SNEW has toured across the United States on a limited basis, but has appeared most frequently on the West Coast. The band has continued to make regular appearances in their home town at Hollywood hotspots like The Viper Room, The Whisky a Go Go, Cat Club, and the Key Club. In 2012, SNEW played Rocklahoma, the annual 3-day rock festival in Pryor, Oklahoma. In 2012, Ex-W.
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A.S.P. lead guitarist Chris Holmes (musician) joined SNEW on-stage at The Steel Pit in Tujunga, CA. Ex-W.A.S.P. lead guitarist Chris Holmes (musician) with SNEW (2012). In 2013 and into 2014, the band appeared in a self-produced show Live From The SNEWdio featuring the band in their personal studio along with featured guests. Each show featured one of the band's songs and a cover of a classic rock song.
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SNEW is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California. The quintet consists of founders Curtis Don Vito (lead singer), Andy Lux (lead guitar), and Mark Ohrenberger (drums), along with Lenny Spickle (rhythm guitar), and Kelly Magee (bass). Formed in 2005, SNEW has released three albums and has sustained a steady tour schedule along the West Coast along with occasional major festival appearances. The band's influences are varied, consisting of Motörhead, Alice Cooper, Ramones, Kiss, AC/DC and MC5.
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SNEW has released three albums. Their debut album, entitled SNEW You, was released its in 2008, We Do What We Want in 2010, and What's It To Ya in 2012. All three albums were produced by Bobby Owsinski, as was their most recent 2014 single "Thunderdog," the first with the expanded lineup featuring Spickle on rhythm guitar. In 2009, the band collaborated on a version of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" with noted fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth, which was released as a single.
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The band's albums and songs have received a great deal of attention on hard rock and metal-oriented radio, both terrestrial and online. SNEW You was named one of the top 10 albums of 2008 on SleazeRoxx.com, as well as on HardRockHideout.com, HardRadio.
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He has also been featured in artists in Sound On Sound, The Music Paper, Mix Magazine, EQ Magazine, among others. Recent musical productions by Owsinski include SNEW and Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters, with her album Double Crossing Blues reaching #2 on the Billboard Blues Charts.
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Other charity work includes Cruefest and The Skylar Neil Foundation, as well as Feed America – Now and Rock For Recovery. Basse is a past member of Snew and he has worked with George Lynch, Slash, Stephen Stills, James Kottak, Paul Gilbert, Rob Grill, JK Northrup, Jeff Pilson, Vinnie Appice, Carmine Appice and Canned Heat.
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"Stand Up High" was used in the 2014 sci-fi horror film Extraterrestrial. A fair share of acclaim has come the band's way from international publications such as Classic Rock (magazine) (UK), Popular 1 Magazine (Spain), Burrn! magazine (Japan) and Rock Hard (magazine) (Germany). In fact, SNEW has been reviewed by magazines more than 70 times worldwide and made the cover of Buzzbin magazine.
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The group has deliberately eschewed record labels, preferring DIY in order to maintain creative control, although What's It To Ya was released in Japan through Hydrant Records and distributed by EMI Music Japan. The video for "Pull My Stinger" can be seen on Japan's WOWOW music channel. Unusual for a band with no label ties, SNEW ran advertising spots during That Metal Show in 2010, 2012 and 2013.
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The monastery of Cranborne is said to have been founded as an abbey for Benedictine monks about the year 980. The chronicle of Tewkesbury states that it was founded around that time by a knight known by the name of Haylward Snew (otherwise known as Aethelweard Maew) who made it the parent house of Tewkesbury.The priories of Cranbourne and Horton, Victoria History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2 (pp. 70-73) The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded lands held by the abbey at Ashton Keynes and Damerham.
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The band has always worked with a who's who of skilled rock craftsman. We Do What We Want (recorded at The Village Recorders (studio) in West Los Angeles, California) was engineered and mixed by Grammy winner Ed Cherney. What's It To Ya (recorded at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California) was engineered and mixed by the illustrious Ken Scott (The Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, Supertramp). The band has also utilized the skills of a number of legendary rock photographers, with the photos for the SNEW You album cover taken by Robert M. Knight, the second album photos taken by Edward Colver and the third by Neil Zlozower.
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Cranborne Manor The village dates from Saxon times and was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Creneburne, meaning stream (bourne) of cranes. In the 10th century the Benedictine abbey known as Cranborne Abbey was founded by a knight by the name of Haylward Snew (or Aethelweard Maew)See, The Saxon Origins of Bristol, Jean Manco in discussion with Mick Aston, Joseph Bettey, Robert Jones, & Roger Leech who made it the parent house of the religious foundation at Tewkesbury. This arrangement lasted until 1102, when Robert Fitz Hamon greatly enlarged the church of Tewkesbury and transferred the community from Cranborne there transforming Cranborne Abbey into a priory subject to Tewkesbury Abbey. The priory was fully subject to Tewkesbury until the dissolution of the abbey in 1540.
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