 A little bit about Shelby:-The name Shelby is an homage to Carroll Shelby, the great racecar builder of the 1960s. -The band is heavily influenced by contemporary art and photography. -The cover of the "Songs | 8" EP was nicked from a Matt Mullican drawing. -The cover of "The Luxury of Time" is reproduced with the permission of William Christenberry, who had a huge retrospective at the Smithsonian in 2006. -Both records were recorded in the band's own loft studio. -Kenny Cummings was instrumental in flushing out demos for Blonde Redhead that later became tracks on their current critically acclaimed album Misery is a Butterfly. -Cummings previously played and programmed synthesizers for acts as diverse as Elvis Costello and Midnight Oil. -Kenny road-races vintage Norton motorcycles. -Shelby has been involved with a veritable rotating list of whos who in the indie rock scene, especially when it comes to drummers, having lost one - Kevin March - to Guided by Voices, and secured Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead to fill in on several of The Luxury Of Time tracks. -Mark E. Smith from The Fall witnessed Shelby's signing to Gigantic, then proceeded to record a song with Cummings - "Trust In Me" - from the record "Fall Heads Roll" released October 2005 on Narnack Records. -Shelby has shared the stage with the likes of Rogue Wave, The Thrills Apollo Sunshine, The Cloud Room, Lake Trout, Benzos, and The Harlem Shakes. -The band is currently working on material for a new full-length, due in 2008. -Steve McQueen is Shelby’s hero. Some of what the press has to say:"Shelby has a timeless sound like those bands that used to envelope you in a
duvet of sound, bands like The Wedding Present and My Bloody Valentine." "Unsolicited discs tend to go in one hand and right out the other, but
Shelby's... unexpectedly stayed in my grip." "Shelby manages to take the best parts....of My Bloody Valentine's noises,
which is something any fan of music should appreciate...I have not seen a
young band that luscious sounding and so together in a long time" "[Shelby has] the power and grace of its namesake iconic sixties muscle-car
designer" |
