Band Biography - Not My Day

‘Not My Day’

Band Biography

‘Not My Day’ is an unsigned band from Oxford in the UK who I found on Unsigned.com. The indie band has four members:

Adam Cook - Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist

Ben Cook - Lead guitarist and backing vocalist

Dan Cahill - Drums

Jason 'JB' Grain - Bass

‘Not My Day’ are influenced by many popular artists and successful bands, such as ‘The Beatles’, ‘Muse’, ‘Radiohead’, ‘Embrace’ and ‘Oasis’. They find these bands influential as they like the style of their music and that they are popular bands as they are different from typical musicians. As they are an upcoming unsigned band, they only have a niche audience therefore the ones who follow them know about their social network where they tell people where they are going and where they are playing. 661 people follow them on Twitter as well as 178 people following them on Facebook. As they are a limited band they want to get as known as much as possible; MySpace is the first social network where I found them, on their posted are a few of their songs, covers as well as social updates of what they are doing. ‘Not My Day’ is being found by people daily, a new film that is being released called ‘The Butterfly Tattoo’ have asked the band if they can use two of their songs, of which songs hasn’t been released yet however this breakthrough could make the band twice as successful.

Genre
I found the band on Unsigned.com under the Indie/Rock heading. The song we are using is called ‘It Matters’. The reason behind choosing this song was because it is fast paced, upbeat and would be fun to make a music video to because the song has good energy. All of the band can be heard within this song, the lead and backing vocalists, bass, guitar and drums. I wanted to listen to the song in more depth to see if it follows the conventions of a typical song layout. ‘It Matters’ obeys the regular structure being chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, extended bridge and then the final chorus. Adam Cook has the lead vocals therefore he is heard for the majority of the track unless it is the beginning of the chorus when Ben Cook, the backing vocalist, is heard too.

Audience of ‘Not My Day’There was no specific audience mentioned on Unsigned.com or anything about the band on there, however researching through their social media pages ‘Not My Day’ are a middle aged band who mainly do live gigs/shows, features within other artists gigs as well as having live performances. From the picture, which is on their Facebook and most of their other social media pages, most of their followers are mainly females from the ages of 20 – 26 years of age as the lyrics in their songs relate more to the females than what they do males. Even though ‘It Matters’ is edged more to the female audience, males seem to follow them on their social networks and have an interest in them therefore they are a mixed gender audience, although some songs are aimed at one specific type of audience.

Why did we choose this band?This band have a unique style to their music that they produce therefore it will be a fun experience to use their music to complete our task. The songs that they do, especially ‘It Matters’ has a meaning to it so it would be good to turn that meaning into a narrative in our music promo; as well as the rhythm is cheerful and a good energy to themselves as a band.

We have emailed the band to see if it is possible to use their music and for their permission, a copy of the email is below: