Stand

Stand are four lads from Dublin, Ireland who got a taste of the United States on a trip in to play Austin’s SXSW Festival. Awed at the prospect of limitless venues, they made the move and headquartered themselves out of New York in 2002. Having come to the attention of a NACA booking agent, they built a solid following in the Northeast, being voted Best Band on that NACA college circuit in both 2005 and 2006.

The band quickly set another foothold in New York on the western end of NY after being asked to perform at the Thursday in the Square summer festival in Buffalo, NY. Jeff Miers of the Buffalo News picked up on their stunning live performances and declared them “a gimmickless band that generates feverish excitement, both on the concert stage and in the recording studio.”

The band stayed put in Buffalo last spring and entered Chameleon West Studio to commence work on this, Travel Light, their fourth long player. Composer/guitarist and studio savvy David Walsh took the production helm, working with Michael McCoy, former head engineer at the legendary and now historical Hit Factory, whose credits are far too numerous to list here.

The recordings that make up this album commenced in Buffalo in a springtime blizzard and ended in the early summer sun at Lexington Kentucky’s St. Claire Recordings.
A departure from the guitar based work of their 2004 work Transmissions, the band are feverishly proud of the songs recorded here and as always, are working them out on the road as the van barrels on down the highway. Developing their songs and moving records from the van and their NYC headquarter, these four very different guys, in the most magical way of the best band to do so before them, leave nothing behind onstage when the music ends for the night.