Singer-Songwriter George Gadd has signed to the recently launched independent label, Grapefruit Records.
A new single called ‘Exit Strategy’ is available as a pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp.
Blue Sky Blues.
George. 20 from Nottingham studying Sound & Multimedia technology at Birmingham City University.
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George Gadd - Great Power
This is me being all angry and grrrrr.
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George Gadd - Women I Belong To
I’d say this was the song that gave me the momentum to start the ‘Thorneloe’ EP properly. The night before I wrote it, I went to go see two of my personal idols (Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem) and Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio)) on The Revival Tour and, at that point, I just wanted to somehow become them. I wrote this song, sleep deprived, on the train back to Birmingham and wrote the chorus quickly as soon as I got back to my room and immediately went on a short tour of the block of flats I lived in and played that song to everyone that I knew was in. This is the song where I get the most people asking me about the lyrics behind it, it goes from being about past girlfriends (“We waltzed in the hurricane of a love that decayed”) to flings (“From the fire escape, to the coldness of your skin”).
You can hear ‘Women I Belong To’ and the rest of ‘Thorneloe’ over at bandcamp.
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George Gadd - Bride/Beast
The first verse and guitar part were written for this directly after I had finished writing my last EP ‘Exit Strategy’ (which you can find here), I did this so that what would become ‘Thorneloe’ had some kind of flourish of the first EP. I had a really broad plan on what to do with it musically and had ideas of emulating the whistle in the introduction to Billy Joel’s ‘The Stranger’ and having a lot of field recordings of people in the centre of Birmingham going about their daily business, I also wrote several verses which may see the light of day one day. In every tracklisting that I conjured up, this was always seen as the first track as it segues from the adolescent alienation of ‘Exit Strategy’ and moves more into the decadent heart break of ‘Thorneloe’. My friend Luke did the unnerving vocals in the intro and as well as playing a heavy piano on this track, he also decorated ‘Leave Me In The Dark’ perfectly.
The EP that this track is taken from can be found on my bandcamp.
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Cover of Swing life Away mixed with Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Atlantic City’
Voice really hurts so I didn’t really go up high sadly!
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George Gadd - Bride/Beast
The first track from my new EP!
Download it absolutely free of charge
http://georgegadd.bandcamp.com/
People say I sound like Bright Eyes, Mumford & Sons and Andy Hull
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Lets get #Thorneloe trending on twitter!
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This is what my new EP ‘Thorneloe’ looks like in my iTunes. Right near George Harrison, The Gaslight Anthem and The Get Up Kids!
How about yours? Click the link to download it for free!
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The Gaslight Anthem - The Navesink Banks (Cover)
“and my first sin was a young american girl…”
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This is the cover art for my new record. Click if you want to listen to it!
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Bright Eyes - Hot Knives (George Gadd Acoustic Cover)
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The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Acoustic Cover)
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Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Acoustic Cover)
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The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry (Cover)
Not really keen on the angle the camera is on my face at. Always loved this song, still is one of my favourites (despite the fact I had to read the lyrics off the screen).
Enjoy x
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George Gadd Signs to Grapefruit Records
