{"id":13757,"date":"2020-10-29T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2020-10-24T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T14:48:29","slug":"introducing-silverjet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13757","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230;Silverjet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13760 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1146\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/62206461_10156043698321360_8659126901685616640_o-1140x597.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a>So who are Silverjet?<\/strong> Silverjet are Dave, Pais, and Alex, a three-piece rock band from Sheffield.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Where did you get the name Silverjet?\u00a0<\/strong>I believe the band was named after a guitar Dave liked, but it was named that before I joined. Mostly, I think it&#8217;s just something that sounds nice.<a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13759 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/46513527_10155671892336360_763752997497864192_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>How about a brief history of the band and how you got to 2020?<\/strong>\u00a0We formed about 15 years ago and have been through quite a few changes in line up and sound. The original recordings were very bluesy and raw, but we&#8217;ve gradually added more metal and modern rock elements to make more anthemic songs. We&#8217;ve put out three albums (the most recent being 2012&#8217;s &#8216;Push Kick Bravado&#8217;) and a handful of EPs\/singles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13758 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/119511516_10157252935051360_6845568459850690575_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What about recent recordings?<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8216;Everybody Used to Love You&#8217; is the first from our recent batch of recordings we started when Alex joined us. We weren&#8217;t necessarily planning on making new music, but we were offered a bit of a reunion gig and Alex joined us. We enjoyed playing with him so much that we had to make some more music together.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>As a band I guess you all share a love of Rock and Roll who are the bands you jointly love?<\/strong>\u00a0 We&#8217;re into Backyard Babies, Black Crowes, Wildhearts, basically anything with big riffs and catchy choruses.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What About post-pandemic action?\u00a0 What plans have you made?<\/strong>\u00a0 We were planning on gigging a lot this year but that&#8217;s obviously been scraped, so instead, we&#8217;ve worked on some of the recordings that luckily we had mostly tracked before the pandemic, as we can do that remotely. Dave also recorded a solo acoustic album which is very cool, I highly recommend checking it out.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to jump in the van and get to as many venues as will let us play. We had a really fun year planned this year, which luckily has mostly been rearranged for next year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Check out Silverjet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/silverjetmusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\">Here<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/silverjet.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So who are Silverjet? Silverjet are Dave, Pais, and Alex, a three-piece rock band from Sheffield. Where did you get the name Silverjet?\u00a0I believe the band was named after a guitar Dave liked, but it was named that before I joined. Mostly, I think it&#8217;s just something that sounds nice. How about a brief history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3226],"class_list":["post-13757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-silverjet","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13762,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions\/13762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}