Paul
Russell.
Where are you
from?
Sunderland, Tyne & Wear.
Name of band:
Eurasianeyes.
Mel Bell (and that’s
not a made up name….honest).
We are a duo and the best description
of our music is probably synth-pop. We like to try and write tracks with big
vocals, lots of arpeggio synths with catchy melodies and huge synth solo’s.
Our main influences are
Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Howard Jones. Although we are trying to be
original in our music writing you can hear these influences coming through in
our music. Mel also liked the music of Ennio Morricone and used to listen to
his film scores a lot.
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
We have already achieved far more than we
ever thought we would. When we started recording music around 18 months ago it
was only ever going to be to upload to YouTube. Since July 2013 we have
released two EP’s and a single. Hopefully this is only the start for us but if
this is all we achieve we believe we won’t have failed.
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
For me personally
it was probably either having our own music played on FM and internet radio, or
doing the live radio interview or selling our first EP. None of these were
expected so they are all highlights for me. For Mel the highlight was having
one of our tracks recognised by and played by Rusty Egan on his radio show. Mel
is a huge fan of Rusty and this meant a lot to him.
And what’s the
moment you want to forget?
Being early on in our career we
haven’t really got one yet. We are starting to do live gigs from March 2014 so
we may soon get some, haha, hope not though.
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and
why?
I think it would have to be our debut single “Far Off Land”.
It has a very memorable melody with the big chorus and a huge synth solo. This
was a step up from our debut EP and it defines our style I think.
You can hear all of our
music at eurasianeyes.bandcamp.com/track/far-off-land
Where can we
find out more about your music?
You can find out
more about us by visiting the following:
Website
: www.eurasianeyes.co.uk
Bandcamp : https://eurasianeyes.bandcamp.com/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/EurasianeyesDuo
Reverbnation
: http://www.reverbnation.com/eurasianeyes
You-Tube
: http://www.youtube.com/user/EurasianeyesBand
Soundcloud
: https://soundcloud.com/eurasianeyes
Anything else
you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?
We are
starting to do live gigs from March 2014.
March 15th 2014
– “Beware The Ides of March” – Birmingham
April 5th 2014
– Donkaster Elektronische Freundschaft – Doncaster
Hopefully
more live gigs to follow.