FAMOUS UNDERGROUND - featuring vocalist Nick Walsh - have announced a show for Toronto, ON on June 27th at Rockpile East. Go to the event page here for complete details.

Walsh is featured in a new interview with Planet Mosh. An excerpt is available below:

On songwriting:

Nick: "Famous Underground is the closest I could get to a solo act. But because it’s a hard rock and heavy metal sort of thing, it’s all about the performance. I don’t foresee it being like 'THE NICK WALSH BAND', calling it that, ’cause that’s just not ‘rock’. You know what I mean? I can write the stuff, I can record the stuff, but I can’t do it without the other members of the band.

A lot of people don’t know that I’m a guitar player, and a songwriter. Because I’m onstage, holding a microphone – but that’s because it’s about the show at that point. It’s about being a frontman: commanding the audience, it’s about getting in to their souls, looking right in to them. Delivering the goods. I mean, sure, there’s been times, even with Famous Underground, (where) I pick up the guitar, and we do a cover tune. We do 'Ace Of Spades' by MOTÖRHEAD. And it’s fun. My delivery doesn’t want to be chained to a microphone. I want to be able to try to look at everybody that’s there to see the show. Try to get the point across, of the songs, of the music, get in to them, like getting to the people… look in their eyes, and everything. And I can’t do that standing at a microphone."

On instant gratification in the music world:

Nick: "One of the other things I feel is lost, is the whole mystique of the artist. The band, the musicians. It used to be an era where, at least for me, what made it so exciting, was like… Let’s pretend it was KING DIAMOND. King Diamond’s got a new album coming out, and it comes out on Friday at midnight. Me and my buddies would go down there, line up outside the record store, they’d unlock the door… I’d go in, buy my copy, I’d come home, put it on… I’d be looking at the album cover, front to back, while the thing is playing. Then, like the next week, I’d see a Circus magazine with the guy on it, and I’d be like ‘I’ve gotta get this, and find out when they’re coming (through town)!’ and stuff. Now, everything is so immediate. No anticipation. Now you know what the guy is eating for lunch. So, it’s not as exciting. That’s one of the things I feel is lost. As much positive stuff there is from technology – to be able to do this (interview), or to record here. But there is that ‘thing’ that gets lost in the translation. Those were feelings that nobody will ever get to experience again. I have a seven year old son – he’s not going to know what it was like to do that. Everything is at his fingertips now."

Go to this location for the complete in-depth interview.

Famous Underground’s self-titled studio release produced by Nick Walsh and mixed by Darius Szczepaniak (THE BLACK CROWES, SACRIFICE) at Rouge Valley Studio in Toronto. The new recording takes Walsh’s writing to a more defined state where the lyrics delve more into the complexities of the real world.

These musicians have independently garnered critical acclaim supporting such acts as MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD, KID ROCK, BLACK SABBATH, BILLY TALENT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, APRIL WINE and many other international acts.

For more details visit FamousUnderground.tv.