Artist Website: www.fightingwithwire.co.uk
About Fighting With Wire
Fighting With Wire emerged from the ever creative Northern Ireland music scene in 2003, the brainchild of guitarist Cahir O’Doherty (Jetplane Landing / Clearshot) and drummer Craig McKean (Clearshot).
An idealistic bunch, they’ve since done what rock bands are meant to do: they wrote a bunch of songs, and took to the road. They played shows with the likes of Reuben, Biffy Clyro, Million Dead, Seafood, YCNI:M and Future Of The Left, racking up hundreds of miles and honing their live show into a ferocious explosion in the process. After putting out a number of limited edition DIY singles, they took a breather at the end of 2006 and finally started work on their long awaited debut album. Recorded in Northern Ireland and finally completed in mid-2007, Man Vs Monster is a dynamic beast of a record – raging out of your speakers one moment yet gentle and intricate the next, and all without losing focus of what’s important: the song.
2008 saw the band record two Maida Vale sessions for BBC Radio 1, as well as the release of their first two singles from the Man Vs Monster album; 'Everyone Needs A Nemesis', which reached number 1 on the MTV Myspace chart, and 'All For Nothing'. The year also brought performances at a number of high-profile festivals, including Leeds and Reading, T in the Park, Oxygen, One Big Weekend and Truck. As 2008 drew to a close Fighting With Wire had completed over 100 shows, including four full UK tours, two as headliners, a headline European tour, and their debut performances in America.
FWW played at the 2010 Glasgowbury Festival on the Small but Massive Main Stage along with another fighting Irish band, Fight Like Apes. They played at Belsonic in Belfast on 28 August 2010 alongside Twin Atlantic, Lostprophets, and Biffy Clyro FWW released an EP in January 2010 called 'I Am Ursus'. This EP was released due to their frustration of not being able to release their second album which they had recorded under the working title of "Bones Of The Twilight" at Dark Horse Studios and Blackbird Studios in Nashville with producer Nick Raskulinecz. In March 2012, the band departed from Atlantic Records due to the label's failure to release their album for over 2 years. The first single from their new album, 'Colonel Blood', was played on Across The Line on 12 March 2012. On 4 March 2012, the band announced on their Facebook page that the single would be released on 2 May and the album, of the same name, will be released for free download independently without their record labels. 2 months after the announcement the band then made public they had signed a deal with Xtra Mile Recordings and that the album would now instead be released through them.
FWW went on tour around Europe in 2012 supporting American alt-metal band Helmet.
On 28 February 2013, the band announced via their Facebook page that they were to split at the end of the year after a final show in Derry City on 28 September.
ROCKSOUND - "Do what you believe in, believe in what you do and dont give a damn about anything or anybody else. That seems to be the philosophy of fighting with wire, both in terms of their songs and their live performances. Fronted by Jetplane landing guitarist Cahir O Doherty, these 3 guys make enough noise to drown out an armageddon-scale nuclear attack. Surprisingly for the barfly though the sound tonight is crisp and clear. O Dohertys guitar acts as a direct and constant electric current, causing him to jerk and lucrh around aggressively on-stage and forcing tortured yelps and screams out of his mouth. They are confrontational, agitated and bitter, their full-on, riff driven songs a (successful) self proclaimed attack against a seething mass of generic and unoriginal rock and indie bands"
KERRANG - "Derry's fightingwithwire are living proof that despite the gazillions already used you can still come up with a fucking great band name if you try. More importantly the music matches; vicious and stinging in parts but applied with dexterity and finesse. It would seem trite, lazy and geographically convenient to place them somewhere between Therapy? and Ash but add a raw garage-rock edge and you're sniffing around the same park."
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Fighting With Wire - Everyone Needs A Nemesis
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