Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sweet music: One Night Only

One Night Only is another indie-rock band from the UK. They started out as a bunch of school friends 'just making noise' in their rural hometown of Helmsley in North Yorkshire where they got banned from their rehearsal spaces because they were too loud. "The first one was in a historic village with a monastery and we were just doomed from the start," recalls George. "Then we went to this dugout place underneath the town hall and trashed that as well. Well, we didn't trash it, they just didn't like the holes in the walls they kept finding."
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(One Night Only - It's about time)
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Last October Steve Lamacq began spinning the demo of You And Me, prompting the band to really take themselves seriously. George dropped out of school and they frantically phoned every venue in the UK asking for gigs. They got about ten and the A&R pack duly pounced: some caught them first at Liverpool's Cavern Club in front of a bus full of their most mosh-happy York fans and within a month every major label in the UK was trekking up to their rehearsal room for a personal showcase.
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"We knew friends' bands who'd had a bit of interest from labels and gone down to London to play to them and it was like 'go away, come back when you're a bit older'. So we didn't want to do that, we cancelled all our shows and said 'if you want to see us you'll have to come to York'," said George."Then we hired out the rehearsal room, practiced there for a week, got really tight and then we did individual showcases. We were so tired by the end of it. We couldn't be arsed to talk to them. We'd had all week of doing three a day, all asking the same questions." A funny fact about the band is that they have recorded and uploaded their own message onto Limewire, preventing people from downloading their music and explaining that downloading music that way is "a bit illegal".
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