Pool Of Sound - Wave Machines

Wave Machines

'Wave Machines' was formed in Liverpool in 2007 and are described as an electro-pop band. Tim Burzon was at University in Liverpool when he met up with Liverpool born James Walsh and Carl Bowen through the local music scene and they worked together on a few different things, particularly at one recording studio where Walsh was an engineer and had worked with one of Tim's previous bands. "I thought he was a very cool individual," James recalls. "When he and Carl got together and started writing songs, they ended up asking me to join, which was great because I had heard a lot of great stuff in the collaboration from the two of them."

They had been looking for a drummer for some time before Carl stumbled across Vidar Norheim playing drums in a cover band. Impressed with not only his command of the drums but his ability to play the vibraphone and malletkat, they asked him if he wanted to join the band.

The line-up was formed, with Tim Burzon as lead vocalist, rhythm guitar, keyboards,synthesiser and programming, James Walsh on bass guitar, synthesiser, samples, programming, percussion, clarinet and vocals, Carl Brown on lead guitar, keyboards, synth and vocals and Vidar Norheim on drums, malletkat and vocals.
The first official 'Wave Machines' show was held in the slightly inauspicious setting of the tequila bar, Bar Ca Va in Wood Street, Liverpool. They then began playing around the UK, doing about 70 gigs in 2007 as a sort of edit session before recording, testing out the tunes and figuring out what was resonating with live audiences. A show at the famed Chess Club party in London led to the release of their single, 'I Go I Go I Go', on the party's accompanying label, Chess Club Records, together with 'The Greatest Escape We Ever Made'. Before they knew it they found themselves with a manager, an agent, and a few festival gigs.
Signing with Neapolitan Music Limited in 2008 the band used the bowels of the old organ room of St. Brides, an old church on the outskirts of the town centre of Liverpool in the shadow of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, to record the album 'Wave If You're Really There'. It was released in 2009 taking its name from a 1950s art installation that featured one of the first satellite TV link-ups between New York and L.A. The album earned them a devoted fanbase and saw them tour throughout the UK and Europe and it received favourable reviews from NME, Clash magazine and Artrocker magazine.

The group performed a number of live sessions on BBC 6 Music shows presented by Lauren Laverne, George Lamb and Marc Riley, as well as sessions on other stations for Huw Stephens, John Kennedy and Rob da Bank. They performed live at Jodrell Bank Observatory for 'Jodrell Bank Live' on the 2nd of July 2011 alongside 'The Flaming Lips' and 'British Sea Power'.
They won the 9th annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote for best Dance/Electronica song 'Keep the Lights On', the video for which was awarded best choreography at the 2011 UK Music Video Awards.

On the 22nd of  October 2012, the first single from the album 'Pollen', 'Ill Fit', was released followed by the announcement that the album would be released on the 21st of January 2013. It was recorded throughout 2011/12 at various locations starting at Sphere Studios in Battersea before relocating to Liverpool to continue at the band's rehearsal room and eventually at Whitewood studios. With a hard drive full of tracks, Tim would take trips to a studio in London, where their efforts were laid bare before co-producer Lexxx ('Arcade Fire', 'Bjork', 'Goldfrapp'). The pair would then chop and change, approve or discard, edit or overdub, before Tim set off back to Liverpool.

The repeated to-and-fro between these two creative hubs gave the band the necessary perspective, forging the more cohesive, yet complex shapes of their second album which was later mixed by Lexxx at Konk studios in Hornsey, North London.

The band dissolved in 2014.

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