Heavyball - Another Country

Website:

www.heavyball.net

Music Style:

New Tone

City:

London

Country:

UK

Band Description

Heavyball are a hard rocking new tone band based in London. They are a four piece whose sound fuses traditional British ska with contemporary indie. The music has distinct and uplifting melodies with a driving percussion heart and honest lyrics.

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Artist Biography
 

 Heavyball are a hard rocking new tone band based in London.

Formed in late 2011 when Nottingham brothers Bigface and Habs Salisbury and school friend Johnny Iball, began to play together. The band’s sound is indie fused with traditional UK ska, known as 'new tone'. Influences include Viz, Shane Meadows and the story writing traditions of country and western.

 

Heavyball’s recordings have been championed by DJs such as 6 Music’s Tom Robinson and Chris Hawkins, BBC Radio Nottingham’s Dean Jackson, BBC Radio Ulster’s Gerry Anderson and BBC London’s Gary Crowley.

 

Heavyball are known for their energetic and dynamic live performances. In 2013 Heavyball supported the Kaiser Chiefs on their UK and Holland tour, playing sell out venues such as the Manchester Apollo, Glasgow’s Barrowlands and Corso in Rotterdam.

 

2014 sees Heavyball embarking on a busy UK and Europe festival season, a European tour in October (Holland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia) with a debut album scheduled for recording in early 2015.

 

Press Release

 

 

Another Country is the fourth single from UK band Heavyball and their first release since signing to UK independent record label Magnetic North. It’s instantly engaging by building layers and depth that rewards repeat listens. A very personal song, the lyrics and melodies depict experiences and emotions which are universal wherever the listener is from.

 

Another Country showcases the Nottingham bands broad range of influences both tonally and lyrically. Those influences include, Johnny Cash, Toots and the Maytals and Fleetwood Mac. It marks a musical progression and development from the hugely popular Black Eye Friday (released earlier in the year). Another Country is the sound of a band who feel safe to explore their creativity and develop a unique sound. Heavyball have taken traditional UK ska and fused it with contemporary rock to create their own sound of 'new tone'.

 

The single and the band are championed by influential BBC 6 DJ Chris Hawkins and has received extensive airplay. Heavyball have just returned from a successful European tour promoting the single and are in the process of writing the debut album.

 

The video is shot in Ethiopia by Sameer Patel; it is visually rich and diverse and differs from the stereotyped images shown in the 1980’s. It presents an alternative interpretation of the songs meaning and very different imagery of ‘Another Country’?