Lucky Nine
Biography
The Lucky Nine - the fivesome who feature:'A' bassist Daniel P. Carter
Hundred Reasons frontman Colin Doran
Cable/Sunna/earthtone9 drummer Richie Mills
release their debut EP through Mighty Atom on March 7
Marinetti wrote in his Manifesto Of Futurism; 'Courage, audacity and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry', and a new brutal aesthetic of speed and intensity was born.
'No work without an aggressive character can be conceived as a masterpiece' he wrote. And a fire was lit in the hearts and minds of all who recognised the beauty of this statement.
'Admiring an old picture is like pouring our sensibilities into a funerary urn instead of hurtling it far off in violent spasms of action and creation.' Not content to rest on past achievements, they forge ahead, with new alliances and new arsenals.
'Time and space died yesterday'. Today is a new beginning, the start of a new cycle. Audentes Fortuna Juvat!
Fusing Refused and Converge's pulverising noise to Quicksand's keen sense of dynamics and emotional intensity, this, The Lucky Nine's debut release features five tracks: 'Hibernate', 'Jornada', 'We, The Possessed', 'Three Killers' and 'The Programmed 4.0'.
This is The Lucky Nine: baleful, satanic music played by modern-day renaissance men.
The Lucky Nine has been waiting since early 2001 when "A" were writing 'Hi-Fi Serious' and Hundred Reasons were writing 'Ideas Above Our Station'. Yep, it's been that long
"A" had a small studio in London where both bands were writing. When Daniel wasn't working on the "A" album and Hundred Reasons had use of the studio, they would generally start mid-day, so he would be in the studio early demo-ing The Lucky Nine songs. When they would arrive, Daniel played them what he'd done and then hang out whilst they tore through the tunes that were to make their album...
Daniel didn't know what was gonna happen with the songs and he was thinking he might sing on them. It's weird that Colin was there and it never occurred...
Things didn't really go anywhere from there until last year when it was decided that we had to get them recorded. Daniel headed down to Decoy Productions in Brighton with Richie Mills from Cable / Sunna. They laid down the drums to nine songs in eight hours, two of which hadn't even been demoed, but as they were flying through it all they played them to Mills who nailed it in a one. Genius.
After that point Daniel would head down to Brighton everytime I had a day back from touring and lay down guitars, bass, and to work out programming with Jim and Ed's from Decoy... So we had a bunch of songs. Well, not songs, music. Daniel sang on two but he wasn't happy (well 'shitty' is how he described it). It was decided that the way forward was to ask a bunch of people who were respected and get them to sing on it. Neil Fallon was top of the list. Darryl from Glassjaw was asked and they have never heard a word from him again...Ian from Lost Prophets seemed up for singing on one. Liam from thisGirl was into singing on a few of them, but as it turned out Colin was the first and last to come down... He was originally going to sing on only two songs, the one's that were to become "Vessel & Vine" and "Jacques Molay is avenged!", but the session felt like it was meant to be and so Colin came on board as the singer for L9.
Welcome to the dark side of British rock.
Colin Doran - vocals
Richie Mills - drums
Ben Doyle - guitar
Justin David Rowe - bass
Daniel P. Carter - guitar
Source: Lucky Nine Press Office (January 2005) read less
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