FIVE YEARS AGO FIVE BLOKES MET IN A DANK AND DINGY STUDIO IN SOUTH LONDON NICK, DOM AND NIGE HAD BEEN JAMMING STUFF PRIOR TO THIS FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THE DESIRE TO EXPAND LED THEM TO RECRUIT JOE AND LUDO WHO WERE JAMMING A PRE WHITE STRIPES VIBE AT THE TIME EVERY SHOW THEY DID WAS A SELL OUT THEY HAVE THE RECORD FOR CROWD ATTENDANCE FOR AN UNSIGNED BAND AT THE KINGSTON PEEL VENUE ONLY BEING BEATEN BY GARY MOORE AND ASH EXTENSIVE GIGGING FOLLOWED WITH ALL THE USUAL ANTICIPATION AND EXCITEMENT THE BUZZ GENERATED BY THE BAND WAS QUITE PHENOMENAL FROM THEIR FIRST GIG ONWARDS THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY DRAWN LARGE CROWDS AT VENUES LIKE SOUND REPUBLIC, THE ASTORIA, THE ROCK GARDEN, STORM LEICESTER SQUARE, THE HALF MOON, LA2 AND MANY MORE JOINING THE LADS ALONG THE WAY WAS ESTABLISHED ACOUSTIC GUITARIST VINCE LINANE WHO HAD LITERALLY PLAYED ALL OVER THE WORLD IN ONE FORM OR THE OTHER STARTING AS A GUEST ARTIST HE SOON BECAME PART OF THE AERIALDEVICE SHOWCASE AND SOON STARTED CO WRITING WITH THEM EMI DRAGGED THE LADS INTO THE STUDIO AFTER A YEAR OF FULL SHOWS AND SUCCESSFUL CHARITY GIGS TO RECORD THE DISTANCE NEW HORIZONS CD IT WAS PRODUCED BY MARK AUBERY WHO HAD JUST FINISHED STARSAILORS PLATINUM SELLING DEBUT ALBUM ON THE BACK OF THIS RECORDING WHICH HAPPENED OVER THE DAYS OF 9 11 ATTACKS, THE BAND PERFORMED AN NME SHOWCASE GIG THIS PROVED TO BE THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL 'S BACK WHERE LUDO WAS CONCERNED THE HECTIC SCHEDULE AND HIGHER PROFILING OF GIGS TOOK ITS TOLL AND UNFORTUNATELY LUDO LEFT THE DOOR WAS LEFT OPEN AND IN WALKED ROB COMER, SON OF TEX COMER FROM SEVENTIES SENSATIONS ACE HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON
ROB ADDED A VITALITY AND EDGE TO THE BAND AND A NEW ERA OF SONG WRITING BEGAN SOON THE BAND WERE BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN PULLING IN THE CROWDS AND GETTING EXCELLENT REVIEWS SECRETION RECORDS ALSO MADE A PLAY FOR THEM BUT ON THE ADVICE OF ONE OF ALAN MCGEE 'S ASSOCIATES WISELY DID NOT TAKE THE BAIT ANOTHER RECORDING FOLLOWED WITH THE NEW BAND MEMBER, ROB SO LONG AND YEAR ZERO WERE RECORDED BY ARAN IBBITSON AND MASTERED BY TIM TURAN FRESH OFF OF MARYLIN MANSON 'S LAST ALBUM IT WAS THESE RECORDINGS THAT ATTRACTED SCI FI WRITER JACKIE CLARKE TO ADOPT THE AERIALDEVICE SOUND FOR A NEW TV SERIES EXPLODE SCREENING THIS YEAR THE BAND ARE CURRENTLY WRITING NEW MATERIAL AND WILL BE DOING THE FESTIVAL SCENE THIS YEAR THEY WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THEIR FANS IN THE US, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, MEXICO, CHINA, INDIA, THAILAND AND EUROPE AND OF COURSE THE HOME GROWN FANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ONWARDS AND UPWARDS AERIALDEVICE