Chewy

swiss

Indie rock band from Lausanne, Switzerland, disbanded 2003 and reformed 2011. From 1996 to 2003, from London to Tokyo, Berlin to New York, Chewy showed the world that you can be Swiss and actually rock like hell. With guitars for axes, the four-piece opened a breach in the wall of cool, through which other great bands from Lausanne would follow: Favez, Honey for Petzi, etc. When they hung up their guitars in 2003, a page was turned. Today, eight years later, they’re back with a vengeance, in the shape of a new album. A bit of history: In 1996, when they signed to London-based label Fierce Panda (Coldplay, Placebo,…) Chewy were buzzed up by the NME (gig of the week, top three turn-ons, etc) and made a place for themselves in the indie London charts with their singles Prime Time and Second Hand Magic. They were off the road of indie rock took them all around Europe and the UK, even to Japan. They recorded three albums between London and New York, surfing the wave of Black Belt, a Swiss classic of the 2000’s. In 2003, sadly, they were caught up by real life, that ugly business of having to pay the rent and all of that crap, that can discourage even the purest of the pure. They called it a day. For good? No! What everyone had thought to be the end had in fact only been a break. At home, in the good company of his 15 guitars, singer songwriter Gregory Wicky had never given up crafting those little melodic gems of his. After releasing two albums with his solo project Pen...