![]() ![]() Nicky Smith beats his chest and tells us “We are holier than any religion”. The wall of sound generated from Rob Marshall’s wailing guitar goes hand in hand with the fluid rhythm section of Simon Lindley’s heavy bass lines and Scott Pemberton’s precision drumming. It might be a small, intimate stage but the sound is massive. Taken from the critically acclaimed second album “The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be”. Not only looking the part, they sound it too. Walking out to Talk Talk’s “Life’s What You Make It” there’s an air of anticipation, as there always is, when these four forward thinking lads take to the stage. Tonight they’re back in Manchester on a string of UK dates playing old and, rather more excitingly, new songs and they don’t disappoint with a performance of energy, enthusiasm and raw emotion. ![]() They know it and we, the loyal fans, know it too. They ARE relevant and they could easily be the best live band in the world, if they aren’t already. A musical apocalypse with the potential to be HUGE. Now imagine if Exit Calm could just flick a switch and introduce themselves to a new audience too? People opening their eyes and ears to an ethereal sound of epic, soaring landscapes. It can be frustrating at times championing a band who many have still never heard of. Not a band that like to promote themselves extensively which is a shame really as they should be up in the higher echelons of greatness. The future eh? The future, most definitely, isn’t what it used to be. Even the biggest still need to feel relevant and wanted in this cut throat business. ![]() Imagine once being the self-proclaimed “biggest and best live band in the world” and then, as your career comes to an end, you feel the need to strike up a deal with the giant that is Apple and force feed your music on 500 million people simply by flicking a switch? The last act of a desperate man. Shortly after, the converters for the remaining Lightsmiths darkened as well until finally the universe died in an explosion of color, leaving only Relic to survive and 'warn' the next universe of its impending doom.Exit Calm are a band with a sound as big as their ambitions, but does that translate in to a live environment? Louder Than War’s Jason Wynne certainly thinks so. In an event that the Lightsmiths referred to as the Dimming, Axylund, the home planet of the blue Lightsmiths, faced the crisis of an obsolete light converter, cutting off azure energy to the Lightsmiths. But unlike the corps of today, the Lightsmiths decided to work together to construct civilizations built solely out of light constructs. Using enormous converters, they absorbed the energy of the Emotional Spectrum and transformed it into power, later channeling that power into staffs in the same way today's corps use rings.Īccording to accounts by Relic, it was undecided which group actually harnessed the power of the emotional spectrum first. The Lightsmiths are a group of aliens who lived in the universe before ours that wielded the red light of fury, the orange light of gluttony, the yellow light of terror, the green light of resolve, the blue light of faith, the indigo light of empathy, and the violet light of passion. ![]()
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