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[...] At first one might be tempted to simply insert The Blues Against Youth's
sound under "roots rock," but that doesn't quite do it justice.
Nearly, mind you, but not quite.
With
a hollow-bodied electric six-string guitar, kick drum, voice, whistle, hi-hat,
and an unusual piece of stomp percussion he calls his "invisible iron
snare," he has developed his sound from a slower, more organic and
traditional one to what it is now -- raw, gritty blues coupled with dirty,
primitive rock'n'roll and outsider country."
James G. Carlson, one man band examiner
“The
Blue Against Youth’s raison d’ĂȘtre is to
distil the essence of the past into something once more pure and while the
sound might well be dirty, the concept is as pure as the driven snow all the
way through these twelve tracks.” Bluesbunny.com
THE BLUES AGAINST YOUTH
country
rock primitive one man experiment
Biography
Hailing
from Rome, Italy, The Blues Against
Youth is a one man band project led by Gianni
TBAY who performs vocals, guitar, bassdrum, hi-hat and whistles
simultaneously. His sound comes directly from the seventies, looks back at the
old country tradition of Hank Williams and smirks at the sixties, moving
towards some gritty rock’n’roll filled with a punk attitude.
TBAY has been rocking around since 2009, performed
over 800 shows in all Europe, released three full-length albums (“Pure At Heart Blues” in 2011 , “Trapped In
The Country” in 2013 and "Apprentice" in 2016) and five 7”. In 2017 TBAY unleashed two new releases: "Barbed Times" 7" out on Skronk Records, and the 10" "Good Morning Bad Feeling/Deprecation Road" out on Beast Records, this last one premiered at the Binic Festival in July 2017. TBAY is currently touring in Europe.
“BECOME
THE WHYSKEY” – 7” (Brigadisco, Burning Sound, 2010)
“SPLIT
W/ THE RIBEYE BROTHERS” – 7” (Escape From Today, 2011)
“PURE
AT HEART BLUES” – LP (Primitive Records, Sonatine Produzioni, 2011)
“YOU
SAID I PRAISE THE DEVIL?” EP– 7” (Deer It Yourself, 2012)
“TRAPPED
IN THE COUNTRY” LP (Off Label Records, 2013)
“DOTTED
WHITE LINE” SPLIT W/ THE CYBORGS – 7” (Bloody Sound Fucktory, 2014)
“APPRENTICE”
– LP
(Beast Records, 2016)
“BARBED TIMES” – 7" (Skronk Records, 2017)
“GOOD MORNING BAD FEELING / DEPRECATION ROAD” - 10" (Beast Records, 2017)
More in-depth (but not up-to-date) biography:
Firstly inspired by country gold such as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and David Allan Coe, TBAY develops a mixture of grooves passing through 70's rock of Lynyrd and Zeppelin era, coming back to primitiveness of delta blues fathers and moving towards something muddier and overwhelming.
The 'country-rock primitive one man experiment' moved its first steps playing in its hometown Roma (It), and shortly thereafter touring Italy, Germany and Switzerland. A more acoustic approach characterizes the first TBAY incarnation. Slowed down blues, country-rock songs and some Hank Williams covers were recorded by Benu of Come'n'Go in Biel (CH) during 2009. Some DIY cdr demos like "Savage demo takes vol.1" and "tbay 2009" were hand-made and given around.
Once found his true dimension by switching from acoustic to hollow body guitar, and after turned up the drive of his amplifier, Gianni entered the infamous Snake's Studio in Rome with his friend Cangiarlo Barbati behind the desk. The sessions recorded have to be considered as the first official material from The Blues Against Youth.
The "Self-Bootlegged But True" cdr, was made in limited copies and handed around at the TBAY shows. People enjoyed it and the performances started to become heavier as the boy's limbs started moving tighter and more precise than the beginning.

This very first release in 7'' was co-produced by TBAY and some people behind the names of Sonatine Produzioni (Fano, It), Escape From Today (Torino, It), Burning Sound Records (Geneve, CH), Brigadisco Records (Itri, It).
Four Portugal shows in December did very good and concluded the "Become The Whiskey Release Party Tour" in the year 2010.

In March 2011 TBAY embarked on his third headlining tour throughout Europe, playing 24 shows and spreading out his new self-produced cd-r "Ripped-Off And Broke", that bore the same tour's name and consisted of unreleased and released material, limited to 150 copies.

Summer of 2011 saw TBAY's two latest releases: the compilation "Brigadisco 3 - Ulula", by Brigadisco Records, that hosted various Italian musicians such as Spookyman, Davide Lipari, Mombu and many others, and featured the unreleased song "Opportunities" by TBAY. The second release was the long-announced 7" split with The Ribeye Brothers (USA/Monster Magnet current and ex members) that came out in July 2011 thanks to Deer It Yourself, Escape From Today and Burning Sounds Records.



In December 2012 Gianni locks himself into the M.House Studio to start tracking his 2nd full length album. Due in March 2013.
The Blues Against Youth got the pleasure and (at times) the displeasure to play with: The Bulemics, Bob Log III, Lo-Lite, Urban Junior, Reverend Beatman, Reverse Cowgirls, Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers, Delaney Davidson, CW Stoneking, King Automatic, The Stomping Hobos, Miss-Ipi, The Cyborgs, Golden Helmets, Guitou Scumfuck, The Jackets, Long Dong Silver, Antares, Reverse Cowgirls, Guitar Fucker, Sixtyniner, Mr. Occhio, Uoki Toki, Davide Lipari, Spooky Man, Belly Hole Freak, Gipsy Rufina, OldSeed, Runaway Brides, Wasted Pido, Movie Star Junkies, O Lendario Chucrobill, Il Muro Del Canto, Skiantos, Angelo Rossi..