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AIRHEAD (Band)

Airhead is a British grunge band formed in December 2020. The band is comprised of Daniel Dowling on vocals and bass guitar, Bili Keogh on vocals guitar and Olivia McGarrick on drums. The band is noted to have more experimental tendencies than other past grunge bands. They are known to have taken influences from progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd to enhance their sound.

Keogh and Dowling had met prior to forming Airhead originally at Sylvia Young Theatre School, although Keogh has stated that they “didn’t talk much at school” as Dowling was two years older. However, upon leaving Sylvia Young, Dowling contacted Keogh in hopes that Keogh could take up drumming in his newly formed punk band. Dowling and Keogh continued to play in this punk band for years until eventually the group deteriorated. Although separated musically, Keogh and Dowling remained friends.

Airhead was formed in later December 2020 when Keogh and Dowling started to write music together. Keogh stated that “We always had similar music tastes, so it was inevitable that we got together.” They started off covering songs by Nirvana and Silverchair in Dowling’s garden, but, out of these writing sessions emerged a love for experimenting in music. Dowling had stated that “In (the punk band) Sweet Creams, there just wasn’t any room for experimenting or playing around. But when Bili and I started writing, there was all of a sudden this green light to do whatever we wanted.”

After Dowling and Keogh had been writing for sometime, they reach out to Olivia McGarrick to audition for the band. Dowling had known Olivia from the previous punk band.

The trio got together in Sheperds Bush in late May 2020 and played for the first time together. Keogh later stated “It was like everything had finally fallen into place.” Subsequently, McGarrick was brought into the band full time and has played for Airhead ever since. Out of these early rehearsals came a lot of the bands heavily 90’s influenced music.

Airhead are currently recording their first demo “Red” which be out in 2022.