Welcome sorry-ok-yes, to the IlovemusicIbuymusic community!
When did you guys start playing together?
We started in September 2006. Since 2005, Me (Davide, guitar/vocals) and Thomas (drums) were playing delta-blues and 60s garage rock classics as a duo. Lots of slide guitars, fuzz and cymbals. Very powerful stuff. It sounded cool, something like Robert Johnson meets MC5. Then we met this 15 years old kid, Marco (bass), and we started writing songs and our sound evolved into a more personal one.
We started listening to a lot of other stuff, I mean lots of kraut-rock, old school hip-hop, electronic music, some punk and things like that.
How did you start that process?
The story is pretty cool. I bought a guitar while I was on holidays with my parents in South Italy. I think I was 16. I bought this cheap Les Paul-like guitar because I loved Led Zeppelin, The Who, Cream, Hendrix and this classic rock stuff. After a year, I started looking for a drummer because I wanted to form a duo. I didn’t find any drummer for a year. Then, one afternoon, while we were playing a football match in front of my house, I met Thomas. He said he was bored of playing football and that he wanted to buy a drum-kit. That’s what happened. He had no experience at all and I was not very good too. So we learned to play together and that was very useful. When Marco came, we started being a real band.
How would you define your style?
I hate that question but I must be able to find a reply because people are asking to me what we play everytime. I can tell you that we really like 60s garage-rock, some new wave stuff, electro music and fast dance beats. So it’s basically electro-garage rock. People told us that we sound sometimes like Talking Heads, sometimes like The Beatles, sometimes like Elvis Costello, The Cribs, The Strokes.
We are very sorry but we don’t like these acts too much, ahah.
Is there any place you’d really love to play?
We love to travel. I think the best goal for a musician is playing in London. We did it and we’re very proud of our work. We played a dozen of gigs in legendary venues like Hope and Anchor, Dirty Water Club, Camden Barfly. We met people like Little Barrie and Paul Weller drummer Billy Skinner, we met The Horrors, Good Shoes, Neils Children and saw a lot of fucking good bands playing live.
We really would like to play in Japan and in the U.S.; we’ll see what it’ll happen!
Do you have a manager?
We do not have a real manager. We have some guy around the world who help us for graphics, gigs, and so on. We got together trough MySpace obviously.
Where do you guys play usually?
We play around Italy and in the UK. Anyway we’ll play some gigs around Europe very soon so keep on checking our page at myspace.
How do you arrange a gig?
Basically trough the internet. The promoter looks at you MySpace page, he listens to your music and he sees how many fans do you have. If he likes you, you’re booked. Easier than easy if you dedicate a lot of time to your music.
How’d you guys promote your music?
A couple of small promotion agencies in the UK help us with some promotion. We promote our music basically thorugh MySpace and the internet. Also, some UK based Radio Stations played our music.
Where do you sell it if you do?
We’re not selling at the time. We gave away our promo for free - people do not want to spend money for a bad recorded demo like our.
Anyway, our first single for WiT Records (UK) will be out in March - so stay tuned and buy it. Expect an EP next summer! (that’s an exclusive news, ahah).
Where do you see yourself in the future?
Playing gigs around the world. That’s what we really want to do.
Thank you, sorry-ok-yes, for this aweseom interview!
For more info about this indie band, check the MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/sorryokyes