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July 09 SolarFlareWebsite: Go to
http://www.solarflare.me.uk (all the band information and MP3s are there. I can only get one clip to play on this livespaces!)
For information on releases and the 'Tale of two cities' EP please go to cd baby (below) and add in SolarFlare (we should come up there).
SolarFlare were formed in 2006. They are a melodic pop band formed by Matt Hopkins (that's me) and Martin Packer after too many drinks one night. Matt lives in Nottingham, England and Martin in Birmingham (also England).
Both Matt and Martin have been in and out of bands for years. Martin could regularly be seen in and around the pub's and clubs of Birmingham delighting the public with his melodic baselines. Matt was previously in the indie acid-pop band Antiseptic Beauty (or fondly known as The Septics). They had a EP released on German label Turntable Friend (there's loads of stuff about Turntable Friend in this link)-
I became fed with the world of Indie Pop, and left the Septics. I went on to have a few unhappy encounters with bands in and around Nottingham (not going to name any names here, though one experience of playing in a covers band left me mentally ill and in need of a rest from music). At this point I decided to turn to dance music. Armed with a bit of basic equipment and ideas from a couple of Aphex Twin LP's I embarked on making looping dance beats and produced many ambient sounds of the suburbs. I still like to put the odd bit of dance stuff together (because it's easier than writing pop songs), though I returned to the world of guitars and 'pop' music about two years ago.
I had a load of songs that had been knocking around for a while and I decided to put them all together. I had some basic kit to demo the songs on- guitars, a cheap keyboard and an 8 track studio on my home PC. It was fun recording some of the songs, though limiting with such a basic kit and it was lonely just writing for myself all the time.
Martin and I got together about 12 months ago to do the SolarFlare stuff. I sing and do all the guitars/ keyboards. Martin plays bass and sings. We were joined by our drummer (Nibbsey) and produced our first EP- A tale of two cities (see our wesite for a preview of all the tracks). There are five tracks (though two are basically diffrent versions of the same track). Two tracks are written by me and two by Martin. The track that keeps looping now is English Rose (track 1).
We are currently putting some material together for an album. I'll put out more news on this when I have it. In terms of photos, I'm the one in the silly hat- what a kipper! |
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