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The Ocean’s Eyes cause up a storm.

Last night at the crazy o2 academy Islington The Ocean’s Eyes played their first gig in London. The five pieced rock band have been around for a few years but it wasn’t until last night that their dreams came true. It had been a great success for the band as it was one of their first big tours all around the England and were excited to finish it all off in London. Despite the fact that this hard core rock and had only seen the supporting band, they claimed the lime light from the headlining band Taking Hayley which came as a great deal of surprise to them.

Reporting stickily from last night’s gig which was extremely mental, for a new and upcoming band such as small as they are. No one quite expected what happened that night as it was a mosh pit manic! The band got right away into it without any introductions or slow pace music, the starting song was almost as upbeat and energetic than the last, the performance maintained this spectacular and hard-core rhythm throughout.  This was quite an achievement for an unknown band trying to make it big in such a competitive city! Within the first few seconds of their starting song The Room Of Red, already the crowd had gotten into the moshing spiriting as the crowd were showing great signs of energy, before they even started their second set circle pits were definitely in the go. However it was not only the crowd who seemed to be having a blast. Luke McInroy lead singer of the band was a lot more than your average screamer. Running around all over the stage, crashing into his fellow members, tearing up the lights and jumping also with the crowd is what you would have found him doing. The interaction with the band and the crowd was immensely close, at a few points during the show, Luke himself jumped into the small crowd that covered the floor and crowd surfed along with them, passing the mic to someone to sing along with, involving everyone to join in with their exclusive party.

TOE gave Taking Hayley a run for their money as they had more experience as a much larger band with a wider fan base, somehow this didn’t show in their performance as the crowd was taken away with them before the headliner could even play. The chance to play in a sold out show wasn’t enough then be blown away from what you are about to read. TOES have been offered a place to support America’s large pop emo band, Blood On The Dance Floor in Kings College next year! So if you’re around the area, be sure to find a ticket to the nearest venue because they will now definitely sell out within seconds!

The tiny venue of o2 academy Islington was pounding and the music could even be heard from the venue below, the small stage and pillars were shaking with the heavy flow of happy fans and a great performance from a supporting band that are soon to be the next big thing. Keep your eye out for The Ocean’s Eyes as soon they will be playing in much finer venues with much superior crowds and much greater MUSIC!

“We came from such small hopes that have now been raised to much higher expectations for the future to come now!” Quoted the drummer Ben Smith.

“London have always been my favourite crowd, everyone just gets so lose and mental, I felt like I was home, in a proper gig when I sang tonight, it was just magically.” Blasted Luke.

Also following the many new fans that the band has now made, and also friends had a lot to say about lasts nights gig.

“I never expected such a small gig to have such class A bands, the performance they gave was probably better than when I say Coldplay, even better musically I’d say.” One of the fans that attended the concert told us later on that night.

Judging from last night’s reaction form the band and the fans I’m guess that they had a blast? Not only were the crowd surprised but also the other supporting and headlining bands, friends of Taking Hayley, were joined by With One Last Breath, Bury Tomorrow and Room 94 also agreed with the comments made above.  If you are not familiar with the band and what sort of music they play then now if the time to give them a listen! You can find them all over facebook, twitter and youtube, (links would be provided at the bottom of this page) they are a mixture of soft rock, and hard indie classics, (Alternative/Pop Punk/Rock) which have been describe to sound like the existing Lower Than Atlantis, Deaf Havana, The Story So Far. Seeing’s as the band has no real manger yet and tackle all tasks on their own they are doing pretty well for themselves as getting signed to
I Am Mighty Records (UK)

But how much do we know about this band?

Five young ambitious men from Essex, Cambridge, and London make up this five piece indie rock band. Guitarist Charlie and Mitch, Bassist Andy, Drummer Ben and lead singer Luke make joined together at the young age of 18 and formed the very first band. The original members were just Luke, Ben and Andy as high school friends decided that they would put their music talent to the test, which now turned out to be something far greater than they ever expected. Officially the band has been together, playing and working on new music since 2010 and have come so far in such a short period of time. Practicing after school, or work in any time they had left in Andy’s garage back at home in Essex firstly thought of it to be a bit of fun because that’s what all the cool kids were doing back in the day, which now has turned into a career they all love.

“If there are any young aspiring musicians out there, a word of advice to them is to never give up on what they believe in because one day you can be performing in a small pub in front of your family and then the next playing at the o2 in wimble in front of massive of crowds headlining with slipknot!” such inspiration words, which is probably the only inspirational thing Mitch has ever contributed to. So if you are like them when they were your age or even younger, just remember how all classic bands started out with nothing.

5 minutes with 5 members:

THE OCENA’S EYES

You love the Uk crowds but do you love the weather?

“I didn’t notice that there are any seasons here, from where I used to live in the hot summers of California, I have only enjoyed one day of sun, but I am adapted to this weather as I have spent 5 years living over here. But you gotta love the English weather!” – Andy

What are your common demands on your rider?

“I would say that we don’t really expect them as yet however once Luke made one and it just consisted of oreos and milk and nothing else. It was nice for a while but then it did get a bit sickening after weeks of just that, but if we were to have one then I would say KFC EVERYDAY!” –Ben

Who are your favourite bands to tour with?

“We haven’t really been on many tours however we do love our fellow mates from Taking Hayley, A Season Of Secrets and Room 94, they are right laffs, and we all get along like brothers. It feels like I’m touring with my family.” – Charlie

Do any of the guys ever get on your nerves or have weird habits?

“I wouldn’t want to bait anyone out right here but LUKE has the most annoyest habit of eating everyone’s food before they come down, or he never turns the light of when he’s the last one up, and generally a greedy pig when it comes to sharing! But apart from that we do love him and all, there are times where the boys do get on nerves but that must be normal when you spent half your life with then?” –Mitch

Where do you see your selves in 10 years’ time?

“I see the future very clear, we are recording out next EP in the following weeks and are set to play some massive dates with some big bands in the New Year. I also see us playing at Warped or Slam Dunk in a few years hopefully, but the band is really important however much of a struggle it is.” Luke

The band have been playing many gigs before hand, but nothing really does compare to London's.  I'm sure a lot of you are unaware of the band and who they actually are, fret no more as we will take through the stages these hard core Londoners had been through to get to where they are now. I know it's not anything like Queen, however it has been a massive step for them playing for fun after school at Luke's grandmothers house. (I'm pretty sure she's glad to get rid of them) We've snuck into their own personal lives, while also stalking the shit out of their facebooks, and managed to find a few decent face shots of each band mate, for you sorry lot to look at. (Aren't they just beautiful?)

Just above a we've rummaged to find a pretty old tour poster the band had made on one of their smaller dates, as cheesy as it looks, they later fired their graphics designed, hired a new photographist and finally got their act together to be taken seriously. You'd think that they would have nicked the colour scheme of us? Eh? Yellow, black and navy? I don't know about you but this is looking far to familiar to me.

swiftly moving on from that awkward topic, the band have been trying to get their perfect image across and not mixed up, with the links of other bands that have built up a false representation for them selves. The Ocean's Eyes have tried to build their image but they don't want to be known as just some indie rock band, they want to be know way more hardcore than them, it's not just a statement it's from the worms mouth. So what do you guys think of them? And how would you label them now you know a bit more? Maybe you don't turn over the page to find out their history!