Okay, Amy Hits The Atmosphere is three guys. That's six testicles, and they've all dropped. Gord sings and plays guitar, and writes the bulk of the songs, Mike plays bass, sings when he feels like, and makes changes to Gord's songs because generally they'd suck if he didn't, and Ad plays drums, and doesn't get to sing because Gord and Mike are fascists.
Hello, yes, we are three. We play what is usually called 'Indie rock and roll', but you can define it however you like. We've been compared to a variety of bands such as Pavement, Eels, Pixies, Foo Fighters and, god help us, UK nu-metallers Fony. You can make up your own mind.
Gord and Mike met a long time ago in school, and spent their days together listening to rock and roll music. At one point, one of them turned to the other and uttered the immortal phrase "hey, you wanna start a band?" And despite not being able to play any instruments, they did. Gord decided he'd sing and write the songs, and Mike decided to play bass because "it looks easy. It has less strings". They soon hooked up with a guitarist called Thomas and a drummer called Chris, and started making shitty home demos. And 'shitty' is an understatement. Seriously. I've still got them.
After a while Chris left the band, and a guy called Pete joined. They got a drummer called Katie, and Thomas quit. We rocked out in the school music rooms every other day, but soon Katie quit, so we got our friend Andy to join on drums. (Andy later went on to play guitar in the band Stapleton, and can now be find strumming his six-string in promising new Dundee band, Avast!)
Pete and Andy left because their music tastes had varied too far from Gord and Mike's, so they were left drummerless once more. Gord decided he was good enough on guitar not to need another guitarist, and they found this guy called Chris (a different Chris) to play drums. At this point, they were performing under the name Head Cleaner, and played a gig in Dundee before Chris quit. (Also at this point, Mike was playing guitar, and we had a guy called Dan on bass. A variation of this line-up recorded a demo in Glasgow called the 'Screaming Child EP'. It's shit.)
Confused yet? Yeah, me too.
After Chris and Dan left, Gord and Mike didn't really know what to do. Gord spent some time with his solo project, and Mike formed a band called Trashcandy, but Gord and Mike still jammed together incase they ever found a new drummer. (This was 2002, by the way). In November, they did. His name was Ad, and he played in Mike's band Trashcandy, but when that came to an end, he joined what was still known as Head Cleaner.
After a bunch more gigs in Dundee, they changed the name to Amy Hits The Atmosphere, it's a song by a band none of us really likes, but it's a good band name, so fuck off and stop taking the piss. And here we are. At the arse end of 2003 we recorded a six-track EP, and it's still kinda okay I guess.
2004 was a strange year for us, we didn't get alot of new stuff written but we played a whole bunch of gigs across the country before the last gig of the year back 'home' in Dundee, the city of Discovery.
2005 will prove to be a tough year as Adam will leave the band in April to pursue a lifetime of meditation, but we've got tons of kickass new songs to unleash on the public whoever is drumming for us.
Rest assured, we're gonna keep having fun and kicking some rock-tastic ass.
Take care, and we'll see you very soon.
Amy xxx
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