new songs on here within the month, kicking much rock and roll arse and spreading love! (see Chris for de...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:36:00 GMT

gigs, demo, adventure!!

hey guys!wow its been ages since we blogged, sorry! christmas is everyones favourite time of year: busy, busy, busy! yes again we have been cursed with holiday season meaning we've had to go our seper...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:54:00 GMT

Demo, Merchandise and new Songs!

hey guys!as promised we are going into overdrive at the moment! we haev a few new songs nearly finished with the band, working on harmonies etc at the moment. chris has just left my house about 20 min...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:08:00 GMT

Recording

hey peepswe have started recording today, laying down some rhythm tracks. we are producing a demo so we can start gigging for you all and to have some nice shiny songs up on this site.we will keep yo...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:10:00 GMT

rehearsal takes

hey guys!put a few recordings we did in rehearsal a couple of hours ago up. they are pretty sketchy, but give you an idea of what we've been up to!sorry about the quality, there's only so much we coul...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:02:00 GMT

new songs!

hey guysjust finished rehearsal about half an hour ago. it fucking rocked! we got a cool new song finished, with so many more great ideas from all the guys. the set is starting to sound really good, a...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:25:00 GMT