The origin of Fire on Dawson part I The beginning

Well lots of you have asked us about how Fire on Dawson started and where the name comes from. No its not from Dawson’s creek or Michael Dawson or any other dawson that you know! So here it is :-

Now the band Fire on Dawson was started by our drummer Mo, bassist Martin and our guitarist Nico. It began as basically an experimental project open to all sorts of musical ideas, but due to Nico’s strong influence on the initial songwriting, the sound direction was more towards funk. It might be hard to believe that now but most of the earlier music was a mix of upbeat, funky verses and dark, heavy chorus’s. The band then was just called ‘band karlsruhe’. Now every band needs a singer. Ok not every but most:D.. After months of searching and auditions, the band finally got a call one evening. It was one they hadn’t really expected. For one, the guy on the phone didn’t speak any german. He was new in Germany and spoke English with a foreign accent. Martin invited the mysterious caller to a party at the University to get to know him better. Nico was also present there, though more in body than mind:P. After chatting for a bit, drinking a couple of beers and talking about general music stuff, the guy was invited for an audition the next day to Martin’s place. Now the band wasn’t really keeping its hopes too high, they had been dashed in the past often enough, but were nonetheless excited to see what this young foreigner was going to bring with him. Well he arrived 10 minutes late and wanted to sing ‘Nothing Else Matters’. The signs were not good. But then because of Nico’s unwillingness to play covers, the stranger decided to sing something more vocal. 40 seconds of Stainds ‘Outside’ were enough to persuade the band that their man had been found. Enter Ankur. The quartet was complete. ‘Band Karlsruhe’ was founded with Moritz Lietzenmeyer on Drums, Martin Sonntag on bass, Nicolas Morales on Guitar and Ankur Batra on vox. And the sound was about to change forever… more on the history of the band and the name itself coming up in part II.