Hi all, my band Silverbird have just released our debut album! A bit about us - Me(Glen), Jordan and our old friend Paul founded the band back in 2008, when we were in school in Dublin, Ireland. As the only 3 lads with long hair in school, it was mandated that we form either a band, or a cult. Sadly, we lacked the charisma to lead a cult. So band it was!
The band was originally called 'Prowler' after the 'Iron Maiden' song of the same name, but we later changed it to 'Silverbird' after being made aware on the run up to performing at the Oxegen 2009 Festival that 'Prowler' made us sound a bit dodgy.... Thanks Drop D magazine for the heads up!
The name ''Silverbird'' came from a line in ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'' by Simon & Garfunkel - "Sail on Silverbird". I thought - 'Silverbird! That sounds cool!'. Turns out my hearing was shite long before the tinnitus took hold! The lyric is actually 'sail on silver girl'. But hey! We got our band name from it!
Then! 2011. We met Wayne - a monster drummer, and reached our final form. Wayne joined the band after answering an ad on Musolist(Remember that?)
Proof that meeting a beast on the internet can indeed be a positive thing!
The first gig we played together was the inaugural 'Gig For Gary' - a tribute gig we organised in Whelans for the late great Gary Moore!
And then! We gigged and gigged, then stopped gigging for a bit, then gigged some more, tried to squeeze recording a full album into 1 day in a studio before realising we'd made a rushed mess - 3 separate times..... our wallets 😭 Then! gigging again! Aaaaand then we calmed on the gigging before deciding -
'Ya know what lads? We owe ourselves an album. let's record ourselves!'
Sound engineers of the world - I salute you. Your job is hard!
But here we are! Our debut album - https://open.spotify.com/album/6OOXBf2KJw5sCGYbVf1qrU?si=nHUsWTwbTTqkqAvAA4S7kg
The video is a snippet of "Out in Exile"
Hope you enjoy!