The Loyal Thieves will be in good company on the soundtrack, as they join Neo-Zepplinites and rising stars Greta Van Fleet, who will be appearing with their hit-song “Highway Tune”. “Growing up playing video games and hearing the classic songs that have been featured over the years, it’s pretty cool to hear our song associated with the game.” “It certainly is a unique opportunity and not something you’d predict to happen with one of your songs,” says Cudmore about the fresh experience. Being proud of what they’d accomplished though, they continued to market the songs, finally landing an opportunity to appear on NASCAR Heat 3. Sadly, the band haven’t performed together lately, with most of the members now living outside of Prince Edward Island. They began opening for bands like Gloryhound, the Meds, Mayhemingways, Bryan Potvin & Kevin Kane, Alert the Medicand more. The band followed up on their momentum by recording with Jon Matthews at the Sound Mill Recording Studio, changing their name from Banokkburn to Loyal Thieves and releasing a 6-song EP in May, 2015. “ Over the next few years, we played over a hundred shows across the Maritime provinces, most of them being in our hometown of Charlottetown.” playing regularly and as often as we could,” says Cudmore. “We recorded some demos and submitted them to a Battle of the Bands put on by the local rock station, Q93. Loyal Thieves, originally known as Banokkburn, formed in 2013, consisting of Darcy Cudmore (vocals, guitar), Ian Murray (lead guitar), Daniel Cudmore (bass), Cody Cudmore (guitar) and JD Geldert (drums).Ĭudmore explains that the band started, as most bands do, simply jamming in basements, but the band quickly discovered a popular appeal and took off. The band’s song “Nowhere Fast” will be appearing on the game, titled NASCAR Heat 3. Prince Edward Island’s Loyal Thieves are one of just two Canadian bands to be featured on the 18-song soundtrack for the latest in NASCAR racing games.
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