THE BIG BUZZ AWARDS WINNERS! “Best New Irish Rock Band 2006”
On Saturday 26th August 2006 at the sold out show in the Millenium Forum, Derry City - Cuckoo Rass where announced winners for the Big Buzz Awards Show as “Best New Irish Rock Band/Act”
http://www.bigbuzzireland.com
Cheers
Cuckoo Rass*
http://www.cuckoorass.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/cuckoorass
“On vocals, guitar and piano Mick Scullion leads the band with his melodic warbling - touching the wonders of modern life, love and loss and occasionally entering into the surreal, painting images with thought provoking lyrics. This, when intertwined with the delicate fret board wizardry of new addition Kevin Gormley and dynamic rhythm section of Karl Zilizi on Bass and JP Donnelly on drums, combines to produce the signature Rass sound.
Performances recently as part of BBC Music Live and gigs in various venues on the local/National scene [ Mandella Hall, Speakeasy, limelight, Frontpage, Square Peg etc ] have seen the band go from strength to strength. Following the release of their debut EP Brothers and Fools. Cuckoo Rass established themselves as not only a compelling live band but also as a cerebral recording act.
“The four tracks featured here are superb, veering with an exquisite balance between sparseness and lushness. Highly professional work & thoroughly recommended!” (Eamonn P Keyes, Sound Engineer “The Answer” / Fastfude)
Cuckoo Rass can list among their influences the great live acts, Coldplay, The Who, The Smiths, REM and U2 to name but a few! The bands core desire is to write songs that help make them stand out in their own unique spotlight, songs that draw inspiration from wide ranges of musicians. From folk balladeers to sonic rock gods, they can all be accredited as mentors.
Over the past 6 months, Cuckoo Rass have played 2 largely recognised showcases for Irish Music [The SoNi Showcase by MusicBest records and The Audioill Showcase by Audio-Ill Records] and have provided Support at the Galway Festival for The Revs.
With the craze of bebo and myspace - DJ’s, Nikki Hayes [2FM] and Connor Philips of [CoolFM] both requested a demo CD with discussions of doing a live interview in the very near future....
With the music industry taking an interest - you are loyal fans can help make it happen. Watch out for the first of many brand new singles from August 2006...”
Want to hear more of our music, click the link - http://www.bebo.com/MP3Player.jsp?GrpId=1351993131
THE BELFAST GIG AT THE EMPIRE WOULD BE SPECIAL OR THE OTHER GREAT VENUES/PLACES LINED UP!!!....let us know