Eight (Japanese band)

Eight
Origin	Formerly: Japan, Now Currently: America
Genres	Formerly: Alternative metal, hard rock, nu metal, Now Currently Alternative rock, hard rock, rock, indie rock, hybrid rock
Years active	2004–2010/2013-current under American based now.
Labels	Relative+Heart, Abbey Road, Currently Unsigned
Members	Keane Kendall Zane Linehan Mike Angelo Newton
Past members	Kyotaro Ryo U Nachi Mukku Mitsuru

Eight (sometimes typeset as √eight or THE EIGHT) was a Japanese visual kei rock band from Hokkaido. They were formed in 2004 by Nachi and Kyotaro after Nachi's previous band Werkmare had disbanded. The band used to be signed to Nachi's own label, Relative+Heart. They disbanded in early 2010. Currently the group Eight has been restarted as an American membered group renamed from the band Peace, started by Keane Kendall, and Zane Linehan under no signed label contract as of now.

Biography

Eight was formed by guitarist Nachi (ex-Werkmare) and vocalist Kyotaro(ex-Volark) in 2004, who were soon joined by bassist Mukku (also ex-Werkmare) and drummer Mitsuru (ex-ArcAdiA). Soon after the formation they released two Demo-CDs, followed by another Demo-CD in 2005 as well as several DVDs and contributions to V.A.-releases, most of these independently released. Guitarist Nachi and bassist Mukku were support members of Japanese punk band Anti Feminism during 2007, and Nachi and drummer Mitsuru have been support members of Japanese rock band The Piass from 2009 on.

In 2006 they released their first album, Illational, which was co-produced by Kenzi of Japanese punk band Anti Feminism. At the end of the year they released two more DVDs which showed their tour finals in Sapporo. In 2007 the band was joined by guitarist Ryo (ex-Since1889), and the name of the band was changed to THE EIGHT. They spoke of releasing a new album in late 2007, but this was never realised due to vocalist Kyotaro leaving the band in December to join Black:List. In December 2008, the band Black:List disbanded, and vocalist Kyotaro has decided to retire from music entirely due to family issues.

Shortly after vocalist Kyotaro's leave, guitarist Ryo also left the band. In August 2008, female vocalist U (ex-Low Head Machine) joined the band. In June 2009, drummer Mitsuru temporarily left the band due to injuries. THE EIGHT used a support drummer, Jun, until drummer Mitsuru returned in August 2009, the band's fifth anniversary.

On December 24, 2009, the announcement was made that the band would disband after their live show on January 17, 2010. Since then, guitarist Nachi and drummer Mitsuru have become members for Japanese punk rock band The Piass, and bassist Mukku also played as a support member for The Piass in 2010. Kyotaro briefly joined Japanese band Kanabun on guitar in 2010, and formed the band Cockroach in 2011. Nachi, Mukku and Mitsuru have also formed a new band, Haze, similar to eight.

Peace was a rock band from Massachusetts, US that currently changed to "Eight" and the group Peace is now an EDM Band of DJ’s containing Keane Kendall as “Watermark” and others being scouted. The group consisted of Keane Kendall (vocals, bass guitar) Zane Linehan (guitar), Andrew Proctor(former drums), Liane Ryan (former vocals), and Michael Newton (percussion and drums)

The band started getting attention in late 2011 from publications such as Valley Advocate, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Getty Images and Peace Iced Tea. Peace has been compared to Nirvana (band),

History

Peace formed June 2011 in Massachusetts. In an interview with Mario Tama of Getty Images bass player and singer/songwriter Keane Kendall said the group formed from the occupy movement, Mario Tama described in the interview summary the following: NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 01: Demonstrator Keane Kendall from the Boston band 'Peace,' sits in Zuccotti Park along with members of the Occupy Wall Street movement before they marched to the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011 in New York City. The motorway portion of the bridge is not intended for pedestrians and as some of the marchers attempted to cross that portion, they were stopped midway by police. Hundreds of protesters were arrested. Occupy movement.

Their first press release stated Keane Kendall's views on being a Pacifist".

In September 2012 Peace released a three song tune pack containing songs copyrighted and under rights of BMI "Your Boy In Love" "Im Your Love As Old As A Stone Flowering Tree" and "It's Wonderful To Be Here With You All" for free listening via online, followed shortly thereafter by their performance at Sweatervest Sweaterfest in Ithaca, New York.

After adding Michael Newton to the group in place of Andrew Proctor the trio of Zane, Keane, and Mike changed their focus of the group name from Peace into Dog Sun and Keane kept Peace as his own musical group containing the influence of EDM. He is currently in the beginning process of writing and recording via many different instruments to start building the EDM sound of Peace as his DJ sir name.

Extended History

"Peace" now "Eight" began nameless originally with a completely different line up of musicians Keane Kendall on guitar and Michael Brusco on drums in 2007. With the groups involvement with heavy drugs the project turned into the band, which added Bass player Brian Birchrum. They parted ways due to the heavy drug use. The only remaining member Keane Kendall went on to work with a new drummer Bruce Figueiredo and Adam Porth on guitar, where Keane switched over to bass in 2008. From here Keane moved from Massachusetts to New Mexico with a girl he met Liane Ryan in 2009. While in new Mexico they conceived two children together. During this time Keane released two acoustic albums about friends, life, love, and children under his own name. Upon moving back from New Mexico to Massachusetts in January of 2011, Keane reformed connections with previous drummer for Dog Sun Bruce, and added guitar player and singer Jack Reynolds, with Keane on bass and vocals as well. Throughout the four months together between february and may of 2011 they battled with disagreements of a band name and musical communication between Jack and Keane which a times resulted in physical fights. Upon an Incident of Jack misplacing some drugs he brought into Keane's home while his daughters were there they got into another physical fight and Keane demanded he leave the group, yet instead the group demanded that Keane leave so he packed his gear up. Two days later their practice space in Springfield, Ma funded by Keane was destroyed by a tornado that ripped directly through their place of playing leaving nothing salvageable. Keane moved on to begin another group when he discovered Liane's hidden ability of being a drum player all along. She saw his despair of looking to simply create a grounded band so she decided to come out of the closet to play. While in Northampton one day Keane met a boy named Zane Linehan and they discussed many things and actually became fond of each others musical creativity, Zane being of a background of rock blues and grunge fit with keane's likeness to belt raspy vocal lines and sometimes monotone verses. Keane added a distortion pedal to his bass setup and together on June 27, 2011, Keane, Zane, and Liane formed the group, "The Unions", after the interest of the IATSE: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Together they began a month of recording of songs Keane had already been working on previously with Bruce and Jack. They released via Internet a few songs through a viral market network and played one show in CT at The Room. They began to receive hate emails about keane's sung topics of anti-war, family matters, love, and people's rights through non-violence. Through these emails they found through a slight influence by the band Nirvana to rename themselves simply, "Peace" to not become discourage by people's opinions. They released there now recorded album for sale on August 27, 2011 via iTunes. They named the album: "Union's Third Eye Child's Smoking 27's Band" influenced by "The Beatles" album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Peace played a six day event in springfield to promote the album, and toured on into Worcester to the Lucky Dog Hall on the same day and place where The Rolling Stones debut there reuniting tour in 1981. Peace then toured back to CT to The Room for battle of The Bands featuring Face The King, Fear The Masses and others. Being judged by EMI label scouts Peace didn't place any winnings yet received good critique after the show by the judges. During the shows keane has taken a position of wearing an army outfit during performance for reasons of political controversy. Peace travelled to NYC on Oct 1st to the demonstration and received exposure directly through MSNBC on news headlines for them being there, and keane landed his picture with Getty Images with licensing cost of his photo for media use as the band member of Boston based rock group Peace starting at 1,600.00 for US use up to 49,000.00 for Global media news use. Image purchase link: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/127833655/Getty-Images-News Keane via a press release responded by saying at least his souls being sold for a good message. He also went on to speak with Tony Clement(President of Canada's National Treasury Board, and FEI minister) via twitter about views of USA's federal reserve adding and big bank corporations. The conversation was then forwarded to president Barack Obama. In February their guitar player Zane becoming unmanageable and shifting his topics of interest towards other aspects in life and some brief stints of heavy drug use was given the option to publicly quite instead of being kicked out from the group. The new lineup in turn added back on Michael Brusco on lead and rhythm guitar for a month until heroin led to Mike leaving the group to help himself get clean. The original guitar player Zane joined back on bored and has been a better influence within himself for people. At this same time a new member Andrew Proctor was added as the drummer in place of Liane, and Liane moved to backing vocals. Andy as well has taken a strong backbone on for the band with his talents and strong willed determination to get the music out there even more so than ever before. Andy also has taken a lead role with Keane in writing and singing songs of his own and ones that both Andy and Keane have coordinated on together, as well as playing rhythm acoustic guitar in some with Keane on bass, Liane on drums, and zane on lead guitar. Liane then decided to leave the group. After some time and three song recordings with Zane, Andy, and Keane the group switched drummers yet again to Mike Newton in the winter of 2012. They began the writing process again and have decided to change the group name into the group Eight and Keane has decided to make Peace group into various EDM artist's music. Keane, by recording track by track on various instruments and then processing it into deck tracks is creating himself into the DJ name Kin's Candle Currently Keane, Zane, and Mike are beginning the writing and recording process for their first album under the band name Eight.

Members

• Keane Kendall - Vocals (2013-current)
• Zane Linehan - Guitar, vocals (2013-current)
• Keane Kendall - Bass guitar (2013-current)
• Michael Angelo Newton - Drums (2013-current)

• U - Vocals (2008–2010)
• Nachi (那智) - Guitar, vocals (2004–2010)
• Mukku (ムック) - Bass guitar (2004–2010)
• Mitsuru (みつる) - Drums, keyboards (2004–2010)

Former members

• Kyotaro (狂太郎) - Vocals, harmonica (2004–2007)
• Ryo - Guitar (2007–2008)
• Jun - Drums (support member) (2009)