BIOGRAPHY
The Follow is Recommended If You Like:
Snow Patrol, Switchfoot, Neverending White Lights, Keane, The Secret Machines, Coldplay, The Killers, Longwave, U2, Aqualung, OneRepublic & New Order
The Follow is slated to release its seventh album in the first quarter of 2011. With six albums, one DVD, and hundreds of live performances, the band have received airplay on college and commercial radio across North America while supporting the releases by touring in the United States and Europe. This Panoramic Rock trio from Columbia, Missouri, U.S. are influenced by U2, Radiohead, and Pink Floyd and have enjoyed sharing stages with various artists such as Plain White T’s, Billy Corgan’s Zwan, & Gravity Kills. The Follow’s last album release, Mixtures - The Remixes (2009), features electro-rock mixes of songs from their previous five albums, Seveneverend, Origins, nowaitingplease, Lost Sessions, and Up With The Sun.
In 2010 the band released the Rock for Kent live concert film. On September 18th, 2009, the band performed a live concert that was broadcasted into the virtual world of Second Life (SL) using a 9-camera video mix. The live audience experienced the video feed on one set of screens, PLUS an SL camera view on a second pair of projections. It made for an amazing evening of energy & emotion. All DVD sales benefit Troy's brother, Kent (who has been diagnosed with ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease).
Best friends formed a band in high school called The Follow that has endured two decades. The driving force behind the band is their friendship and the spiritual connection that they have within the music. The Follow celebrates with you, cries with you, shouts with you, and rocks with you! Heart-felt sincerity and a commitment to explore internal issues with an original sound allows the band to be completely universal and addicting. If you wondered what happened to bands that search for a deeper meaning and some sort of fresh musical identity, simply look to The Follow.
More information found at www.TheFollow.com.
Troy Rickertsen: Vocals, Guitar, Programming
Amy Rickertsen: Bass Guitar, Vocals, Fatar
Mat Matlack: Drums, Samples
MEDIApress
-2011 World Tour in a Day 3 (http://www.WorldTourInADay.com) March, 26th, 2011
-2010 The Follow releases "Heart of Joy EP" to Second Life exclusively
-2009 THE FOLLOW enters SecondLife.com
-2009 MIXTURES released to college radio & specialty shows
-2008 Fan Submissions Create "SMILE LIKE HEAVEN" Video
-2008 Commercial Radio Launch: "Smile Like Heaven"
-2007 Commercial Radio Launch for "Sing"
-2006 Independent Artist Registry Endorsement
-2006 Commercial Radio Launch for "Anything At All" & "Million"
-2006 Press Reviews 'Up With The Sun'
-2005 Airplay 150+ College Radio Stations
-2001 Airplay 80+ Commercial Rock Stations
-2001 Featured on MTV's "Making the Video"
-2000 Winners iCast.com 'Land Your Band' Contest
-2000 Featured Discovery Channel's 'Outward Bound'
-1999 Airplay 100+ College Radio Stations
-1999 Ranked No. 2 MP3.com Alternative Chart
-1999 Ranked No. 40 MP3.com Top 40 Chart
PERFORMance
-2010 World Tour in a Day 2 (Australia, France, Portugal, Brazil, USA)
-2010 World Tour in a Day (Australia, India, Italy, Brazil, USA)
-Special Guests for Robin Trower 2009
-Special Guests for Plain White T's 2008
-Special Guests for Meg & Dia 2008
-Special Guests for Thousand Foot Krutch 2007
-Special Guests for High Flight Society 2007
-Special Guests for By The Tree 2007
-Special Guests for Third Day 2007
-Special Guests for The Afters 2007
-First International Tour: Europe 2006
-Special Guests for Local H 2006
-Special Guests for Lizzie West 2006
-Launch 'Up With The Sun' Tour 2006
-Special Guests for Ludo 2005
-Headline 'Alton Expo' Alton Illinois 2005
-Special Guests for Pigface 2003
-Special Guests for Thrill Kill Kult 2003
-Special Guests for Zwan (Billy Corgan) 2002
-Special Guests for Gravity Kills 2001
DISCOgraphy
-2010 From The Clouds Came a Lion (Single)
-2010 Rock for Kent Live DVD
-2009 Mixtures - The Remixes
-2006 Up With The Sun
-2001 Drive (EP)
-2000 Lost Sessions
-1999 Nowaitingplease
-1997 Origins
The Follow
http://www.thefollow.com
Listen
http://www.reverbnation.com/thefollow
Watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isPLH9vUHSk
See a Virtual World Live Concert
http://www.thefollow.com/livenkickin
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/thefollow
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/thefollow
More information found at www.TheFollow.com.
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