We were Originally Called 'IT', and finally decided to make the name change when we recieved an email from someone saying they owned the rights to the name due to a release they brought out in 1984 or something under that name. Oh well.

The Chaos Society is a better name, and suited us better, and is easier to get correct when someone tells you it! I tell you, with IT were were called 8, itmusic, Information technology, all sorts of shit!

We play live, and we are the loudest f***ing band in the north east. Take my word for it. We are so loud I have nosebleeds and can't hear for days afterwards. You can catch us playing gigs in newcastle, and maybe other areas if you are lucky, check out www.thechaossociety.com for current gig details!

I download a lot of mp3's, i can't afford to buy every cd i want. I like a hell of a lot of music and if i bought everything i liked I'd be broke, and be swimming in cd's!

what do you mean... still? I'd snap it up instantly. We are pop enough to make it huge with a major label, I don't care if they want to exploit or market us, we want to be exploited, as long as we always have control over our music, I don't give a sh*** what else i have to do, because I'll be happy just playing my music!

The Chaos Society are alternative rock for the new millenium. Striving to regain popularity and credibility for talented musicians and thought filled music that means more than to become a fast hit for money. Where bands are image based or music based, The Chaos Society are everything rolled into one. Genre defying and rebellious. Darkly intrusive and always offensive.

To create an abstraction, as you do a child and put it out into the world is a terrible thing. Breathing life into the shadowy ideas and attempting to create some sort of regularity or sublimation that gives rise to a greater understanding of what exactly is art? Well I consider this a form of art, most importantly a desire to create in some surrealist/situationist sense of the word (the synchronisity of minds being in one place at the right time - this is our songwriting) and in no way has imagination become subordinate to the demand to produce something 'useful' or 'listenable'.

Our poetry is research and our madness the manifestation of imagination reclaiming its Freudian lies. The Chaos Society is a violent juxtaposition of physical automation and beauty of the ideal - of kicking out the lines of sh*** and purifying revolution.

Ours is a polemic of vengeance, making us the suffering slaves of our work in a Nietzcherian lambs/owls point of view, we are the lambs, our peers the owls and our music is the beast.

Sci Fi Hi Fi is an attempt to rewrite our memories. You may see an element of pastiche or deliberate borrowing of influences but if you renounce your memory it becomes your work: so Science Fiction Hi Fidelity is our way of showing you the future as told by us - this is something music must do because when it fails to be reactive or active itself then it is no longer anything at all. What you will listen to/see is our aurora, the hijacking of culture and subculture alike to merge our outsidership chic to. The production of sci fi, I would love to say, was not uniform. We drank imported German beers, were reunited with childhood friends we had almost lost touch with, so that brought an element of history or a genealogy to our cause. Late nights/sore bodies - I would never say we had suffered for this music because we loved every moment and would do it all again in a heartbeat. That’s the difference between passion and simply music.

When The Chaos Society came together, they chose the name 'It' and they were all in sixth form of high school, disatisfied and bored, they turned to the music which they embraced. Having been in only little school cover bands in the way everyone starts out, they decided that they needed something a little more serious and concrete."we just got sick of sounding awful at playing other peoples songs, the natural progression was to create our own sound that we could be proud of." Mark, David and Kevin were friends since the age of 5 and Chris joined them at 16, being friends was always precursor to the music. Mark had been writing poetry and music since he was 13 and when David suggested they form a band, it was natural that Mark brought his existing work to the mix, this is how it worked. Mark writes the basics and then the band as a collective develop to the best of their ability. Dark was the song that brought them out of the 'covers' band darkness and is a pivotal point of the concept of it. Big ideas and big songs offer hope to a band from Newcastle. Music is all they ever wanted to do with their lives. So up against it all they just play with their hearts and have a desire to influence people and bring joy to those that are sad.

To hear The Chaos Society, see them live for the full experience of energy and action packed music. However you can check out the music on http://www.thechaossociety.com

The whole band have such a variety of influences, with most music we have been there and done that, bought the t-shirt, you know what I mean? Because of all of the different music we've learned and listened to over the years, we've picked up everything we liked from all of it, and these days we mix everything we ever wanted to see in a band, and everything we ever liked about music, into one cocktail of a band. Currently we are listening to a lot of classic rock and glam metal. We also listen to indie, black metal, pop, blues, hardcore and of course classical music. Anyone that doesn't like classical music is in denial. It's got so much to it. I like romantic piano music best. This was EMO before emo.

I don't know. Anywhere music exists is good enough for me.

This is a good one! It'll take me hours to write this!

Mark Foster (Vocals and guitar):
Burns Marquee, Green Sunburst
Ibanez Gio with dropswitch in metalic grey
Zoom Gfx-8
Beyerdynamic TG-X58 mics
Pirhana cables
Marshall JCM2000, DSL 100, valve amplifier head
Marshall 1960A, 4x12 speaker cabinet
Korg MicroKorg synthesiser

David Davies (Guitar, keyboards, vocals):
Ibanez RG390, white with pearl scratchplate and gold hardware. (looking to fit it with dimarzio pickups soon.)
Fender Jaguar, 1962 reissue in candy apple red
Epiphone Les Paul, 1998 limited edition blue sunburst (with bigsby style tremolo tailpiece)
Yamaha RGX, in purple
Gretsch electromatic, red sparkle jet
Boss Gt-6, guitar multi effects
Marshall JCM2000, DSL 100, valve amplifier head
Marshall 1960A, 4x12 speaker cabinet
I reccomend pirhana cables
KORG X5D music synthesiser

Chris Southern (Bass, Backing vocals)
Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass
Zoom 506 Bass Effects pedal (although its buggered now, I’m after something new)
Marshall VBC412 4x12 Cabinet
Laney Theatre 120x4 Amplifier Head
In terms of leads/cables I have no preference and tend to use anything that I can lay my greasy little hands on.

Kevin Milburn (drums):
Double A Explosion cymbals. (f***ed if i can remember, if this is wrong!)

IF you have't guessed this was filled in by Dave... catch up with our antics at www.thechaossociety.com

We have a single called 'forget the 4th dimension' coming out soon, I'll upload the b side and an old song or two onto this site for people to download.

IF you are interested in our back catalogue you can have a look at it at this link: http://www.thechaossociety.com/harmony.html

If you want us to play anywhere, we are like TSB. The band that says YES. Give us a shout at band@thechaossociety.com

That goes for questions about guitar too I have all the time in the world to talk about that. hehe