The Longest Day Supporting INME Chords Poole
Longest Day Supporting INME Chords Poole Thursday May 20th.
If I had £10, if I was a betting man, if I was going to pop down to my local Ladbrokes and put a bet on one band based in Dorset to have an album in the UK top 100 chart in the next three years I would put my money on The Longest Day!
Now I'm not just saying this just because I am a fan, but because the music business is tough, bloody tough and if you really want to achieve even a small amount of success you need to tick an awful lot of boxes, The Longest Day tick more boxes than most local bands out there. They also work very hard, and you'll find out more in my wife's interview with the band which will be published soon on Dorset Rock Online. I was lucky enough to see the band when they won the Dorset Music Awards, The band were magnificent that night and definitely looked at home on the larger stage, I said in my small review of the evening "They look like Rock Stars, Act like Rock Stars, they will be Rock Stars!" I will confess that at the event I did have a few drinks and when The Longest Day came on and started their set I thought they were last year's winners, because to me they were in terms of performance and presentation so professional that they could not be in the competition? I was corrected by my wife Shannon, and then simply decided they would win anyway. The result when it came through was a good one, because I thought Discos Out (Murders in) who were the most fun (and yes I'm a fan!) thoroughly deserved to get the festival slots, but The Longest Day were in a different league.
Winning the Dorset Music Award this year has definitely helped the band, but I believe if the band is to step up to the next level they need to build up a really good local following, and this is true of all local bands, it's all so tempting to see London as Mecca, now I don't knock heading to London, but if you look at other bands from all over the country generally they all have good solid local support, and if you can head to the big smoke with two or three mini buses of local support surely that will help energize even the most docile of London audiences? Maybe the problem is in Dorset and I'm not referring to Poole and Bournemouth, the local music scene needs to wake up and establish network of places that aspiring new bands can play to audiences who know who they are, know their stuff, and will turn out week after week to support them. Anyway I digress, The Longest Day should be top of your list of bands to see this year. I'll see them on Thursday, perhaps you'll be able to catch them in a town near you very soon?
© Paul Brewer 2010
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