Mark Millard -Lead Vocals Chris White -Keyboards, Trumpet, Vocals Bennett Knowles -Bass, Vocals Bjorn Bennett -Guitars Steve King -Drums, Vocals
A radio DJ recently described Lads music as being ‘so infectious, it’s like a disease… but the kind you actually want to get!’. The band which originally evolved out of a bunch of ‘mates who grew up together’ and ‘just became known as ‘Lads’, now performs each year to around 100,000 people (including many high schools in both New Zealand and Australia), and has a following normally only found in Top 20 regular charting bands.
What do they sound like? Lads have a gritty guitar foundation to their sound combined with swirling analogue keys and the kind of melody and lyrics that set’s itself up for the long haul in your front yard, it just won’t go away! On stage they are highly energetic and at times even electric in their performance, they also like to entertain and have fun with an audience creating unforgettable moments that stay with you long after that show is over and all the lights and turned down.
Their music from the outset is packed full of emotion and textures in sound which help to capture the listener and takes them on a journey through the honest and sometimes even vulnerable passages of the lives of these five Lads. Some of their music is very bright, some of it sad, some of it is of a spiritual nature (reflecting the bands Christian beliefs and background) but all of it is beginning to turn industry heads in New Zealand and the U.S.
