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The Sky Life

While amongst the citizens of Edmonton, Alberta Canada – you will find a fresh sounding band called “The Sky Life”. Their name epitomizes the feeling you get from listening to their music. It’s light and airy with a touch of rock/alternative. With all the members being in their early twenties, I think we will be hearing from them in the near future.

Exclusive Interview with “The Sky Life”:

What type of music do you listen to in your spare time? Favorite artist?

We all listen to a similar type of music. We are really drawn to music that sends out a strong sense of thought or emotion. Generally we like to listen to and play music with a positive vibe. We strive to reflect that in our writing. Bands that write truths about themselves rather than random topics tend to inspire us quite a bit lyrically. Some of our favorite bands include: Angels and Airwaves, Copeland, Phoenix, LIGHTS, Owl City, Motion City Soundtrack, Dashboard Confessional, and Moneen.

When was your album released? Is this your first LP?

Our first EP was released in 2005, it’s entitled “The Making of a City”. It was mainly acoustic based with a bit of a soft synth feel. We released our first LP “Dimes and Discourses” in October of 2008. This release featured a little more drums and electric guitar and touched on harder vocals and distorted guitar. A sound which has become the norm now from The Sky life. “Roots and Wings” was released in October 2009 and it’s a lot rockier. We really wanted to pass along emotion and a true experience at our live shows. To do this we boosted up our sound 100%. You’ll hear a huge difference between the Albums.

Is this your first tour in June 2010?

This will be the first extensive tour for The Sky Life, up until now we have largely stayed in our state and grown a fan base here. Now that we are getting more mainstream radio play and hit the top 100 charts for alternative rock in Canada, we are needing to spread our tours further. We will be playing across Canada this summer.

What are you goals for the future?

Our future goals are to continue focusing on film placements as this seems to be one of the best ways to get publicity. A successful tour is also a large goal. We want to sell around 5000 physical copies of the cd and sell a good amount of merch. (and stay together as a band ) We would also like to secure an indie label for help in promotion and booking.

If you could do it all over again, would you do it the same?

We would have started off hard from the get go. We eased into this a little slow and its all come together, but it could have happened a lot faster. We would have shed our nerves and gave it 100% on stage sooner, as well. It’s all about the live performance and giving people something they will remember. Other than that things have happened when they were supposed to.

Any crazy bands stories?

Being on tour and sleeping on a gravel road, waking up and seeing my drummer unknowingly waking up with rocks stuck to his face. Pretty great and we made it to the wake board competition just in time to play.

Where can we buy the record?

We like to push and Emusic.com for our cd sales. They are available on most online distributor sites also.