Irish band GLYDER began its musical journey in 2004 at the annual Phil Lynott tribute gig “Vibe for Philo” in Dublin. The band has developed a very distinguishable and unique sound, blending their classic rock influences with a fresh and modern sound. Glyder’s fourth album “Backroads To Byzantium” came out in October 2011 through SPV. Just before the release I had a chance to interview bands guitarist Pete Fisher, here’s our conversation…

Hi Pete, I’m Tarja. Welcome to Metal Shock Finland! How are you doing today?

Hi Tarja Pete here, I’m good thank you. Just after completing two shows with the band Y&T from California, which went very well, and our album has been released Europe wide yesterday so I’m very pleased.

Before we’ll go to your new album, let’s talk about your musical journey which started in 2004… tell me about it, and how you came up to your band’s name Glyder?

Yea the band formed in 2004, our first release was the EP Black Tide Silver Path under the name Hollywood. We then recorded our first album under the name Glyder in London in 2005 with the producer Chris Tsangarides and it was received really well my people. Our second and third album followed through-out the next four years “Playground For Life” and “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” and another EP “Weather the Storm” along with lots of gigs in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and even India. Over that time we felt that the bands song writing abilities kept getting better and better and we really were a tight band.
The line-up changed then however in 2010 with our original singer/bass player Tony and drummer Davy leaving the band. Bat and I had the musical ideas ready for another album, and the band had built up its name well over the five years together so we decided to keep the band going and get new members in, the product of doing so is our latest album “Backroads to Byzantium”.
The name Glyder came from the time we were recording our first album in London, we had been racking our brains thinking of band names at the time, and beside the studio there was an old airfield that was now been used for lauching and landing glider planes, and we were sitting watching the gliders go up in the sky and I think it was Tony said what about the name Glyder and the rest of us liked it so we went with it.
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