I Am Giant

I Am Giant is a Rock band from London. They formed late in 2008 and recently released their first Album, The Horrifying Truth in Australia, Asia and New Zealand where it has already achieved Gold status and delivered 4 x Rock Chart No. 1's. European and US releases are due out in October 2012. The band consists of New Zealanders Shelton Woolright, Paul Matthews, Andrew Kerr and Brit, Ed Martin. Drummer Shelton Woolright is formerly from critically acclaimed triple platinum selling band 'Blindspott'(EMI), the only rock band in New Zealand music history to have both their debut and follow up albums enter the charts at number 1. Bassist Paul Matthews credits include double platinum selling band Tadpole (EMI/Antenna), and more recently 'Stylus'. Matthews is also a Producer/Engineer and has worked on several gold and platinum selling albums, and top 10 singles. Together with Woolright they co-produced Six60's Single Rise Up 2.0 which has now gone 2 x platinum. Retrieved March 6, 2013.. Ed Martin was the singer in UK band 'Volume' and has worked as a vocalist with the likes of The Artful Dodger, Bruno Ellingham (producer for Katie Tunstall, Elbow and New Order) and Mark Hill. The band have had tracks featured on many extreme sports DVD's including Quiksilver Euroforce Surfing Videos, Mormail Brazilian surfing label's DVD through South America and America, White Lines magazine in Europe, and 'Cloud 9 Movie'- the Kelly Slater story. The band is also sponsored by Gibson Guitars. Historyedit: Formation (2008 - 2010)edit: After the band Blindspott played their final concert in 2007, Shelton Woolright and fellow Kiwi Paul Matthews moved to London to look at starting a band in the UK. Matthews and Woolright auditioned over 150 singers and 120 guitarists before coming across Ed Martin and Max O'Donnell. Aja Timu who had previously played with both Matthews (Stylus) and Woolright (Blindspott) replaced Max O'Donnell on Guitars in 2010 2010edit: In 2010 the band became the Quiksilver Ambassadors for Europe which lead to a number of festivals and events including Brixton's Skate and BMX Jam, Quiksilver's 'Chromataphobia' and the Quiksilver Pro Tour in Biarritz, France. In March they sold out their first tour in New Zealand and in May performed at two Tiger Translate parties in Vietnam before returning for gigs in France, London, and Liverpool (Sound City showcase). They then toured New Zealand, Australia and America through June/July/August before returning to the UK to play at the British Surf Champs and an encore performance at the Quiksilver Pro Tour in Biarritz, France. In May the band recorded an acoustic cover of Slipknot's single Duality for New Zealand's The Rock Radio's Night show segment 'Like a Version'. After numerous requests and hugely popular Youtube video, The band released the single as a free download from their website in September 2012. The EP City Limits/Neon Sunrise was released and immediately saw success in the New Zealand Charts due to high rotation on the New Zealand radio stations. The EP received Gold Certification. 2011edit: Following on the success of 2010, the band spent most of the early months of 2011 working on their debut album in Australia. Between January and April 2011'The Horrifying Truth' was recorded with acclaimed Australian alt rock producer/engineer Forrester Savell between Sony Studios in Sydney, and Forrester's studio at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, and was co-produced by Matthews and Woolright. During this period, I Am Giant also found time to support Slash and Stone Temple Pilots during the Big Night Out concert in Singapore. After releasing the album, the band went on a nationwide tour of New Zealand 'The Horrifying Truth Tour'. 2012edit: At the beginning of 2012 Andrew Kerr replaced Aja Timu on Guitars. I Am Giant started 2012 with another tour of New Zealand and Australia, Including playing at the final New Zealand Big Day Out where they also shot part of the music video for Purple Heart using fans holding up frames from the rest of the video they had shot the week earlier. The video featuring event sponsor's Speight's Summit Beer was debuted during their set later that day. The band was kept busy with tours of Asia including Manila, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Supporting Slash's tour of Australia, and a Tour of the UK in support of the October release of The Horrifying Truth. During this tour the band released a Germany only version of the I Am Giant EP which included their cover of Slipknot's song Duality and a new track 'Blood Money' I Am Giant also began working on tracks for their second album which currently is unnamed and has no release date. In late December the band returned to New Zealand for a summer tour opening for New Zealand Rock Legends Shihad. The band debuted the live version of Blood Money which was shortly after made available on iTunes. 2013edit: 2013 started with the completion of the Shihad tour as well as a small tour of Australia. They also headlined a free concert held by the Auckland Council as part of the council's Music In Parks summer events. I Am Giant were again in the line-up for Homegrown's Rock Stage where it was announced that the band would be heading to France in May to record the new album.

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