As U R
Pop / Rock / Ambient
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"INSPIRED BY 70's & 80's BRITISH ROCK"
Auckland,
New Zealand
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| As U R: General Info
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| Member Since | 4/26/2006 | | Band Website | asurmusic.com | | Band Members | 
John Michael Stevens - Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, percussion, emergency fabrication of home-made triangle for Brett to hit (once).
Brett Rogerson - Acoustic guitar, electric bass and double bass, african thumb piano, and he whacked a cardboard box to see if he could make a cool drum sound. He couldn't.
| | Influences | 
Bruce Cockburn, Jeff Buckley, Neil Finn, Coldplay, Beachboys, Beatles, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Queen, The The, Police, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck, Supertramp, Larry Carlton, Dead Can Dance, Sarah McLachlan, Beth Orton, Portishead, Toni Childs, Radiohead, Lamb, Split Enz, Led Zeppelin, Dave Dobbyn, Spinal Tap, Scritti Pollitti, Japan, Weather Report, Deep Purple, The Fixx, Underworld, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads and many, many more.
| | Sounds Like | 
We've been told that we remind people of (amongst others): Pink Floyd, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Supertramp, Coldplay, Tracy Chapman!!!, Boomtown Rats, Dave Dobbyn, ELO, Bruce Cockburn, OMD, Genesis, Enya!!!! If only WE had ears like that....
| | Record Label | stspavilion music | | Type of Label | Indie |
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| About As U R |
'A Year of Wednesdays' - is an accomplished debut Album from As U R, (pronounced As You Are) based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Beautifully self-produced and recorded by the band, you could be forgiven for thinking that the group was made up up of 5 or 6 musicians - all with many releases behind them. However, As U R is all the work of just 2 people, John Stevens and Brett Rogerson.
After building their own studio, they spent a year writing and recording, meeting every wednesday evening to develop their songs, using acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards and percussion to create multi-layered atmospheric backdrops to the vocals.
The album definitely has a classic British rock sound to it, this is understandable as both musicians have strong British roots. John was born in Brighton and moved to New Zealand in 1979, while Brett is a first generation New Zealander but has lived in the UK.
[John] 'We met was I was doing the sound for a covers band that Brett was playing in at the time. Once we started playing together, initially just on acoustic guitars, it was pretty obvious that we could work together and we had a lot of similar music ideas and influences'.
The result is an album they are both very proud of.
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