Miles Above – September/October 2005
Who: Miles Above
What: classic melodic rock
Where: St. Catharines, ON
To Contact: Corey Macfadyen, Lintbelly Productions, (905) 684-9874, www.milesabove.org.
Miles Above’s promo package looks great (glossy paper, photo, bio, press), but is missing key details. Most importantly, the advance CD came with no track listing or contact number – vital if it gets separated from the kit. Sometimes you are too lazy to fish around on a Web site and will move on to another act. Anyway, the songs on Move Or Be Moved, including “Faith Unkind”, “Little Miss Innocent” and power ballad “Close My Eyes”, are fitting alongside anything a classic rock station would play. The band was conceived by singer Tim Hicks and producer Corey Macfadyen (Serial Joe, Ryan Dennis, Sue Foley, Brighton Rock, UYK). They write all the material then Macfadyen retreats. For 2003′s Further, Hicks (vocals, guitar, bass, piano) was flanked by studio players to fulfill the sound. For the follow-up, Move Or Be Moved, brothers Anthony Mancini (guitar, banjo, back-up vocals) and Adam Mancini (drums, percussion, back-up vocals) came in and are now permanent members. The 13 songs were recorded at Fort Erie’s Summit Studios, Niagara’s Groundloop Studios, and Macfadyen’s Lintbelly Productions in St. Catharines. It was mixed in Montreal at Planet Studios with Dan Cinelli. Both albums came out in Europe/UK on London label Escape, distributed by Sony. The band doesn’t have a deal in Canada.