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Headliner
Framing Hanley Last time in Nashville: 6 years ago

Venue

The Basement East

917 Woodland Ave., 37206, Nashville, TN, US

thebasementnashville.com

Capacity: 545

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Doors open: 19:00

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Framing Hanley biography

Alternative rockers, Framing Hanley, who hail from Nashville, Tennessee, have earned themselves chart success over the years, gaining an international following on both sides of the Atlantic.

For Framing Hanley, everything happened rather organically on the back of a lot of hard graft. They quickly began to build a large following uploading early recordings onto the social media platform, MySpace. In November 2006, Creed’s former bass player, Brian Hestla stumbled upon the band and helped the quintet record another demo in his studio based in Florida. He then presented the demo to his label, Silent Majority Group who were blown away by the band’s sound, signing them immediately.

“The Moment” was released on May 15th 2007 and made it into the Billboard 200, peaking at number 169. The leading single from the album, “Lollipop”, achieved Gold certification, reaching number 82 in the Billboard Hot 100 and number 22 in the US Alternative Chart. Following extensive touring, the band re entered the studio to work on their second album, “A Promise to Burn”, which after it was released on May 25th 2010, peaked at number 57 in the Billboard 200 and number 9 in the Alternative chart. They also earned the accolade of “Best Modern Rock Band” in the Top In Rock Awards. They even covered “In Bloom” for the release of a cover album of “Nevermind” fronted by Kerrang! to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album.

Unfortunately, the band decided to part with their label, and uploaded a video to their YouTube explaining their past year, discussing how difficult it has been for the band. They started a Kickstarter campaign, asking every fan to donate a dollar to the funding of their following album, and luckily raised enough to embark on the recording of their album, which was later released on April 29th 2014, peaking at number 79 in the Billboard 200, and number 14 in the Alternative chart. It was called “The Sum of Who We Are”. The single from the album “Criminal” made it to number 22 in the US Main Rock Chart.

Live reviews

Given time, I hope that we’ll be able to look at the first ten years of the century and be proud of the music it gave us. The same way we can be proud of the music given to us in the 60’s and 70’s. One of the movements that I truly think stand up with punk, new wave and grunge in terms of the quality of music, if not in the terms of cultural impact, is the post-hardcore boom of the early 2000’s. Mainly it’s for the diversity of the music released; you got music that was as heavy and dissonant as late period Thrice and Glassjaw, and stuff that was as melodic and accessible as one of the most underrated bands from the movement, Framing Hanley. Not only is it their music that is accessible and fun, but their live shows reflect that perfectly. As gatherings of the bands rabid following there’s no sense of division between fans, everyone is as happy to be there as everyone else and everyone is as happy to see that so many people are there as everyone else. This is to say nothing about the bands performance, of course. When a band comes from Nashville Tennessee, the music capital of the world, it could almost be considered an unfair advantage over other bands, and it shows in every show they play. The chemistry between the band is palpable, and it only gets more exciting to watch when they have a capacity crowd’s energy to play off. Any fan of literate, emotional rock and roll should find themselves in one of those crowds the next chance they get.

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