With a line-up of 180 members, Globus is the world’s biggest rock band, literally.

Its 2006 debut album Epicon was critically acclaimed and spawned the US hit single Orchard of Mines, while the band’s incredible live presence was also captured on the 2008 Live at Wembley DVD and 2010’s Epic Live CD.

Later this month Wyatt Earth, the first single from Globus’s second studio album, Break From This World will be getting its worldwide release, but ahead of that the band has decided to premiere the single in Malta first.

The new single features the voice of Dann Pursey, who is also an acclaimed producer and engineer in his own right and is no stranger to the island.

Apart from a sound-engineering résumé that includes top international acts such as Westlife, Mariah Carey, JLSm Susan Boyle, Il Divo and The Wanted, Pursey has also worked with local acts, among them Sixth Simfoni, Ellie and The Oscars, Thomas Hedley and UK-based Maltese musician Simon Dounis’ band Canvas Wall, who have just finished their first album with Pursey at the mixing desk.

During a recent visit to Malta to visit his father, Pursey and Red Electrick guitarist Peter Borg also worked together to produce the Malta Red Cross charity single Life Goes On, which featured a who’s who of the Maltese music scene.

Asked about the single, Pursey said that Wyatt Earth was written after he stumbled upon some trailer music for the film The Aviator.

“I was blown away by the music, so I contacted the guy who wrote and produced it as I was interested in reworking the track into a song for the band.”

The result is the soaring Wyatt Earth, an epic slab of symphonic rock that marks the start of a new instalment of music from Globus.

“I’m not the best singer in the world,” he added, “but I portray emotion, which is all you can do with a microphone; you’ve got to try and put your heart and soul into your words and give it all you’ve got.”

Formed by Los Angeles-based Yoav Goren, best-known for writing epic trailer music for Hollywood blockbusters such as Lord of The Rings, War of The Worlds, Spider Man 2 and 3 and Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End, Globus is the epitome of what the term ‘bigger is better’ implies.

A full orchestra and choir accompanied by a rock band that includes Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson and Manic Street Preachers’ keyboardist Nick Naysmith in its ranks; it’s safe to say that Globus is larger than life and perhaps appropriately, when the band goes live, it needs a big stage, which is why they had chosen Wembley for their launch concert.

Pursey’s eyes light up when he recalls their debut performance at Wembley:

“It was fantastic, an absolute dream come true - so loud on stage and the orchestra sounded amazing.

“It was just unbelievable.”

He admits he liked being in the spotlight. “I’ve always wanted to be the show-off, the bloke at the front but not in a big-headed way.

“I just love trying to impress people, and the feedback from the audience was really good.”

The video for Wyatt Earth is available for streaming on Youtube, while clips of all 12 tracks from the new album can be heard on the official website.

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