Brandon Stewart | Independent Sunderland

Brandon Stewart: Sunderlands biggest music nerd, I started writing new material for my own personal venture during lockdown, it initially began as a way to keep myself busy, but as I developed the music I began to get more attached to the sound I was making for myself and needed to go all in. My influences vary but the main ones are definitely more technical music like Progressive rock, but contrasting that I'm a massive pop fan so I try and blend those elements together hoping to put my character on the songs I write. My debut Single Wrong Place Right Time came out on the 22.01.22, and received a great reception, and now after getting a set together and a band of some of the best musicians I know, It's time for us to show our tunes to everyone.

Labyrinthine Oceans are a two to four piece band with vocals, keys, guitars, bass and drums formed in late 2020. Consisting of Julia O’Neill (vocals, guitar, keys, song-writing), Toby Flynn (bass, guitar), Daniel Jackson (lead guitar) and Jack Stead (drums). Writing and performing original music, they mix a range of genres including, but not limited to, grunge, jazz, funk, rock and various experimental and alternative genres. Labyrinthine Oceans provides a unique and fresh sound with buckets of influences from various eras and styles of music.