The Evermore band is Jon, Peter, and Dann Hume, brothers all. They hail from New Zealand, though they are based in Australia. Their genre is alternative-indie rock.

The name comes from “The Battle of Evermore”, an acoustic guitar and mandolin composition by Led Zeppelin which was released on their fourth album in 1971. The band members were greatly influenced by their parents’ love of music, and this choice of name shows the influence of their parents’ music choice. Their parents were reportedly very supportive of their musical ambitions.

Continuing the influence of their parents’ music tastes, the group cites as their favorite artists and influences Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Crowded House, Stevie Wonder, U2, and The Shins.

All three of the brothers have written songs for the various albums. Speaking of the bountiful output during the recording of “Real Life”, Jon Hume remarked, “Instead of me writing almost everything, we suddenly had three writers coming up with a lot. We could have made two albums simultaneously.” Dann is said to have written nearly 100 songs during this burst of creative output.

Awards they have won or received nominations for include an MTV Award for Supernova Breakthrough Act, a NZ Music Award, the APRA Silver Scroll, and five ARIA nominations. Both of their albums, Evermore “Dreams” and “Real Life”, have gone platinum. They won an APRA Silver Scroll Award for Evermore “It’s Too Late” in 2005.

Evermore boasts an impressive website at evermoreband.com, which has many community features including forums, members, and an area for members to submit fan art, as well as the standard video and Evermore MP3 music clips.

The album “Real Life” was recorded at Longview Farm in Massachusetts, which is the oldest recording studio in the USA and the previous haunt of Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith. During the recording of “Real Life”, temperatures in Massachusetts plunged to -25 degrees, making the band feel a sharp difference from the normally temperate home.

Of their style, they have said, “We wanted to be sure all the tunes sounded great just played simply on a guitar. That way you know you have a great song.” They add, “We’re the kind of band that is going to change with every record. We will always sound like us, but we’ll utilize our strengths as three writers.”

The name of the band is frequently mixed up in online searches with the video game “Secret of Evermore”, a role-playing game by Square software for the old Super Nintendo console. Square is the game publisher best known for their cult classics “Secret of Mana” and “Seiken Densetsu 3″, as well as their famous “Final fantasy” series. Perhaps as a shy recognition of this, the band produced a Flash game based on their Evermore “Running” video. The game, being a ‘jump-n-run’ type, has much of the soaring spirits of “Running”. Evermore has hosted the game on their site and it was the subject of a competition to win an XBox 360.

Track Listing

Albums

** Dreams

*** Dreaming… Pt. 1
*** It’s Too Late
*** This Unavoidable Thing Between Us
*** For One Day
*** Dreaming… Pt. 2
*** Are You Satisfied???
*** Come to Nothing
*** Dreams Call Out to Me
*** Without Your Smile
*** Into the Ocean (Calling You)
*** Know It’s True
*** Sunshine
*** Everyone (Moving On)

** Real Life

*** Real Life
*** Running
*** Light Surrounding You
*** Unbreakable
*** Morning Star
*** Never Let You Go
*** My Guiding Light
*** Afloat
*** The Great Unknown
*** The Only One I See
*** Inside of Me
*** Goodnight Is Not the End

Extended Play

** Slipping Away

*** Slipping Away
*** Pick Yourself Up

** Oil & Water

*** Slipping Away
*** Oil & Water
*** Pick Yourself Up
*** Tears
*** Colours Burning

** My Own Way

*** Hold On
*** My Own Way
*** What’s Inside
*** The Same As You
*** So Fine

** Unbreakable

*** Unbreakable – 3:15
*** Real Life (Live) – 4:33
*** It’s Too Late (Live) – 5:17
*** Unbreakable (Live) – 3:12
*** Running (Live) – 5:09

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