The Bays
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The Bays are Andy Gangadeen, Jamie Odell, Simon Richmond and Chris Taylor. Read their individual profiles by becoming a member of their website.
"The Bays, then, are a live thing. They don't want to put tracks out and have people expecting them to play those cuts live. That's not what they do. So to some extent, it's pointless trying to describe what the Bays sound like. Because when you go to see them, and you should, it'll be completely different to the previous gig."
Chris Blue (Jockey Slut)
Our approach does make sense though, what with record companies going under from so much CD copying and direct sales over the internet.
However the whole plan was not preconceived from the outset. It evolved over time and now seems like the obvious course of action.
We feel we've achieved quite a lot over the last three years and the profile is still building, we've got a pretty good reputation nationwide, we're respected by the biggest names in our field and so we've decided to take the following course of action:
1] Stay exactly as we are.
2] Not change anything in particular
3] Keep the policies as they were
4] Not sack any of the current personnel
5] Try and play good music still
6] Not get forgotten about
7] Be nice as often as possible
So we'll still be around for a bit. Don't get me wrong - we are as ambitious as anyone else but we believe if you build it slowly it will last and mean something to people.
I personally believe it makes a lot of difference what you leave behind you when you are gone and it's very easy for quality musicians to get drawn into contributing to the propagating oil slick of musical garbage that every era inevitably churns out.
Our mission, if it has to be something specific, is trying to create music in the purest, least diluted form that is possible.
Firstly, on stage you are seeing a piece of music at it's conception as opposed to the recreation of a moment long past, and secondly, off stage there's nobody swaying the direction of the music with agendas about marketing us to the unseen masses, cos we don't sell anything.
So we constantly move on like musical nomads taking bits from here and there and working them into creating a sound that is totally our own, and there maybe is our ultimate goal.
To be just The Bays.
www.thebays.com
www.myspace.com/thebayslive
The Bays are Andy Gangadeen, Jamie Odell, Simon Richmond and Chris Taylor. Read their individual profiles by becoming a member of their website.
"The Bays, then, are a live thing. They don't want to put tracks out and have people expecting them to play those cuts live. That's not what they do. So to some extent, it's pointless trying to describe what the Bays sound like. Because when you go to see them, and you should, it'll be completely different to the previous gig."
Chris Blue (Jockey Slut)
Our approach does make sense though, what with record companies going under from so much CD copying and direct sales over the internet.
However the whole plan was not preconceived from the outset. It evolved over time and now seems like the obvious course of action.
We feel we've achieved quite a lot over the last three years and the profile is still building, we've got a pretty good reputation nationwide, we're respected by the biggest names in our field and so we've decided to take the following course of action:
1] Stay exactly as we are.
2] Not change anything in particular
3] Keep the policies as they were
4] Not sack any of the current personnel
5] Try and play good music still
6] Not get forgotten about
7] Be nice as often as possible
So we'll still be around for a bit. Don't get me wrong - we are as ambitious as anyone else but we believe if you build it slowly it will last and mean something to people.
I personally believe it makes a lot of difference what you leave behind you when you are gone and it's very easy for quality musicians to get drawn into contributing to the propagating oil slick of musical garbage that every era inevitably churns out.
Our mission, if it has to be something specific, is trying to create music in the purest, least diluted form that is possible.
Firstly, on stage you are seeing a piece of music at it's conception as opposed to the recreation of a moment long past, and secondly, off stage there's nobody swaying the direction of the music with agendas about marketing us to the unseen masses, cos we don't sell anything.
So we constantly move on like musical nomads taking bits from here and there and working them into creating a sound that is totally our own, and there maybe is our ultimate goal.
To be just The Bays.
www.thebays.com
www.myspace.com/thebayslive
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