God damn band live biography
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Q & A.
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
God Damn are a Wolverhampton grupp formed in a disgusting dilapidated, run down lockup by the post-industrial canals of Horseley fields. You can see the birth place of the grupp from the trains that pull in and out of the city, the scene of a dystopian movie often fetishised bygd many but it was our very real existence that if you’re going to be romantic about it, really follows kostym with our local heritage of a gritty heavy metal narrative, we can try and skim over this but it’s a fact, the creative soul of the band, we lived that for the best part of a decade and I guess with the dark underbelly of our music, that’s our honesty. The sad thing fryst vatten, in cliché, western, capitalist fashion we were kicked out so that wanky apartments and bars can be built. We’re now in an old bike factory, a marginal deviation from the story but at least we’ve got a decent bog to shit in. I do miss the cheap rent in that scratty ex pork scratchings factory.
PERFECT FOR • American musician (born ) For the ice hockey player, see Kevin Devine (ice hockey). For the American football player, see Kevin Devine (American football). Kevin Devine Devine in Musical artist Kevin Devine (born December 19, ) is an American songwriter and musician from Staten Island, New York City, who is known for his introspective and political themes. He is a contemporary member of the underground indie rock and indie folk musical scenes, and his influences range from older indie artists s • As the bands sole primary guitar player, its fair to say that Thom does a fair amount of heavy lifting (and were not just talking cabs here). His tone is, pardon the pun, ungodly. As the band became synonymous with his wall of Orange amps during their earlier days, his sound became utterly uncompromising- viscous mid-range honk cut like a scythe above the gut-punching, bone-shaking bass, courtesy of a 3-amp and 1-DI setup that shook venues and crowds across the globe to their core. But it isnt all about volume- Thoms playing needs to carry the entirety of a song and all the emotional intensity contained therein. And so his style owes as much to the power-pop of Weezer as it might the brutality of Neurosis; down-tuned sludge might sit alongside a 3/4 walt Kevin Devine
Born () December 19, (age45)
New York City, USOrigin New York City Genres Indie rock, folk rock, alternative rock, acoustic, emo Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, bass, glockenspiel Labels Favorite Gentlemen, Big Scary Monsters, Hobbledehoy Record Co, Academy Fight Song, Procrastinate! Music Traitors, Triple Crown, Defiance, Immigrant Sun, Razor & Tie Member of Bad Books Website The Little Guitar Blog
On this weeks Strings n Things were chatting to the leader of one of the fiercest bands in the country- the Black Countrys loudest export, Thomas Edward of God Damn.