The Prophet’s Profit

Artist Description

The Prophet’s Profit (Formally known as Ardery) was started by Michael Sneesby(Bass) and Peter Bottaro(Guitar) who began playing various covers together. Ever since they met, they had always wanted to start a band because of their passion for music. They got their friend to drum for them who had talent but not a drumkit and had played with many people to find a singer. In September 2001 Peter, Michael and Marc where practicing with a previous singer for a school performance and decided to give Joshua Sparks a go for singing who was very shy and quiet. They played Korn - Blind and found a singer who they wanted to play with again. Michael, Peter and Josh got together for a jam and played Marilyn Manson - Speed Of Pain and became satisfied with what come out and from then Josh became the singer. As the year of 2001 came to an end, Michael, Peter and Josh got sick and tired of their drummer as he showed no dedication and still no drum kit so he was dropped or dropped out. In 2002, the three started year 11 at St Francis Xavier and was notified that the school Battle Of the Bands was on in a couple months. Without a drummer we seemed uncertain that we would be able to find someone and be able to play. With a bit of searching we found a drummer who would play for us with one week before the audition. On the day of the Battle Of the Bands competition we played Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box and Marilyn Manson - Coma White. Being a first public performance we were surprised with how the audience took us and really got into it. Afterwards we began playing a couple of cover shows at Palais but then decided to work on origionals. We had made up three songs by June and recorded a demo cd which turned out terrible. At the time the songs seemed good but we were copying to much off our influences. We played a couple of shows and then decided to take a break. We began writing new songs and this time without our influences we started working on our own sound which was different to others. The music was better, the lyrics were better, mainly because we were putting our hearts into it more. We had written 2 new songs and played at a couple pubs until the band got lazy. For months we had not done anything, No song writing, no gigs not even practicing. Till all of a sudden around the start of 2003 we have had an outburst of ideas and been writing music constantly. With completing another 3 new songs and still working on and putting together the other material. There was one problem we had been going through and that was the drummer who is showing lack of interest. Constantly cancelling band practice and putting no effort in we decided we need a new drummer. We got onto Jay who drummed for Gerbal Sects and seemed very happy to play for us. We burnt him a copy of our songs for him to learn and jammed with him to see if he fits us and likes what we do. As soon as we played a song with him we realised what this band was missing and that was a drummer that hits the drums HARD. We pretty much crapped ourselves we played with him. After talking with him we all came to the agreement that Jay's our man.