This Theory of Static

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It was an August day in 1998 that the “project” began. Singer/Guitarist Dean Young had just walked away from his band of some 5 years in Rotorua for the bright lights, big city of Auckland with one singular vision. “I wanted to set up a small studio and create this ‘band’ the idea being, I would write and record everything myself and eventually a live band would grow out of it.” says Young. So with guitar, drum machine and Roland 8 track digital workstation in hand, ‘breathingunderwater’ was born. Two E.P's and once critically acclaimed album later, in 2006 Young ran into old friend Jerome Buckleigh at the New Zealand Music Awards and started to put into motion ideas that the two had shared months and years earlier on similar meetings. From there the live band grew around the nucleus of Young [guitar/vocals] and Buckleigh, [guitar] later joined by Matt Burling [bass/vocals] and Luke Hale. [drums] But a year before the live line-up was to take shape, 2006’s “R[evolve]” marked a turning point in the project's history. “R[evolve] was very much me just feeling out a new way of recording, [with Pro Tools] it was also the end of breathingunderwater as I had known it and the start of something new. In more ways than one.“ It was an American emo band with the name “breathing underwater” who prompted Young to change the band’s moniker. “I could have fought it, but I just felt like, ‘shit – can I be bothered?’ Changing the name was I guess a way for me to shed some skin and star

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