Album Notes

After eleven years, lots of demos and two studio albums the Rotterdam (Holland) based hardcore band Second Chance used their last US tour in April 2007 to end their days as a band with a bang. But founder, guitarist and songwriter Perry Seleski felt far from satisfied at that point and thus went on to find people to form a new band to give means to his ongoing urge to write, record and play hardcore punk the way he thinks it’s supposed to be done. For Second Chance that vision he had about hardcore resulted in a fair fan base spread all over the world. He and the band did not even try reinventing the wheel, but adapted the style of their heroes of the eighties and made it into something of their own.

Now Perry is continuing his efforts with his new band called Harbour 81. “Harbour”, because Rotterdam has the world’s third largest port and “81” because 1981 is when hardcore punk originates, and that’s something that a lot of people don’t seem to realize anymore in these times when metal bands are considered to play hardcore.

He teamed up with drummer Jordy Datema (50 Percent Off, Phaedra List), guitarist Ashley Bentvelsen (Cheap Thrills), bassist Bauer (Second Chance, Fist of Fury), gave up the guitar in exchange for the mic to be the lead singer of the band. Recently Raymond Loers completed the line-up of the band on second guitar. The Summer and Fall of 2007 were used to play a first dozen of shows and to record the album "Live Your Dreams" due out on Warbird Entertainment (US) on May 20, 2008. Plans are being made to support the release of the album in the US by doing a three week tour.