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BAND BIO

Unit 566 is a punk-hardcore band formed in spring 2014 under the initial name of ifw (inner freedom Whish).
We play ‘classical’ hardcore punk’ style to honour a music that is not so common these days to carry on the tradition (A FORM OF rebellion against societies inconsistencies ) and a homage to PUNK ROCK in general

 

2014 - Under the name of IFW, a full set of original songs where produced and played for friends in rehearsal room

2017 - the band has the current line up and the name evolved to Unit566

2018 - 3 songs EP Recorded at rec studio by Serge Morattel,
  “I punk and you suck”, “fuck, is it good or not”, I will not follow you”

 

At the beginning of 2018, we decided to move forward with this setup by recording few songs to promote our pleasure to play and open-up new concert opportunities.

 

Band project 2019:

-The next step for us is to find a good rehearsal room

-Find concerts for spring

before summer: record some new songs to add to our 3 song and eventually by end of 2019 have an album

2020 - Well Covid + chaos + changes + Nicole our new Singer who is Amazing !

2023 - NEW NEW Album ! - Earwigs

UNIT 566 - The Team

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William ViganÒ (guitar

1984 STARTED PLAYING GUITAR IN A ROCK BAND

Since 1992 PLAYING GUITAR IN various HARDCORE PUNK BANDs

2014 JOINING ifw AND THEN uNIT566

Likes: Ratos de porao, VOID, Napalm death, Chokehold, fear, dead kennedy’s, bad brains, and punk-hardcore in general.

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Roger Barlow (drums)

1986 in a band called les supers lardons, first taste or early punk and new romantics

1990 In a band called ATOMIC influenced by many Canadian rock bands , cheap trick and rush

1998 in a band in the uk called autopsy later named dropout, rehearsed in studio in oxford were Radiohead did their debut, we were a grunge style and recorded 3 songs and many concerts around oxfordshire

2016 joined unit 566

LIKES many genre from classical music to death metal, prog rock lover also … … …

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James Doe

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Jonathan Emery (bass)

1995 Started electronic music composing at home (microlocgic, korgM1)

1998 bass player & computer composer in a band called penury then antium (metal band with electronic touch)

2015 join ifw and then unit 566

2018 new project around computer music

likes: Body count, ratm, pantera, sick of it all, muse, trentemoller, aphex tween, and more.

UNIT 566 - The Team

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William ViganÒ (guitar)

1984 STARTED PLAYING GUITAR IN A ROCK BAND

Since 1992 PLAYING GUITAR IN various HARDCORE PUNK BANDs

2014 JOINING ifw AND THEN uNIT566

Likes: Ratos de porao, VOID, Napalm death, Chokehold, fear, dead kennedy’s, bad brains, and punk-hardcore in general.

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Roger Barlow (drums)

1986 in a band called les supers lardons, first taste or early punk and new romantics

1990 In a band called ATOMIC influenced by many Canadian rock bands , cheap trick and rush

1998 in a band in the uk called autopsy later named dropout, rehearsed in studio in oxford were Radiohead did their debut, we were a grunge style and recorded 3 songs and many concerts around oxfordshire

2016 joined unit 566

LIKES many genre from classical music to death metal, prog rock lover also … … …

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Nicole Fayet (Singer)

She begins music theory and the piano at 4 years old. In the eighties, she experimented with electronic music by swapping her piano for a synthesizer and rhythm machine. In her family, the language is singing... She then decided to take courses in voice posing and various vocal techniques to explore the lyrical repertoire on the one hand, but also to broaden the possibilities of using her "instrument" to explore other musical styles and vibrate!

 

Her tastes are very eclectic, benefiting since childhood from the advice of her older sister, who gave her a first K7, Chi Coltrane, for her fifth birthday, a revelation for voices and music where intensity and sincerity are essential...

 

This will be followed by periods rocked by the emergence of Punk, then New-Wave, rock and its variations, by the Grunge period discovered in the United States in the 90s, blues, jazz... whatever the style, as long as the music triggers the desire to dream, to move, to cry, to laugh and to sing...

 

She joined Unit 566 in 2022, following an innocuous discussion on returning from a mountain hike with the drummer, immediately convinced by this energy and this desire to play very personal music that unites our common values inside UNIT566 and to roooocccckkk hard…

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Jonathan Emery (bass)

1995 Started electronic music composing at home (microlocgic, korgM1)

1998 bass player & computer composer in a band called penury then antium (metal band with electronic touch)

2015 join ifw and then unit 566

2018 new project around computer music

likes: Body count, ratm, pantera, sick of it all, muse, trentemoller, aphex tween, and more.

CONCERT au Fete de Geneve, 22/06/2024
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