6 Day Riot

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Leader: DeaconBhoy
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Created on: 25 Dec 2007
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6 Day Riot is a London based band formed in 2004 featuring Tamara Schlesinger and Soren Bonke. 6 Day Riot have an individual, eclectic sound, taking on influences from folk and pop music. Their...

Danish muti-instrumentalist Soren Bonke met Scottish singer-songwriter Tamara Schlesinger via mutual friends at a gig in London in 2004 and was soon enlisted to play guitar on Tamara's debut solo album. The recording went very well and they proceeded to tour live across the UK with the rest of Tamara's band; promoting the album which garnered excellent reviews and national airplay. It was during this period that their creative collaboration intensified as they started to develop exciting new songs that fused Soren's musicianship and arrangement skills with Tamara's flair for hooky melodies and compelling lyrics to create a distinctive new sound. This was clearly now no longer a solo project and 6 Day Riot was born.

The pair were joined by Jonathan Beyer on upright bass and Daniel Deavin on drums and together the band have struck the perfect balance between their foot-stompingly raucous proclivities, as evidenced by their live performances, and the intricate and compelling nuances they've successfully committed to their debut record. The result is an outstanding collection of songs that fully evokes the world of this remarkable new band.

The 6 Day Riot sound is both eclectic and at the same time entirely integrated - harnessing banjos, ukeleles, guitars and accordions with Eastern European folk beats, bluegrass rhythms, distorted guitars and infectious pop melodies to create a style of music utterly their own.