Music News - The Sam Loveridge Band Releases 'I Wanna Dance'
20 November 2021 - 0 Comments
As a solo artist, multi-instrumentalist and sideman, Sam Loveridge has been in the Auckland underground music scene for a number of years. After graduating from Auckland University with a Bachelor of Music degree specializing in jazz, Sam cut his teeth exploring folk and songwriting with the band Adventures With Rhubarb. After a couple of gigs and then stopping, Sam began to explore the Auckland open mic scene and joining other bands.
Since then, Sam has been a long-term member of Mice on Stilts, Gitbox Rebellion, Permission to Speak as well as formerly Callum Gentleman, The James and Tequila Mockingbird. As sideman, Sam has also played with Troy Kingi, recording strings on The Ghost of Freddy Cesar, Bernie Griffin, Miss Peach and the Travellin’ Bones, Kendall Elise and A Straw Assembly to name a few of many.
Looking to record his own songs in 2017, Sam signed with Allgood Absolute Alternative records and began working on his debut album, Clarity, which was released in 2019. Throughout this process and enlisting friends to help make an album, a band began to form. Four of the members (Sam, Sam, Chris and Bhagirath) met at the University of Auckland Jazz school, while Jono and Sam knew each other from the Auckland open mic scene. Following the release of the album and touring with Bonnie Strides and then The Rvmes, new songs began to take shape.
As the new material was written with the band in mind and had input from the band members on arrangements and aspects of the songs, The Sam Loveridge Band was then born. Drawing from a wide range of influences including classic rock, folk, jazz and psychedelic a cohesive and expansive sound was created. This process of taking influences from all the band members and blending them into a vehicle to carry Sam's songwriting took place over the course of 2019 to 2021 to complete the forthcoming album Recovery.
The first single from the album, Run To You, received high critical acclaim with Muzic.net.nz awarding it 5 *’s and saying “The musical hooks are massive, with the vocals in the chorus both plaintive and powerful.”
I Wanna Dance is the second single from the forthcoming album, and when asked about it, Sam said, “My friend Loren, who I'd written a couple of songs with, had expressed an interest in writing a pop banger so we met up for a writing session. I'd spent a little while playing with funk ideas and after playing a couple to Loren she had the lyrics sussed. It was a really fun session, and the song pretty much wrote itself. I love the spirit of defiant joy that came out of it”.
There are plans to undertake a series of festival appearances this Summer, as well touring throughout New Zealand to support both the singles and the album.
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