Rockers hit the Roadhouse

BEATS:

COMBINING an album release with a tour takes meticulous planning but Nashville rockers Framing Hanley wouldn’t have it any other way.

The quintet’s debut release “The Moment” in 2007 went down a storm so hopes for follow-up “A Promise To Burn” are high.

The lads — Kenneth Nixon, Ryan Belcher, Brandon Wootten, Luke McDuffee and Chris Vest — will showcase new tracks at Manchester’s Roadhouse tonight. The band, who chose their name following the death of Chris’s fiancee Ashley Hanley to honour her memory, formed in 2005 and were soon being followed by thousands after they posted their tracks on My Space. In December, 2009, the band won the Best Modern Rock Band at the Top In Rock Awards.

Speaking about the new album, lead singer Kenneth said: “The album tells a story that a lot of us have been through.

“It’s where you have to have everything taken away from you before you can be humbled and know how lucky you are.

“It’s sad that it has to be like that but it’s true in a lot of cases.”