ASIDE

Put aside backyard roots, neighbourhood influences sometimes taken for granted, and travel beneath oceans of independent underground scenes filtering through, and halt here is Portugals Aside, five guys who firmly believe in music and mutual responsibility.
This is their tale: Initiated on Lisbons sunny coast in 2000, a local decaying scene sent them on a quest to write novel-inspired songs of their own.
If we must compare, their sound is a syringe full of Samiam, Bodyjar & Millencolin tidings, pricked with influences of Hot Water Music and Unwritten Laws more heartening hymns.
Amid jam time and loud clamour they realized this material had become the tangibles of a full set list, and they took to the kids for their first performance: an outdoor festival on July 7th, 2001. Zealous new rockers, and attentive to their founding support, they ran out of free promos and stickers by nights end. Local shows were seeping in, and ideas of recording an album were evident. Their studio hours and conflicting schedules caused some delay on their beloved project, but after a year of persistence Asides first release "Good Enough For Someone Else" saw the light of stereos.
In 2002 came attention from Canada: Aside signed a Canadian licensing deal with Freedumb Records. With overseas support, they took conscious note and booked a Canadian tour in 2003, finding any means of funds to fly out for foreign stages.
The success of this international experience was overwhelming, playing for unknown kids in masses of hundreds, playing with bands such as Catch 22 (USA), BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE (Boston-USA), Boysnightout (Canada), Grimskunk (Canada), Bald Vulture (Canada), as many others.; Aside returned with a new keen hunger. Total Horror Booking in Europe approached the band, proposing to recruit them to their roster of bands booked across Europe. With gigs firmly in check, Asides packing the van again in April 2004, descending on four new countries, including The Netherlands for the second time, as well as Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, sharing stages with G.A.S. Drummers, Five Days Off, July Knives, A Common Ground, Amical, Twisted Minds, Seed 'N Feed, On The Might of Princess.
In this same year released Good Enough For Someone Else in Portugal by RASTILHO RECORDS and distribution of it in Japan by CRJAPAN.
Touring with the biggest Portuguese punkrock Act TARA PERDIDA, 2005 continued flowing with the invitation for the well known Deconstruction Tour edition taking part in Lisbon - playing side by side with bands like Mad caddies, Strung Out, Boy Sets Fire, Strike Anywhere, Only Crime, etc
In October 2005 the recordings for their new full length album were finished, recorded in Studio Underground, in Vsters, Sweden - with Pelle Saether which produced bands like: No Fun At All, The Hives, Adhesive, Venerea, Passage 4, Mindjive, Satanic Surfers, 59 times The Pain, Bombshell Rocks, etc and Mastered by Peter in de Betou (Rammstein, Millencolin, Marduk, Europe, Abba,etc.) This record includes an explosive track with the awesome special guests from Bombshell Rocks!
The year of 2006: “We Are Frequency” was released in April 8th (Portugal), since then the band played as many shows as they could, sharing stages with great bands such as, Tribute to Nothing, Mad Caddies, Uncommonmanfrommars, Bombshell Rocks, Tara Perdida, etc… The band got themselves signed with great labels (I Scream Records (US) and Punk Nation Records (Europe)). And many good reviews just don’t stop coming!
Aside just want to play music. be it for a backyard beach party or a snowed-in hockey hall; they thrive to keep going up and down this terrain. No rules, no short-sighted synthetic lyrics to cry about or fire-eating curses of hot-headed hardcore hate, this is maintained punk rock and downright fitted for prescription.