Attention! ATTENTION THIEVES! Attention!

Attention Thieves



I caught up with the fiery foursome from Reading who are ready to kick out the jams on to the mainstream scene!



 Formed in 2009, the alternative-rock foursome known as ‘Attention Thieves’ are only just around the corner from storming on to the mainstream scene. Only at the beginning of this year the boys signed to highly respected and well renowned Velocity Records.

 These guys have all played in a string of bands from their early school years and have now teamed up for their best project yet! Lead vocalist Alex Green comes from the well-established hard rock hook-up, ‘Arusha Accord‘. All four members are well experienced in the rock-thirsty, spunk pumping music scene and are well known to blow your thinker with their blue-blood, elite live performances.

 Attention Thieves are more than just your generic rock band, these guys are loaded with a sound that is a collective of the visceral guitar licks of the Foo Fighters and vocals that are on a par with artists like Mr Grohl himself and Rages’ own Zach De La Rocha. Even so, the boys pride themselves with a sound that is unique to them, being influenced by music from each end of the musical spectrum.
 Taking a break from gigging around the country last year, they have been working hard in the studio with big name UK rock producer Dave Chang on their new single ‘Let It All Out’, which is to be released at the end of the month. This no-nonsense rock record proves the guys stand out from the crowd with massive potential, keeping their sound underground and original to the pure definition of what rock music is all about. The track has been described as ‘A coming of age’ and ‘Their best work yet’. 

Still only in the early years of what’s set to be a long musical career for the band and with a busy year ahead, I caught up with them to talk about their new single, gigs and what their plans are for the near future.

How are we all?
We are all well thank you.

How did you guys get together to form Attention Thieves?

We were all friends at school together and have been jamming together in and out of bands, but never as a foursome. So when the various bands came to an end we all found ourselves looking to start a new band, we finally realised that the obvious thing to do was to become Attention Thieves.

How did you create your hard rock/punk status and your unique sound? Was it based on your previous experiences playing in other bands or were there any particular influences who inspired your sound?

I think the sound of Attention Thieves is due to the fact that all of us listen to various genres of music and so this translates into our writing. Being in previous bands together has helped us write, because we know how each other work. The sound we've got has evolved over time and will continue to do so. There's not one particular influence that we take inspiration from but rather we take it from many different genres, bands and personal experiences.

We're still so early into 2011 and you've recently just signed to highly respectable Velocity Records. How did that come about?

 We've put a lot of hard work into the band, we've been getting our hands dirty and promoting ourselves and so Velocity noticed us and liked what we were doing so picked us up.

That's not all though! Your new single 'Let It All Out' is to be released on 28th February I hear! You worked with big UK producer Dave Chang on this record. How did that happen? Did you enjoy working with him?

Yeh that's right! Working with Dave was a really good experience because he was very thorough with his pre production which made recording the single a lot easier for us, we came into the studio with a thought out plan and delivered.

How can people get their hands all over this?

From Monday 28th of February the single will be distributed by Believe Digital so you can download if from itunes, amazon, hmv.com and all other major online music stores. You can also listen to it on spotify.

As well as working on the new single, You've been working away in the studio over the last couple of months with yet another big name producer on two further releases, which are due later this spring? You HAVE been busy! How's it all going?

Yep we've been working at outhouse studios on the next two singles with John Mitchell who some of us have worked with before. We are real excited for people to hear them, they sound huge! the best thing we have done by a mile. For now though people are going to have to come check them out at shows if they want to hear them.

And there are to be video releases for both of these tracks too?

Correctamundo Video is in the works and people will be able to see the video for the next single soon.

You spent a lot of time last year playing lots of live shows, Any plans to tour later this year? Any festival slots lined up?

Yea not as much as we would have liked to though, this year we just plan to get on the road as much as possible and show as many people as possible what we are about. We pride ourselves in our live performances, we practice almost every day.

What's your most memorable live show that you have played? Good or bad!

There have been some great gigs recently and one moment that stands out is a show where people were going absolutely nuts! We looked up and saw a human pyramid! It wasn’t the biggest venue but it was rammed and you can really feel the energy from the crowd at gigs like that!

As a tight, energetic rock band, do you feel that your live performances are your main means to promoting yourselves and getting yourselves out there? Obviously it's what you guys do best!

As mentioned previously we pride ourselves on our live performance, we give it all we got and want people to remember us when we leave the show but live performance isn't the be all and end all, it is more important for rock bands( as CD sales have dropped dramatically) to draw people to shows but great songs and recordings will always be important.

For those people who are yet to hear your sound, where can they go to find out more, have a cheeky listen and find out about upcoming gigs?

People can check out are release dates, tracks, upcoming gigs, videos, photos and more at the various links below.

http://www.attentionthieves.co.uk/

www.facebook.com/attentionthieves

www.twitter.com/atbanduk

www.youtube.com/attentionthieves