Chris "Woody" Wood

Chris “woody” Wood from the Hardcore/Metal band ‘Drowned with Oceans’ is a talented guitarist from Southampton Solent University. He is in his first year reading a Sound Technician degree where he has made great use of the studios and live sound equipment but finds a few of the units irrelevant to him as a musician as he said despite how “I can see why its useful but I'd rather focus more on the music side of the degree”. He’s been playing guitar...

questions bout surrogate bands article.

There’s no real beating around the bush with this intro, it goes straight into the article, describing the success of Coldplay and already making comparisons between the band and its ‘surrogates’ Keane and Athlete. Several characters were interviewed but they were all very much of the same bias as Dave Simpson, there wasn’t really anyone from the music industry that was included to back up their side. There were a few figures at the beginning with regard to sales etc. but throughout the rest of the article it was very must based on the...