Sunday 8/8/2010 at CRF 10
IOEarth came into being late in 2007 when Dave Cureton and Adam Gough decided to start work on a new album that would break conventions and defy genres.
They became friends in the early ‘90s whilst still at school and wrote their first pieces of music together before they were 12.
Over the years, they worked on many projects with others, but their ultimate goal was to always produce something together. Something that was fresh and new. Something that would challenge the ears, hearts and minds of its listeners.
The project solidified in 2008 as the three-movement work, IOEarth.
Adam and Dave began to focus on blending genres. Ambient, Rock, Dance, Classical, Atmospheric, Jazz … they would take slices of styles rarely found together and blend them seamlessly to create something new and at times something unusual.
Before long, their musical experimentation had yielded a “sound” of their own and the tracks were coming thick and fast.
At the beginning of 2009, they released IOEarth independently through their website, having built up a following of over 1500 via social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. Within weeks, the album had received rave reviews from many websites and online radio personalities. Despite the wide range of genres that make up the IOEarth sound, the album was quickly embraced by the Progressive Rock community and gained substantial airplay on many radio stations throughout 2009.
The majority of 2009 was spent travelling to promote the album, adapting it for live performance and rehearsing the material with a newly formed band. The density of the music made this process particularly difficult, but the end product, played by just six musicians is truly breathtaking.
The six consist of Dave and Adam themselves, playing mainly Guitar and Keyboards respectively, Richard Cureton (Dave’s older brother) on Drums, Claire Malin on Vocals, Marc Williams on Bass Guitar and Luke Shingler on Saxophone.
In January 2010, IOEarth were named the Artist Of The Month on the Melodic Revolution Records website and are the recipients of a nomination for the Best Debut Album in the 2009 Prog Awards.
As 2010 gets underway, Dave and Adam are spending their time preparing for gigs, promoting IOEarth and writing their next album, “Red”. As their following continues to increase and more and more people discover their music, they feel that 2010 will be “their year”. Their journey is just beginning.
