ATLAS

IS THIS REAL



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Reasons for Voyaging_o1



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Crawl



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ATLAS exploded onto the New Zealand music scene with a number one chart

performance not experienced since 1987's 'Slice of Heaven'. From April 2007

'Crawl' charted for seventeen weeks and owned the top position for seven

weeks.



The band's music pedigree gives it a killer punch. While the genesis is perhaps in Zed which had a nine year run as a leading

New Zealand act up until 2004 and featured Ben Campbell and Andy Lynch ,

ATLAS was conceived at the legendary Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. Ben

and his sister, Beth were there working with friends Robert Lamm (Chicago) and, LA based producer, Hank

Linderman (The Eagles, America, Chicago) discussing solo album concepts.

Hank introduced them to American performer, Sean Cunningham, who hails from

Hank's home state of Kentucky, thinking that they may combine their talents

to write songs for separate solo careers.



'It was immediate.' says Ben. 'There's great music in us all and when we

hung out, jammed and played we discovered songs, riffs, connections,

melodies and ideas that were a lot stronger through the connection.'



Also in Los Angeles at the time, playing with the legendary Sting was Ben's

former Zed bandmate and future ATLAS lead guitarist, Andy Lynch.



Cunningham needed little persuasion to head half way around the planet to

Christchurch where ATLAS started to take shape through a number of

development line ups while the inventory evolved. 'Is This Real', a mix of

searing vocals over guitars charted, followed by the ground-breaking

'Crawl'.



When ATLAS re-located to Auckland, Andy Lynch settled into his edgy lead

guitar slot and the line up was completed with the discovery of drummer, Joe

McCallum who was extracted from Christchurch.



The debut album, 'Reasons For Voyaging' Out Now!



The New Official Website www.atlastheband.com