Fylde College JCR

The Satellite Towns began to form many a moon ago in 2005 when guitarist Aron Royle and keyboard player Carl Heyes met in a dismal office environment, in central Manchester. Fuelled by their passion for music and for want of an escape route from their bleak vocations, they set about penning some tracks (with many emanating from Aron’s Shoebox Of Ideas™!) with a view to forming a proper good Manc band that had something different. Fast forward to December 2006 and along came James Cashin on the trusty bass, we then actually ventured out of our sheds and spare rooms into a rehearsal space in central Manchester. As any of our warblings were not up to scratch we enlisted the profoundly voiced Steven Butterworth for the heady task of vocals, and his lovely nose. All that was left was a drummer - this came in the form of the mysterious and fiery Ben Zenith.We’re getting set to sow the sonic seeds of our distinctly unique sound across the land. There are lots of bands out there at the moment, a lot of which are “scene” based, jumping on the same old “band wagon” and hovering around a certain theme – or spending more money on their hair and fancy pants than on actual instruments! That’s not us, we’re in it for the creation of good, innovative music, that certain buzz of gigging and taking your musical creations out on the road.

“Close to Midnight’s indie groove deservedly got several from a decent turnout moving. Bohemia Dreamer, a slower number, featured a useful organ sound; the keyboardist definitely adds another dimension to this band. An expanding of their horizons will see this band move from being just another act, to one of the best bands on the Manchester unsigned circuit”. 7/10 Academy 3 – 11.12.07 (from UBspotlight)

“A blend of Madchester beats and spiky post punk guitars and synth, fronted by a man with an attitude and confidence that is somewhat lacking in new music these days” Jabez Clegg – 05.01.08 (from Guestlistmusic)

“Brilliant” Clint Boon, XFM Manchester

“The Satellite Towns are apparently a band who got together as young disillusioned men working in City Centre offices. In some ways this helps fuel their municipal outlook. Smoggy, distorted guitars busily buzz with a quite unique sound – rasping, gasping and milling out static bursts alongside a series of post-punk bites. “Close To Midnight” is all informed by psychedelia and it’s great that “Need More Time” takes this a little further without losing any impact. “Universe” is a little bit like mainline old-school indie, but it’s still trying to provide a decent collision of old and new and the final track “Can’t Get Away” is a little bit more laboured yet still comes across as well – stripping it right back would probably have been more effective (it seems a bit busy on the chorus). Small niggles though from a band who actually live up to their claims of sounding just that little bit different.” Manchestermusic.co.uk

                                     Universe
                                                              
                                     Close to Midnight
                                                              
                                     Need More Time