March will mark the 2 year anniversary of Daystar playing their first live gig at Manchester’s Moho. Before then, don’t miss the opportunity to see them play at the famed DryBar on Oldham Street.
Daystar began in Wythenshawe, South Manchester and produced their initial forays into music in a grimy garage turned into a recording studio by Phil Cuthbert and Simon Monaghan. These two men had a vision, or moreover a aspiration of a sound that they sought to bring to life. Adding the musical components of talent supplied by Steven Woods on bass, Ryan Arnfield on lead guitar, Tom Mallas on drums and Sam Bugajski on rhythm guitar, Daystar became an actuality and the aspiration became a blueprint for the future.
You might have heard Daystar already on ‘Talk Of The Terrace’ on ESPN. Or whichever side of the Mancunian football divide you might sit, you may have been alerted to them in the Manchester United matchday programme or the Manchester City magazine. Not wishing to limit themselves to just Manchester though, Daystar have been on tour and have gained a good following, including me.
If you’ve not been lucky enough to have discovered Daystar yet, there’s no need to worry. Their self titled album is available now.
An album that you can truly lose yourself in for 35 minutes without actually losing anything at all, each track runs fluidly to create a seamless listening experience culminating with the final track, “Up Here”, a track which could lift you away from whatever you’re doing or thinking. After 2 seconds when the drums take hold of opening track “Slip and Dive”, right through the line which for me, encapsulates the feeling created by this album “The sun comes and it sings and shines, and I had to take a piece of it with me, for its with me when I wake up, to catch the morning news, and it’s with me when the train leaves…” you can't help but smile. This really is an album that is capable of distancing you from your mundane routine, to carry you somewhere far more imaginary and fulfilling. This absorbing feeling lifts you through to the end of the album in a way that I can’t recall feeling since hearing “The Man Who Told Everything” by Doves for the first time.
Daystar have a bright future, and a destiny to fulfill and one thing you can be sure of, is the certainty of that happening.
Daystar are playing DryBar on 18 February 2012.
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