Stand By Your Band: EveryOneBand charity single set for June 1 release

‘Stand By You’, the single put together by EveryOneBand – the interactive charity project for Support Act Ltd – is set for a June 1 release.

EveryOneBand ended up with over 2,500 current members.

‘Stand By You’ features vocals from Paul Kelly, Izzi Manfredi, Jimmy Barnes, Megan Washington, Peter Garrett, Suzi DeMarchi, Ross Wilson, Katie Noonan, Richard Clapton, Tommy O’Dell, Kate Miller-Heidke, Steve Kilbey, Alex Smith, Diesel, Jade MacRae, Kirin J Callinan, Emma Dean and Gary Pinto.

They are accompanied by the Café At The Gate Of Salvation Gospel Choir, The Soulfood Choir and over 500 other vocalists, including the star of the ‘Stand By You’ video, Ollie Bailey-O’Reilly.

Ollie Bailey-O’Reilly is the 9-year-old son of the late Angels and GANGgajang member Chris Bailey, who passed away in 2013 after a long battle with throat cancer.  

Less than two years after his father died, Ollie was diagnosed with a brain tumour requiring months of treatment and rehabilitation.

Once again, Support Act was there to help provide assistance to Ollie and his mum, Josie Bailey-O’Reilly, during this time.

EveryOneBand’s rhythm section was powered by over 240 drummers, percussionists and bass players; a squadron of over 263 guitarists was headed up by Ian Moss, the Oils’ Martin Rotsey, Diesel, Jack Moffitt (The Preatures), Johnny Took (DMAs), Dave Leslie (Baby Animals), Brendan Gallagher and Murray Cook.

A string section of more than 60, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, played Nigel Westlake’s beautiful string arrangement of the track and Wiggle Jeff Fatt led the way for a piano and keyboard cohort of over 70 ivory ticklers.

No less than 600 ukulele players added their parts, including those from Hobart’s The Hugs, Brisbane’s The Bums and the Blue Mountains’ Blue Mugs.

Also on the track are triangles, theremins, banjos, piano accordions, djembes and charanges.

Producers Mark Callaghan (GANGgajang) and David Nicholas (INXS, Elton John) spent a week working on the final mix.

This involved editing vocals, aligning files and creating sub-mixes of the many instruments.

The 48-hour final mix session required 70 individual and 45 previously sub-mixed tracks to be combined to create a final, cohesive stereo mix. The result is truly epic: 2,586 band members provided over 1,600 recordings covering 203 drummers and percussionists, 40 bass players, 612 vocalists, 85 brass players, 71 keyboards, 661 ukulele strummers, 263 guitarists, a 66-strong string section and 20 or so other instruments including Anthony Field (The Wiggles) on bagpipes!  

100% of all record royalties and all profit from merchandise goes to Support Act.  

‘Stand By You’ is available now for pre-order on iTunes and the EveryOneBand website and is released on Friday June 1

You can still join. Head to their website and add yourself to the band ready for the next single.

To find out more about Support Act and the important work they do, click here.