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MBWC VIDEO ENTRY – JIEZUBERBAND – Monolith

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by mikeyk in Downhill Rock 'n' Roll Entries, Recent Music

Jiezuberband are an experimental six-piece rock band from Central Scotland. The band has an epic sound encompassing a variety of styles including heavy rock, blues, psychedelia, classical and electronica. Their overall style has been labelled “Deep Tribal Rock” with influences coming from bands such as Porcupine Tree, Muse, Deep Purple, Ozric Tentacles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Dreamtheatre.

The band have spent the last six months writing and recording their as yet untitled debut album and intend to tour the British Isles and Europe throughout 2010.

Jiezuberband formed in 2007 when musical outcasts, keyboardist Mikey Grant and vocalist John Strachan, met and decided to put together a rock super-group that followed none of the existing musical stereotypes in popular rock culture. Three musicians at the top of their field completed the line up: musicologist Kenny McClean (bass), archaeologist Scott Coulter (guitars) and gynaecologist Dr. Iain Duncan (drums and percussion.)

In their first two years, the band released two eps (“Mile High Maniac” and “Eternal Chaos”) and gigged extensively throughout Britain (around 100 gigs and live radio shows). Their most notable gigs to date have been support slots with The Twilight Sad and Glasvegas. Festival highlights include Retrofest, where they played on the same bill as 10cc and Midge Ure at Strathclyde Park to 15,000 people. The band are no strangers to the big stage, once again playing to a 10,000 plus crowd in the summer of 2009. This was a special invitation gig from the organisers of the Johnny Walkers rally in Kilmarnock, also featuring Hue and Cry.

The start of 2010 has seen the band start with a couple of high profile support slots at Glasgows O2 Academy and they look to continue the early notoriety with a string of notable gigs in other cities across the UK throughout the year, including a showcase in London for Sony BMG as recently as Monday of this week.

With a variety of musical styles and character personalities, Jiezuberband’s live show is explosive, energetic and, some might say, volcanic.

www.myspace.com/jiezuberband

VIDEOS SHOT AT OUR MOST RECENT O2 ACADEMY SHOW IN GLASGOW:

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