 With over 100 shows in 2009 under their belts supporting Deep Purple, Shinedown, Hot Leg Theory of a Deadman & Hinder, festival slots at Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, Download & Sonisphere THE CRAVE have confirmed their debut headline tour in December 2009. With a band whose record collection includes Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine as well as the rock classics we all know and love, The Crave combine all the fantastic songwriting elements, infectious melodies, superb harmonies and huge choruses of their peers, but combine it in a very modern way to make it sound both thrilling and vibrant. Ryan Burnett pretty much decided he wanted to be a musician when he got his hands on his dad’s old acoustic guitar aged only 5, and managed to just about get his hand round the neck of it. Luckily his Dad also had lots of great records and Free, Queen and Led Zeppelin were on the stereo to play along to. Being (self confessedly) pretty useless at everything else as he went through his teenage years, he stuck to it and kept playing, kept practising, kept getting better. Combine this with singing along to all these iconic frontmen, Burnett naturally merged the two skills and set off on a musical pathway that would eventually lead to fronting The Crave. At the same time as Burnett was dreaming away, Tom Swann was rocking out in his bedroom having discovered heavy metal. Guns ‘n’ Roses and Iron Maiden were his teachers and after-school pals. Drummer CJ Evans started ruining the furniture at an early age and got his first drum kit aged 12 (which he still has). He played along to anything he saw on Top Of The Pops and heard on the radio before gravitating towards heavy rock and hip-hop. Carlos Garcia was several thousand miles away having been born in Quito in Ecuador but doing exactly the same thing and being turned onto music. The Beatles gave him his first taster of wanting to learn the guitar, then his uncle introduced him to the Rolling Stones & Deep Purple. Keith Richards and Ritchie Blackmore looked so cool with their Fender’s that he pestered his parents for an electric guitar and was hooked. The Crave began with Ryan, who upon moving to Brighton from Stockport, Manchester aged 17 to study music, immediately started playing in local bands, trying to get his own thing together. The band went through various incarnations before Tom (originally from Worcestershire) and Carlos, who had also been a host of local bands, teamed up with Ryan and started gigging relentlessly. During a tour of Cornwall in 2006 the guys met CJ (from Devon) who was playing on the same set of dates and would keep him in mind in case any special opportunities came up. After playing as far and wide as budget and circumstances would allow the band, The Crave were offered an unmissable opportunity - to board The Brit Bus – an eight week double-decker bus tour from San Francisco to New York designed to showcase the best in British live music. Arrangements were duly made, and the tour was a rip-roaring success – the band was even invited to return to Las Vegas by one of the tour sponsors to play their Halloween party. Around this point, the band’s original drummer left, and able replacement CJ Evans was given something of a baptism of fire - his first show with the band was outside the Hard Rock Café in front of a crowd in excess of 10,000 people! The people behind Harley Davidson also checked out the band on the Brit Bus tour, and as a result invited them to Milwaukee to film a video for one of their tracks ‘Bring It On’ to promote the 105th Harley Davidson Anniversary Festival. It went down so well they were asked to return for an eight week tour in 2008 to promote the event, and finished being the only unsigned act to play alongside such legends as Bruce Springsteen and the Foo Fighters. Since then The Crave have been honing their craft with a relentless touring and record schedule – all under the watchful eye of a host of music industry experts, including management and accounting from Phil Nelson (First Column; Duke Special, Aqualung) and Eddie Bull (Synergy; Nickeback, White Stripes) as well as booking agent Geoff Meal (The Agency Group; Muse, My Chemical Romance) and producer Matt Hyde (Slipknot, Trivium) Undeterred by the music industry’s current obsession with all things ‘electro’, The Crave are currently in the studio recording tracks for their debut album. Matt Hyde saw the talent in this young band and, having produced their debut EP High to stunning effect, agreed to work with them on the entire album. Constant touring and finessing of live favourites ‘High’, ‘My Little Secret’, ‘Headlights’ & ‘Cooking In The Kitchen’ on the road are giving the songs a new life in the studio. Fans and media alike are eagerly awaiting the fruits of this labour and all will be rewarded with The Crave’s debut album release in early 2010 - Headline Tour Dates, December 2009
- Date Town Venue Ticket-line Doors
- Thurs 3 SHEFFIELD Corporation 0114 276 0262 19:00
- Fri 4 NOTTINGHAM Rock City 0871 310 000 19:00
- Sat 5 STOKE-ON-TRENT Sugarmill 01159 454 593 19:00
- Mon 7 GLASGOW King Tut’s 08444 999 990 19:00
- Tues 8 LONDON The Barfly 0871 230 5595 19:00
- Weds 9 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy 3 0844 888 9991 19:00
- Thur 10 MANCHESTER Roadhouse 0844 888 9991 19.30
- Sat 12 BRIGHTON Freebutt 01273 696 312 20:00
- Mon 14 SOUTHSEA The Cellar 0870 264 3333 20:00
All tour dates and free downloads from www.myspace.com/thecraveband
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