Month: Apr 2019

On April 1st Leeds based four piece Kill The Silence released “All We Are” featuring As Sirens Fall frontman Mikey Lord, an upbeat song with a killer sing-along chorus and riffs to match, with an accompanying light hearted video that makes it worthy of our video of the month title.

The video depicts a day in the life of these average Joes, a day that seems to go from bad to worse with it’s fair share of questionable breakfast choices, hangovers and car trouble to being berated and fired by a very familiar face playing the coveted Manager of the Month role! However, fortunately all’s well that ends well, as everyone manages to make it to band practice despite a day they’d rather forget!

We caught up with the band for a brief chat about their favourite video they’ve ever done!

Can you give a brief description of what the video is about?

“The video is a nod to everyone working the daily grind, doing what they need to do to get by. We wanted it to be upbeat and show that even though things can get tough it always works out.”

As everyone comes together at the end of the video, what is the moral of this story?

“We are all just people at the end of the day and you should be able to leave work at work and enjoy yourself and unwind, always do what you love no matter what.”

The video looks like it was a lot of fun to make…

“Yeah, it was loads of fun, we had a blast filming it. We had to calm our giggles many many times, especially filming the scenes of us getting ready.”

Any behind the scenes stories you can share?

“The opening shot was meant to be in a different room, however we promptly broke the bed and had to relocate. Oops…”

Watch the video now and see what you think!

Kill The Silence play their EP launch show on Friday 17th May at The Key Club in Leeds for their upcoming EP “Bloodlines”. Tickets are available from https://killthesilence.bigcartel.com/

“All We Are” is available digitally on Spotify, iTunes and Apple Music.

Management and further enquiries: donna@rockseen.co.uk

For more information, please visit Kill The Silence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Soundcloud.

In our quest to support the bands we love we buy their EPs, watch their videos, recommend them to friends and go to gigs, but what’s one of the best ways to show our support? The answer is merch!

We’ve all been there, done that and, quite literally, bought the t-shirt! Wearing your favourite band’s merch isn’t just a case of everything else being in the wash…nope, it’s a connection to the band and their music, it’s a display of your admiration and respect for your favourite artistes, and it’s a bad-ass way to grow your never ending collection of black t-shirts – or is that just us?

Buying a t-shirt at a gig isn’t just a momento of a great night, it’s wearing our musical hearts on our sleeves, or emblazoned across our chest…and t-shirts are generally the biggest merch seller for any band, and usually the best way for a band to make some money.

So the team at This Noise Rocks wanted to do something more, and that’s why we designed our Support New & Live Music t-shirts in the summer of 2018. We ran a campaign that required a minimum of ten orders before going to print, this gave us an opportunity to provide merch with no risk to the buyers or to us if the campaign was unsuccessful.

We thought it wouldn’t hurt to give the campaign a chance, so we uploaded a graphic, which simply encourages all who see it to support those new bands just breaking into the industry, the independents, the great unsigned, the DIY bands putting their heart and soul (and usually all their own money) into travelling all over the country to play a 30 minute set every night – not for the money but for the joy it brings them to perform and do what they love – those are the bands that we love, so why not share that love!

So our first campaign was a success, people bought our t-shirts because they got it – they understood what we were doing because they were doing it too; they were going to gigs and supporting those up and coming bands and this made us so proud.

A profit was made from the t-shirts, a profit that we put back into doing what we love. We’ve bought badges for a number of bands to help them, we’ve even designed a number of badges for This Noise Rocks which we give away at gigs and in competitions to help spread our message, and all of these things are done for free, out of love for what we do!

So now we’re running a new campaign, bringing back the same important message; not only on t-shirts but hoodies too (which we’re really excited about, but that’s just us).

If you’re interested or you want to know a bit more about how these campaigns work, our Mercht campaign can be found HERE!

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