The LoveCrave
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| Origin | Italy |
| Genre(s) | Alternative rock[1] Goth metal[2] Goth rock[3][4][5] Heavy metal[6] |
| Years active | 2004 – present |
| Label(s) | Repo Records |
| Website | http://www.thelovecrave.com |
| Members | |
| Francesca Chiara Tank Palamara Bob "The Machine" Simon Dredo |
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| Former members | |
| Iakk | |
The LoveCrave is an Italian gothic hard rock band. The LoveCrave (originally Love-C-Rave, with Roman numeral C) means "Hundredth Rave of Love". This name was taken from a story about a rave of vampires written by Francesca Chiara in 2003.
The music style of the LoveCrave is a mix of gothic, 80's hard rock, metal, darkwave and electro-pop. Usually the band is classified in the gothic metal genre, but they do not feel comfortable there due to the variety of inspiration. Thus they usually describe their style as neo goth.
The Brokenheart is the symbol of The LoveCrave. According to Chiara, the meaning is "...the two faces of life: when the darkness meets the light there comes a sort of electricity that creates the magic..." Rain is a 3D character surrounding the band that is found on CD covers. She looks like Chiara but "she is the other me, the angry one, the fake one, the bad one, she's the one I am on stage and I hate her."[citation needed]
In 2006, rockeyez.com named The Angel And The Rain in the top 10 releases of the year and also listed them in the top 5 best new bands of the year.[7]
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[edit] Biography
The band is formed of two experienced rock musicians from Milan and two old, good friends of Venice origin that moved to Milan to make music.
Tank Palamara, guitarist and producer, has ten years of tours and rock production experience.
Singer Francesca Chiara is in charge of the graphics and invented "Rain", her 3D alter-ego. Being a born writer, she wrote a fiction story ("The Angel and the Rain") that pieces all the songs together and that is included in the CD booklet for your reading pleasure.
Iakk has been playing the drums with Tank and Chiara for the past six years and also takes care of the live sets and rehearsals.
Simon Dredo, Chiara's best friend from high school, was the last to join the band as bass player in March 2005 after a tour in England, just in time to record the bass parts for the songs.
Tank and Francesca, co-writers for many years, write about 15 songs in less than a month and that’s how a live metal band becomes a serious project aiming to the music industry. What the LoveCrave were looking for during the recordings was "a rough, elegant and new sound". They took inspiration also from Iron Maiden and eighties sound to the Depeche Mode. They create in their mind a sort of Blade Runner world and try to put music in it.
In March 2006, they signed with the German record label Repo Records that released, the LoveCrave’s first album, The Angel And The Rain. In May 2006, the band signed with WOD, one of the biggest gothic/metal booking agencies in Europe.[citation needed] In June 2006, the mastering of the album was done by Alex Klier in LXK Studios, Munich. In August 2006, the band left for a German tour with The Birthday Massacre, a Canadian band.
English radio station TotalRock gave them the chance to play in London in January 2007 at Camden Underworld. The day before the show, The LoveCrave record in London 4 unplugged tracks at the Sonic Studio of TotalRock.
On May 7, 2007, the band announced the changing of the drummer: Iakk was replaced by Bob "The Machine", also called Polipo. In the same month The LoveCrave got a spot in the WGT Festival of Leipzig.
In November 2007 the band won an award as best Italian band on international ground at the MEI (Indipendent Labels Meeting) presented by the Italian music magazine Rock Sound.
The LoveCrave are working on their second album and they will play in Italy and Germany during 2008.
[edit] Line-up
[edit] Current members
Francesca Chiara - Vocals
Tank Palamara - Guitars
Bob "The Machine" - Drums
Simon Dredo - Bass
[edit] Former members
Iakk - Drums (until 7 May, 2007)
[edit] Discography
- 2006 - The Angel And The Rain (Repo Records)
[edit] Collections
- 2006 - Zilloscope 11/06 (ZILLO mag -DE) - "Little Suicide"
- 2006 - Cold Hands Seduction Vol.64 (SONIC SEDUCER mag - DE) - "Vampires (The Light That We Are)"
- 2006 - Loud Sounds (ROCK HARD mag - ITA) - "Nobody"
- 2006 - ClubTRAX Vol. 2 Double CD (XtraX store - DE) - "Little Suicide"
- 2007 - Rock Sound mag collection 103 (ROCK SOUND mag - ITA) - "Can You hear Me?"
- 2007 - Gothic Magazine Compilation - "Can You Hear Me?"
- 2007 - Summer Darkness 07 (ZILLO mag -DE) - "Can You Hear Me?"
- 2007 - Fuck the Mainstream - "Little Suicide"
[edit] DVDs
- 2006 - Zillo dvd "Dark Visions" - Fading Roses - colonna sonora
- 2007 - Zillo dvd "Dark Visions 2" - Can You Hear Me? live at M'Era Luna Festival
- 2007 - Zillo dvd "Dark Visions 2" - Can You Hear Me? colonna sonora menù
