The Veils

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The Veils are an English/New Zealand rock band fronted by singer and songwriter Finn Andrews.

History

Early years, The Runaway Found (2001–2004)

The Veils were signed almost immediately to Blanco y Negro, an indie/major hybrid imprint led by Rough Trade's boss Geoff Travis. On 19 August 2002 the band released a promo only single "Death & Co.", while a proper commercial single release came three months later, on 18 November, for "More Heat Than Light" followed by "The Leavers Dance" (24 February 2003), which was distributed exclusively at gigs.

By then increasing contractual disparities and artistic differences between the head of Warner and

The Veils recorded four more songs with producer

Andrews left the UK early 2005 and embarked on a solo tour of America and Japan, eventually returning home to New Zealand where he found a new direction for the band. He spent the summer there rehearsing with high-school friends Liam Gerrard (keyboards) and Sophia Burn (bass) in Liam's bedroom, soon amassing an album's worth of material. When the trio returned to London they were joined by Dan Raishbrook (guitar) and Henning Dietz (drums), who completed the new line-up. They began recording sessions with producer Nick Launay in Los Angeles in early 2006. The resulting album Nux Vomica had a darker, far heavier and more complex sound, augmented by string arrangements by ex

In the 16 months following the release of Nux Vomica The Veils played over 250 shows across 15 countries, and during the U.S. leg of the tour it was announced that keyboardist Liam Gerrard would leave the band to return home to New Zealand due to personal reasons.^[3] The Veils carried on as a four-piece and, whilst living out of a classic car garage in Oklahoma City, started recording new demos at The Flaming Lips studio between playing shows on the east and west coasts of the America. By mid-2008 they were back to London to begin work on their third album with producer Graham Sutton. The recording sessions at West Point Studios lasted only three weeks, and at the end of the summer the album was done and ready to be mixed. Sun Gangs was released on 6 April 2009 and was featured in many websites top albums of 2009.^[4]

Troubles of the Brain EP (2010–2011)

The band spent the summer of 2010 working on new material. On 6 December it was announced that a new 7-song EP entitled

The Veils' fourth album was recorded in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles and was released in April 2013. In January the band recorded a 5-song live session at Abbey Road Studios which was also turned into a short film and released as exclusive content with the new record.

Following their album's release The Veils embarked on a 150-date world tour with shows selling out all across North America, Europe and New Zealand.

Once the tour finished Finn Andrews revealed in an interview for NME that the band had moved into their own studio in east London and had already begun work on a new record due for release in 2016. Finn also revealed he had been commissioned to write an orchestral piece to commemorate the antipodean dead of World War I to be performed in Belgium in spring 2016.

Total Depravity (2016)

In June The Veils announced their fifth album 'Total Depravity' was to be released on 26 August 2016. The album was recorded in

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• "Jesus For the Jugular" was used for the trailer of the HBO series Luck in the United States in 2011.
• Tim Burton used "Another Night on Earth" on the soundtrack for Frankenweenie.
• Lee Tamahori used "Jesus For the Jugular" in his film The Devil's Double in 2008.
• "The Valleys of New Orleans" was used repeatedly by HBO during their Hurricane Katrina fund raising campaign in 2005. The song begins with a lyric about a large hurricane tearing through New Orleans but was in fact highly prescient having been written three years prior to Katrina.
• "Vicious Traditions" was used during the end sequence of the film
  Mr Brooks
  in 2007.
• "The Stars Came Out Once The Lights Went Out" was used as the opening theme of the New Zealand comedy-drama Nothing Trivial (2011-2014).

Style and influences

According to

External links

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• The Veils' official website
• The Veils on Facebook
• The Veils fan forum
• Rough Trade Records