SOLDER

In the summer of 2008, when two friends, Joel Rozario and Mark Escotee who've played with a few nondescript college acts and scored jingles for ads (without getting any publishing rights for the same) in the Bangalore music scene got together over a drink, or maybe a few more, and started talking about their music and wanting to take it seriously, they decided on a new music project which was later to be known to the world as Solder.They were joined by Akhilesh Kumar, a friend from College and soon enough they started jamming with the intent of writing their own music and playing it Live and Loud.There was one problem, actually two, their primary one being whom to thrust vocal duties on?? Soon, this was solved, Siddarth Abraham came by the jam room and belted out whatever was written till then in his voice. Oh and what a voice that is!! Looks like its a family thing actually, considering his cousin is the bad boy from Chennai, Ameeth Thomas of Junkyard Groove. Soon enough the hunt was on for someone to handle the bass section. A few misses later, they chanced upon Samson Philip. And low behold the line up was complete.And might we add, PERFECT :) Still not sure about what to call themselves, they headed often times to the bar after jamming to see if the spirits would help them with the name, and if a sober Siddarth and Akhilesh could record any of the blabbering of the rest of the boys, but no help there. Then one evening, while jamming, Mark's guitar cable was giving him some problem, this problem refused to go away, and when everyone gathered around Mark to see what the fuzz was, they realized they had a screwed up cable!!So what did we do, we SOLDERed the cable. Aha!!Now there was a name. Solder!! So when someone asks us why the name SOLDER?? We tell them the first thing that we did together as a band, apart from making music, and drinking whisky, was to solder a cable!! And yes when we narrate this story to them, it makes us want to cry!!