Aenone

Aenone started in 1988 in Nyack NY as the brainchild of Kreg Sterns and Kim Collister while they were still in school. After buying a keyboard, a Mac and a sequencer they started creating demos at home. They were crap, but they got better and put an ad in the village voice asking for a bassist and drummer into the same type of music. Bill Stair (Hugo Largo) and Steve Crowley (Antietam) answered and soon they booked their first gig at the now defunct Underworld just west of Broadway in NYC. As fate would have it, members of the local band Lotion were there and fell in love with the bands swirlie style of music and melody and passed their demos onto Shimmydisc/Kokpop (Kramer's label). They recorded a 4 track EP at Kramer's Noise NJ studios under his production (and I use the term loosely as all he did was set some levels, smoke a lot of pot, yell at us and tell Kreg that he sounded like Richard Carpenter.) A bunch of gigs later including supporting Medicine, Velocity Girl and playing CBGB's over a dozen times, they caught the ear of an American A&R rep for the newly formed Echo Records UK by having had their demo passed onto him by their mutual lawyer, Loren. (Lawyers really run the music business.) They showcased at CBs, and within a month found themselved recording in London with Alan Moulder and being forced to change their name to NYACK. Here's where the story ends for aenone, but now 20 years after the bands inception, Kreg and Kim are busy recording a new album. Watch this space for new/old demos and check out aenone.net for more updates. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.