Bio
Yellow who?
Yellowgroove
Music has a habit of throwing up coincidences and Yellowgroove are no exception. Formed within a melting pot of musical influences, Simon a slight disillusioned folk troubadour, who had a bag full of songs and a thousand more in his head, cut his songsmith teeth on the folkier edges of Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull. Old friends Mark and Ben took guitar tones and stylings from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Cream, Pink Floyd and more. When Jack joined he brought the beats fashioned on his idols Chad Smith, John Bonham and Ginger Baker.
Inspired by Simon’s bag full of songs, the band took their love of catchy licks and big riffs and began recording their first single. It was a steep learning curve, but they all got a taste for the creative process and garnered a true love/hate relationship with the studio and production. Studio sessions were overnight battles in an old Industrial Mill, burning the midnight oil through to the morning sun just trying to get that sound.
Yellowgroove at the Isle of Wight Festival 2010
Having released thier debut, the band realised that the studio had been selfish with them, and it would have have to put up with being a mistress for a while as they paid homage to their first love; live music, recently playing third headline on the Isle of Wight Acoustic stage. Now the band find themselves taking gigging breaks when they can to record and write in Jack’s garage their home made studio in Somerset. The Somerset Session EP, described as “penetrative, retro and surprisingly hypnotic“, has whet the appetite for their blistering forthcoming single, Stepping off the Train.
Check it out for yourself, just don’t look into their eyes.
