Running From Daylight

Brought together by their combined love for punk and rock ‘n’ roll, these possessed musicians have joined together to infuse their old school ‘billy sound with horrific inspiration that will keep you awake... and on your feet dancing the night away! Running From Daylight captivates their audiences with a swinging and rocking rhythm section driven by Garrett’s clickin’ n’ clackin’ upright bass and Tarek’s high energy drumming. Andrew’s singing and Troy’s lead guitar lines paint the perfect landscape for their haunted tales and stories intertwined throughout each song.

Band History (as told by Garrett):

The seeds for Running From Daylight began to sprout in 2016. Andrew and I worked together in London and bonded over music. We started jamming together and we recorded a handful of DIY demos of different music, ranging all the way from acoustic folk to Viking metal, but we were having trouble settling on a genre. I ended up buying an upright bass because of my love of the rockabilly and psychobilly genres. It turns out that Andrew was also a big fan of these genres and we hit the ground running. We wrote 5 or 6 songs together, and once we decided to start pursuing the band further we recruited Tarek to join us on the drums. Tarek was a friend of mine from school and I knew of his drumming chops from his time in the killer punk band Against Belief. Shortly after Tarek joined, we decided to thicken our sound a bit more and invited Tarek’s friend Troy to join us as our lead guitarist.

Shortly after we settled on our lineup we hit the studio to record our debut EP Coffin For Two, which we released in May 2017 as a free/pay-what-you-can download on Bandcamp. We took this route so that we would have a ‘sampler’ of music that we could share with bookers and potential listeners. We started playing shows through southwestern Ontario and continued to write the music which would end up on our first full length album, Elvis Ain’t Dead Yet. Shortly after releasing Elvis Ain’t Dead Yet in April 2018, we connected with Missing Fink Records, which is an indie record label in Augusta, Georgia, which specializes in Rockabilly, Surf and Horror Punk music. We signed with them and have put out a 7” single for Elvis Ain’t Dead Yet as well as a 7” split with Doghouse Rose through the Missing Fink.

We continued playing live and writing new music until we had enough material we were satisfied with to record and release our latest EP, titled Horror! Horror! Scream All About It! This EP was released digitally in November 2019, and we are currently coordinating a vinyl release through Missing Fink Records before the end of 2020.

Find them

Facebook - www.facebook.com/runningfromdaylight

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rfdband/

Bandcamp - https://rfdband.bandcamp.com/community