User:Igorspills/The Russian Delingquents

The Russian Delingquents are a Band from Westport Co. Mayo Ireland who formed in the summer of 2007 It all started off when we wanted to rustle up some cash so we went out busking, I had just started to play guitar and Sean was playing an old trumpet which he didn't have a clue how to use! Said Christopher Hayes lead guitarist of the band From then on we just started to write our own material when we met at Sean's. The Band is comprised of four members who all have their own Russian stage name. Austen Smith(Boris)-Bass Christopher Hayes(Vlad)-Lead Guirtar Sean Meehan(Igor)-Vocals Cian McGuire(Yuri)-Drums/Percussion The band have a surprising amount of original material (about 30 songs in total) and have spent more time on writing music than anything else so they have relatively little live performance experience. The band record their music with an apple mac computer and use the standard Garage band software, they have had four recording sessions in total, one was to record songs to send to the RTE school of rock competition (which they did not suceed in qualifying for) the others were recorded in the house of Austen Smith's deceased Uncle in the summer of 2008, Christmas 2008 and Easter 2009. the songs can be found on the bands Bebo Page and their Myspace page and have been received with much critical acclaim. They plan to release their album Extraordinary Rendition independently some time in 2010. It is set to feature tracks like the immense J.J and Dangerous? and the more atmospheric Gravity doesn't lie and Don't cry over a dream. Their musical style has been described as Experimental Comedy Rock but this was before the band started writing in earnest, Smith describes the sound as acoustic rock and to Sean's disgust creeping within the confines of the indie realm. Once the band we're described as being similar to The Arctic Monkeys by Anna Geraghty of i102 104fm (a west of Ireland radio station) after winning a talent show at the Westport Music festival. Although the band now take a fairly serious approach to music they originally started off as a group which had a tendency towards humour satirising Communist Russia (this is where they got the inspiration for the name of the band), the epidemic of obesity and road safety. Originally when the Russian Delingquents focused their efforts on busking In their hometown Westport and the small city of Galway they used to dress up as Russians in old coats, boots and military hats. Originally the word delinquents was spelt incorrectly Sean had accidentally added a g before the q then because the lads had made the mistake on Bebo they didn't bother changing the spelling to the correct way Meehan later quoted to have said that the word looked better with the danglies in the middle.