LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ STRAY Official Website) - It's as if STRAY have been around for a lifetime - having made their biggest mark in the 1970's. Founder member Del Bromham is the integral member, the mainstay, who has kept the music of this hugely underrated band alight, bringing his showy guitar work to stages all over Europe, having toured with the likes of Iron Maiden,
Leslie West, and Tony McPhee's Groundhogs.
2010 see's the arrival of yet another notable album, delivering a fine example of not only some classy guitar work, but also a distinctive credit to the songwriting genius of Del Bromahm. The result - a think piece that focuses on moral viewpoints and reaches to depths of emotion during its quest towards freedom.
VALHALLA fuses super slik lead breaks, packed with emotional expression, supplementing it's meaningful lyric content, set to inspire deep thought, and a moral analysis that's heavily weighted around freedom. Each guitar solo is as communicative as the next, although coloured slightly differently, offering each composition an individual character. Musically its faithful to the old, while grasping the new and shaping it to reveal original forms, presented in an inspiring and tuneful light.
In short, an incredible collection of catchy up to the minute material, great layered guitar work and authentic sounds shaped with heavier bursts of 'V' riffage. VALHALLA brings all the qualities and refinery that we praised from the '70's, and moulds it into a work that can be identified with today.
STRAY will play the following dates in the U.K.:
16th October - THE WINGSPAN CLUB - Crawley - Surrey
22nd October - THE TROPIC - Ruislip
30th October - THE STANDARD - Walthamstow
7th November - THE MALT SHOVEL TAVERN - Northampton (afternoon show - 2.30pm start)
13th November - ROUTE 44 - Birmingham
20th November - CLUB RIGA - Westcliff on Sea - Essex
11th December - THE WHEATSHEAF - Leighton Buzzard
2011
12th February - THE MILL ARTS CENTRE - Banbury
For more info visit www.stray-the-band.co.uk