BIOGRAPHY
LOUDER. HEAVIER. GROOVIER. STILL A LITTLE UNHINGED.
Riffs with hips. Hooks with teeth. Choruses that don’t stay on stage for very long.
Because if a room isn’t moving, singing, sweating or shouting something back at us, frankly, we’re not finished yet.
Welcome to the next chapter....
Circus 66 have come out the other side of Elements with dirtier guitars, deeper grooves, bigger hooks and absolutely no interest in standing still. The new music hits harder, swings heavier and carries the scars of everything we’ve learned getting here — on stage, on the road and in life.
It’s still unmistakably Circus 66.
At the centre is Annabelle Zaychenko — a vocalist capable of going from vulnerable to volcanic in the space of a few bars and a frontwoman who has never knowingly allowed an audience to simply stand there politely.
Behind her, Matt Pearce supplies riffs with enough filth to require a warning label. Luke “Mustard” Ward brings the low-end groove — and, apparently, puts things on the fridge — while Leigh Holley sits behind the kit holding the whole glorious mess together.
Four people. Four very different musical brains.
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L-R: MATT PEARCE, ANNABELLE ZAYCHENKO, LUKE WARD, LEIGH HOLLEY
PHOTO: WILL CARTER @ TWO FINGER MEDIA
One shared belief:
The riff should hit you.
The groove should move you.
And the chorus should belong to everyone.
That philosophy has been forged the old-fashioned way — by playing.
A lot.
The road took Circus 66 from the raw swagger of Follow the Black Crow through the broader sound of second album Elements, collecting festival stages, UK tours, national radio attention from the likes of KERRANG!, Planet Rock and a BBC live lounge performance with a growing family of fans along the way.
And somewhere between the motorway miles, questionable load-ins, sweaty venues and songs being thrown back at us by complete strangers, something changed.
So did we.
The next chapter starts now.
THIS IS THE EVOLUTION
Not the Instagram-quote kind.
The messy kind.