My name is Cluas, im the Future Shock guitarist and vocalist. I started this blog, to make sort of a diary for the band. I got this blog too - If you can read danish, and if you don't already know me ...
This first post will be a long one, to catch the backstory and follow up on what happened until a few months ago, when we started rehearsing again. Also check out the DISCOGRAPHY PAGE.
Here we go :
Future Shock became a reality in September 2006, when my old band split up. I was so tired of replacing bandmembers, that i made my own recording project. It started out with a few sketches and ideas. I ended up with a record over an hour, 17 songs. It had taken almost a year to complete. I was not working full time though, but a few hours every week. It was fun to make my own music, and to record it as good as i could myself. I didn't have access to drums at the time, so i used a sequencer program to play drums, i made it sound almost real, in my opinion.
My friends came by the rehearsal and helped me out, gave me good advice, and some of the songs are featuring some of them. I thought of the name Future Shock because of the book by same name, by Alvin Toffler.
I made a single release at September the 11. That's a good date to release my stuff. I made a cover and printed it out and burned the CD's myself. Made fifty records and gave them away to friends and fans. Soon i will need to burn more CD's. I have uploaded my songs to youtube, so that anyone can listen. And in case you already heard it, listen to it again, louder!
Hill, my old friend had also been in the band that broke up. We knew the way each other would play, and enjoyed playing together. So he asked me if we could play the songs live, and i though, why not. Future Shock was born. Me on vocals and guitar, and Hill on the Drums. We only needed a bass player, and after a while we found the first of many. Unfortunately, that has always been the problem for Future Shock, as a live band.
We rehearsed the songs that i made on the CD, but i also made new ones, more rock-oriented this time, i guess. But just before our first gig, our debut, in the summer 2007, the bass player and i disagreed on some issues the band halted.
I decided then to just record some more stuff alone and with guests. And i ended up with a whole CD of cover-songs, most of them unknown to public. It was also a fun project, and we learned a lot. This time i had recorded real drums, and it worked much better than having some sequencer doing the drums. I like both. I like al kinds of music, but no techno, no reggae. No thanks, disco i can live with, but only in very small doses. I like all kinds of rock, especially from the 70's.
On with the story. We got a new bass player, and i finished my new songs, with real drums. Only 4 of them made it, to an EP, that i was not really satisfied with. I remember it was because i had to release it at our debut show. But the bass player quit a month before. Another bass player came along, this time we finally got to play our debut-gig. 2008. And what a show. I got that on youtube as well. The sound is not that good, but it's ok. We played in a big hall, that's why it sounds a little hollow. We got an old bass player back, and played two more shows, and then we had a looong break. That's why I'm so happy for my friend Hill. He invited me to play guitars in A Tree of Night. So we always have something to do. Making music, now that's healty.
Future Shock took a long break as a live band, but i recorded more new songs in 2009 and 10. The first try got lost when the computer suddenly crashed. I cried. I never got to make that record. We tried more than once, but things always messed up. In the end i just decided to give it one more try, and at least make some sketches of my new songs. They weren't even new anymore. Never got satisfied enough to release the tracks.
Anyway, then after a few more months with no bass player, i suddenly got contacted by our old friend, Blid. He had been with us in 2007, almost from the start. It felt really good to get him back.
We played a few gigs and made some progress with new material, and even recorded a 7 track album "Reality Check" in 2011. But in late 2012 we split up as a live band, too many problems mostly with the place we rehearsed. I also was annoyed by the egagement of the other members of Future Shock, and decided to make it end the way it started:
With a DIY homemade recording of the material i had left I felt satisfied at last. There was 5-6 old songs that never got recorded, and also 5 new ones. The combination of old and new material was working for me, and the fifth album "Old Time Radio" was ready, and released in april 2013.
We played a few gigs and made some progress with new material, and even recorded a 7 track album "Reality Check" in 2011. But in late 2012 we split up as a live band, too many problems mostly with the place we rehearsed. I also was annoyed by the egagement of the other members of Future Shock, and decided to make it end the way it started:
With a DIY homemade recording of the material i had left I felt satisfied at last. There was 5-6 old songs that never got recorded, and also 5 new ones. The combination of old and new material was working for me, and the fifth album "Old Time Radio" was ready, and released in april 2013.
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