Amplifier

Amplifier

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Guitar/Vocals – Sel Balamir
Drums – Matt Brobin
Bass – Neil Mahony

Amplifier arrive in a seismic heartbeat.

Armed with choruses more akin to detonations and an album joyous in its darkness Amplifier are British rock reborn, post-classic rock if you will.

A band that didn’t so much form as gravitate together towards the end of the last century in Manchester, coalescing from the DNA flotsam of Celtic show & Byzantine motive. Ready to roll.

Evolving from an arsenal of treasured teenage records; Amplifier take Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Police, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Bowie and Brad – in fact just about anything of any quality, and exhale it through a cloudburst of guitar pickups and distortion pedals.

A three year gestation period culminated in signing to Music For Nations in 2002 and a debut album co-produced by Sel Balamir with Steve Lyon (The Cure, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, My Vitriol, Feeder), to be released in October 2003.

Amplifier carve out their own unique way; deeply personal lyrics of libertarian & egalitarian outlook astride a raging wall of noise channelled through intensely articulate and sky-high melodies - a fractured powerhouse celebration of all the good things about rock.

As another drum fill thunders through, those who care might well reflect upon the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Bonham, as they’re carried along upon thick waves of colossal rolling guitar riffs and absorbed into the throbbing hum of a deep, deep, deep sea of electrical bass.

Amplifier make music that’s both determined and ambitious, but most importantly, whether recorded or live, music that lives and grows on the band’s terms: revved up & brutal from the get-go. When Amplifier sing “it’s time to fly” you’re on their wings. If the initial effect is to make people step back, slightly awed, then their hurricane also possesses that area of tranquil calm and beauty around which swirl great outpourings of energy.

It is music that needs to be performed: Electrifying live shows over the past few years have left audiences feeling like they’ve been involved in a 40 minute controlled explosion, and Amplifier’s reputation rising fast in the press.

“Amplifier descend like a pocket apocalypse…Great free-flowing grooves transforming sunburst waves of uplift” Roger Morton NME

“One of the most impressive rackets you’re ever likely to hear…A bit bloody excellent…This could get seriously interesting” Robert Collins The Fly

Amplifier/ Music For Nations are preparing a worldwide release and extensive touring throughout 2003/2004:

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