Live4ever Presents: Aaron Keylock


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Who?

As well as me we have Sonny Greaves on drums, Ali Hetherington on bass and piano, Tom Julian-Jones on harmonica and Chloee Christmas on backing vocals.

Where?

I am from a small village called Freeland, which is in Oxfordshire.

How?

There was always a lot of music in our house when I was growing up, and I got into it from listening to it and being around it all the time. It was something I always wanted to do, for as long as I can remember.

Why?

My main influences come from Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, The Faces, Blackfoot, The Black Crowes, Humble Pie and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Past?

I have just left school this summer and been mainly concentrating on my music, but in my downtime I have been helping my dad with his business.

Present?

I would describe it as southern rock, mixed with blues and high energy rock n roll.

Future?

My ambitions are to obviously take it as far as possible, but also I believe it’s all about the music, and as long as I can keep touring and making records that I’m happy with,  I think that’s what’s important.

Did you know?

I’ve got a couple of funny stories. One was when I broke my arm the day before I was opening for Joan Armitrading and had to cut bits of my cast off so I could play. Another was when we were doing a show in London and we went to get a pizza after soundcheck. When we came back the bouncer wouldn’t let me in for being under age. In the end the sound guy had to come out and tell him that I was on in ten minutes, so he let us in but we had to leave straight after we came off stage.



What’s next?

We have ‘Medicine Man’ coming out as a single on the 1st December, and I’m also writing and recording demos so we will hopefully have an album out at the end of next year. And of course there will be some good tours coming in for 2015!

Live4ever:

What an increasingly skewed world rock and roll is becoming. On one hand locked in nostalgia and a yearning for the past. Dwelling on previous glories, aiming for a time when its leading lights were wrinkle free, carving new trends, and above all global superstars.

On the other welcoming a new wave creating their own form of the brat pack. Led by Jake Bugg in 2012, then at the age of 17, we’ve had The Strypes, who with a combined age of about 24 made Bugg seem like something of a veteran last year, and what about Alan McGee’s new protege John Lennon McCullagh? Himself only 15 when debut album ‘North South Divide’ arrived in 2013. Now adding fuel to this fresh-faced fire is 16-year-old Aaron Keylock, perhaps the most intriguing talent of them all.

Available as a free download from December 1st, Keylock’s new single ‘Medicine Man’ is underpinned by a ridiculously confident vocal, quivering and afflicting in the grandest blues tradition, driven by a guitar solo of the kind which we just don’t hear enough of anymore.

In many ways, Keylock marries those two generationally-split sides of rock together. On first appearances he brings to mind a young Jimmy Page – if that shy, teenage skiffle fan forever captured on black and white British television had embraced the sleazy virtues of a Les Paul a few years earlier.

And in sound, he’s as authentic as you could ever wish for; ‘Medicine Man’ would have even Keith Richards rifling back through his blues collection searching desperately for the lost fifties 45 this surely must be, such is its immediacy, such is its sense of having been around forever.

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