Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy
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About Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy were a 5 piece Pop Punk band from Sheffield, UK. CHRIS CHILDS - VOCALS SAMUEL HAGUE - BASS GAVIN BARNETT - DRUMS SAM MARRIOTT - GUITAR/VOCALS SHAUN DILLON - LEAD GUITAR (Ex Lead Guitarist - PADDY FLETCHER) They formed in early 2007 under the name 'A View From The Attic'. When the original singer Laurie Nicholas left due to personal reasons the band auditioned for a new singer and eventually found Chris Childs. Chris brought a whole new sound to the band and plenty of song ideas. The band decided to change their name to 'Chasing Amy' after the popular Kevin Smith film. The boys soon went to Axis Studio in Doncaster to record the songs 'Never The Less' and 'I Keep My Eyes Shut'. Using myspace to get their music out there like most bands Chasing Amy began to build a strong fanbase and started playing local shows in and around Sheffield. They soon began to branch out and play several shows all over the UK. A few months later CA went back into the studio to record 2 new songs 'You Had Me At Hello' and 'Made Of Pre-Teen Girls & Fail (The Truth)', Which was named after a quote on an anti Chasing Amy website. Some people at the time thought it would be a clever idea. Chasing Amy and Winch House did their first UK Headline tour together in February 2009 which was named 'The Gary Gli-tour'. Chasing Amy and Winch House have been good friends ever since and have played more shows together. Between July and August 2009 Chasing Amy went on tour once again with both 'My Actions Your Exit' and 'Forever Wednesday'. This time they named the tour 'This Is It! - Part 2 (A Homage To Michael Jackson)'. Sadly Paddy Fletcher couldn't do the tour due to work and was planning to travel. The band decided to ask him to leave and started auditioning for a new guitarist. After very few auditions Shaun Dillon joined Chasing Amy. The summer tour went really well for them until their new guitarist Shaun was forced to leave the tour due to being diagnosed with swine flu. Chris Childs filled in for Shaun and played guitar as well as sang. Towards the end of Tour Both Sam and Chris had Swine Flu symptoms forcing the band to cancel the last 2 tour dates. Not long after coming home Samuel Hague and Gavin Barnett decided to leave Chasing Amy to focus on other things. The rest of the band didn't see the point in carrying on and Chris was going to study music at Brighton University anyway. So Chasing Amy called it a day! You can check them out on purevolume.com/chasingamyuk Samuel and Paddy's new band 'THE ROOKIE LEAGUE' features previous members of 'All At Stake' and 'Ship To Shore'. Add them up at www.myspace.com/therookieleague and follow them on twitter @THEROOKIELEAGUE Gavin joined 'Winch House' who are now known as 'BROOKE'. You can check them out at www.myspace.com/brookeuk or www.thisisbrooke.co.uk Chris is currently working on a pop punk / hip hop project. For updates keep in touch him him on twitter - twitter.com/gingerchrislad Shaun is also working on some song writing. stay in touch with him on twitter - twitter.com/Shaun_Dillon
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