Free Control

lnfluenced by a diverse breadth of styles, Free Control brings together five determined musicians with the intention of making music they want to listen to. Their aim is to make music that inspires them personally, and to create an amazing live experience for their audience.

Explosive sounds, fluid melodies and intricate style come together to create a unique and powerful sound. Making music to make your heart sing and break in recognition.

Free Control began with Greg, Paul and Oli. They have played and gigged together as a unit in various incarnations for the past 10 years and have built an intense musical relationship.

Paul Cole, on drums and percussion, has toured internationally as pecussionist for Groove Armada and has recorded drums as a session musician including Bent; Aerials 2005.

Greg Shute, guitarist, has written, recorded and performed many tracks for a variety of projects including live bands, film scores and session work. He has played improvised guitar at many club gigs with both DJ's and as part of collectives, and has performed original material all over the UK.

Bassist Oli Bloor, has gigged and recorded extensively nationwide as a session bassist for numerous different acts since 2004.

In 2005, Free Control were asked to score the music for the independent film 'Nightbird' (Montreal Film Festival 2005).

In 2007, they met Sally Hossack through the UFK improvisational collective. Sally joined Free Control in January 2008 and together they wrote a set of material and haven't stopped since. Sally has played solo singer/songwriter on the Midland's scene for some time and has gigged nationally as part of Phonek.

Mike Sole has completed the circle, founder of UFK and numerous Jazz/soul nights; Mike has gigged profusely in Leicester, solo and as part of various styles of musical collective.

Free Control are visually assisted by TheLab. Custom loops and VJ'ing from Tony Coleman's visual interpretation of the sound, gives the band an awesome and emotional live edge.

They have played at weird and wonderful venues including The Old Mill, Leicester at Substance, total domination of Helsinki's bar for a night of bands and DJ's promoted by the band themselves.

Project X was a multimedia collaborative arts event, in Birmingham. Bands, dancers, poets, comedians and interactive aspects set across three non-stop stages.

The members of Free Control also gig together as part of improvisational outfit UFK Collective.

Free Control will be appearing at this years Summer Sundae festival in Leicester and are currently recording their first album, recorded by Hx2 Productions. Watch this space...

www.freecontrol.co.uk