Friday 3 May 2024, 12:22pm
Hello. House Above The Sun (HATS) are looking for a talented guitarist and/or slide/steel player to join our line up. We're a London based quartet comprising guitar/vocalist, percussion/harmony vocalist, bassist, and drummer. We play original songs inspired by a mix of country soul, folk, blues, classic rock, and indie/alternative. 'Americana' is a tag usually applied to us, but we're not super purist and have a broad range of influences. Best starting place is to hear our releases on Spotify or Bandcamp. We're fairly well established within the London roots scene and have a new full length album very nearly completed, which we hope to release around Aug-September. Recently we've been playing a lot of acoustic trio gigs but we're now looking to return to some full band electric gigs.
Looking for a new member with a good sense of humour and shared love and feel for this kind of music, and ideally someone who can play some slide guitar and/or lap steel (or even pedal steel) too though that's not a deal breaker. We're all around mid 30s to early 40s, and live in different parts of London, so likely to rehearse in various locations including Peckham, Earlsfield, and Seven Sisters.
As the singer/guitarist I play a mixture of acoustic and electric (telecaster mainly), both rhythm and lead, so the ideal person would be a guitar buddy who can weave in and out with me, someone flexible who enjoys mixing between lead and rhythm duties too. Experience and technical skill is important but even more important is someone with a really good ear who can play what the song needs, tapping in to key hooks and harmonies and someone who's able to pick songs up quite naturally.
Some key guitar influences for me include James Burton, Mick Taylor, Don Rich, Keith Richards, Charlie Sexton, Johnny Marr, BB King, Dave Rawlings, Townes Van Zandt, Peter Buck, Neil Young, Robbie Krieger, Robbie Robertson, George Harrison, Peter Green.
Some favourite artists include Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, The Beatles, Gram Parsons, Television, Sam Cooke, The Doors, Townes Van Zandt, Nick Cave, Uncle Tupelo, Bruce Springsteen, Nina Simone, REM, The National, Hank Williams, Neil Young, Kurt Vile, Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, The Smiths, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd.
Please get in touch if you're interested and want to find out more. Please tell us about you and include some links to some recordings and/or live footage.
Thanks,
jim