August Gone

Straight outta St Clements, fronted by bassist, singer and songwriter Alexandra Le Monnier, August Gone has quite literally gone from being a pandemic enforced remote collaboration to a three-piece live act bursting with rock ‘n’ roll energy, with skilled guitarist Alex Pitt and Leon Bouhaire bringing the thunder on drums to complete the line up.
A smorgasbord of influences serving up slices of grunge, rock, metal, country, funk and a mild dash of pop create a uniquely fresh, deliciously vintage vibe.

In early 2022, August Gone delivered their first set of original, self-produced songs in the form of EP ‘Four Leaf Clover’ available on all major streaming platforms, closely followed by the release of music video and single ‘Apathy’, filmed and directed by the highly regarded and talented local filmmaker Philip Clyde-Smith.

With plenty more songs in the offing and more upcoming releases, the band’s focus has now turned to bringing their sound to the stage for your viewing and aural pleasure.

With temperance suspended precariously aloft someplace between sanity and a box of classic records, deft timing and a rather curious can of philosophy discovered washed up on a beach in Jersey, conception was complete and Vagus came into existence in the year 2014. It’s a two man communications company, a company that messes around with instruments. There are no limits, set against a backdrop of a search for purpose and antipathy for anything too much like a structure a religion a farce.

Frontman James Dolan was born into an Irish family in Paddington London. He crashed, snarled and partied his way through the UK scene smashing festivals and studios to boot. Signed to Fierce Panda with The Author back in the noughties he managed to find time to fight with Courtney Love and claim the adoration of Dave Grohl, Zane Lowe and Annie Mac. Record of the week with every release supported by the likes of Steve Lamacq and the late John Peel.

Blended with abstract thought and part musical roots of his hometown back in Wolverhampton instrumentalist and producer Gary Law doesn’t define his style, it’s just an attitude. If it’s slow he’ll play it slow, if it’s fast he’ll play it fast, not just one style ‘he don’t care to try to think like that’. Like a mood he shapes the sound and when you been doing it as long as he’s been doing it ‘ain’t nothin’ but a move’.

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