Chris Gray + Band in Glasgow, SC

SEEKING

ABOUT

Band fronted is Inner Sight. Cosmic alt rock band where I aimed to convey messages of hope and optimism to the listener/audience in order for them to ignite the spark within The whole message and image that I try to create is summed up by having the ability of using the individuals’ inner sight.

After already headlining and selling out the top venues in Glasgow, such as Classic Grand, o2ABC2, O2 Academy2, and King Tuts and a successful campaign recently in Ireland, where Inner Sight were the only band from the mainland to make it through to the heats of a national competition 'Live and Kicking' that took place in Donegal, Letterkenny. After knocking out the favourites of the competition in our heat, we returned to the grand final were we were runner-up.

It is now I feel using the past experiences as a good backbone should give us the potential to push ourselves into other bigger avenues and directions as I believe that there is something different to give to the audiences, music is one of the last mediums for people to use the podium and spread good positive messages and by captivating audiences with feeling and emotion, as well as warmth and humility should add the human touch to music with reality. The problem with music today is that there's a lot of conformity and many bands/artists going for sounds that are popular at the current time. I'm hoping for like minded people to break the mold and think out the box, sometimes going down the non-conventional route so that there is hopes of longevity in our future.

The songs are written in order to give people the norms and values that, in recent times, have not been implemented and passed on to the current generations. The aim of this is to create unity, and a sense of togetherness, and by looking within yourself has the potential- via self determination and belief- to achieve more from life. A philosophical look into the life of the audience in order to guide people in the right path and show that there is more to life than to just accept the norm, no matter how dark or mundane an individuals life may appear to be, and again by looking within themselves as everyone has the spark within them to get them out of the rut and make the most out of their lives. Essentially everyone is destined for greater things, they just have to believe in themselves, through this the aims and potential of the individual is limitless. The only thing that's missing is a voice, a group, a cult where people can look towards and be guided by.

Screen name:

Chris_Gray

Member since:

Dec 15 2008

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

3

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to gig:

1 night a week

Age:

38 years

Influences

Many influences, open minded and has a wide variety of genres that I like. I'm always aiming to try and not pigeon-hole the music, so that there's flexibility to try something completely different. Here's some examples in no preference, just alphabetically:
Air,Alice in Chains,Audioslave,Avenged Sevenfold,Jeff Buckley, Beach Boys,Beatles,Johnny Cash,Biffy Clyro, Bob Dylan,Blondie,Coldplay,The Cure,Daft Punk,David Bowie, Depeche Mode,Drive-By Argument,Duran Duran,ELO, Enter Shikari,Faithless,Foo Fighters,Fightstar, Franz Ferdinand,Green Day,David Gilmour,David Guetta, Guns n Roses,Hurts,Jimi Hendrix,Imogean Heap,Incubus,INME, Janes Addiction,Jimmy Eat World,Joy Division,Journey,Kasabian, Kings of Leon,Led Zepplin,Muse,Marina and the Diamonds, Mars Volta,MGMT,Mumford and Sons, My Chemical Romance,NIN,Nirvana,Paulo Nutini,Placebo,Prodigy, Panic! at the Disco,Paramore,Pendulum, Pink Floyd,Prince,Queen,QOTSA,RATM,RHCP,Radiohead, Rolling Stones,Ryan Adams,Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins,Stokes,Soundgarden,Stereophonics,Train, Two Door Cinema Club,U2,Warpaint,Weezer,Wolfmother,Yellowcard, Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Members Of Band

Chris -Lead Vocals,Piano, Bass Guitar

EQUIPMENT

Fender Jazz Bass
Microkorg
Yamaha YPP-55
Tc-Helicon Voice Live Touch

MUSIC