Your name:
Ted
Kelliher (drums).
Where are you
from?
Los Angeles, Ca.
Name of band:
The North.
Who else is in
your band?
Ryan Sullivan (vocals), Carlyle Crenshaw (lead
guitar), Jamie Maguire (rhythm guitar), Dennis Harris (bass guitar).
How
would you describe yourselves?
The North is a
guitar-driven hard rock band from Los Angeles, with a musical catalogue that
runs from blistering riff based tunes to soulfully sung ballads.
Who
are your main influences musically?
We play a brand
of rock keeping with the tradition of iconic bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pearl
Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains.
What
do you hope to achieve in music?
The individual
stories that brought this band together involve years of unforgettable musical
journeys: miles of travel, crashing on floors, home towns departed, hardships
endured; triumph and pitfalls alike. But our has just begun: Five close friends
hoping simply to create the best rock music they can, for as long as they can,
and to maybe reach a few people along the way.
What
has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
We recently just
came back from a successful East Coast tour playing some great venues in Boston
and New York. The outpouring of support has been fantastic and overwhelming at
times. It's a powerful driving force that keeps the band pushing forward.
And
what’s the moment you want to forget?
It's hard to say
that any moment should be forgotten. Each step, high or low, is a positive
learning experience on how to keep The North off the ground and growing. If we
forgot any bad moment it would be hard to gauge our success and appreciate the
band's hard work and the hard work of all the others who believe in us and help
us along the way. I don't want to forget a single thing.
If
you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it
be and why?
Our songs came
to be through various song writing techniques. Some were written instrumentally
and vocals were added later, whereas others were written by Ryan on the
acoustic and the rest of us accompanied him. But the ones that I feel represent
our band most are the ones that we wrote while we were all jamming away in the
room together. Songs that just become so to speak, songs like Staring At Your
Picture or Pieces of the Sky. These songs sound very different, but they give a
glimpse into what we were feeling as a band in that moment. Though writing
songs individually is valuable, and it's its an indication of how we respect
each other as musicians since we can write that way, there is something very
powerful when the five of us start the writing process at the same time on the
same plane. Its a moving experience.
Where
can we listen to it?
Where
can we find out more about your music?
www.thenorthla.com (official)
Anything
else you’d like to say that I forgot to ask?
We're looking
forward to our next big show opening for TRAPT at House of Blues in Anaheim on
Sept. 22nd. Tickets will be available on our website soon!
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