Spring 2010 News: Neither Gone, Nor Forgotten...

On January 16th 2010 Tom Vella and the Wayside performed at the 10th annual “Light of Day” benefit concert supporting Parkinson’s disease in Asbury Park, New Jersey.  The star-studded benefit featured performances by Bruce Sprinsteen, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, Jessie Malin and Willie Nile, just to name a few.  “It was a surreal experience” Vella said, “Some of the best musicians in world, coming together to perform for a good cause…it was an honor to be a part of it all.”

It was after that legendary concert that Tom Vella and the Wayside decided to make a serious decision.  During a recent radio interview Vella was quoted as saying, “We needed to take a few steps back from the spotlight and seriously hunker down and start writing new material for a new record as well as for our live performances.  We have been riding the success of our first album, “Halos & Pitchforks” for a year and a half now, and it is now time to show the public how we have grown as a band and what else we have in our creative pockets.”

So that is where the Wayside stands as of now, hiding out somewhere in New Jersey, writing what is to become their second album.  “We have venues calling us from all over the north east asking us to play…but we have respectfully declined them all.  Our second album is priority number one, and we all know how easily bands can become distracted.  Many people have told me that my theory and/or method on this is backwards, but those people have not heard our new material yet…once they have I think they will understand.”

The Wayside will begin recording an EP entitled “More Than A Little, Less Than Enough” in the summer of 2010. 

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