Biography
There was a time when bands were content to shoe-gaze during performances, letting lyrics fall limply from their mouths, standing there preoccupied with poseur chic and looking cool rather than entertaining and encouraging their audience to enjoy themselves! NeverSayDie embrace the idea of giving their crowd a spectacle and injecting some energy to the proceedings… Like most suburban settings, Cannock, a town 20 minutes north of Birmingham, seemed only to provide a landscape for small-mindedness and very little creative output. “It’s the type of town where people are content to never pursue their dreams! They’re born here, live here, work and die here, that’s not for us,” says Adam. Here nobody can hear you screaming, because this kind of music was unwanted and undesired because it provokes attention. And so hidden in their bedrooms the boys turned to music for escapism, six friends with one dream! NeverSayDie began over two years ago; having the foundations set, all they needed was a name, a moniker to fit there sound and attitude. After realising all the good names were taken, the band returned to the drawing board looking for something that could fit their style. After an afternoon screening of ‘The Goonies’, they found it, and what better than a name synonymous with fun and youthful adventure. It clicked; it was catchy, fun and instantly familiar. With a sound occupying the same musical territory as their peers such as The Starting Line and New Found Glory, they offer up-beat songs filled with catchy melodies, dashes of keyboard and ambiguous lyrics to be deciphered, rather than the typical diary entry bloodletting that is heard too often. People forget that you can enjoy yourself, use your brain and do it all without taking yourself too seriously. ‘In little over a year we have come a long way in terms of song writing and stage-presence’ says Adam. Drawing in an ever-growing and loyal fan-base because of an unrelenting pace and endearing on-stage energy NeverSayDie profess that they have a lot more up their sleeves. Matt says ‘In terms of achievements we're barely starting on the road to where we want to be, we have so many songs and ideas that have yet to be exercised.’ And so the NeverSayDie musical muscles are still to be toned, tuned and worked-out by the right kind of Label support. NeverSayDie are ready to bring their music to the masses, so stretch out those muscles and dust off those dancing shoes…It’s time to have some fun!
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.