New Hysteria will perform at LIVE- the venue (Durban) on June 2. With just over three years under their belt since these three teen musos, Aury Livingstone and Seth Parkin and Pascal Koch (all senior high school students at Westville Boys High school) started performing together “professionally”, they are fast becoming seasoned musicians, respected in the Durban music industry by not only their peers but older, professional artists who recognize their unusually outstanding talent and where clearly it is a case of “hearing is believing”
Although friends for years, the music side of it all began at the age of 11 for Aury when he started guitar training and teamed up with Seth to form a two-man band about three years ago. Seth, whose love for singing is never overshadowed by his passion for the drums, developed a huge interest in musical performance. The pair started writing their own songs and recorded an original, more for the “fun of it”.
It was their one-time school music teacher; Richardt Wissink, who initially recognized their talent and took the opportunity to create a fully-fledged band, teaming them up with a vocalist and the band Voltage was born. Voltage disbanded after a few months, but undefeated and passionate about their music, the two continued with fresh hopes and found the perfect match in another Westville Boys’ High musical talent; Pascal Koch (bass and vocals) adds a “tidy wrapping up” to this tight outfit.
New Hysteria play a selection of carefully chosen and classic covers, which include music for all tastes and genres, as well as their own original music, which keeps them busy with corporate and private bookings. After winning the 2010 Kearsney College Battle Of The Bands, New Hysteria recorded their first sponsored prize from Face Studio, Westville, a self-penned original piece entitled Commercial Living and amongst other great opportunities, the band took to the stage in the Grant Erskine Marquee, Splashy Fen in April 2011 another of the prizes they won at the Kearsney College Battle of the Bands.
Splashy Fen was the first opportunity for New Hysteria to perform their own signature and self-penned sounds. The band was invited back to perform one of the main stages at Splashy Fen in 2012.
Since Kearsney and Splashy and many live bookings in-between and with the added experience and guidance of their management, GreenBox Productions, and the input from their producer at Lyd Productions where they are busy putting the finishing touches to their first album, their musical maturity is moving them into a fresh place where their signature sounds are coming through and which seems now to have found a place to grow from. New Hysteria are crafting their sound and have found that their most recent leaning to a more acoustically tailored, ballady signature is what’s working for them.
New Hysteria have performed on some of Durban’s great stages and venues ,sharing the billing with the likes of Steve Fataar, Toni Rowland, Ross Tarpin ,Tammy Saville and Blue Avenue, Counsel and Force, Zoë Sturgeon and Beatroute. They are presently in Lyd Studio recording their first 12 track album.
New Hysteria will perform at LIVE- the venue (Durban) on June 2. Entrance R40 and a cash bar is available. Bookings through Tanya van Agthoven Marais on 082 747 9738 or email Tanya@greenboxproductions.com
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