Ether

Biography

With Wales enjoying previously unimaginable publicity being a birthplace for rock and roll and pop bands through the 90s, Ether emerged because the area’s newest torchbearers in 1997. Their rise to notoriety was also swifter than that of the Manic Road Preachers, who comes from exactly the same home-town, Blackwood, and utilized exactly the same supervisor, Martin Hall. Carrying out a week of rehearsals and something gig, a mass media scrum ensued to be able to secure their signatures. The group’s employees were already extremely experienced music artists. Lead vocalist Rory Meredith, the possessor of a unique soul/R&B voice, originated from a musical family members, his father buying an eight-track studio room. He previously originally formed a youthful incarnation of Ether as an adolescent, a music group that included drummer Bret Sawmy, who graduated to the next version from the band. The brand new line-up was finished with the addition of bass participant Gareth Driscoll. Their debut efficiency in Cardiff was viewed by an A&R representative from London, and phrase of the highly industrial, bubblegum rock and roll spread with the majors. Following the discharge of the 1996 debut one, ‘He State Yeah’ (on Regal Information), they authorized with Parlophone Information, who place them in to the studio room with maker John Leckie. ‘If YOU TRULY WISH TO Know’ surfaced in June 1997, its fresh-faced vivacity relatively similar to Supergrass. Touring engagements with Mansun, baby parrot as well as the Supernaturals helped to improve their profile prior to the launch of Unusual, an admirably quirky assortment of power pop tunes.

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