Bio:
There is a new band in Los Angeles. Unafraid
and optimistic, The Daylights are a three-piece demanding attention,
whether they mean to or not. Ran Jackson (guitars/piano) and his
brother Ricky Jackson (bass/guitars) split time at the mics, while
Adam Farley sits content to beat the paint off his drum kit. After
just a year in LA, the band is packing out clubs and drawing loyal
supporters nationwide. With the release of their first offering,
The Shift and Blur EP, The Daylights set a daring tone, being
just as much inspired by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin as they
are by John Steinbeck, Radiohead or even Frederic Chopin, for
that matter. It is music that is vast and cinematic in nature,
inevitably becoming a sort of soundtrack to life. The Daylights'
trademark: giant melodies that sink in for days. The band writes
incessantly and is already busy in the studio recording a follow-up
project, The Propaganda EP, expected to be out sometime this Fall.
Watch out for The Daylights in your area....something is about
to happen. Appeared
at
New York - Mercury Lounge, Arlene's Grocer
L.A. - The Viper Room, The Troubadour, The Roxy, The Whisky,
& Café Largo,
Nashville - Exit/In, 12th & Porter, Dancin' in the District,
3rd & Lindsley
Austin - SouthXSouthwest
Review
Shikatoi, Find Magazine
Oct., 2005
Wed. Sept. 28 @ The Mint - Hollywood
With Deccatree & Orson
The soupy dive lounge hip to famous acts over the years, greeted
us with a serene voice with standup bass spitting lyrics at
us as we walked in, but in a Cardigans-beats Norah Jones kind
of way. Standing along the bar as servers pushed by with fusion-artdeco
plates of Godknowswhat, bumping elbows with everyone trying
to get drinks, and noplace to sitass since the stage was surrounded
by tiny tables with bingohall chairs. But, nonetheless we were
soon enought graced with Deccatree, followed by The Daylights,
and finally Orson.... all three of which caught my ears by the
junk and left me wanting more. Making the show next week with
Orson and The Daylights all that more worthy of my return..
and the promise to add them to our amazing list of bands featured
on Curiousculture.com and Find magazine
Wed.
Oct. 5 @ Avalon - Hollwood
Rock This Way Tour
With Orson, Jack Was, Red, + more..
A flashy Vine Street theater packed with fohawks and floofy
skirts makes this joint the epitamy of all that is good in Hollywood
today. Dawned in red carpet and bright lights, 42below vodka
and paparazzi, the tour was blessed by the opening of The Daylights.
With loyal fans crowding the stage, and turning new bobbing
heads from the bar the moment their atmosphericallly-epic-passion-rock
began spewing from the speakers above, The Daylights played
a solid set of powerful sounds tickled with melodic voices.
The two brothers on bass and guitar trade off vocals and each
can grab your attention and sooth your ears unexpectedly. The
drummer kicks down and lays the law setting the stage for the
trio's awesomeness.... To put it lightly.
Not
that I usually compare influences and sounds-likes to my reviews,
but you can feel the intensity of their stronger-than-radiohead
sound with lighter-than-Zepplin energy, which in my own strange
way is to say that The Daylights have potential to go all U2
on us, and to see them here in Hollywood is going to leave a
kickass memory once they're filling arenas and concert halls
in a few years, or so I would like to predict.
Now I have to get their damn cd and hear what they're all about
in studio, but already I can say that live is the way to see
them.
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Calendar:
Oct
10
Avalon
Theatre Hollywood
Oct 21
The Roxy Hollywood
Nov 7
The Key Club
Photos:
Music:
Shift and Blur EP
available on CDBABY.com
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