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The Band – A brief history

 

Beginning life as a psychedelic, multi-media group, IT is a band with a colossal sound that shakes the bones, with a barrage of images that feeds the mind. IT’s sound fuses the classic melodies of prog rock’s past with a passion and intensity usually only found in punk or metal bands. Politics, religion, war and sexuality all come under the band’s lens for critical examination. Lyrics are intelligent, challenging and occasionally darkly humorous. The bottom line is that the IT experience will inform your thinking, feelings and memory long after the last notes have ended.

IT formed in 1994 when Nick Jackson recorded and produced the band’s first full-length album The Stranger Inside the Self. This was also when the band first began using multimedia during live shows with the inclusion of short films playing behind the group on stage. The band followed this up with the album Two Worlds in early January 1995. The band’s third album, Over & Out, was released on June 21st 2002. It was created as a concept with a story line and was performed by IT live in its entirety accompanied by projected visual montages created by Nick Jackson. In 2004 IT began to redefine itself as the band line-up grew and become more permanent, particularly with the addition of Andy Rowberry on lead guitar. He also now contributes to a lot of the song-writing alongside Nick Jackson. The fourth album Departure was released in July 2009 to critical acclaim with the accompanying bonus DVD giving an indication of the powerful onstage visuals that had by now become an integral part of the IT experience. There then followed something of a hiatus whilst the band formulated the ideas that would eventually become…This explores themes of austerity, inequality and an uncertain future for younger generations. The CD comprises 10 brand new tracks and was released in March 2017. The global official release date was 01st March 2017 via the Progressive Gears Records label in both digital and physical formats to universal acclaim leading to a Limelight feature in Prog Magazine (October 2017).

After a 4 years hiatus, the band returned to the stage with a stunning performance at Progtoberfest in London on 29th October 2017 followed up with more of the same at the inaugural Fusion Festival in March 2018 and a series of acclaimed gigs that year culminating in a nomination in the Prog Mag Awards.2019 saw the band put on a stunning show at the first PGR Presents event – headlined by Zal Cleminson’s Sin’Dogs – at Warehouse23 in Wakefield (March) followed by successful shows in Belgium and Holland with Burntfield and Naryan (April). The upshot of this was an invitation to appear at ProgDreams (September) at the famous Boerderij Cultuurpodium in Zoetermeer where the band played a rousing set that won over an appreciative audience. This latter event was recorded and released in November 2020 as a CD/DVD. The band is currently locked in Spacehouse Studio working on an updated reissue of The Stranger Inside The Self and gathering material for a new album. Shows havealready been booked for late 2020 and throughout 2021 with many venues outside of London in the diary for the first time.
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    Still walking on a high after this weekends fun! B Still walking on a high after this weekends fun! Blessed to have all these people around us!
    Well that show was something else! Thank you so m Well that show was something else!  Thank you so much to everyone who attended, and made that such a special London gig! We had people for all over come along, and we are blessed to share the room with you all! Thank you, thank you, thank you x
    Thursday 12th May, come join us for an evening of Thursday 12th May, come join us for an evening of great music! With @ghostofthemachineofficial #rock #prog #sheffield #music
    We are not far away from our full album show in Lo We are not far away from our full album show in London. Rehearsals are going well! 

#IT #Balham #WAITT #Prog #thebedford
    It’s been a tragic 24 hours for music, but alway It’s been a tragic 24 hours for music, but always worth remembering that bands form bonds between people that you never forget. We had a great rehearsal last night, and this was made even better when our old Bass player James Hawkins, who wrote and played on WAITT with us joined us for an overdue catch-up. It’s was good fun! #music #studio #IT #prog #Rehearsal
    LONDON!! Sunday May 8th we will do something we ha LONDON!! Sunday May 8th we will do something we have been hoping to do for a very long time, play We’re All In This Together, all the way through, and give the last two years, it feels wholly appropriate. Tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/event/538715/ @gatlandmark @tom_ashcroft_ @thebedfordpub #london #music #prog #rock #thebedford
    Great rehearsal tonight, getting some songs down w Great rehearsal tonight, getting some songs down we haven’t played in a long time! Sounding good!!
    We recorded some video for our set at @londonprogg We recorded some video for our set at @londonproggigs A Sunday in September show last month! You can watch the full clip over at our YouTube channel! 

https://youtu.be/gyd9YLAGw7E
    Next Sunday see’s the band return to a wonderful Next Sunday see’s the band return to a wonderful venue in Stourport with the Fusion Festival! Tickets available at https://shop.gigjuice.com/#
    Holy heck, that was hot and hairy, and a whole loa Holy heck, that was hot and hairy, and a whole load of fun! Few tech issues here and there, but as always, you just gotta get on with it, and it works out in the end! Thank you Prog For Peart for an amazing time! #gigs #prog #rock #guitar
    Sunshine in Abingdon! #prog #gig Sunshine in Abingdon! #prog #gig
    Loaded and rolling to Abingdon for the Prog for Pe Loaded and rolling to Abingdon for the Prog for Peart festival! See you all soon!
    The 80’s called and want their smoke machine bac The 80’s called and want their smoke machine back 😂 #video
    Shooting a music video, always go for the guy who Shooting a music video, always go for the guy who goes the extra mile for that shot....go get @gch.photos
    That was a fun show!! Thanks to @the_1865 @landmar That was a fun show!! Thanks to @the_1865 @landmarqofficial and Geoff Tucker!
    On our way to @the_1865 for our first gig in so lo On our way to @the_1865 for our first gig in so long!! Looking forward to opening up for @landmarqofficial
    A week today, first gig in a VERY long time! Very A week today, first gig in a VERY long time! Very excited to be back on stage, and joined by the equally wonderful @landmarqofficial at the ace @the_1865! Come on down, for a Covid safe, rocking Sunday night!
    Back to work... #IT #gigs #music #charvel #prog Back to work...
#IT #gigs #music #charvel #prog
    Feels like life is pushing towards a resemblance o Feels like life is pushing towards a resemblance of normality (whatever that actually is), but we have finally got back together in a room and made noise again! Thanks to everyone that continues to support us, buy our stuff and be ever present in our journey! #thankyou #music #rehearsal
    Working on guitars for some new music! Working on guitars for some new music!
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