interview with Alive
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Hi! We are a five piece band.
Marco"Kram"Patrocchi (32) is the singer, Giuseppe Ricciolino(32) is the lead guitarist, Mattia TIbuzzi(32) is the bass player, Simone Aversano (21) is the rhythm guitar and Dario Di Pasquale (43) is the drummer.
Where are you from? We are based in Rome, Italy.
What year did the band form? We're a brand new band, formed between 2017 and 2018.
What's your style of genre? Hard Rock!
What inspires you? Good ol' rock music! You know, people say that rock and roll is dead...so, we try to keep it ALIVE!
How is it that you started playing music? Because we didn't know how to get girls... so we're trying with music right now. We're kidding! Maybe.
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that?
Yes, a good booking agency could be a nice effort for a new band like us.
Any kind of support is welcome when you are starting a new project.
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that?
Well, we've just recorded our debut album, and right now we're having some negotiations to release it, but we are not signed at the moment...so please, come foward!!
Anyway, nowdays it's not easy to get a good record deal, expecially if you are into rock music...a lot of labels tend to try to make money on new artists and even a self-production could be a better idea.
What made you decide to make this music?
We all love this kind of music.
Nowdays it's not so "mainstream", expecially here in Italy, but we play it beacuse we enjoy it, it not abut following some trends.
What are your songs about? Various topics. But generally topical subjects of our generation...we tried to avoid some rock'n'roll old clichés...but of course, we included a broken heart-ballad!
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Giuseppe.
Do you compose in a certain enviroment? We lock Giuseppe and his guitar in his home studio while we go outside having some fun and a real life, if he cames out with something good we give him some food and new guitar picks.
Have you done any covers live? We're planning to do a couple of covers in the next show, please come to listen them!
What language do you sing in? English.
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Everywhere they will call us! Probabily we'll have gigs here in Italy and an european tour.
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale?
Stay tuned on our pages, we will put out some merchandise soon!
People looks sexy as hell with Alive's tees on.
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days?
Nowdays you don't even need to put some effort in downloading music...you just have to search it in streaming on YouTube or Spotify.
It can be good for promotion but artists and labels need a better payment for it, this way it's difficoult to support the music industry and sometime even to pay some bills!
What do you think of my work? We really appreciate it, your effort in interviewing new bands is a very nice thing for all of us.
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today?
We really love bands like Van Halen, Mr Big, Extreme and so many others but it's always important to listen to new bands around.
The problem with a lot of new cool bands is that they are not supported by the most important media, so it's not always easy to discover them...but it's full of great new musicians all around the world.
Do you have any new material? Our debut album is ready and you could listen it very soon! Check out our social media pages to have news and listen something.
What are web sites?
You could find us typing "alivebandrock" in your favourite social media!
FB: www.facebook.com/AliveBandRock
Instagram: www.instagram.com/alivebandrock
Twitter: twitter.com/alivebandrock
Youtube: Alive Band
What are your plans for the future?
We will soon release our first single and record our first videoclip and will have new gigs during this autumn.
Come to see us ALIVE!
Ciao!
