The British music industry has decided rock is fashionable again, which is odd as for most of us rock music has and always will be popular music. 2005 has seen throw away rock bands become ten a penny, so what separates the good from the bad. Fresh from touring the UK supporting fellow rockers Million Dead, Days of Worth’s Frontman tells us.
Formed in 2001, the band came together in a mutual search for a suburban escape route. Frontman Simon Ellis Griffiths, guitarists Alex Jarczok and Chris Lane, bassist Kerry Lambert and drummer Andy Green are intend on challenging this apathy with their burning ambition to be different.
“Today bands just seem content to fit into a particular type of music” explains frontman Simon. “It is ludicrous that because alternative music has been
The band started out playing punk-by-numbers tunes to fill up gig slots, but soon discovered that their sound was just like everything else out there. A deal with Visible Noise Records and a debut album A Western Mechanism hailed as a heavy mix of punk aggression and driving guitar rock makes these days firmly a thing of the past. June 20 saw Visible Noise release a second single, State of Me, which follows the acclaimed debut single Take me through.
“The singles are about a period of our lives where we were trying to live by making money while trying to make a success of the band,” said Simon. “Take me through was the most straight forward single on the album and great as a debut single. State of me is more of a melodic, but really catchy rock song.”
Bands such as Sound Garden, The Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin have all been used to draw comparisons to the band’s music – comparisons Days of Worth do not appreciate. “We are just a rock band and it is as simple as that.” Simon sighs. “We don’t make comparisons to other bands as we don’t want people to be disappointed. People should come to see us because they want to. If they are looking for something original, rather then most of the genre-specific music out there then they should come and make their own judgements.”
So is there a band that may have provided an influence? “AC/DC most definitely. We first heard them at a festival and it was the loudest, clearest sound you could possibly imagine. It just grabbed us by the scruff of the neck and went ‘look at how amazing things could be.”
So with a headlining tour and a successful debut album causing acclaim in every direction, Days of Worth are set to begin working their way onto popular radio and music TV play-lists. What does success mean to the band? “World domination of course! Well obviously that would be nice but realistically we just want to do this for the rest of our lives. We don’t expect to become the biggest band in the world and quite frankly I don’t think we could handle the pressure. We are really proud of what we do and just want to carry on doing it.”
Days of Worth are currently touring the UK.
Jenny Tudor.
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