Biography
On Saturday nights, 21st Street, Manhattan’s notorious strip of clubs peddling fourhundred-
dollar bottles of vodka to Paris Hilton wannabes and nouveau riche hedge fund
managers, is a nightmare. “It’s like mardi gras. You’ve got a street filled with beautiful
girls in short skirts, but we ain’t offering what they want. I shovel horseshit for a living,”
shrugs Nic Snyder, guitar player, singer, and heartthrob of The Takeover UK. He has the
good looks of a mid-western serial killer — you could see him playing against Sissy
Spacek in a Hollywood epic.
The rest of the gang also carry the charisma and gravitas that comes with living in
Pittsburgh and getting the hell out. Besides Nic, among them are Mark and Adam, both
office drones, and Josh, an out of work pizza delivery boy. Together they have cemented
a bond as tough as anything that has come out of a town famous for forging steel.
The Takeover UK have been recording here on 21st Street, putting the finishing touches on
their debut, , a bold, brash pop masterpiece. They make no bones
about it, they are unabashedly pop — though their punk attitude comes shining through with
thick power chords and vocals that teeter between sugar and snarl. In a world of color-bynumbers
pop performed by painted faces and hand-picked record company doll babies,
The Takeover UK stand out in sharp relief — whatever territory they have “taken” they
have earned inch by inch, with sweat and raw talent. They are lucky to have two singersongwriters
working as one, blessed with an incredible depth of compositional tools – how
is it even possible to come up with so many good songs? And every one of them takes
unexpected twists and turns across an album brimming with angst, happiness, anger,
confusion, and humor. It does not hurt that they can play their asses off.
Instrumentation
Nick Snyder-vocals, guitar, piano
Mark Solomich-vocals, guitar, piano
Derek White-bass, vocals
Josh Sickels- drums
Discography
Running With The Wasters - Rykodisc (March 24, 2009)
It's All Happening (EP) - Rykodisc (May 20, 2008)
Links
| http://www.myspace.com/thetakeoveruk |
| Official Myspace Page |
| Official Facebook Page |
| iTunes Link (EP) |
| Amazon Link (EP) |
| Zune Link (EP) |