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[SaffronJava]

Enter Shikari are:

Rou – Vox / Electronics
Chris – Bass / Vox
Rory – Guitar / backing Vox
Rob - Drums

In early 2003 four standard geezers from St. Albans City, a standard area just north of London, formed a band.

They formed a band that they hoped would reignite unity into the music scene and ultimately into people lives. And this was no hidden agenda as they started by fusing many different genres and styles together to form their own sound. They essentially mould together the passion of hardcore and punk with the passion of euphoria and trance amongst many other influences.

Enter Shikari translates from Indian as “Enter the Hunter”. ‘The Hunter' is a character in a play Rou wrote before the band even existed, a character that gets used as a metaphor for positive aggression. In life you have to experience the lows to appreciate the highs, right? Shikari is that strength inside all of us, that hauls us out of those lows. Shikari is the hope that gives us the energy to continue and hunt for the panacea to our problems.

Primarily a hardcore punk band with strong DIY ethics, they toured solid for 3 years with no press, no agents, no management, no help whatsoever. This was because no one was interested. Afraid? Maybe. Repulsed? Maybe.

They naively believed this was the proper way, probably because they didn't know any better. They believed it was the only way for them personally to get their music out there. With the little money they had they bought and converted a red ex-postal office van (AKA the Shikari mobile/ The Shikari-Ferrari (R.I.P)) to tour in and transformed Chris' garage into a make-shift recording studio. It was in this garage that they worked on Rou's bedroom recordings and recorded all the early E.P.s.

After a full ‘year out' to concentrate on the band and then a first year at Uni juggling studying and playing shows, their hard work began to pay off. As word of their manic live shows began to spread around the underground scene, people were returning to shows and attendances were notably increasing up and down the country. This quiet growth in popularity continued under the radar of media attention and hype.

It is live that you witness such a passion in their performance and music that you can't help but feel involved. They've always encouraged as much crowd participation as possible be it in the form of gang vocals, human pyramids, stage dives/invasions, these four lads have always seen the audience more as a collective fifth member than as a group of spectators. With an incredibly intense stage presence that reflects the euphoric aspects of the music, they are definitely a must see live band. In those three years Enter Shikari never really played any big billed shows (not that they had any choice); they always stuck to playing intimate venues with local bands like themselves.

Then in the second half of 2006 things began to take off when they played Download Festival. With the Gibson tent overflowing they rose to the challenge and killed it. The media then began to pay attention. After a few more UK tours, they then became the second ever unsigned band to sell out the London Astoria.

They have only ever properly released two singles and chose to make only one of them chart eligible. After four years their debut album 'Take to the Skies' is finally out and they look towards the summer for more touring and festivals.

- From the Enter Shikari Official Website

[Perpetuated]

Way over-rated and over-whored by the scenesters of the UK.

In my opinion, of course.

[SaffronJava]

Yes I know what you mean. But I still love em. Going to see them this October

[a.sad.song]

SaffronJava, on Aug 2 2007, 08:52 PM, said:

Yes I know what you mean. But I still love em. Going to see them this October

PERSONALLY I THINK THEY'RE NOTHING SPECIAL.. THE ONLY SONG OF THEEIRS I LIKE IS LABYRINTH..

[Ryan]

ONE OF THE WORST BANDS EVER :|

[Perpetuated]

Ryan, on Aug 8 2007, 01:02 AM, said:

ONE OF THE WORST BANDS EVER :|

Wow, we have a synth. lolz.

[Ryan]

Al Young, on Aug 8 2007, 01:26 AM, said:

Wow, we have a synth. lolz.

lawlz

[SaffronJava]

In your opinion they are the worst band ever, Ryan.

However, "Adieu" is one of my favourite songs.

[Ryan]

SaffronJava, on Aug 8 2007, 12:09 PM, said:

In your opinion they are the worst band ever, Ryan.

However, "Adieu" is one of my favourite songs.

NO... if i were to say "they are the worst band ever" that would be an opinion, because it's a well known fact they aren't the worst band ever... the worst band ever is in fact Waking The Cadaver

[SaffronJava]

Ryan, on Aug 8 2007, 08:19 PM, said:

NO... if i were to say "they are the worst band ever" that would be an opinion, because it's a well known fact they aren't the worst band ever... the worst band ever is in fact Waking The Cadaver

Haha!! Ye they are awful.

[Ryan]

SaffronJava, on Aug 8 2007, 02:28 PM, said:

Haha!! Ye they are awful.

can you believe Waking The Cadaver take themselves seriously? it's just unbelievable bands like Waking The Cadaver consider the noise they produce as music let alone take it seriously... it's just insane...

then their is the fact Waking The Cadaver's lyrics promote and glorify rape, and violence towards women... just wrong if you ask me...

[SaffronJava]

Nah the worst band to promote hate, and are just a load of noise are Anal C**t!

Really they are awful.

[LeeMISANTHROPY]

sorry your not a winner

[Effy]

SaffronJava, on Aug 2 2007, 09:52 PM, said:

Yes I know what you mean. But I still love em. Going to see them this October

Yes....they're coming to Dublin then as well.............I have to get to that gig!

[mastershake]

SaffronJava, on Aug 9 2007, 05:06 AM, said:

Nah the worst band to promote hate, and are just a load of noise are Anal C**t!

Really they are awful.

they rule! your crazy. and their stuff isnt even their serious views on stuff, they just do it cos they can. its just music, its art. if a movie has violence and rape in it people can accept it as not real, why should it be different for music?

[SaffronJava]

mastershake, on Jun 18 2008, 09:16 AM, said:

they rule! your crazy. and their stuff isnt even their serious views on stuff, they just do it cos they can. its just music, its art. if a movie has violence and rape in it people can accept it as not real, why should it be different for music?

They are musically awful I meant. Their talent lacks on instruments...though there lyrics amuse me greatly, shame I can never understand what the hell the vocalist is saying.

Anyways, on to the subject of art now. Movies do have violence and rape in them, but the majority of movies do not promote violence and rape, it is just in the movie. At no point do they say that raping women is a good thing. Anyway, movies which are just constant violence & rape just get boring after a while.

[mastershake]

SaffronJava, on Jun 19 2008, 05:15 AM, said:

They are musically awful I meant. Their talent lacks on instruments...though there lyrics amuse me greatly, shame I can never understand what the hell the vocalist is saying.

Anyways, on to the subject of art now. Movies do have violence and rape in them, but the majority of movies do not promote violence and rape, it is just in the movie. At no point do they say that raping women is a good thing. Anyway, movies which are just constant violence & rape just get boring after a while.

sadly, anal cunt is more talented than a lot of the shitty bands n00bs love on here. when someone writes a song its not neccasarily their point of view. i dunno if you dont like it dont listen to it, i just find them highly entertaining.

[SaffronJava]

mastershake, on Jun 19 2008, 06:37 PM, said:

i dunno if you dont like it dont listen to it, i just find them highly entertaining.

They are amusing..just talentless lol. But you are right, probably more talented than half the bands.

[Effy]

SaffronJava, on Jun 19 2008, 07:07 PM, said:

They are amusing..just talentless lol. But you are right, probably more talented than half the bands.

Besides.....a lot of the time enthusiasm trumps talent......
"The world would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

[Ryan]

SaffronJava, on Jun 19 2008, 03:15 AM, said:

They are musically awful I meant. Their talent lacks on instruments...though there lyrics amuse me greatly, shame I can never understand what the hell the vocalist is saying.

Anyways, on to the subject of art now. Movies do have violence and rape in them, but the majority of movies do not promote violence and rape, it is just in the movie. At no point do they say that raping women is a good thing. Anyway, movies which are just constant violence & rape just get boring after a while.

Anal Cunt are pure musical genius. The soul fact that they actually try to make shitty, overly offensive, generic grind, with the worst quality and despite all of this still pull it off with flying colors is in it's own right fucking awesome.

They don't take the music they make seriously, and neither should anyone else. They just have fun with it, and I give them credit for being able to collectively piss off more people than pretty much any other underground band in recent history.

P.S. They've been playing music pretty much all of their lives, if they really wanted to make a serious album they'd be more than able to. I'd also be willing to bet that if they did it would put all of the other buzz word 'grind' and 'modern hardcore' bands to fucking shame.