Semion is tagged as: under 2000 listeners, rock, indie, power pop, pop
Gary Ford and Andrew Nix have been playing in bands together for years fusing their combined love of power pop, 60s west coast pop, garage punk, country rock and late 70s/early 80s indie pop. Together with Gary’s younger brother Darren they played in a series of line-ups in the early 1990s. After the final disintegration of The Knievels in 1996, Darren went on to form Lowgold, while Gary and Andrew reconvened in 1997 after a brief rest to form Semion. The exotically-named Paul De Ste Croix took lead guitar duties with Ford on rhythm guitar and vocals and Nix providing bass and backing vocals. After a few adverts in the music press, Marcus Tyler-Moore was recruited on drums and Semion set about playing gigs in London and thinking about recording some of their songs. In 1999 they entered Liam Watson’s Toe Rag studios in east London to record some songs that would form the basis of their debut EP Get A Grip. This seven track introduction, released in 2001, saw them favourably compared to Teenage Fanclub, Beachwood Sparks and even R.E.M., earning favourable reviews around the world. Veering from the pure pop of “Dumb” to the radio favourites “Year Of The Monkee” and “Paul Loves Derek” as well as the off-kilter instrumental “Theme From Sem...
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