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BIOGRAPHY
Featuring Kyle, Kieren, Peter & Steve, The View are fast becoming a modern rock 'n' roll sensation.
With an average age of 18 years, they have a surprising amount of great songs, differing styles, ability and class - drawing comparison to the Beatles 'Hamburg Days' of 1956.
Formed at school and born out of frustration with boring school talent contests, the band were forced together by a swell of support amongst their many friends and fellow pupils, a body who remain an incredibly loyal fan base to this day.
The crowd pleasers and cover versions of these gigs made them realise that they have a natural ability to capture an audience, something that they could maybe do for a living. However, they were soon forced into trades by the accountancy of teenage parental pressure, and leaving school was followed by apprenticeships for each.
It wasn't many 0630AM starts or skinny pay packets before they decided together to revert to type and get back to the business of music, rehearsing their own songs. Writing in a pub's back room close to their housing estate, 'The Bayview' gave the band their name and allowed them to get about making it as a young band in the real world. Considering they were all born after 1986 it may be considered odd by some that they state their songwriting influences as Crowded House, the Beatles & Squeeze.
With music the only means by which to put a roof over their heads and food on the table the band then began to live a 'MONKEES' style existence, living and rehearsing in an old backstage room at 'the Doghouse', a well respected Dundee venue. These self taught, spontaneous 'kids' casually blew away other established bands at every subsequent gig, and soon gathered massive local respect.
Spotted after just their second 'original' gig the View signed up with local label Two Thumbs for a series of EP's, courting major label interest for the album. Agents Primary Talent have picked up the band, who are spending January on tour with the Babyshambles, where they astonishingly play venues like the Barrowlands & Shepherds Bush Empire. They've Supported Proud Mary, The Undertones in Derry and performed Live on the BBC Foyle in 2005.
Should you get the chance to see or hear this band at a sell out local show near you, you'll taste the hysteria and come to realise that this biography, same time next year, will read much longer…!!
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