The Answer (band)
The Answer is a hard rock band from Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. The band is jointly owned with Silvertide, Roadstar, Doomfoxx, TAB the Band, inter alia, to the representatives of the so-called " New Golden Generation" of rock music. Inspired by rock bands such Ex. Led Zeppelin, Free, The Who, Tesla and The Black Crowes play The Answer Hard Rock with Blue influences and heavy riffs.
Band History
The Answer was founded in the spring of 2000 by Paul Mahon and his school friend Micky Waters. The two Cormac Neeson has been recommended as a singer who worked at that time in New York in bar bands and pizzerias. They wrote to him and asked if he wanted to join the band. Although the excitement and enthusiasm of all those involved was large, the project did not really develop until Neeson enrolled in college for a course on ethno musicology at first. On the first day Neeson said he could play the guitar. He got out a Brazilian instrument called Cavalcanto. However, since he had no idea what to do with it, he turned around and asked the man behind him, if he could trade this instrument against a tambourine. The man was Paul Mahon.
Mahon, Waters and Neeson exaggerated then again advancing their project. A few months later, the band was completed by drummer James Heatley. Published in 2002, The Answer in Ireland, the first EP Breakdown Honey. A year later there appeared the second EP End Your Day on A High. Some of the major Irish radio stations played the songs Tonight and Always contained in this publication in heavy rotation. The Answer then went on a big Ireland tour, playing 52 concerts.
In 2006 the band The Darkness and Alter Bridge was invited to accompany their winter tour. Besides, the musicians recorded three demo EPs and sent them to all possible interested parties. Finally, Dave Bedford decided to manage the band. This led to a contract with Albert Productions. She published the keep- believin -EP and the single Never Too Late in 2005, and received by the chance to play as the opening act for Deep Purple and Whitesnake. That same year, she was from Classic Rock Magazine as the Best New Band 2005 ( best new band in 2005 ) named. On June 26 Finally, in 2006 their first album Rise was released. The Classic Rock Magazine called the album already "The best british rock début of the decade" (the best British rock debut of the decade ). The Kerrang! Magazine wrote: "The Answer are superstars already; it'd be cruel not to make Their dreams come true " ( The Answer are already superstars, it would be cruel not to let their dreams come true ).
The Answer was hired on to play Phil Lynott Memorial Benefit Concert, which was held in honor of the late singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy. The mother Phil Lynotts proved there as a big fan of the band. She invited the four musicians and opened it for the first time since the death of her son in 1986, the case with the legendary black bass and asked Micky Waters to play. In the video for Keep Believin bassist can be seen with the instrument. In February 2009, The Answer released the second album Everyday Demons. As the first singles from the song On and on and Tonight were published. In June 2011, a DVD including a bonus CD came out under the title 412 Days of Rock N ' Roll, which includes nine music videos and a concert recording from the tour with AC / DC. As songs a cover version of the Rose Tattoo classic Rock N 'Roll Outlaw and Fooled Me are represented on it.
Others
The band jumped in for Amy Winehouse as the opening act for the Rolling Stones at their two gigs in Germany Dusseldorf and Hamburg during the Bigger Bang tour a. The Answer played at the fifty minute performance only works from the album Rise.
In autumn 2008 the band announced that it is the first opening act for AC / DC on their Black Ice tour across North America.
Discography
- Keep Believin ' (EP, 2005)
- Never Too Late (EP, 2005)
- Rise (2006)
- Everyday Demons (2009)
- 412 Days of Rock N ' Roll ( DVD CD, 2011)
- Revival ( 2011)
- New Horizon (2013 )