BeyondTheAux Of Sick -Days
BeyondTheAux Of Sick-Days!
Sick- Days is a band ‘soaked in an alternative blend, steeped in grunge noise, and diffused with the dizzy haze of shoegaze... Their vocals, gritty and raw, cut through acid guitar distortion, punchy-driven drum beats, and haunting bass lines.’
Sick-Days draw inspiration from bands like Verdena, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Foo Fighters, Deftones and Alice In Chains. Sick-Days exceptionally blends the ‘angst of the ‘90s/ with encompassy of an innovative modern edge.
Sick-Days started performing as a four peice band in 2022, until 2023, where two band memebers had to leave due to projects and life comitments… Josh, the bassist and Marco, vocals and guitarist, kept writing and recording new material whilst performing with session drummers. In 2024, James. the drummer reached out through a social media post, and they hit it off…
With recent sucessful gigs at the Pipeline and The Prince Albert Sick -days have their next gig lined up for Greendoor on November 15th… If you want something gruelling and raw be sure to check them out!
“One song that has an interesting story is Come Il Mare (which means Like the Sea). I had the idea for the intro, the verse, and some Italian lyrics, but I wasn’t sure about writing a song in Italian — I thought it wouldn’t make much sense if the people we play to couldn’t understand it. I mentioned this to James, and he just said, “You should write it in Italian, why not, man?” So I did. I let go of that doubt and finished the song the next day — and it was really fun. I’d been holding myself back for all the wrong reasons. If I hadn’t listened to him, it probably would’ve stayed as another unfinished file sitting on my desktop. I grew up listening to English and American music without really understanding the lyrics, yet that’s where my passion for music was born. There’s something beautiful about the mystery of ‘not understanding’. We’re often so afraid of it. But sometimes, artistically speaking, intuition is already there so, thinking, is secondary just like questioning yourself wether you should write an italian song or not.
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