Glammin' it Up with Noelle from Damone

by Robert Frezza
Static Noise
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With glam metal gone(Guns n’ Roses) then coming back (Velvet Revolver, Buckcherry) in recent years, Damone, a little up & coming glam rock band, is helping to put rock back on the map where it belongs and that’s right in your face!! I talked with Noelle, lead singer and only female in the band, about all this and more.

Q: Your debut CD, Out Here All Night will hit stores on May 23rd. How are you feeling right now??
A: “I’m very excited and we are very proud. We spent about two years recording songs and its time to let go. We were on RCA and then we switched to Island Records. So we recorded about thirty songs altogether during that process.”

Q: Your music has been compared to Guns n’ Roses, AC/DC, and Queen. Is that not rad or what?
A: “That’s cool! I mean we are all influenced by different things but the music that we make and to be for Damone is energetic rock n’ roll music that is pretty standard American rock.”

Q: You worked with some big names for the mixing of your debut album—Thomas Lord-Alge and Mike Shipley. What was that experience like?
A: It was cool. We had the funded the recording on our own, so we didn’t spend too much. So we had all this extra recordings leftover for the mixing and recording, so we got the best of the best to do that. We worked with Tom Lord-Alge and we went to South Beach and hung out in his studio. He is a real funny guy, he’s cool. As far as Mike Shipley goes, I didn’t have the chance to meet him, but he did three songs for us.
That was interesting.

Q: What is you favorite song on the album?
A: We are all big fans of ‘Out Here All Night’. It was a big conflict on which single we were going to choose, but ‘Out Here All Night’ ended up being its own entity and people just started playing it. It is a pretty huge song for us.

Q: Where do you think rock music will take its course in the next couple of years?
A: That’s always hard to say. Music is changing all the time and there’s trends that go by, but I think rock n’ roll is coming back. It never died or anything. People lost focus on it.
Buckcherry has gotten back together and young girls approach us after our shows and tell us how they play in a band. I think there will be this female revolution, which would be pretty cool thing to look forward to in rock music.

Q: How do you feel being the only chick in the band?
A: It feels cool. I have a bunch of big brothers around me all the time. Sometimes they can be jerks and I could be a bitch, but I grew up with my brother and all his friends and stuff.

Damone is currently on tour with Bullets and Octane in support of their new album, Out Here All Night.
Writer: Robert Frezza