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| Bio of the Artist |
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The Red Tie Affair is a working class rock band from the suburbs of Chicago. Many bands of their genre are often label as "emo," but these bands forget all to often that there are more types of emotions than just happy and sad. The Red Tie Affair's music couples lament with ebullience, anxiety with fragility. Their lyrics are metaphoric journeys placing life experience into carefully craftedstanzas.The group's genesis was predicated by a pair of High School friends from Orland Park. Guitarist, Dan Kemp and bassist, Dan Michaels have been playing music together since the day they picked up their respective instruments. Together they continuely started fly by night garage bands until 2002's forming of Box Elder. This would be the start of getting serious. Along with second guitarist, Brad Baker and drummer, Dave Patton, the band finally had the essientals to be something worth wild. 2004, enter Brooke Blary. A Homer Glen native, Brooke, though playing in bands since the ninth grade was at the time making a name for herself as an up and coming solo artist. She had a series of successful self produced demos, tour experience and a laundry list of credible opening slots for bands such as Fall Out Boy, Lucky Boy's Confusion, Moneen and the Junior Varsity. She was recruited by Box Elder at one of her solo performances to replace their lead singer of the time. Her entry into the ranks completely reshaped Box Elder's sound, so changing their name seemed apropos. Just as the ball started rolling, Newton's Theory of Friction took over. Dave left the band to pursue his career and Brad relocated to New Jersey. The band seemed completely inept. However, with little to no effort, the band filled the cracks in the pavement. A friend of a friend of a friend or something to that effect, by the name of Shawn Connors stepped in to fill the drum vacancy. Shawn to this day pursues cult-status crediblity in an underground metal band based out of his hometown of Tinley Park, named Bound and Gagged. He seemed an unlikely candidate for an emotion driven rock band, but instead came to fit like a glove. His drumming seemingly added a new dimension to t/r/t/a.The open guitar slot has never since been permanently filled, other than a few friends who have quickly come and gone. Shawn has been performing second guitar duties for recording purposes and the band has decided to carry on as a four piece live until fate takes its course naturally. After messy couple of years, 2007 is an exciting year for t/r/t/a. The band is finishing their long overdue debut e.p., "You Are Cordially Invited.'' They will be following the release with a heavy show load including an east coast tour and hopefully the starts of their first proper full length. All parts of their plan to take over the world one stereo at a time. |
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