Nine Days Biography
Nine Days - a legendary pop rock band named after the amount of time they were given to record their first album. Nine Days formed in 1994 when Brian Desveaux and John Hampson began writing songs together after spending many years in other bands playing in different places around New York. The two were then joined by Nick Dimichino (bassist), Vincent Tattanelli (drummer) and Jeremy Dean (keyboardist). They then began to produce lots of songs that were full of emotion, triumphs and tragedies. With these exciting new songs, Nine Days hooked the crowds and started to become a very exciting live act. The rushed recording of their intial album, Something To Listen To (1995), then gave Nine Days the urge they needed to follow that with an amazing album named Monday Songs, a year later. Only success followed for Nine Days as they were winners of numerous competitions; WBAB's Home-grown Talent Search and the WLIR's Best Unsigned band competition. The year of 1998 brought out another Nine Days album entitled 'Three'. Surely it wouldn't be long before some major recording labels show interest.
Sony 550 Music were the lucky label to sign Nine Days. Soon after, the band released their first album with their new label - The Madding Crowd (2000), which won the band both critical and commercial acclaim.
Phenomenal success followed, with the amazing release - Absolutely (Story of a girl). The album went gold and brought the band tons of media attention. The album 'The Madding Crowd' was named after a novel by Thomas Hardy - 'Far from the madding crowd'. It contained a vast array of songs that audiences could love and relate to.
Nine days now had to move on and record their next album. But how could they match their previous, sell-out album? Could it be done? Yes! An album named 'So Happily Unsatisfied followed' - an album with an edge that we'd never seen before from Nine Days. The album was originally due for a summer and then Autumn 2002 release. However, plans were postponed during October of that year in order to prevent the album from being lost in the crowd amongst all the other albums with a similar release date.
The excuse was poor, but regardless, this ment trouble for Nine Days. The album release that could change their future was now stuck in the recording studio. A few months later, Sony and Nine Days called it a day, and parted company.
2003 had creeped upon the band, and most of the bands time was now being taken up with long negotiations attempting to get the anticipated album released. Unfortunately, these negotiations failed, leaving Nine Days in a hopeless position with a recording studio that obviously didn't want to release their album.
During this time, the bands long-serving member Jeremy Dean quit the band. The drummer Vincent Tattenelli also left soon after. This left Nine Days in a very bad state. They had no album, two of their bandmates had left, and their guitarist John Hampson had began recording his debut solo release - '16 Minutes and 38 Seconds in the Dark'.
Finally though, fans fears were removed when Nine Days finally got down to business and released a brand new album in late 2003 called 'Flying The Corporate Jet'. Also, Vincent returned to the band along with Jeremy who is now the bands graphic designer designing all the graphics and cover art for Nine Days and John Hampson's recordings.
Nine days has never looked so promising, as their success in Internet charts + appearances on compilations is ever rising.