Music News - Bright future ahead for band breaking traditional barriers
05 March 2016 - 0 Comments
Ditching traditional band formats, DateMonthYear is bringing a mix of musical flavours into the market, rotating band members and bringing a new sound with each song.
Formed by Trevor Faville in 2003, the band has been stepping outside the normal confines of creating music by having various artists come and go into the band, to bring in a range of different sounds.
Faville began the band, which he describes more as a “way of making music”, with the simple aim to create and share, and has been the only ‘fixed’ member since the beginning.
He said it is not unlike the well-known 60’s and 70’s jazz artist Miles Davis, whose band members changed frequently, and enables people to bring new creativity and ideas to the table.
The idea behind it is to keep the music fresh and constantly developing, bringing different musical influences of rock to jazz, and everything in between.
Creating a music video was no different. Recently the band handed control over to budding videographers to create a music video for any existing song of their choosing.
Referred to as “an event” rather than a music video by Faville, the three videographers took on a song each and were free to use their own taste and style, and without a single shot of the band insight.
“There are always band shots and it’s a bit boring and tedious. I wanted to let the film makers loose.
“Band shots limit what the film makers can do. I ‘d rather get creative people and let them be creative.”
The results were all positive despite the lack of control or input from the band.
“It was completely different to what I expected. I wanted it to be a surprise so there was no editorial input. It’s not at all what I would have though,” says Faville.
Currently the band is comprised of, along with Faville, Emma Koretz, Brooke Baker and Tyler Leet, all who have been part of the band for the last three years.
Making music comes naturally to Faville who has been involved in the music scene for over 30 years, and now teaches at a small school in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Thrown in the deep in at school assembly as a drummer, once he started he couldn’t stop.
“I was telling my friends at school about how I was learning the drums. One, who was already quite an accomplished musician, said to me: ‘OK then, we are playing next week at an assembly. You're drumming!’
“After that, I grabbed any musical situation that came my way- brass bands, shows, orchestras, wedding bands, punk bands…anything, really. That’s how my career began.”
The band was born during a group chat with colleagues in a London hospital and the name was grabbed from a hospital admissions form.
“I used to work in a hospital in London, we were having a competition to make up band names and I looked at the hospital admissions form where it said date month year, and it stuck.
“I think second place was something to do with a German air-conditioning company.”
For Faville it’s not about making millions, rather about bringing music to people that has a bit of difference.
“Its an approach to making music that values creativity, eclecticism and musicianship. If it survives in the marketplace, then that’s well and good, but ultimately the idea is to make music that we can all look back at twenty years later and still be proud of.”
“We’re not rock stars,” He says, it’s about making the music.
So far the band has had their music featured on the A&E Network, the History and Discovery channel and many more. “They don’t even let us know anymore what’s being played!”
Over the next year Faville says fans will see a new single, another music video for a new song, and a new album.
Their music can be found on most electronic music platforms including iTunes, Spotify and Youtube.
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