It was a chance meeting in a Worcestershire pub, that brought back together former songwriting partners and band mates, vocalist Mark Grimmett and lead guitarist Nick Singleton. The pair, who hadn’t seen each other for years, soon started talking about what their perfect band would be like, after all of their musical experiences. Firstly songs. It’s all about the songs. Real lyrics about real life, true stories with catchy infectious melodies that just stay in your head, nothing fake, just honest heartfelt songs played with passion and energy, like a modern take on all the classic rock bands they grew up on.
Before long they were holed up in Mark’s studio, writing and demoing the songs that would later make up the #truestories album, and would lead to 3Sixty.
Pulling together the band from a wish-list of favourite musicians, the first to join them were brothers Russell Simon and Mark Simon on rhythm guitar and drums. Russell’s low-slung punky Les Paul riffs proving a perfect foil for Nick’s classic rock tones, while Mark’s powerful, rock-solid grooves show why the band, only half jokingly, call him the loudest drummer in the world. Last to join 3Sixty was bass player Ian Edwards who has brought with him some serious low-end bass thunder, that has only added to the 3Sixty sound.
The band spent most of 2017 recording the #truestories album in-between live shows. It was recorded by Dave Draper in Tower Studios, and also by vocalist Mark in his own studio, and was mixed by the brilliant Simon Jewel.
If you were to pick out one song that best exemplifies what 3Sixty is all about, it would surely be Stronger. A fan favourite, and sounding like a long-lost rock classic, that you somehow missed. The song was written about Mark’s young son’s (thankfully successful) battle with childhood leukaemia, but is ultimately an uplifting song, and a song of hope.
In May 2018, the band secured a worldwide distribution deal for the #truestories album with Code 7, which can now be purchased in CD and digital form through many outlets including Itunes, Amazon, Spotify and HMV, as well as from the bands own website. Since forming in 2014, the band has played many live shows, both on their own as well as opening for the likes of The Quireboys, Faster Pussycat, Pat McManus, Bernie Torme, Ricky Warwick and Damon Johnson, Dan Reed, Mike Tramp to name a few, as well as numerous festival appearances and a BBC Introducing live session and festival show, and are currently out playing live to promote the #truestories album, and writing the songs for the second album.
