Your name:
Georgie Standage - Vocals.
Where are you
from?
Guildford, Surrey.
Name of band:
The Big Bads.
Who else is in
your band?
Michael Childs - Keys vocals, Mark Wraith Guitar
Vocals, Iestyn Jones - Bass, Mike Porter - Drums
How would you describe yourselves?
We think of ourselves as “Epic Pop”.
We really love creating songs that have an upbeat anthemic feel to them along
the lines of The Killers, something that moves people and excites them!
Everything we write comes from the heart first and then the song goes on a
journey in our Big Bad World and it comes out, well - Big and Bad!! :-) Our
songs focus on big guitar sounds supported by almost tribal-like driving drums
and bass, soaring rich vocals from Georgie and Michael. Also we love big BV's
in many tracks coupled with strong piano and synth sounds.
Our music is quite driving and has an
energy to it. Big passionate vocals are our main goal. We try to write
uplifting and hopeful stories. Whatever the emotion at the route of the
song, even if thats sad, we try to put a positive spin on it - such as, the
future will be brighter and you can achieve it. Also living in the moment
and enjoying what you have right now.
Who are your main influences musically?
We love all different types of artist
but mainly the big bold pop acts like Bowie, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Led
Zepplin, Elton John, Springsteen, Queen. We really connect with their
flamboyant performances and all have worn some quite amazing costumes over the
years as well! More recently we really like The Killers, Bruno Mars,
Pharell Williams, Lorde, Adele, Bastille.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
We want to be
producing the best music we can, and we hope to share our music with as many
people as possible. We hope that more radio stations play our music and
reviewers and bloggers help us spread our music so more people can hear us.
Writing music and playing it live is the best feeling in the world and we just
hope the public enjoy our music as much as we enjoy making it. Doing this band
is a dream come true and our goals are constantly changing, we are driven people
and we hope to find new fans along the way and we can promise lots and lots
more music to come from The Big Bads
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
We toured the 02 Academy’s in London,
Birmingham & Newcastle and also the Deaf Institute in Manchester.
We all absolutely loved the tour.
Playing every night and doing the thing you love to a crowd of people brand new
to your music was such a fantastic experience. Being on the road together as a
band was such fun...we did things we don’t normally do...one night we drove
miles and miles to find a burger joint that was open, we were all buzzing so
much - we’re all quite healthy eaters but on tour that all went out the window!
Georgie had to have her hair done
every day for the tour - She pre booked to have her hair done at hairdressers
near the venues - you should have seen the looks we got whilst out on the
road!! - Her hair seemed to get bigger every day!
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
We have had lots of amazing
experiences on the road... one venue was quite tough to play. They didn't have
a suitable sound system for live bands and the sound engineer was brand new and
didn't know anything about the desk he was using!! (he was a trainee sound
engineer) so we had a lot of feed back! We still made the best of it and the
audience were still rocking out! I’m not sure really if there is a moment we’d
rather forget, because when you’re in a band you experience huge highs and
lows, it can be really tough sometimes and not everything always goes to plan,
but then when something great happens it feels even more amazing, we think you
have to experience it all and just learn from the bad stuff.
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what
would it be and why?
Every Moment. This song has all the
driving energy that most of our songs have, it has the tribal anthemic like
drums that we love and the video is quirky - which is very us! The lyrics are
positive and the melody is catchy like most of our songs and Every Moment is
the first song of our new anthemic epic pop sound for 2014 - here is a
description of our song and video.
Every Moment is an “Epic Pop” song!
Its fun, upbeat and we’ve set the video to some film trailers which go really
well with the track. It is the first song of our new sound for 2014. It has an
anthemic filmic feel, tribal drum sound and soaring vocals from both Georgie
and Michael. Lyrically the song is full of imagery but underneath that
it's about wanting to be with some one to the point they fill every thought you
have.
Where can we
listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your music?
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBigBads
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebigbads
Website: www.thebigbads.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thebigbads
Contact: info@thebigbads.com
Anything else
you’d like to say that I forgot to ask?
We thought we’d let you know about our Big Bads Diaries:
We thought we’d let you know about our Big Bads Diaries:
The Big Bads Diaries is set around
our online The Big Bads World. Here is a little something about our fantasy
world:
“In the Big Bad World, music has been
banned. Seen as a disruptive and anarchic influence, it has been taken off the
airwaves. Clubs and concert halls boarded up, radios smashed to pieces.
One band have fought this regime and
will not be silenced. They refuse to stop playing. Thrown in jail, the only
hope is that their devoted fans will petition for their release. In underground
bunkers, the music of The Big Bads carries on, fans risking their own safety to
keep the music playing, keeping hope alive”
We want to engage with our audience
in a fun and quirky way. Its a way of getting across who we are and our
personalities in a different way. The Big Bads Diaries are filmed in our “Big
Bad World” we play funny games, talk about our touring experiences, talk about
our songs and at some point very soon we’re going to start taking questions
from people like yourself and our audience direct from twitter and answer them
in our video diaries. The Big Bads will have a youtube video release every
week, which will either be The Big Bads Diaries, a fun trailer for our next
song or a Youtube song release. This ensures that we are engaging with our audience
regularly.
Future Plans?
Our project for the whole year is to
have a song per month coming out on YouTube. We also plan to releases the songs
on iTunes. We have lots of new material and we are also working with our
existing repertoire to bring them all up to date with our new sound. We
look forward to doing the video for each of the songs as well.
“Amazing” our recent release
We recently released a song called
“Amazing” an acoustic and emotional song, we are beginning to receive some
radio play and had some lovely reviews of the song. Georgie started writing
"Amazing" 6 years ago . It was a very low point and she was going
through an unhappy time, the song was a turning point and the phrase "I
will get my chance to feel amazing" is a line that we hope will inspire
others to believe when times are tough you just have to have faith that things
will be ok in the end and you'll have a chance to feel amazing one day.
Our Debut Video Release
"Amazing" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdQ0RdDaiGM
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