Album Notes

After practicing their craft for years in an abandoned aircraft hanger just outside of Fairoaks in Surrey (UK) and then toiling away for years in the dark and dank clubs of London and the South-East getting nowhere fast, singer/guitarist/song writer - Dave Kent and the other band members ejected their previous singer and employed the services of a keyboard player and founded the new band, Velvet Razor in 2003.

For nearly 7 years Velvet Razor has thrilled audiences around London and the South-East. While playing live they exude tremendous energy and they have a proven ability to entertain audiences of all ages, in intimate venues up to large festival stages. Their forays into the recording studio always yield interesting results, which explains their 10,000+ strong worldwide following on myspace. Melding the essence of British & American rock, in the styles of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Cult and The Doors, but with the energy of bands like the Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Greenday and Muse.


Velvet Razor is beginning to enjoy something of a cult status, as can be seen by the quantity of friends on myspace and the number of visitors daily to velvetrazor.com which sometimes go in the thousands. Obviously loved by their fans, but the uninitiated also find their songs captivating. They are no strangers to power and volume, but Velvet Razor is not afraid to play clean and beautiful soft harmonically rich melodies and then follow on with distorted screaming thunder. They live and strive for contrast. Don’t expect non-stop balls-out rock, if that is all you want, then there are plenty of other purveyors available.

Velvet Razor shares uniqueness as with the truly original bands like Led Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes and early Genesis. Don’t expect them to be another Sound garden, Nirvana, slipknot or Metallica clone as so many rock bands today.

Velvet Razor haven’t wasted time in trying to establish themselves as a fixture in the South’s live music scene.
Now they are set to go in to the studio again in June to finish off their CD Album. Also there is work afoot to do a video for their song “Through the looking glass”
Likely to go on youtube as well as a DVD release.
Velvet Razor have been invited to play at a number of gigs:
So it looks like they will be busy with a number of festivals around the country.


You can find more information, read their reviews and listen Velvet Razor’s demos on their website
http://www.velvetrazor.com
or on
http://www.myspace.com/velvetrazorrocks
Please become their friend on facebook


Live for the music, anything else is just distraction - Dave Kent (Guitarist)