The Sessions (band)

The Sessions is a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver.

Band History

The sessions were founded in 2005 and existed until 2008. 2006 they won the world's largest music group competition, the Emergenza. This year, 7,631 bands from 16 countries competed against each other. The Sessions won first place in the finals in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

The band recorded the album The Sessions Is Listed As In A Relationship with world-renowned producer Bob Rock on the label Wharehouse Studios in Gastown in Vancouver. Two songs from the album, My Love and 18 Candles have been used for the mountain bike film Seasons by The Collective, a group of filmmakers, photographers and mountain bikers. The album is available on ITunes. The Sessions toured in February 2008 in the western United States, for example, they played concerts in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Hollywood and San Diego.

Members are Martin Robert Kottmeier (born 16 February 1987), vocals and drums, and Tristan Norton, guitar and keyboard and also singing. Joshua Helgason was a singer and played synthesizer, but left the band in March 2008 and later worked together with Stars of Boulevard.

Style

The band describes their style as " indie rock with a British influence ." She was influenced by the British rock scene and the Dance Movements of the New Wave in the 1980s.