Firedaze plays original music that fuses folk, rock and dance rhythms. After spending some time recording their first album the band now want to get back to doing much more of their first love which is playing live.
Here's the Firedaze story so far......
Firedaze was first formed in January 1999, when two former members of UK roots rock band Dead After Dark planned to take their music in a new direction - Firedaze was the result.
The main song-writers of Dead After Dark naturally became the main song-writers for Firedaze. Steff and String spent the first four months of 1999 writing and recording songs for the new band, only putting the live line-up of the band together when they had a substantial body of material to gig with.
Firedaze's first public appearance was in June 1999, at the Leamington Peace Festival, with three band members on stage - Steff on rhythm guitar and vocals, String on lead guitar and backing vocals, and Dunk on bass guitar and keyboards. They played to an audience of approx. 500 people - a not insubstantial crowd for a debut gig.
Between then and June 2002, the band played many gigs in the UK, with varying line ups. They were joined onstage by other musicians, including Emma on fiddle, and d.j. Paul Morrell, on decks.
Firedaze then took a two-year break from live performance, while band members concentrated on other projects. In 2004, however, they reappeared with a new line-up and a slightly changed sound. Live dates now see Firedaze back on stage with a dance, looped, sampled and sequenced drum track driving the new-look line-up. This is the sound on the new album - called Triality. String has returned to his first love of the bass guitar while Steff remains on lead vocals and guitar. The newest member on the new recordings is Jen, the fiddle player who replaced Emma.
Onstage in 2008 a further line up change now sees the band introducing bodhran player Steve. Live dates now see Firedaze on stage with catchy fiddle melodies, strong vocal performances and a dance, looped and sequenced drum track overlaid with the insistent rhythm of the bodhran. The resulting sound is still-changing, ever-fresh, and guaranteed to make you want to dance. If the fiddle and guitar don't get you, the bass, bodhran and drums certainly will.
