Brothers Frankie, Patrick, Michael and Sean O'Malley are The
Safes and their new album,
Winning
Combination, is
a major progression for the band. Diving into new musical territory
and building on being a band of siblings, quite literally. For
this album The Safes have done something remarkable and truly
special, enlisting an orchestra consisting of their very talented
niece's, nephews and cousins.
In
total a collection of 19 brothers and sisters all bringing their
diverse instrumentation and gifts to this unique album. Someone
would have to put The Jackson 5, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys,
The Kinks, and The Cowsills all together to get this many brothers
and sisters together on one album. But every single note of
music played on The Safes new album is performed by 2 or more
sets of related siblings performing together, from one song
to the next.
Touring coast-to-coast
in America since 2003, with their sweaty explosion of energy
and melody, the boys have shared the stage/floors with such
acts as Black Keys, Andrew Bird, The Growlers, Autumn Defense,
Shannon and The Clams, ... to name a few. Sometimes pushing
forward full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes style in this day
and age of TV game show music contests and being famous before
you've done anything to become famous, might seem like a waste
of time to many people. But it has not stopped Chicago's too
tough to die pop rock n roll sensation The Safes! For them touring
like it's 1989 still yields many extraordinary opportunities
that they'd never see had they stopped hitting the road to promote
their new music. Case in point, in February of 2018 The Safes
did their first tour of Japan which was a massive success and
lead to the boys landing two record labels and booking agent
in Spain where they toured playing thirteen corner to corner
shows in September 2018. Continuing on in the fall 2019, The
Safes will tour Europe and the US in support of Winning Combination.
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