We played the new single from Missing Andy - "Kings For The Weekend" on our Best Kept Secrets show on Preston FM and have been talking to lead singer Alex Greaves.
You can hear a short clip from the interview right now by clicking on the sound icon below (this will take longer if you are using a Mac...)
Missing Andy hail from Braintree, are Essex born and bred and extremely proud of it. The 5 - piece are part of today’s growing disenfranchised youth and their ‘fist in the air’ songs deal with thorny social issues that a lot of other bands choose to shy away from. Their thought provoking lyrics and their swaggering stance is cut from the same cloth as The Jam, The Clash and fused with The Specials, making a contradiction of modern nostalgia, fuelled by angst-ridden aggression.
Mod requiem ‘Kings For The Weekend’ is an anthemic, no frills behemoth of a song with its pile-driving rhythms and the super burst of crashing guitars and it is released by Invasion Records, on 8th August.
Fate works in mysterious ways and in this day and age where the music industry seemingly changes the rules every single day, how do a band gain a break? Getting creative Missing Andy found themselves on Sky One’s ‘Must Be The Music’ and embraced the opportunity. In a testament to their DIY take no prisoners attitude, they threw themselves in and made it all the way through to the final where they played at Wembley! Consequently the single "The Way We're Made (Made In England)" reached # 38 in the charts.
Now armed with a batch of new songs, an appearance at this year’s SXSW under their belts, an every growing army of followers on Facebook and Youtube and the driving force of a runaway articulated truck, Missing Andy are the torchbearers of the New Mod.
Missing Andy are; vocals - Alex Greaves, keys - Jonathan Sharpe, bass – Rob Jones, guitar - Steve Rolls and drums - Elliot Richardson.
For more information about the band, try these links:
http://www.missingandy.com/
www.myspace.com/missingandy
www.facebook.com/missingandyofficial
