The Silver Bayonets
London
The Silver Bayonets are a London-based indie-rock three-piece who have been gigging in London since forming in summer 2012. Fronting the group on guitar and vocals is songwriter Kabir Sheikh, while the bassist, Ross Guy, and the drummer, Enzo Cuticchia, both add backing vocals. They fuse loud guitars, vocal harmonies together with pop music stylings, producing melodic, often anthemic, addictive power pop. In keeping with their punk influences, they are staunch adherents to the DIY ethic, recording and releasing music by themselves whenever possible, and managing their own press campaigns and promotion.
In autumn 2014, a number of their demo tracks were playlisted by regional stations across the UK, which led to recording sessions and live acoustic performances on university and local radio. The band took encouragement from this early support and collected together their songs and began recording tracks for their debut album towards the end of the year.
“The Pain Inside Your Head” (Header Records, HDRCD0001) was recorded at London's Alaska Studios and mastered at Masterdisk, NYC. The May 2015 release was preceded by a single, “Schemes”, which received a number of positive reviews.
With their first album available for download and on limited edition CD, live shows were booked to support the release, including a pre-gig album listening party at The Barfly, London, followed by a full live set later that night.
The album scored a host of positive reviews and tracks were picked up airplay locally, nationally and internationally on traditional, terrestrial radio, as well as internet radio and podcasts. Regular gigs in the capital also saw an increase in audience numbers.
A music video for the album track “Constant” was recorded in autumn 2015 and their live set at Nambucca, London was recorded for TV and broadcast across Europe in mid-2016.
The momentum continued to build following the release of a second single from the album, a remix of the track “Low”, the animated video for which received over 20,000 plays on YouTube.
The band introduced new songs into the live set whist playing gigs in support of their debut, and recorded the follow-up in 2017. They called in Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, The Professionals, Kerbdog) to mix and master the album, after a chance conversation between the band and the producer. The album, titled "Braveface", was completed in December 2017 and is set for release April 2018.
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