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Alyson Avenue
12+ albums
hard rockmelodic rockAORrockswedish
about
Alyson Avenue is a classic rock band from Sweden formed in 1989 by a couple of friends who intended to play rock in the way Treat and Europe amongst others did. Its musical style was described as AOR. Originally, the band had a male vocalist, eventually replaced by Anette Olzon, now of Nightwish. The band released two albums: Presence of Mind and Omega. The music tended to a much more poppy sound for a while but at the rehearsals you could hear the band playing everything from hard rock to even soul. When playing live Alyson Avenue always had concentrated to perform AOR & hard rock only though. During the following years Alyson Avenue several times had to take a break due to different directions where the individual band members the music wanted to go. They nevertheless always seemed to find the right way back to each others as the friendship was very strong. In 1999, the band sent out a demo to the press and gained huge feedback for their sound. With a little help by the belgian melodic rock orientated magazine Rock Report, Alyson Avenue found the right contacts to some labels. Unfortunately not much happened. Main song-writer and keyboard player Niclas Olsson got the band together again to record another new 4 track demo which finally resulted in a record deal with AOR Heaven. Their debut album Presence of Mind was released in November 2000 and the interest and reviews were far beyond the band’s expectations - including an 93/ 100 rating in Japanese magazine Burrn! which
