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The Making of Revival Part 6 AnswerTV 3,377 views Part six of a "Fly on the wall" mini-documentary about the making of "Revival" the new album from Ireland's The Answer.
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The Making Of Revival Part 3 AnswerTV 4,292 views Part three of a "Fly on the wall" mini-documentary about the making of "Revival" the new album from Ireland's The Answer. In this episode, find out about producer Chris ...
412 Days of Rock n Roll AnswerTV 989 views 30 second trailer for the release of "412 Days of Rock N Roll". A new DVD and live CD from Ireland's The Answer. Includes loads of footage from their recent tour with AC-DC.
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The road to rock 'n' roll glory is littered with the smouldering remnants of bands that blazed brightly for a few brief moments and then fizzled out in a cloud of thwarted ambitions. But every now and then a band emerges that walk, talk and rock like true saviours of our beloved music's spirit and soul. Founded in Northern Ireland in 2000, The Answer have spent the last decade proving their rock 'n' roll credentials and making the kind of life-affirming, eardrum-threatening music that separates the truly great from the merely adequate. After a few self-financed, low-key releases, the band emerged into the mainstream spotlight in 2005 when their debut single Keep Believin' became the subject of great critical acclaim and led The Answer to the 'Best New Band' award at that year's Classic Rock Awards. The following year, this young band consolidated that early promise with Rise, a debut album that received universally great reviews and backed up their burgeoning reputation with fistfuls of gloriously anthemic songs like Under The Sky, Into The Gutter and Come Follow Me that delighted everyone from cantankerous classic rock fans to bright-eyed teenagers with a penchant for balls-out rock 'n' roll. Rise went on to sell over 125,000 copies worldwide, a startling achievement that ensured that when the band released their second album, the mighty Everyday Demons, three years later, the world was more than ready to embrace The Answer on an even greater scale. The end result of their fearsome reputation, both as an astonishing live band and as rock's brightest hopes, was a two-year stint as chief support to AC/DC, which took them around the world and into some of the biggest venues on the planet.

"We were thrown to the wolves a lot of nights on the road with AC/DC and all we had to fall back on was the four of us playing together," recalls mercurial guitar hero Paul Mahon. "We had to make it work and dig in really hard. After all that time on the road, our song writing's so much tighter, all the fat has been stripped away and we're much more direct. Songs that we had in that vein seemed to go down with their audiences, and we took all of that on board."

Undeniably, The Answer -- completed by perennially charismatic frontman Cormac Neeson and the powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Micky Waters and drummer James Heatley - have achieved a great deal in their career so far, but 2011 looks certain to be their most gloriously triumphant year to date. The band has recently completed work on their third album, Revival, which was recorded with producer Chris 'Frenchie' Smith in both El Paso and Austin, Texas. A thrillingly energised and powerful rock 'n' roll album that incorporates the best elements of The Answer's artistic story so far combined with a gleaming armoury of new ideas and fresh adventures in sound, it sounds very much like the album that could take the band back to those arenas and stadiums, but this time as headliners in their own right.

"It's our best album to date and we think it might turn a few heads!" states Neeson. "It was a lot of fun recording it. The studio in El Paso was on a ranch in the middle of a pecan orchard on 3,000 acres of land and right near the border of Mexico. It was a great place for creating music, and it had that whole Wild West vibe which rock bands can definitely tune into and feed off. It was an unbelievably positive experience and the music really reflects that. It was definitely the right call, going to Texas to record a rock 'n' roll album."

"The other albums maybe sounded a little restrained in some respects and Chris came along and told us to dream bigger and rock a lot harder than we had before," adds Mahon. "He's a very rock 'n' roll guy too, so he wouldn't let us disappear up our own a***!"

With a broad musical palate that takes them from the straightforward, thunderous rock 'n' roll vibes of Caught On The River Bed and Veda through to more experimental fare like Destroy Me and Tornado, both of which promise to silence the cynics who regard The Answer as little more than a straight-ahead blues rock outfit, the new album is simply this remarkable band's definitive statement to date. Loud, confident and oozing white hot soul from every pore, this is The Answer's first true masterpiece and confirmation that the sky is now the limit for these irrepressible guardians of the rock flame.

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