| Information for THRIVING IVORY w/Special Guest Sam Bradley a KISS 95.1 Presentation |
| Category: | Concert |
| Promoter: | The Neighborhood Theatre & KISS 95.1 |
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 Majesty, Magic, and Musicality are elements that signal an enduring and memorable rock band. Wind-up recording artist, Thriving Ivory, epitomize those timeless marks of musical greatness. It takes but a listen to Thriving Ivory's self-titled debut to hear the indelible sound of timeless rock for modern day music lovers that has created such a stir. It's a stunning and captivating disc that matches musical grandeur and punch with visceral emotional impact and melodies that embed themselves into the listener's consciousness. Sam Bradley & Pilot Speed support |
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| Pilot Speed | Pilot Speed - Setting out to write appealing pop songs in today's climate can be a daunting task. "Real" rock fans can tend to turn their noses up at catchy hooks and memorable choruses, preferring instead twisty, multi-part constructions that show off convoluted music theory; pop is considered disposable teeny-bopper fare when it's considered at all. But Pilot Speed seeks to change those attitudes. Equally at home with thoughtful, introspective soundscapes and with solid verse/chorus/verse tunes designed to be blasted from the radio, the Canadian four-piece has, with Wooden Bones, delivered a set that should take them straight to rock's big leagues. A recurrent theme throughout this set is the fragility of life and of humanity in general. "This life we have is all we've got, and it's short, so better make the most of it" Clark maintains. "I think the album takes an observational look at some of these universal themes, from era to era and across generations. For the most part, these things don't change. " Pilot Speed's own journey has been rather less fraught, though it's definitely taken some unexpected turns. Clark was born in Wellington, New Zealand, before a new job for his father mandated a move to the Toronto area when he was sixteen. In 2000, after leaving the University of Western Ontario's music program, he placed a web ad for like-minded musicians and, relatively easily, enlisted bassist Ruby Bumrah, who in turn brought in guitarist Chris Greenough and drummer Bill Keeley. "We've been together for seven or eight years now," Clark says, "and I can honestly say that we've never had any major blowouts. With any group you're going to have some issues to deal with, but everyone understands their role in the band, and we're each comfortable in our own skins. The rest, he says, is up to listeners. | |
| Sam Bradley | Sam Bradley - "I just wrote a song with my friend Rob," says the Vancouver-based musician with the big, British soul voice. "We were just jamming. We were just writing and having a few beers and out of it came a song." Bradley's friend Rob is Robert Pattinson and the song that they wrote together is "Never Think," which was featured on the Twilight soundtrack. And there is something funny that happens when you are associated with Twilight. You get serious fans. Sam Bradley was born in London in 1986, but began his schooling, at he age of three, in Hong Kong. When his folks divorced two years later, he moved with his mom to Nashville , where he was raised amidst the sounds of country, music that would haunt his work for the rest of his life. When Bradleys mother, an Irish-Canadian singer/songwriter, took him back to England his father moved on to Sri Lanka, fulfilling Sams destiney to be a wanderer: following family from home in London to Sri Lanka, the Carribean and Canada. In the fall of 1997, having written songs for as long as he could remember, Bradley enrolled into a liberal arts school in the heart of the city. Though he was instantly disillusioned with the constraints of academic life, his contemporaries took him in more productive directions. Namely the development of his art, it was a musical education with heroes such as Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley and Johnny Lee Hooker as teachers. Thus began Bradleys days as a performer. He began playing anywhere that would have him, be it an Irish pub, a squat party or Tall Poppys weekly showcase. All the while living in a home that lived for music. |
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| Thriving Ivory | Thriving Ivory - Majesty, Magic, and Musicality are elements that signal an enduring and memorable rock band. Wind-up recording artist, Thriving Ivory, epitomize those timeless marks of musical greatness. It takes but a listen to Thriving Ivory's self-titled debut to hear the indelible sound of timeless rock for modern day music lovers that has created such a stir. It's a stunning and captivating disc that matches musical grandeur and punch with visceral emotional impact and melodies that embed themselves into the listener's consciousness. At the center of the sound are the trademark pipes of singer Clayton Stroope, whose vocals possess an awesome power that "literally melts you away with his ability to completely take control of the song and the listener," notes DecoyMusic.com. The band's prodigious musicality enriches each number while the cinematic melodies and lyrics not only enchant with elemental emotions and the spirits of ghosts and angels but also possess the power to inspire, evoke, comfort and even heal. Thriving Ivory's live shows sealed the deal with anyone who witnessed one. "I was immediately attracted to Thriving Ivory's sound," notes an admittedly "stubborn and hardheaded" Sonoma State Star reviewer. "It was surprisingly melodic, sweeping and triumphant. The vocals were raw, gritty and yet refined and pleasantly reminiscent of a young Robert Plant. The piano was simply enchanting, providing a sturdy backbone for their sound, which was rounded off with laid back guitar riffs, smooth bass and rhythmic drums...Their music is larger than they know... The band exudes a cohesion found only in seasoned bands like the Rolling Stones, and yet, they are seemingly unaware of how big they could be." All of the traits that signal future greatness and echo legendary music and acts that came before are found in Thriving Ivory. "[S]weeping, majestic songs with catchy choruses and really, really wonderful vocals and an awesome backdrop of piano," notes Insomnia Radio of the group's rich and rocking sound. "Clayton Stroope, the band's frontman, has a voice that's a throwback to classic rock-opera vocal cords, and a swagger and shimmy reminiscent of Robert Plant in The Song Remains the Same,'" observes the LA Music Scene. "Throw a pouty Jagger-esque pucker into the equation and he's an obvious centerpiece." And then there are the songs, which crackle with the yin/yang fission of the personal and universal. With vivid imagery and enchanting storytelling matched by melodic richness and allure, they delve into the essential quandaries of life, love and the meanings to be divined within human existence. "The magic is in the mystery," says Jason of his compositional approach. |
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