URCHINS OF THE NIGHT

Distance is something that bands in this collective have always had to deal with. We collaborate with our friends in Boston, Syracuse, Buffalo....all sacrificing money, time and energy for the good of the project. We love doing this, so we make it work.

Urchins of the Night was a band that came out of Syracuse's We the People, a proposed Oi band that strayed from that genre pretty quickly. While singer Chuck Hickey stayed living in Syracuse, the rest of the members lived in Brooklyn, where they wrote the music and Chuck came down to record and add vocals. After several years of this process, the Brooklyn faction of We the People thought it might be cool to try something a little different.

Andy Williams, Jon Davies, Chris Swisher, and Jim Heffernan began thinking of a project where these four members wrote the music and provided vocals. What came out was a combination of influences, ranging from Husker Du, Blitz, the Wipers, and The Brigade. Three members also sang at different times, including the drummer, paying tribute to great drummer/singer bands as the Eagles, the Knack, Sir Lord Baltimore, and Genesis.

One release from this project came out in the spring of 2009. From the heavy reverb on the snare, to the guitar arrangement, Urchins was paying tribute to the bands of the 80's and 90's that inspired them, as well as making these songs contemporary with their own individual arrangement.