Detroit Social Club

Detroit Social Club were an indie rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, formed in 2007.[1] They were signed to Fiction Records.

Detroit Social Club's first single, "Rivers and Rainbows", was released in September 2008 on a limited edition 7" with the B-side, "Silver". On 30 March 2009, the band released their second single, "Sunshine People", on 7" and download. The band toured extensively across the United Kingdom during 2009, supporting such acts as Primal Scream, Razorlight and The Futureheads and Oasis, and have had some of their songs featured on British television - namely Kiss the Sun, which was featured on the trailer for Misfits, on Channel 4, and their cover of the Johnny Cash song "God's Gonna Cut You Down" was featured on Episode 7 of Season 3 of Being Human.

Self-described as "Analogue experimentation of the modern kind. Retro-Big beat-Gospel influenced-junkie folk, made in 1970s New York",[2] the band take influences from of Velvet Underground, De La Soul.[3]

Discography

29 September 2008 - Rivers and Rainbows/Silver (Stranded Soldier Records)

30 March 2009 - Sunshine People (Fiction Records/Stranded Soldier Records)

31 May 2010 - Existence (Polydor Records)

Band members

Detroit Social Club and Fuck Pop Records

On the 12 of November, 2010, Detroit Social Club announced that they were creating their own label, Fuck Pop records. The reason for doing so was that:

"When people invest in you, as a record label does, the consequence is that the artist’s exclusive interest in the music suddenly becomes a mutual one; shared between dozens of different people, all of whom have a different opinion on it. The music becomes a product that must be saleable. It must justify the investment...for us, being in a band isn’t about chasing fame or fortune. It’s about the music...we wanted to emancipate ourselves to be able to do this in our own way. Doing it our self, without the mutual interest or investment of others, means there are no risks to us just doing what we want."[5]

They also stated in this announcement that they would get the money for releases from merchandise and gigs.[6]

Since Detroit Social Club split, David Burn now works as a [7] UK producer and owns Newcastle Music Box Recording Studios,[8] Johnny Bond and Dale Knight formed Symphonic Pictures[9] and Greenie is now an International session drummer for Little Comets,[10] Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, Katie Waissel,[11] and is in-house drummer for Sonic Vista Studios in Ibiza[12] currently creating a software drum sample package with owner and top[13] producer Henry Sarmiento[14][15] among other projects.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=18424
  2. ↑ "Detroit Social Club". facebook. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  3. ↑ Sunshine People Songfacts
  4. ↑ Green, Greenie. "Drummer".
  5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=473083132696&comments#!/note.php?note_id=473083132696&id=41662366880
  6. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=473083132696&comments#!/note.php?note_id=473083132696&id=41662366880
  7. ↑ Burn, David. "The Music Box Recording Studios". David Burn. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Burn, David. "The Music Box Recording Studios".
  9. ↑ Bond, Johnny. "Symphonic Pictures".
  10. ↑ Green, Greenie. "Session drummer for Little Comets".
  11. ↑ Green, Greenie (7 October 2011). "Session Drummer for Katie Waissel". Daily Mail.
  12. ↑ Green, Greenie. "In-house session drummer for Sonic Vista Studios".
  13. ↑ Green, Greenie. "Henry Sarmiento".
  14. ↑ Sarmiento, Henry. "Henry sarmiento".
  15. ↑ Green, Greenie. "Henry Sarmiento".