tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44581480768703224232024-03-12T21:45:09.112-05:00Music reviews and interviewsRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-66864705256972079052012-06-17T21:34:00.000-05:002012-06-17T21:37:58.762-05:00Liz Lawrence<br />
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is an acoustic singer/songwriter from London, England. Starting in the punk
rock and ska scene, she has been able to show an edgy style to her music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She describes
her music as, “bittersweet, romantic, melodic, honest, homemade and
sentimental.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I like to think
I take the strength and emotion from the high octane records I grew myself up
on and use that energy on stage,” Lawrence said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Performing
live has been the most enjoyable experience in her career, according to
Lawrence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I love the
studio process and the intricacies, I love production and arrangement and the
control, but the product is totally different to what you get taking the song
at face value and playing live,” Lawrence said. “On the tight-rope or the
trapeze, live performance leaves nowhere to hide, it heightens your senses,
it’s exhilarating and difficult and you will never play or see the same show
twice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawrence’s
latest album, “Bedroom Hero,” focuses on song writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I wanted to
express the feelings of excitement, sacrifice and fragility that songwriters
subject themselves to in order to create something important to people,”
Lawrence said. “The album is personal but also universally aimed at the heart
of the listener through the emotions of my 18- and 19-year-old self.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawrence has
been letting her music take her to new places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’m just
enjoying playing and writing at the moment and working out the plan for the
album release too,” Lawrence said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Her debut
album was released on March 30<sup>th</sup> in the Republic of Ireland.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
did you get your start in music?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I loved records as a
kid, and dancing like a lunatic, I found music made me the purest form of
happy, first listening then learning how to make my own. I started out trying
to learn piano, but being impatient it wasn't quick enough for me, so the
guitar did the trick, being in a punk band you didn't even need to sound
good, just loud and angry.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Being
previously involved in punk and ska bands, how has that impacted your music?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I think the punk and
ska thing is all about attitude and agenda, I'd like to think I take the
strength and emotion from the high octane records I grew myself up on and use
that energy on stage to charge my songs and my delivery.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
would you define your music?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bittersweet, romantic,
melodic, honest, homemade and sentimental.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
are some of your influences? Have you been able to perform with them?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately most of
my influences are no longer around, but I’d love to perform with Patti Smith.
Also writing with Paul Simon would be incredible. Playing with Ani Difranco was
quite an achievement, sharing a stage with amazing artists gives me a real
thrill, like you're feeding off the same energy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
did you get involved with Young & Lost Club?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I met the girls at
young and lost playing their night at the Lock Tavern in Camden, I really love
what they do.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
did you feel to be complimented by Ani Difranco?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like any artist,
affirmation from artists and people you respect is invaluable in building
yourself as a confident individual, so Ani Difranco complimenting a new song I
played out when supporting her led to the song,( called "When I Was
Younger") being recorded for the album. Which I'm awfully glad it did as I
cherish that song dearly and feel that her support supported me in keeping it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
is your favorite instrument to play and why?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I love to sing. Singing
is so liberating and good for you. It's an outlet that you carry with you everywhere
and that everyone understands. I think it's amazing that we as human beings
took our voices and made them so beautiful, the vibrations go straight through
your body to and from your core.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
is your inspiration for the songs you write?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I guess at the moment
it's all the things I’m experiencing for the first time.. Leaving home, Falling
in Love, learning about who I am and what I believe in now that I stand on my
own two feet, making mistakes and trying to be better.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
is the story behind your latest album, “Bedroom Hero” and how did you come
about its recording process?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bedroom Hero is a
homage to the Song writer. The album is named after the title track
"Bedroom Hero" which explores ideas of genius and fraud. As an artist
a question you always ask yourself is, "Is this any good?", I wanted
to express the feelings of excitement, sacrifice and fragility that songwriters
subject themselves to in order to create something important to people. The
album is personal but also universally aimed at the heart of the listener
through the emotions of my 18 and 19 year old self.</span></div>
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has your music changed since you first started?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Massively, and how could
it not? I'd like it to keep changing for the rest of my years.</span></div>
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do you like to perform live rather than in the studio?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I wouldn't necessarily
compare the two as I see them as totally different processes. I love the studio
process and the intricacies, I love production and arrangement and the control,
but the product is totally different to what you get taking the song at face
value and playing live. On the tight-rope or the trapeze, live performance
leaves nowhere to hide, it heightens your senses, it's exhilarating and
difficult and you will never play or see the same show twice.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If
you had the chance to perform anywhere, where would you go?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'd love to play in
Tokyo, and I’d also like to play in Berlin and San Francisco would be amazing
too. I'd love for my music to allow me to travel… anywhere and everywhere.</span></div>
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are your future plans?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I used to make a lot of
plans, but quickly learnt that in this life and this business it's difficult
for the world to stick to your plans. So I'm just enjoying playing and writing
at the moment and working out the plan for the Album release too.</span></div>
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do you like to do when you’re not playing music?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I love to read, and
listen to records, and having quiet time, and then eat good food and drink wine
and talk a lot.</span></div>
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Bison is a seven piece alternative folk band from
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“We try to be forward thinking in our music while holding to
some traditional roots,” lead singer and songwriter Benjamin Hardesty said.
“Since the bison is an iconic symbol of this time period, I just latch on to it
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The band has been influenced by movie scores, old bluegrass,
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Bison’s album, Quill was released in September of 2011,
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violin added the second day. It is very fulfilling when we are told that our
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How did you get your start in music? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My
dad, who plays banjo and mandolin in the band, gave me a guitar when I was 2
years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a small plastic guitar
that I just dragged around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started
playing seriously when I was thirteen. My dad was always playing so I grew up
around music and especially guitar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
first performance was playing a snare drum for a home school co-op band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started writing music in high school and we
would arrange music around the songs at home as family and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This eventually led to the formation of
Bison.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Do you have formal music training?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">No
I most certainly do not. Nor does my father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the rest of have had some form of training or lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teresa (violin) and Amos (cello) have had
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All
of music that I have written has been folk, but my father and I had a brief
stint as an alternative rock band and I also played guitar with a blues/rock
band in high school.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How did you come up with the name
Bison?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I
have always been fascinated with American history, Manifest Destiny and
Westward Expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole era
surrounding the move west is saturated with searching for new frontiers and
forward progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We try to be forward
thinking in our music while holding to some traditional roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the bison is an iconic symbol of this
time period I just latched on to it as a name for the band.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How would you define your music?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">We
call it Mountain-Top Chamber music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Who are some of your influences? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I
love old bluegrass and Allison Kraus with Union Station,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Borodin’s String Quartets, and also enjoy
modern bands like Beirut, and Fleet Foxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My writing is also influenced by a love for movie scores, especially
those of classic Disney movies.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What artists have you been listening to
lately?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This
week it would be Deep Forest, Vampire Weekend, and some Pheonix</span></div>
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band, how do you make decisions on what your music will sound like?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I
write the songs and come to a rehearsal with the core of the songs figured
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime I have other parts in my
head that I will ask band members to play and many times each member creates
and adds their unique interpretation to their parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound, though guided by me, is definitely
a blend of what each member brings to the mix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We knew when we added the strings that we wanted them to maintain the
classical feel that came with their training.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is the story behind your album
“Quill” and how did you come about its recording process?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">We
had been playing locally and gaining a following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At every show people were asking for recorded
music. We had been told of a guy in Richmond who was good at recording live and
had worked with various bluegrass and jazz groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew we wanted to capture our live sound
after trying a few layered recording efforts that just had no life. A friend
fronted us some money and we scheduled two days at Minimum Wage Recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teresa (violin) smashed her finger in a car
door the day before we were to record and so she ended up laying down all her
parts the second day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than her
parts on 7 of the 11 songs and a few vocal and percussion additions, the entire
album is live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Switzerland was recorded
in one take with the violin added the second day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We refer to those two days as miracles that
can only be explained by God’s intervention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lance Koehler who engineered and mixed the album was amazing in the
studio and captured our sound perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is very fulfilling when we are told that our album sounds like our
live show.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is your favorite song to perform
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tired
Hands, because of the complexity of the song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we pull it off well, there is a synergy in the band that ignites
the audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the audience joins in
on the “heys” in the chorus it becomes a community song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We love that.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What has been the most interesting
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difficult to point out one thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
something we can’t explain is the love we get from the Hip-hop community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Various Hip-hop artists and rappers have
reached out to us interested in working together.</span></div>
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large or small groups of people and why?</span></b></div>
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is something special about playing with no sound system for a small group of
people where the line between audience and artist gets blurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That kind of intimacy is beautiful, and the
natural sound of the instruments is unaffected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, I must say that playing on large stages where the volume is
intense and a large crowd is responding to each song with a roar is inspiring to
say the least.</span></div>
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you aren’t doing anything related in music, what are you doing?</span></b></div>
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raising bees, thrift store shopping, reading my Bible, texting my girlfriend
who lives 350 miles away from me, and spending lots of time with family and
friends.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Eric Lives Here is an unsigned pop rock band from Appleton, WI, who formed at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI, in 2006, consisting of Mike Thiel as songwriter and singer, Bill Glasheen on bass, and John Menn on drums.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The band kind of started on a whim,” Thiel said. “I was working on some songs with my guitarist, Chris Schmitz, in my dorm room with the door open and a girl walked past and said, ‘Hey that sounds really good! I’m throwing an event in the dorms on Friday. Would you guys like to play?’ I looked at Chris and we were like, ‘Yeah, I think we can put a band together by then.’”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After that, the band made its first EP, called “Misplaced Mistakes,” and started performing. Eric Lives Here writes its music based off real life experiences.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After college, the band members started to go in different directions, but Thiel decided to continue to pursue music.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I worked with a lot of musicians in Wisconsin and out-of-state, trying to rekindle that chemistry the band had, but besides a few glimpses of hope, it just wasn’t happening,” Thiel said. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thiel met with a friend who was a producer in California in 2011 and had the chance to start again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“After a few more flights out to California, we eventually created ‘The Night is Young’ album, which we turned around pretty quickly, releasing it in December 2011. Being able to bring the band off of hiatus filled this massive void I’d been feeling for the prior two years,” Thiel said.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The Night is Young” was a combination of songs written in Los Angeles and previous songs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I wrote the lyrics, drummed the songs and sang the songs, while my guitarist/producer Bruce Lawrence created the guitar and bass melodies,” Thiel said. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I can’t say I’ve never written from direct experience, but most of my music is written from a culmination of experiences,” Thiel said. “I also find myself observing other people’s situations and writing about that. It’s really just about living life.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the future, the band hopes its music is heard by the public and enjoyed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I think for most musicians, the goal is always to get as many people to hear your music as possible,” Thiel said. “Whether that’s signing to a major label, getting on a TV show or playing 365 gigs a year is up to the musician. For me, playing live is a great way to express this music and radio play certainly wouldn’t hurt in today’s market.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eric Lives Here </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When and where did your band form?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2006. St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who are the members of your band and what do they play?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mike Thiel –songwriter/vocals, Bill Glasheen – Bass, John Menn – Drums, (We currently alternate guitarists)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who are some of your influences?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I listen to so much music, it’s hard to choose, but I’d say Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Darkness and even Daughtry have influenced me in some way. Though I don’t think Eric Lives Here’s music directly reflects any of those bands. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When first starting the band, what were your goals? Did you meet them?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We didn’t really have any immediate goals because the band kind of started on a whim. I was in college working on some songs with my guitarist, Chris Schmitz, in my dorm room with the door wide open and a girl walked past and said, “Hey that sounds really good! I’m throwing an event in the dorms on Friday. Would you guys like to play?” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I looked at Chris and we were like, “Yeah I think we can put a band together by then.” He had some friends who played guitar and I had a friend who played drums, and that’s how it started, at that little event with about 30 or 40 people. The show went well and we knew we had something after that, so we made an EP called “Misplaced Mistakes” that summer and started gigging a lot by fall. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Where have you been able to perform and where would you like to play?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve performed at a lot of different venues in Wisconsin, but some of the most memorable have probably been The Rave in Milwaukee, my two Summerfest appearances in Milwaukee and my favorite out-of-state gig was probably at The Rock Nightclub in Minnesota. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Places I would like to play? Um, the Staples Center!! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How do you get the inspiration for the music you write?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I can’t say I’ve never written from direct experience, but most of my music is written from a culmination of experiences. I might write about feelings I had yesterday, I might write about feelings I had two years ago and in some cases, I’ll combine them. I also find myself observing other people’s situations and writing about that. It’s really just about living life. There’s plenty to write about if you just stop and look around. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After the hiatus, what did it feel like to start up the band again? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Well, first of all, the hiatus lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. Everyone was just going in new directions, not so much musically, but just going different directions in life. We were all from different areas – including one of the guys was from Illinois and one was from Minnesota – and we were centralized at one location in college, but it got more challenging to keep the band together after we had all graduated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone started taking different roads, but knew I wanted to keep pursuing music in a serious manner, so I worked with a lot of musicians in Wisconsin and out-of-state, trying to rekindle that chemistry the band had, but besides a few glimpses of hope, it just wasn’t happening. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It wasn’t until I connected with a friend/producer/guitarist in California in 2011 that I knew the band had a chance to run strong again. And after a few more flights out to California, we eventually created “The Night is Young” album, which we turned around pretty quickly, releasing it in December 2011. Being able to bring the band off of hiatus filled this massive void I’d been feeling for the prior two years.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What is the story behind your recent album? / How did you come about your recording process?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“The Night is Young” was recorded with just two people. I wrote the lyrics, drummed the songs and sang the songs, while my guitarist/producer Bruce Lawrence created the guitar and bass melodies. Most of the songs were written in Los Angeles, but some I had been working on prior to that – some on and off for years. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What expectations did you have after the release of your album, “The Night is Young?” </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I went in with a pretty open mind. I hadn’t released any new material in about five years prior to this album and a lot has changed in the music industry since then. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I released the single “Night is Young” in June 2011 and found out just how hard it was to to promote one song – that wasn’t on radio, that wasn’t on a TV show, that wasn’t in the public eye whatsoever. Even comparing it to my EP release in 2006, the groundwork for releasing a song has changed so much with technology. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In a sense, this project was like starting over but then as word gets out, you start to see old fans coming back and paying attention again. There’s also been a variety of new fans jumping on the bandwagon since ELH has a revised, updated sound, so that gives me a sense of relief. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I heard you tried out for American Idol, what was it like and what did you learn?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All I can say is that it’s a lot longer of a process than it looks like. And getting to the level I got to, I learned a lot about reality TV. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What are your future goals?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I think for most musicians, the goal is always to get as many people to hear your music as possible. Whether that’s signing to a major label, getting on a TV show or playing 365 gigs a year is up to the musician. For me, playing live is a great way to express this music and radio play certainly wouldn’t hurt in today’s market. My goal is just to have people hear it – and hopefully enjoy it. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">Tally Hall is an alternative rock band from Ann Arbor, Mich., known for its colorful ties and expressive music. The band’s latest album, “Good & Evil,” was released in June of 2011 with Quack! Media, featuring “You & Me” and “&.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“’Good & Evil’ seemed to encapsulate the batch of songs we had for the album,” singer and keyboardist Andrew Horowitz said. “We recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Tony Hoffer.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The band’s expressive style is unique.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“A giant cloud made of cotton candy wherein a circus of magical creatures speak in poetry,” Horowitz said.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tally Hall got its start during college.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Sophomore year of college, I was introduced to Rob (Cantor, guitarist and vocalist) through a mutual friend,” Horowitz said. “From there, we added members one by one. It grew from a two-person jam session to a band within a couple months.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With its unique style, the band felt the name Tally Hall suited it well.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Tally Hall is named after a defunct mini-mall in the suburbs of Detroit,” Horowitz said. “It’s a place of nostalgia for the rest of my Michigan-based band. In Tally Hall, there were arcade oddities sprinkled throughout.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The band started an internet show a couple years ago called THIS, which featured 10 mini episodes of sketch-comedy.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The Tally Hall Internet Show was a natural progression from the short clips we were posting online,” Horowitz said. “The short films spilled over to Tally Hall, and we consciously opened up Tally Hall to all forms of creative expression.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The most important thing that keeps Tally Hall’s music going is themselves and to make something worthwhile.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Our hope to create an alternative to the plethora of crap shoved into the public’s minds.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Band members include:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Rob Cantor - Guitar, vocals</div><div class="MsoNormal">Joe Hawley - Guitar, vocals</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ross Federman - Drums</div><div class="MsoNormal">Zubin Sedghi - Bass, vocals</div><div class="MsoNormal">Andrew Horowitz - Keyboards, vocals</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How did you get your start in music?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I've always been obsessed with music. I started playing piano at five and writing at eight.<br />
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<b>When and where did you find the members of your band?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Sophomore year of college, I was introduced to Rob through a mutual friend. From there, we added members one by one. It grew from a two-person jam session to a band within a couple of months.<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>How did you come up with the name Tally Hall?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Tally Hall is named after a defunct mini-mall in the suburbs of Detroit. It's a place of nostalgia for the rest of my Michigan-based band. From my understanding, in Tally Hall, there were arcade oddities sprinkled throughout. The ecclectic nature of the place seemed fitting for our band namesake.<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Who are some of your influences?</b><br />
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Our influences are everything/anything. Musically, I grew up listening to classical, jazz, rock... everything from Bill Evans to JS Bach to the Rolling Stones.<br />
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<b>If you could describe your music, what would it be like?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
A giant cloud made of cotton candy wherein a circus of magical creatures speak in poetry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How did you come across your latest record label and what was it like to switch from Atlantic Records to Quack! Media?</b><br />
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Quack! is run by our friend Al McWilliams. Al's been a believer and a supporter from the beginning. He put up the money for our debut, "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum." When we parted ways with Atlantic, Quack! was a natural place to turn. We trust Al's intentions and he knows the group dynamics better than anyone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What made you decide to wear colorful ties?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
We wanted to stand out from the other bands on campus. The uniformity also added a degree of professionalism to our operation.<br />
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<b>I heard you have an internet show? Tell me a little bit about it and what the story is behind it.</b><br />
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The Tally Hall Internet Show (THIS) was a natural progression from the short clips we were posting online. Joe was a film student and had a sketch-comedy film group called Anonymous. The short films spilled over to Tally Hall, and we consciously opened up Tally Hall to all forms of creative expression. THIS was a way to organize our videos, and Atlantic got on board and financed the operation. This consists of ten ten-minute episodes and was released a couple of years ago.<br />
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<b>Who writes your music and how do you come about the songs you write?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Four of us share writing duties. Writing songs is just what we do, so it's hard to say where they come from.<br />
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<b>What is the story behind your latest album “Good & Evil” and how did you come about its recording process?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
"Good & Evil" seemed to encapsulate the batch of songs we had for the album. The concept was presented somewhere in the writing process, so it stirred in the back of our minds while writing. We recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Depeche Mode). Hoffer was a good fit for the material; our first album was eclectic and celebratory, while this material was more focused and contemplative.<br />
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<b>What is your favorite song to perform and why?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Depends on the night and the crowd. On our last tour, I particularly enjoyed playing "Welcome to Tally Hall," "You," and The Beatles' "Because." "WTTH" gets the crowd moving, "You" is a moment of personal meditation, and "Because" was challenging and beautiful. We performed "Because" with our tour compatriots Casey Shea and the band Speak.<br />
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<b>What has been the weirdest thing that has happened to you in your career?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Everything in our career is weird. It's weird that we have a career. The fact that people even care is a strange concept to internalize.<br />
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<b>How did you create your latest music video?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Our latest music video for "Turn the Lights Off" was created and directed by our friend Drew Mokris (http://www.spinnerdisc.com/). We've always mutually admired each others' work. He asked us if he could create a video, and we were thrilled that he did.<br />
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<b>What has been the driving force of your music?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Ourselves, our fans, our desire to create something good and meaningful. Our hope to create an alternative to the plethora of crap shoved into the public's minds.<br />
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<b>What are your future plans?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
I'm working on a few projects. I just released my first solo track under the name edu (pronounced: ee doo). It's available for free: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
<b>What do you do on your free time?</b><br />
<br />
I never have free time. Too much to do, too little time. But I try to catch an occasional show or movie and do other normal-people stuff.<br />
<br />
<b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b><br />
<br />
THANK YOU.<br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">SPEAK is an up and coming pop rock band from Austin, Texas. The band released its debut album, “I Believe In Everything,” with Modern Art records this past September featuring the hit “Carrie.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“We recorded the album with our great friend Frenchie Smith here in Austin. It’s the result of years of songwriting, recording, mixing, and mastering,” Troupe Gammage, lead singer of the band, said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The band was presented with “Best New Band” from the Talking Heads, one of the band’s biggest influences, at the Austin Music Awards after the release of its debut EP, “Hear Here.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“We got to meet the Talking Heads a few years ago, which was obviously a huge deal for us,” Gammage said. “It seems no one of our generation isn’t a Talking Heads fan.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Other influences include Lamount Dozier, Prince and David Bowie. Influences they’ve met on the road are Tigercity, Cage the Elephant, Tally Hall and Passion Pit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gammage<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>got his start in music at an early age.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Both my parents were musicians, so I grew up around music,” Gammage said. “I started composing soundtracks for video games I was making in elementary school and have been writing music on computers ever since.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gammage met the rest of his band in high school and college.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I first met Nick (Hurt, guitarist) and Jake (Stewart, drummer) when we were in junior high/early high school. Nick introduced us to Joey (Delahoussaye, bassist) when they were at the University of Texas classical guitar program together,” Gammage said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The band found Modern Art records later on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Our manager had been talking to Ben Collins from Modern Art for a couple years before we signed to the label,” Gammage said. “I have no idea how he met Ben, but we’re glad he did.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The writing process for the band’s music has been a collaborative project.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“We all write, and the process changes song to song,” Gammage said. “Some songs are incredibly collaborative, some are more personal, but we all have a voice in the arrangements and the production, which is really important to us.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6lL83vo--YE?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6lL83vo--YE?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The music video for “Carrie,” was produced by Danger Films in Austin, TX.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How did you get your start in music?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Both my parents were musicians so I grew up around music. I started composing soundtracks for video games I was making in elementary school and have been writing music on computers ever since!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How and when did you find the members of your band?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I first met Nick and Jake when we were in junior high/early high school, and we've been playing together in various configurations ever since (about a decade now)! Nick introduced us to Joey when they were at the University of Texas classical guitar program together, but Joey actually grew up in the same neighborhood as I did so we all go way back.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How did you come up with the name SPEAK?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">We're huge fans of the Lindsay Lohan album!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">We got to meet the Talking Heads a few years ago, which was obviously a huge deal for us; it seems no one of our generation ISN'T a Talking Heads fan. Other than Lamont Dozier (who I consider one of the greatest song writers ever), we haven't been able to meet our other idols from past eras (Prince, David Bowie, etc.), but we've had the pleasure of meeting and befriending some of our more modern faves: Tigercity, Cage the Elephant, Tally Hall, Passion Pit...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How did you find your record label?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our manager had been talking to Ben Collins from Modern Art for a couple years before we signed to the label. I have no idea how he met Ben, but we're glad he did!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Who writes your music and how do you come up with the songs you write?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">We all write, and the process changes song to song. Some songs are incredibly collaborative, some are more personal, but we all have a voice in the arrangements and the production, which is really important to us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What is the story behind your latest album, “I Believe in Everything” and how did you come about its</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">recording process?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">We recorded the album with our great friend Frenchie Smith here in Austin -- it's the result of years of songwriting, recording, mixing, and mastering</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How did you create the music video for “Carrie?”</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our friends in Danger Films here in Austin had the idea for the video. We recorded our bits and let them do the heavy lifting: riding around Austin with a projector strapped to a moving car!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What is your favorite song to perform and why?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Billie Jean by Michael Jackson... because everyone loves MJ.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>How did it feel to be presented “Best New Band” from the Talking Heads at the Austin Music Awards?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">That was a really incredible experience. They were tremendously gracious and generous and seemed to appreciate what we were doing. A star-struck moment for all of us!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Where have you been able to perform and which venue is your favorite?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Paradiso in Amsterdam, although we may be biased by other factors...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What was it like to perform with Tally Hall?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Awesome! They're amazing guys and amazing musicians. We're still listening to their record regularly and try to see them whenever we're in the same place.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What has been your biggest success?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Recording a great song with the incredible producer Jerry Wonda. That was a blast!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What are your future plans?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Touring, making another record, making more videos.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Gill Sans","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Current fans: Tell your friends! Future fans: Tell your friends!</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #eeeeee; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</span></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-62079905611947233502011-10-30T11:02:00.000-05:002011-10-30T11:02:31.897-05:00Thirteen Senses<div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thirteen Senses is an alternative rock band that formed in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319989905_2">Cornwall</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319989905_3">England</span>. </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“We started the band in 2001 and played small pub gigs locally,” lead singer and guitarist Will South said. “We recorded a number of demos and our break came after we sent one out to some record companies, who were kind enough to offer us a deal.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since its start, the band’s music has been continuing to be known, featuring on shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Bones.</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“It gave us a platform to deliver our music to the American audience,” South said. “Our albums have never been given a proper release over there, so it’s great to have the music out there in this way.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For Thirteen Senses, music is like a piece of art and expression of oneself.</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“It’s a desire to create and express ourselves,” South said. “I think any artist, whether you’re a painter, poet or musician, must have a mysterious force behind them that needs to be expressed in a different form. As a band, when we are all together creating a new piece of music, it’s where we feel most comfortable.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The band’s recent album, “Crystal Sounds,” was self-produced after being on a major recording label.</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“It marked a slight change in direction and gave us a new injection of energy,” South said. “We started writing it as soon as the second album, Campaign, came to an end. Most of the songs were actually written and demoed by the beginning of 2008. The album wasn’t completed until the end of 2009 before finally being released the next year. We recorded most of it in our own studio.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thirteen Senses’ biggest success has been continuing its career.</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Our biggest success is that we’re still here making music,” South said. “We’re just in the process of finishing album four, so our future will, at the moment, involve getting that released and heard by as many people as possible.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The band has been grateful for its fans support and hopes to release its next album soon.</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Just a big thank you for listening and supporting us,” South said. “That’s all really and we can’t wait for you to hear the new tracks, which hopefully won’t be too long a wait.”</span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We are all originally from Cornwall in the south west of England. It's quite a magical part of the world, full of beaches and rugged coastlines. We started the band in 2001 and played small pub gigs locally. We recorded a number of demos and our break came after we sent one out to some record companies who were kind enough to offer us a deal.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We have Bren on drums, Adam on bass, Tom on lead guitar and myself as singer/piano/guitar. I've known Adam since school and we were the first to conceive the idea of forming a band. Whilst at college we were introduced to Tom via a mutual friend and through Tom we met Bren. We all gelled naturally as friends and musicians which is probably why we're still together now.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to contact or play with them?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Beatles, Mike Oldfield, Mercury Rev, Grandaddy, Radiohead, R.E.M, Sigur Ros it goes on, but these bands always seem to spring to mind first when asked that question. Sadly we haven't yet played with any of these bands and it’s not looking likely... at least not for the Beatles, Grandaddy and now R.E.M.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>How did you come up with the name Thirteen Senses?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It’s the song title of a very, very old song i wrote. We chose because it sounded far less awful than our previous name.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How has the band changed since it formed?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Musically it has always been a progression. I think each album of ours has a different sound and feel to the previous one, drawing in from different influences each time which is important. I suppose the answer to the question is that we're constantly changing.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What has been the driving force to your music?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It’s a desire to create and express ourselves. I think any artist, whether you're a painter, poet or musician, must have a mysterious force behind them that needs to be expressed in a different form. As a band, when we are all together creating a new piece of music, it’s where we feel most comfortable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>How do you come up with the songs you write?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It tends to start with a piano, then some red wine and if the emotion is in the right place something good will happen. The better songs really write themselves, something else takes over, like being in 'the zone'.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>After the release of your second album, “Contact,” what was it like to produce an album like “Crystal Sounds?”</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Crystal Sounds was our first self produced album and for us it marked a slight change in direction and gave us a new injection of energy. The album was also our first release after leaving Mercury Records, so in a way it was much like how we did it when we first started. Just the four of us in a room getting creative. The only people who could cast judgement on what we were recording was ourselves and that in itself influences the end result. One which we were very happy with.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What is the story behind “Crystal Sounds” and how did you come about its recording process?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We started writing it as soon as the second album campaign came to an end. That was in 2007 and it became a long drawn out process. Most of the songs were actually written and demoed by the beginning of 2008 but with each of us drifting off into our own individual projects, the album wasn't completed until the end of 2009 before finally being released the next year. We recorded most of it in our own studio which we've built up over the years. Tom is our technical wizard when it comes to recording which makes the process quite smooth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>What has been your favorite song to perform and why?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Although it’s not a favourite song of mine to listen to, Into The Fire has become such a popular song of our fans, it’s hard not to enjoy playing it live. We always know it's going to have a great reaction and it’s easy for everyone to sing along to. It’s such a simple song but it delivers a powerful message that connects with people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>What was it like to be asked to have your music featured in shows like Bones and Grey’s Anatomy?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I think especially with those shows, it gave us a platform to deliver our music to the American audience. Our albums have never been given a proper release over there so we've never done any promotion or touring so it’s great to have the music out there in this way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Where have you been able to perform and what is your favorite venue?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Favourite venue is Shepherds Bush Empire in London. It manages to be very grand yet also very intimate. We've been lucky enough to play at some great festivals like Glastonbury, some strange venues in places like China, massive venues in Russia, not to mention the numerous venues in the UK 'toilet circuit'.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>What has been the band’s biggest success and what do you hope to do in the future?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Our biggest success is that we're still here making music. We're just in the process of finishing album 4 so our future will, at the moment, involve getting that released and heard by as many people as possible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Just a big thank you for listening and supporting us. That's all really and we can’t wait for you to hear the new tracks, which hopefully won't be too long a wait.</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="yiv1219224182MsoNormal" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Locksley is a rock and roll band who originally formed in Madison, Wis., during high school. The band moved to New York shortly after to spread its upbeat music.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The band has been influenced by many artists and have been able to perform with them as well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We’ve gotten to perform with Graham Smith, Fountains of Wayne, Ray Davies and The Hives,” Jesse Laz, singer and guitarist said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unlike many bands, Locksley has many voices, not just one main song writer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“There are three songwriters in the band, all with different inspiration,” Laz said. “This album was mostly various romantic experiences but there are a few songs about growing up on there.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Locksley has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Jimmy Kimmel was much more relaxed, more like a normal show,” Laz said. “Conan was very professional. The timing they had on that program was unbelievable. Everything was timed and executed so tightly that after we finished I thought I might have forgotten to play guitar.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The band recently released its self-titled album this past summer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s really like a Greatest Hits, so it was recorded over years at different times but all at a studio called The Space in lower Manhattan,” Laz said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the most memorable performances the band had was performing the national anthem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We sang the national anthem at a memorial for one of the navy seals who died in that Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan,” Laz said. “Maybe interesting isn’t the word, but it certainly felt more moving than anything else we’ve done.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the future, the band hopes to make more music and continuing its career.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 313.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have a lot of new music that we’re trying to figure out release plans for,” Laz said. “One thing I can promise is that after the next album comes out, there will be very frequent releases until the end of our career.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Funny, true story: Al gore.<br />
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<b>When and how did you find the members of your band?</b><br />
<br />
High school, except for Jordan. Found him in a hospital nursery. He was only a few hours old.<br />
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<b>Where did you come up with the name Locksley?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Robin Hood.<br />
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<b>Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to perform with them?</b><br />
<br />
There are too many to name but ones we've gotten to perform with are Graham Smith, Fountains of Wayne, Ray Davies and The Hives.<br />
<br />
<b>When first starting out, what were some of your goals and places you performed?</b><br />
<br />
I don't remember to be honest. Early on we played at CBGBs. I was actually told that we had the last-ever residency there.<br />
<br />
<b>How did you get your record label and make it to New York?</b><br />
<br />
New York happened first and the record label just happened out of necessity.<br />
<br />
<b>What is your inspiration for the songs you write?</b><br />
<br />
It varies a lot. There are three songwriters in the band, all with different inspiration. This album was mostly various romantic experiences but there are a few songs about growing up on there.<br />
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<b>What was it like to hear your first song on the radio?</b><br />
<br />
Ever seen That Thing You Do? Like that.<br />
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<b>If you could be one instrument, what would it be?</b><br />
<br />
I suppose I'd want to be a guitar.<br />
<br />
<b>How did you feel playing with acts such as Rooney and The Hives?</b><br />
<br />
Pretty good. Felt pretty good.<br />
<br />
<b>What was it like to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien?</b><br />
<br />
Jimmy Kimmel was much more relaxed, more like a normal show. Conan was very professional. The timing they had on that program was unbelievable. Everything was timed and executed so tightly that after we finished I thought I might have forgotten to play guitar.<br />
<br />
<b>What is the story behind your self-titled album and how did you come about the recording process for it?</b><br />
<br />
It's really like a Greatest Hits so it was recorded over years at different times but all at a studio called The Space in lower Manhattan.<br />
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<b>Is "Oh, Wisconsin!" based off of where you are from? Tell me a little bit about its origin.</b><br />
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Yes it is. If you listen to the lyrics that one's pretty self-explanatory, I think.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>What has been one of the most interesting experiences in your career?</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just recently we sang the national anthem at a memorial for one of the navy seals who died in that Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Maybe interesting isn't the word but it certainly felt more moving than anything else we've done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b>What are your future plans?</b><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b><br />
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Thank you.</span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-26558528943356806642011-09-25T12:03:00.000-05:002011-09-25T12:03:38.904-05:00Young Man<div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’ve always listened to and analyzed music, so once I picked up piano and guitar, it wasn’t too difficult to pick it up,” Caulfield said. “I play guitar, piano, drums, and sing. Rather than any one instrument being a favorite, I seem to vibe most with the combination of voice and piano. I write a song nearly every time I sit down at a piano.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Caulfield started his band when he was in college.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Young Man is a concept project I started working on when I was a sophomore in college,” Caulfield said. “At that point (as well as right now) things were constantly hanging - my life was dominated by a transition from young to old. I briefly considered using my own name, but that made everything too specific - there’s an intentional universality within each Young Man song, whether or not it’s about a specific experience of mine.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Being a solo artist has been an enjoyable experience for Caulfield, but he hopes to do more things with a band.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“’Boy’ and ‘Ideas of Distance’ are definitely solo records, but the next two LPs will be considerably more of a group effort,” Caulfield said. “I liked being the dominant creative force for a while because it made me progress quickly, but I don’t know if I’m cut out to do that forever. I enjoy being in a band and seeing how ideas can grow with the help of other people.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The debut album, “Ideas of Distance” is based on a long distance relationship Caulfield has been in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“When I wrote the record, that relationship was being tested not only by distance, but by my looming graduation from college, which signified a significantly new phase of my life,” Caulfield said. “I was attempting to juggle career plans and being in love constantly caught in thinking about the future. Having said that, the album functions on two levels…On one hand, it’s my argument for why being in a long distance is terrible. On the other hand, it’s a more general discussion of love that everyone feels. The recording process was more or less concurrent with the writing process. I did all of it in my room, except for additional production done by my good friend, Phil Tortoroli, who lives in New York City.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Young Man has toured throughout Europe, the East Coast and Midwest and it looking forward to the West Coast and opening for Cold War Kids on Nov. 1.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the future, Caulfield hopes to release more albums and be part of a band again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’m really anxious and impatient when it comes to my creative future,” Caulfield said. “There are two Young Man albums in addition to ‘Ideas of Distance’ in the next year, which will conclude the project, but I’m already writing more and thinking about what I’d like to focus on afterward. It’d be great to play drums in a band again, but I have an open mind.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Where are you from and how did you get your start in music?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota but I live in Chicago now. I've always listened to and analyzed music, so once I picked up piano and guitar it wasn't too difficult to pick it up. I'm lucky in that way.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How much education and formal music training have you had?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I took Music Theory I and II as well as a semester of choir while in college, but am otherwise self-taught.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What instruments do you play and what is your favorite?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I play guitar, piano, drums, and sing. Rather than any one instrument being a favorite, I seem to vibe most with the combination of voice and piano. I write a song nearly every time I sit down at a piano. However, that's probably because I don't own one - guitar and voice is just as enjoyable, but a little more of a challenge.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How did you come up with your name, Young Man?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Young Man is a concept project I started working on when I was a sophomore in college. At that point (as well as right now) things were constantly changing - my life was dominated by a transition from young to old. As I started to write songs more and more, I noticed they were all reflecting that subject matter. Young Man is therefore the most logical name. I briefly considered using my own name, but that made everything too specific - there's an intentional universality within each Young Man song, whether or not it's about a specific experience of mine.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to contact or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>perform with these artists?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I generally become obsessed with a band for chunks of time and then move on to the next. I've had those phases with The Beatles, Yes, Rufus Wainwright, The Fiery Furnaces, Animal Collective, Pink Floyd, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Deerhoof, Women, Wolfgang Voigt, Panda Bear, Brian Eno, The Kinks, and Deerhunter. I haven't really had any contact with them, no, but hopefully someday a show (if possible) could happen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is it like being a solo artist? How did you find the members of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your support band?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i>Boy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ideas of Distance</i> are definitely solo records, but the next two LPs will be considerably more of a group effort. I liked being the dominant creative force for a while because it made me progress quickly, but I don't know if I'm cut out to do that forever. I enjoy being in a band and seeing how ideas can grow with the help of other people. As far as finding the dudes, we all went to Loyola University Chicago.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What artists are you currently listening to?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I'm not listening all too much, but recently I've been into the new St. Vincent record, R. Kelly, and Girls.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you come up with the songs you write?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I usually write when I'm walking around or while doing something mundane, elaborating on a melody I came up with earlier. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your favorite song to perform?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I like doing "Then and Now" from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ideas of Distance</i> and "School", which will be on the final Young Man record. Both songs get pretty noisy and technical, while still being melodic, which is more or less the goal for the live set.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How did you create the music video for “Enough” and what’s its story?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i>Ideas of Distance</i> was conceived as a score for a film I was intending to make (and still am). The songs are all very filmic in structure - repetition is used different than it is in most pop music with recurring motifs and melodic ideas rather than repetition of entire choruses or verses. The album therefore unfolds as a film does, scene by scene, all the while attempting to maintain cohesion and continuity. The idea of Enough specifically was to present a a series of vignettes that abstractly represented the intensely personal content of the song. Each scene is intended to evoke certain emotions, but remain inconsequential after they have passed. I didn't want people to focus on any given character or object and hoped to kind of overwhelm the audience with a mixture of imagery that ultimately made sense in one way or another.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How did you come across The Black Cab Sessions and what was it like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to perform on their show? Did you travel far to do this?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Chris and the rest of the guys that run the site contacted me prior to going to Europe for a tour. It was pretty unreal to do something that, for me, really sticks out amongst a slew of music blogs. It's a great concept and they do it well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the story behind your debut album, “Ideas of Distance” and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>how did you come about its recording process?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I've been in a long distance relationship on and off for about four years. When I wrote the record, that relationship was being tested not only by distance, but by my looming graduation from college, which signified a significantly new phase of my life. I was attempting to juggle career plans and being in love, constantly caught in thinking about the future. Having said that, the album functions on two levels... On one hand, it's my argument for why being in a long distance is f****** terrible, impractical, and ultimately futile. While writing and recording, I was trying to convince myself of this, despite still being deeply in love. On the other hand, it's a more general discussion of love that everyone feels. My experience in long distance is not so common, but everyone that loves deals with distance in one form or another. People "grow apart" for example. But more than that, it's about being this age and having to make decisions about one's distant future, a decision that often involves another person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The recording process was more or less concurrent with the writing process. I did all of it in my room, except for additional production done by my good friend Phil Tortoroli who lives in New York City. Being alone in the place where a lot of us are most comfortable is great for fostering honesty and commitment. At the same time, it really sucks you in - the record is pretty much all I thought about and did for those six months (homework was largely neglected).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Where have you been able to tour and where do you hope to go?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
We've done shows on the east coast and midwest a good amount and will be going to the west coast in a couple weeks, which I'm really excited about. We've done some short tours in Europe and I'd love to do some more continental touring, but am happy to be focusing on the states for the next couple months. There's so much to see!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How do you feel about opening for Cold War Kids on November 1st?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I feel great! Everyone has such good things to say about those guys and we're playing some really great rooms.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are your future plans?</b></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
I'm really anxious and impatient when it comes to my creative future. There are two Young Man albums in addition to <i>Ideas of Distance</i> in the next year, which will conclude the project, but I'm already writing more and thinking about what I'd like to focus on afterward. It'd be great to play drums in a band again, but I have an open mind.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-72851119436790717252011-09-25T11:49:00.001-05:002011-09-25T11:50:58.955-05:00Joey Ryan & The Inks<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Joey Ryan & The Inks is a five-piece alternative rock band hailing from St. Paul, Minn. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I played with our bass player, Matt Mitchell, for a long time in a band called ‘The Exchange’ growing up,” lead singer Joey Ryan said. “Once that band ended, he helped me demo a small catalog of songs I had been working on and playing as a solo act that would soon turn into a good chunk of what was on our first record, ‘Well, Here We Are Then.’ From there, Matt’s brother, Chris, started playing some guitar with us and we asked Ryan Mach who we knew from playing drums with other bands around town. Tim Dickson is the newest member of the group and has been playing with us for a while, too.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The band has always wanted to play upbeat tunes and has been influenced by artists such as The Beatles, The Hollies, The Beach Boys, ELO and Bob Dylan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’ve always enjoyed music in this vein, but it’s taken different forms over the years - that’s where all of those different influences come in,” Ryan said. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Inspiration comes from many things for the band, but most of all is the people around them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“First, we just have a good time making music and as long as that continues, I see no reason to stop,” Ryan said. “But also, I think we’ve got some good momentum going as a band – we’re playing in new places to new audiences and getting a pretty good response to it, and I think the new record has added to that.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Its newest album, “Dennis Lane,” was self-produced and released in July of this year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have (a) studio in my basement, which is where we came up with a lot of these songs and recorded almost everything…and it happens to be located on Dennis Lane,” Ryan said. “Being able to record at home at our own pace certainly shaped the recording process – it takes some of the pressure off and gave us some freedom to experiment, and sometimes you find a new idea in those experiments that really adds to the song.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the future, the band hopes to create more music and keep traveling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We’ll keep writing songs and making records,” Ryan said. “We haven’t really charted out a specific course, but hopefully we’ll keep broadening our horizons and bringing our music to new places with some touring.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How and when did you get your start in music? Have you had any formal music training?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I didn't start playing the guitar until early in high school. My grandfather played a lot of different instruments and he borrowed me a old 1960's sears semi hollow body with a couple chord books to learn with. From there i was hooked and learned by either listening to records or bugging my friends who knew how to play. I sang a lot in choir growing up, but I've never had any other formal lessons or training. <br />
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<b>How did you find the members of your band and what do they play?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I played with our bass player, Matt Mitchell, for a long time in a band called 'The Exchange' growing up. Once that band ended, he helped me demo a small catalog of songs i had been working on and playing as a solo act that would soon turn into a good chunk of what was on our first record "Well, Here We Are Then". From there, Matt's brother Chris started playing some guitar with us and we asked Ryan Mach who we knew from playing drums with other bands around town. Really the first time we started playing together, it felt very natural. I think there are a nice compliment of influences between us all that help shed a very nice, fresh light on the way i had heard the songs in my head. Tim Dickson is the newest member of the group and has been playing with us for a little over a year. He has played music around town for a while too and we were really happy to have him in the fold from the beginning of our latest record's (Dennis Lane) cycle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<b>Who are some of your influences and have you been able to contact or play with them?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
From member to member - our influences are quite vast and very diverse. Generally, a lot of what was listened too during the writing for "Dennis Lane" were bands like - The Beatles, The Hollies, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, ELO, and then you have a slightly different type of influences that we listen to like Bob Dylan, Big Star, The Jayhawks.<br />
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<b>How did you come up with the name of your band?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There is really no significance or importance around the "inks" in our name. I had been playing some solo shows and had a small amount of steam built up locally, so we thought keeping my name in the title might help to not completely lose that, but still wanted to represent the full band collaboration. It was a pretty quick decision process.<br />
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<b>Have you always wanted to play the type of music you play now? </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I'm not sure that I've always wanted to play this type of music, but I'm excited to be playing it now and it feels natural. I've always enjoyed music in this vein, but it's taken different forms over the years - that's where all of those different influences come in. There's definitely a common thread or two amongst them, but they cover a few different genres. <br />
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<b>When first starting out, what did you hope to accomplish? </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I really just wanted to create something i was proud of and have fun. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<b>How do you come up with the songs you write?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
It can happen differently every time for me, but generally, the ones that come naturally are usually the best.<br />
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<b>What is your favorite song to play and why?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My favorite song to play is "The Part Taken", which is the last song on our first record. We've closed most of our shows with it since we started playing - I think it lends itself well to that spot because it builds and builds and then we just kind of all let go at the end...it has produced some moments that have been fun to be a part of. </span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<b>What inspires you to keep going with your music?</b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A few things I guess. First, we just have a damn good time making music and as long that continues, I see no reason to stop. But also, I think we've got some good momentum going as a band - we're playing in new places to new audiences and getting a pretty good response to it, and I think the new record has added to that.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<b>Where have you been able to tour and where do you hope to go?</b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We have played throughout the midwest region and are hoping to make the push to branch into the national scope.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<b>What is the story behind your newest album, “Dennis Lane” and how did you come about its recording process?</b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They're definitely related. We have studio in my basement, which is where we came up with a lot of these songs and recorded almost everything...and it happens to be located on Dennis Lane. Being able to record at home at our own pace certainly shaped the recording process - it takes some of the pressure off and gave us some freedom to experiment, and sometimes you find a new idea in those experiments that really adds to the song.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <br />
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<b>What are your future plans?</b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We'll see where this takes us and in the meantime, we'll keep writing songs and making records. We haven't really charted out a specific course, but hopefully we'll keep broadening our horizons and bringing our music to new places with some touring.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <br />
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<b>What do you do outside of being in the band? </b></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Well, we have a lot of friends in the music community, so we go out to shows quite a bit. I'm an avid sports fan too, played basketball in college - so try to catch my favorite MN sports team whenever possible...tough year for the Twins. Outside of that, it's all Netflix all the time</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-32342080024939675512011-09-18T21:58:00.000-05:002011-09-18T21:58:31.258-05:00Kaleidophone<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:PixelsPerInch>72</o:PixelsPerInch> <o:TargetScreenSize>544x376</o:TargetScreenSize> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kaleidophone is a four-piece alternative rock band from Maidstone, England, which formed in 2007. Instead of playing music right away like most bands, the band decided to do something more unique.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">“The first thing we did as a band was building our own recording studio,” the band said. “After a few months doing this we began making music and working towards creating the sound that we have today.”</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;">The band is i</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">nfluenced by artists such as The Wombats, Friendly Fires and Vampire Weekend.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“We wanted to create fun and good music that was melodic and uplifting,” the band said. “We think we have a great debut album and that the songs on the album say quite a bit about Kaleidophone. A career in music is a journey and we are loving every step.”</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The debut album, “What’s Your Tonic?” was released in May 2011 and received some positive feedback according to the band.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“What’s Your Tonic?” is related to the eclectic nature of the record – people are all different, and every track on our record has its own identity,” the band said. “It’s really a celebration of diversity.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Having the studio which we built was invaluable as we didn’t have the usual time constraints that many bands have to work with when hiring some studio time,” the band said. “We were able to utilize the amazing talent within the band and self-produce our record and the label gave us the freedom to do that.”</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The band likes the songs on its latest album.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“From a production point of view, we’re proud of ‘Wrecking Ball’ and also as the lead track for the album it has received a lot of radio play,” the band said. “From a musical, lyrical and sentimental point of view, ‘Hometown’ holds a special place in our hearts."</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the future, the band hopes to tour the U.K. as well as the U.S. and start working on its second album.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“To us, music is a two-way street and we want to join in and make a true connection with those who like what we’re about,” the band said.</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/23393049?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe></span></div><a href="http://vimeo.com/23393049">Wrecking Ball - Kaleidophone</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6793399">Rob Sampson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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</div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The band members include:</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mark Wells - Lead Vocals and Rhythm Guitar</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Al Holland - Lead Vocals and Lead Guitar</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">James Holland - Bass</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mark Thompson - Drums</span></div><div class="Body1" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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After a few months doing this we then began making music and working towards creating the sound that we have today.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Who are the members of your band and what do they play?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mark Wells </span><span>–</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Lead Vocals and Rhythm Guitar</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Al Holland </span><span>–</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Lead Vocals and Lead Guitar</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">James Holland </span><span>–</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Bass</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mark Thompson - Drums</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>How did you come up with the name Kaleidophone?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We made a conscious decision to try and write uplifting/melodic tunes. Kaleidophone breaks into two words for us: Colour and sound. That</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s our sonic philosophy. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What are your major influences?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Wombats, Bombay Bicycle Club, Friendly Fires, Vampire Weekend.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What artists are you currently listening to?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Vaccines, Tame Impala, Everything Everything</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>How much education and musical training have you had?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mark and Mark trained at Music College and Al and James have both studied Music Tech.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What were your goals when first starting your band? Did you reach them?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We wanted to create fun and good music that was melodic and uplifting.<span> </span>We think we have a great debut album and that the songs on the album say quite a bit about Kaleidophone. A career in music is a journey and we are loving every step.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>I heard for the first three months of the bands career, you built a studio instead of making music. Please explain why you did that instead of the conventional way of making music.</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s all in the preparation. Like an exquisite dish, heart stopping architecture, or the strategy of a chess match - each action is carefully co-ordinated to reach the end goal! Building the studio was part of our preparation and strategy and we now have our own place for rehearsals and recording which has been invaluable. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>How did you get your record label?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They originally came to check out our studio for possible future use and while there, they heard our first single shortly after we had recorded it and wanted to be part of what we were doing.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Who writes your music and how do you come up with the songs you write?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Al and Mark come with the initial ideas for a new song then we spend time as a band writing the song together. Some take a few weeks, some take months or even years to get to the place where we are happy with them.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What has been the most interesting experience of your career?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Interesting</span><span>…</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> probably opening a folk festival in The Brecon Beacons.<span> </span>Traveling up to a remote hill side in South Wales on a terrain that really should have been traveled using 4x4</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s but was instead done in a long wheel base minibus full of band, equipment and roadie!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What</b></span><b><span style="color: #1f4496;">’</span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s the story behind your debut album, </span><span style="color: #1f4496;">“</span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What</span><span style="color: #1f4496;">’</span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s Your Tonic?</span><span style="color: #1f4496;">”</span></b><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We released 2 singles with Tin Robot Records which received a great response and generated some really positive feedback from many areas of the music industry.<span> </span>We then felt the only step we could take next was to go for it and record our the debut studio album.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The title, 'What's Your Tonic?', is related to the eclectic nature of the record - people are all different, and every track on our record has its own identity. It's really a celebration of diversity.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>How did you come about your recording process?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">H</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">aving the studio which we built was invaluable as we didn</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">t have the usual time constraints that many bands have to work with when hiring some studio time. We were able to utilize the amazing talent within the band and self-produce our record and the label gave us the freedom to do that.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What song are you most proud of and why?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">s a difficult one. From a production point of view we</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">re proud of </span><span>‘</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Wrecking Ball</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> and also as the lead track for the album it has received a lot of radio play.<span> </span>From a musical, lyrical and sentimental point of view, 'Hometown' holds a special place in our hearts.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Where have you been able to tour?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We have toured a lot around England and later this year we are doing a larger tour which will take us further throughout the UK and into one or two of the islands surrounding ours.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">New York City circa 1935. It was such an age classic culture and a time when the city was home to a thousand dreams - it's something that resonates with us on a very personal level, and something that's come through in our music and image.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What has been your biggest success so far?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The album itself has been a great success and national radio coverage in the UK was thrilling.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What are your future plans?</b></span><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To tour the UK in the next few months, then maybe Europe, the States</span><span>…</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> and of course we</span><span>’</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ll be working towards the 2<sup>nd</sup> album.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="Body1"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f4496; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What do you want to say to your future and current fans?</b></span></span></div><div class="Body1"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p>“I was brought up on the ’60s music my parents listened to, and the other guys were pretty much the same,” Si Dartford, lead singer and guitarist, said.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p>The band got its start much like any other high school punk band, teaching itself along the way.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p>“We started when we were teenagers, kicking out punk covers of bands we looked up to,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “We were lucky enough to be given gigs at pubs despite not being old enough to even be in there in the first place.</div><o:p></o:p><br />
<o:p> </o:p>“We have always played punk rock as a basis of our music,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “It’s what influenced us when we were starting out. Although we aren’t necessarily a punk band, we thrive when we are playing upbeat music. It’s thrilling to play live and can stir and provoke the crowd in a way other music can’t.”<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p>Originally called 9FoldPunch, the band decided to change its name to Violet Bones.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“We changed our name because we had grown up a lot since we started out as 9fold,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “Our sound had matured and our style was changing, so it was agreed that we found a name that reflected that. We got the name Violet Bones from when I went to visit my grandma in (the) hospital. There was an old lady in a bed opposite called ‘Violet Bone.’ It was around the time we were looking for a new name and I told the guys this story and we agreed that name had a good vibe. It felt right to us.”</div><br />
Violet Bones’ music comes from what happens in its daily life.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p>“Songs we write all come from different places. For instance, how we feel about the world, having love, not having love, the night before, the morning after,” Dartford said. “We want songs that are relevant, that mean something.”</div><br />
The band’s recent single, “Villains,” is based off of their home town and how to handle diversity.<br />
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“The story behind Villains is about the town we live in. It can be quite small minded. If you look a bit different and have your own thing going on, people will always try and put you down because they can’t handle diversity. It’s about standing up to those people. It’s good to see at gigs people that get into it and understand and feel the same, for whatever reason,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “Every time that happens, we consider that a success.”<br />
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In the future, the band plans to finish recording and release its debut album later this year.<br />
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“We are currently recording our debut album, which is very exciting times for us. We have a good vibe about it,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “We’re starting to book up shows up and down the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>. So things are definitely getting a lot busier, with tours being planned in the not too distant future, too. There’s a lot (of) hard work to be done, and we don’t mind this…rolling our sleeves up and getting on with it…that’s what we are all about.”<br />
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“We are four best mates that have been through a lot together,” <st1:place w:st="on">Dartford</st1:place> said. “We are a gang that have played all over the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> to lots of people and sometimes not so many. We have formed a close band with one another. We know we are better together playing music than doing anything else.”<br />
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We are from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region></st1:place>. We all got into music at different times, I (Si) was brought up on the 60s music my parents listened to, and the other guys were pretty much the same always had music around us growing up. It was in set into us from a young age onwards subliminally I guess.<br />
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<b>How much education and formal music training have you had?</b><br />
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We are all pretty much self taught at our instruments, we all took music at high school, but other than that we have taught ourselves and each other over the years.<br />
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<b>How and when did your band get its start?</b><br />
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We started when we were teenagers kicking out punk covers of bands we looked up to. We were lucky enough to be given gigs at pubs despite not being old enough to even be in there in the first place. But I think most people gave us shows out of sympathy......And we were cheaper than the usual bands they had!!!<br />
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<b>How would you describe your music?</b><br />
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Our music is up-beat rock and roll with punky fringes with lyrics most people can relate to. It doesn’t alienate people, we like to think it brings people together. You can sing to it, you can dance to it. We are the band you want at your party.<br />
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<b>I heard your band was called 9FoldPunch before. Why did you change to Violet Bones and what does the name mean to you?</b><br />
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We changed our name because we had grown up a lot since we started out as 9fold, our sound had matured and our style was changing, so it was agreed that we found a name that reflected that...We got the name Violet Bones from when I (Si) went to visit my Grandma in hospital. There was an old lady in a bed opposite called "Violet Bone" I thought it was the most interesting, beautiful name. It was around the time we were looking for a new name and I told the guys this story and we agreed that name had a good vibe, it felt right to us.<br />
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<b>Have you always wanted to play punk/rock music or did you try other types of music?</b><br />
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We have always played punk rock as a basis of our music. It’s what influenced us when we were starting out. Although we aren’t necessarily a punk band, we thrive when we are playing up beat music. It’s thrilling to play live and can stir and provoke the crowd in a way other music cant.<br />
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<b>Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to contact or play with them?</b><br />
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Our influences vary, we draw influences from bands like the Ramones and the Clash. We are loving bands like Mona and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> band Tribes at the moment who we have played with recently. We have also shared the stage with New York Dolls and Ash, which again are bands we look up to and take inspiration from. But in general we all listen to as many different types of music as you can think of, if it’s good, it’s good!<br />
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<b>What has been the driving force of your band?</b><br />
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We are 4 best mates that have been through a lot together. We are a gang that have played all over the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> to lots of people and sometimes not so many. We have formed a close bond with one another. We know we are better together playing music than doing anything else. That’s our driving force.<br />
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Songs we write all come from different places, for instance how we feel about the world, having love, not having love, the night before, the morning after. We want songs that are relevant, that mean something. Anything is an idea for a song to be honest, it’s just how you tell it.<br />
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<b>What is the story behind your new single, “Villains” and how do you feel about its success?</b><br />
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The story behind Villains is about the town we live in. It can be quite small minded. If you look a bit different and have your own thing going on, people will always try and put you down because they can’t handle diversity. It’s about standing up to those people and saying f*** off. It’s good to see at gigs people that get into it and understand and feel the same, for whatever reason. Every time that happens, we consider that a success!<br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and where would you like to go?</b><br />
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We have performed all over the UK, but want to get out on the road and hit it harder than ever, more shows, more fans more fun. We would like to venture further into <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> and the rest of the world from there. To be honest we will play anywhere if you book us!<br />
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<b>What does the future look like for Violet Bones?</b><br />
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We are currently recording our debut album which is very exciting times for us, we have a good vibe about it and the energy in the recordings is incredible! We're starting to book up shows up and down the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, with a view to release our album late 2011. So things are definitely getting a lot busier, with tours being planned in the not too distant future too. There's a lot hard work to be done, and we don't mind this... rolling our sleeves up and getting on with it... that’s what we are all about.<br />
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<b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b><br />
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I hope you enjoy the show. If you did? We will see you at the next one.<br />
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Outside of music we do the usual stuff guys our age do. Watch movies, hang out with friends, go to gigs.</span></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-16793914919773632052011-08-21T15:06:00.002-05:002011-08-21T15:11:28.250-05:00Folk of Flight<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><script src="http://img220.imageshack.us/shareable/?i=dsc02720copy.jpg&p=tl" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Folk of Flight is an alternative folk band from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:city> made up of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul Ranheim and Karen Choi, who met after graduate school.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We met while both performing solo acts at a coffee house,” the band said in an interview. “We also were both graduate students in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:city>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The band started playing in January of this year and has been happy with its success so far.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Our goal was simply to explore the local music scene together,” the band said. “We wanted to give shape to what we were doing collectively, so we formed Folk of Flight. At that point, we had no plans to record the EP and no idea how long we would play together.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Being from two different backgrounds, both Ranheim and Choi find a great sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Somehow, it is a really natural fit,” Choi said. “Although, Paul is always trying to make our songs less country and I’m always trying to put a southern country beat on our tunes. But, somewhere in that tug of war, we find our sound.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The band released its EP in July after a short time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We found ourselves sitting in a studio with a local sound engineer we met through a mutual friend,” the band said. “He told us to pick a weekend to record and that he would do the project for free. After we caught our breath, we got something on the calendar, invited some talented friends to play on the project and before we knew it, we were making plans to release an EP.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After the release of the band’s first EP, it was posted on Noisetrade to help promote its music.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Noisetrade is a great resource for artists,” the band said. “It allows us to extend our music to many, beyond our immediate local scope. Fans download our tunes for free in exchange for sharing our music with their friends on facebook or twitter.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the future, the band hopes to record its first full-length album and to continue seeing where its music goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We were joking the other day that our future is a perpetual ellipsis,” the band said. “Sometimes we feel like we’re just along for the ride. We want to keep honing our sound as a duo and lean into our natural collaborative relationship.”</span><br />
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<b>Interview with Folk of Flight:</b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Karen</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> I’ve been writing lyrics and putting them to melodies since I was 6 or 7. I picked up the guitar when I was about 15. My dad played and he, along with a few other friends, taught me the basics. I learned on his old '73 Martin.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paul</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> Well, when I was three, I saw my brother playing the piano and, of course, wanted to play too. So I began taking lessons at three. Through the years I learned various other instruments (violin, bass, guitar, mandolin, etc). I owe all my musical ability and motivation to my parents--I remember countless nights sitting next to my dad as he sang and played, and my dear mother patiently drove me to countless lessons and rehearsals. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How did you meet each other?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We met while both performing solo acts at a coffee house. We also were both graduate students in St Louis--so our paths crossed in a couple of ways. We knew each other for two years before we started working together and when we did, it was good.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Being from two different musical backgrounds, how do you combine your styles?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Karen</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> We’re not entirely sure how it works! Somehow it is a really natural fit. Although, Paul is always trying to make our songs less country and I’m always trying to put a southern country beat on our tunes. But, somewhere in that tug of war we find our sound.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paul</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> Why does sweet taste so good with sour? Who knows--it's just delicious! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>When first starting Folk of Flight, what were your goals? Have you been able to accomplish them?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We started playing together last January, just over 6 months ago. Our goal was simply to explore the local music scene together. We wanted to give shape to what we were doing collectively so we formed Folk of Flight. At that point, we had no plans to record the EP and no idea how long we would play together. We’ve both been surprised at how the process has unfolded these last few months. It’s been fun! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to meet or play with them</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">?</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Karen</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> My top three influences are Patty Griffin, Over the Rhine and Josh Ritter. I’ve never met any of them and drool at the idea of playing with them.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paul</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> My dad, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, Elton John, Michael Kelly Blanchard, David Wilcox, and too many others to mention. And yes, I've actually played with my dad quite a bit! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What is the inspiration for the songs you write?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Karen</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> Everything is fair game. For me, my marriage, my kids, the lives of friends or strangers, my faith, my questions & struggles all play significant roles in inspiring my writing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paul</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> The same as Karen, except for the marriage and kids part... <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>How did you start the recording process for your self-titled EP?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">There wasn’t much of a process! In June we found ourselves sitting in a gorgeous studio with a local sound engineer we met through a mutual friend. He told us to pick a weekend to record and that he would do the project for free. After we caught our breath, we got something on the calendar, invited some talented friends to play on the project and before we knew it we were making plans to release an EP in July.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Has it been worth it that you put your EP on Noisetrade? If yes, why?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Definitely. Noisetrade is a great resource for artists. It allows us to extend our music to many, beyond our immediate local scope. It’s a brilliant set up: fans download our tunes for free in exchange for sharing our music with their friends on facebook or twitter. We benefit from the promotion and networking and hopefully listeners enjoy what they hear from us!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Where have you been able to play and where would you like to go?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">At this point, we have primarily played locally, given the recent formation of our band. We’re just starting to set our sights elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What has been your greatest success?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Recording the EP in one crazy, sleep-deprived weekend and then releasing it a month later (after many hours of mixing) has been a success!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What do you do on your free time outside of the band?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Karen</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> Spend time with my family. I have two little boys and they keep me quite busy!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paul</b></span><b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></b> I really enjoy the outdoors. Water-skiing, snow skiing, hiking, ultimate frisbee--really anything in the clean air. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>What are your future plans?</b></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We were joking the other day that our future is a perpetual ellipsis (…). This whole process has unfolded in unexpected ways for us so sometimes we feel like we’re just along for the ride. We want to keep honing our sound as a duo and lean into our natural collaborative relationship. We would love to record a full-length album together and follow the musical trails wherever they may lead. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-45090435295217963582011-08-08T21:36:00.000-05:002011-08-08T21:36:12.405-05:00LA VIELA VIE is a rock band from Venice, Calif., with the hopes of making its music known to the world. <br />
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“I came to meet Bill and Adam through a mutual friend,” Trevor Conner, guitarist of the band said. “Jeff Azoff told me about a great singer songwriter who was looking to do more of a band thing. The next day we got together at a rehearsal spot and from the first song we started playing, we all felt like we had found something great together.”<br />
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The band has been influenced by many artists such as Kris Kristofferson and Buffalo Springfield. On its first EP, the band had the opportunity to work with Andrew Dixon, producer of bands such as Augustana and Colbie Caillat.<br />
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“Working with Andrew has been great,” Conner said. “We came into the studio well rehearsed and with a plan. Being a baby band in LA, money is short and studio time is expensive. We had one night to record 90% of the EP and everyone was ready to get it done.”<br />
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“To have him excited about our music and to get his creative stamp on our debut record was the perfect fit,” Bill Delia, drummer of the band said. “We are going to go back into the studio with him to record a new batch of songs this fall, and can’t wait to get started.”<br />
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The band strives to make its music the best it can be.<br />
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“Songwriting for us all starts with the initial inspiration,” Ryan Williams, bassist of the band said. “A good writing session usually consists of at least three of us at a house or small studio trying out new ideas. We always have been big in demos, and revisiting them until it sounds right to all of us.”<br />
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“We write the songs that come natural and feel good to ourselves, never forced or mirroring some other artist,” Adam Roth, lead singer of the band said.<br />
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“For being so young, we all have an incredible amount of professional experience in music,” Conner said. “I have always believed that it’s not every day that creativity overflows, but through practice and discipline, we define art.”<br />
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The band’s second EP, “Redemption Day,” was released this year, by Fredrik Eriksson, which is combined with their first EP as a "Dual-EP" on their website to help the Rubicon Team with disaster relief in Los Angeles.<br />
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“After the release of our first EP, we continued to write nonstop,” Delia said. <br />
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“Over the winter we decided to have our touring keyboard/guitarist, Fredrik Eriksson produce some new tunes. Fred is from Sweden, so that was sort of the ‘home-base’ for the record. Adam went to Sweden to cut guitars and vocals. I stayed in LA and tracked drums at Threshold Sound in Santa Monica and sent files to Fred and Adam. We all met in London to play a few shows and perform on the Dermot O’Leary show, which is where Trevor cut guitars and Ryan cut bass.”<br />
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LA VIE has been able to perform in Hollywood, Calif., and in the U.K.<br />
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“Playing in the U.K. gave us a great international taste and we all have expressed our intention in going back there,” Williams said. “It’s always a treat to see new people and a new place all at once.”<br />
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The band hopes to make its music known to the world and appreciates its fans support.<br />
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“We write songs really well together and it doesn’t matter if we are writing a song that’s more country or something more pop, it still sounds like LA VIE and that is something important to hold onto,” Conner said. “We write songs because we want to share them with the world, because there is something within all of us that seeks out music and the connection therein.”<br />
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“Music for me, and for all of us, is about that ability to connect on a human level,” Delia said. “Being able to provide that for anyone else, is just awesome. Thank you.”<br />
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I came to meet Bill and Adam through a mutual friend. I had just graduated college and moved to LA to be a gun for hire, to play guitar and tour with bands. Jeff Azoff told me about a great singer songwriter who was looking to do more of a band thing. I met Adam and Bill for coffee. The two of them had been playing together for a bit. The next day we got together at a rehearsal spot and from the first song we started playing, we all felt like we had found something great together. -Trevor<br />
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<b>Who are some of your influences? Have you been able to perform with them?</b><br />
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One of my biggest influences lyrically is Kris Kristofferson..never met him. -Adam<br />
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One of my influences is Buffalo Springfield and I got the opportunity to play a couple of times with Richey Furray when I was 17...it was an incredible experience. He is such a lively person, that energy is just infectious. The band spent more time working out harmonies than playing. He knew the band was pro and he could just set us loose but the harmonies needed to be locked and tight....My dream would be to work with Daniel Lanois some day...he is one if my heroes. I love his sounds and I have spent countless hours playing along with his records and records he has produced. -Trevor<br />
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<b>What was it like to work with Andrew Dixon on your first EP?</b><br />
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Working with Andrew has been great. He is an incredibly talented guy and is really going to do some great things. We came into the studio well rehearsed and with a plan. Being a baby band in LA, money is short and studio time is expensive. We had one night to record 90% of the EP and everyone was ready to get it done. Andrew just let us do our thing and shaped it together. We were all so comfortable working together and I think that comes across on the EP a bit. - Trevor <br />
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Andrew's the best. He's a fellow Berklee grad, and while we were at the school at different times, I knew of him and wanted to work with him for some time. To have him excited about our music and to get his creative stamp on our debut record was the perfect fit. We are going to go back into the studio with him to record a new batch of songs this fall, and can't wait to get started. This time around we are going to take our time a bit more and spend more time developing things in the studio. Some of the new songs we've been writing have us all really excited to get to work. -Bill<br />
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<b>How do you write the songs for your music?</b><br />
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Songwriting for us all starts with the initial inspiration. A good writing session usually consists of at least three of us at a house or small studio trying out new ideas. If something sticks, we keep it and move on until we feel like we have a tangible piece of music, not just a lone riff or chorus. We always have been big in demos, and revisiting them until it sounds right to all of us. It's really fun to let the collaboration happen and let everyone's own sound speak through whatever they are adding to the song. -Ryan<br />
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We write the songs that come natural and feel good to ourselves, never forced or mirroring some other artist. This allows our true sound to shine through, but also let's our fans discover our real influences. -Adam<br />
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For being so young we all have an incredible amount of professional experience in music. I have always believed that it's not every day that creativity overflows but it us through practice and discipline that we define art. When we get together to write, we write. There have been maybe a couple of times that we got together and didn't finish a song. I absolutely love working with these guys - Trevor<br />
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<b>What is the story behind your “Redemption Day” EP and how did you come about its recording process?</b><br />
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After the release of our first EP, we continued to write nonstop, and some of the new songs started to make their way into our live set. A few of them became our new favorites, so over the winter we decided to have our touring keyboard/guitarist Fredrik Eriksson produce some new tunes. Fred is from Sweden, so that was sort of the 'home-base' for the record. Now, here's where it gets complicated- Adam went to Sweden to cut guitars and vocals with Fred. I stayed in LA and tracked drums at Threshold Sound in Santa Monica and sent the files to Fred and Adam (which, in case you're wondering, took about 15 frustrated hours for all of the drum tracks to load and send via email and dropboxes and yousendit....although in retrospect, I think may have done something wrong...). We all met in London to play a few shows and perform on the Dermot O'Leary show, which is where Trevor cut guitars and Ryan cut bass. Then Fred went back to Sweden and put it all together, and it's available on our website as an internet-only release. -Bill<br />
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<b>After its release, did you have similar expectations than your previous EP?</b><br />
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I don't think so...I'm not sure what our expectations for the first EP were, but we knew going into this EP that we were only going to put it up online, and we really just wanted to get these new songs down and put them out there. We are going to go back into the studio this fall with Andrew Dixon again to make another new record, which will be more of an 'official' release. -Bill<br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and where would you like to play?</b><br />
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We have been lucky enough to become regulars at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. We always have a great time when we play there. I feel like it's a really responsive crowd that attends those shows, people that go there seem to be looking for new artists rather than see someone they already know. <br />
Also, playing in the U.K. gave us a great international taste and we all have expressed our intention in going back there. It's always a treat to see new people and a new place all at once. -Ryan<br />
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<b>What are your future goals for the band?</b><br />
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One thing that we all agree on is that we want to take over the world haha. We are all experienced musicians and know that what we have is really something special. We write songs really well together and it doesn't matter if we are writing a song that's more country or something more pop, it still sounds like LA VIE and that is something important to hold onto. -Trevor <br />
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<b>What would you like to say to your current and future fans?</b><br />
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We write songs because we want to share them with the world, because there is something within all of us that seeks out music and the connection therein. Thank you for listening. Thank you thank you thank you. -Trevor <br />
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Thank you for listening and giving us a shot. To have anyone be able to connect with our songs is truly overwhelming. Anytime we get a message from a fan or someone comes up to us after a show and tells us what this song or that song means to them, it's so positively refreshing and humbling. Music for me, and for all of us, is about that ability to connect on a human level. Being able to provide that for anyone else, is just awesome. So thank you! -Bill <br />
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-48571284622611468192011-08-05T12:24:00.000-05:002011-08-05T12:24:23.246-05:00The Walla RecoveryThe Walla Recovery is a cello-folk band from Fort Worth and Decatur, Texas, which got its start in 2004.<br />
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“We met and played together at our church every week for about three years, and then just ended up sticking together,” Zack Smith, lead singer of the band said. <br />
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Once the band started, its goal was to have audiences connect with its music and it’s something that continues to this day.<br />
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“I’ve always had the goal of spreading the music around to as many people as possible by giving away free songs, and that is something we’re still doing as well,” Smith said. “It’s always been about creating something beautiful and being able to share it with others.”<br />
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The band’s song “Beautiful You” played on MTV’s The Real World this year, which has given the band motivation to keep their music going, according to Smith.<br />
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“The experience opened my eyes to the fact that there’s always a way to reach the plethora of people out there who have never heard our songs,” Smith said. “Beautiful You was over six years old when The Real World used it. I knew we were (and still are) extremely unknown, but it was surprising to see some listeners call it ‘new’ and recommend it to their friends.”<br />
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The band is working on its future release of its full-length album.<br />
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“This album is a little different, because it’s mixed media, and based on a fictional story I’m writing,” Smith said. “So there’s a literary element, and some tangible pieces that have to come together alongside the music, to help tell the story. It’s the most diverse and ambitious project I’ve ever attempted.”<br />
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Even though it’s been a difficult journey for the band, its biggest success has been its love for music.<br />
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“Seeing a new listener have joy over the sounds and ideas that we’ve put on tape really helps to put things in perspective,” Smith said. “Meeting people and telling our stories together really enhances life and makes it more enjoyable.”<br />
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In the future, the band hopes to work on their new album, keep touring Texas and keep close to its fans.<br />
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“I like to take things a step at a time, because it’s easy for me to get distracted by all the possibilities,” Smith said. “We do our best to do what we know. We’ll be focusing on the new album until it’s completed, working on our live shows so that we can create really memorable and interactive events and continuing to build our little community of friends.”<br />
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<b>Where are you from originally and how and when did you get your start?</b><br />
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I am originally from Fort Worth and Decatur, Texas and I started playing guitar back in 1999, during college. I began writing songs about a year later and then started playing at gatherings with friends. The Walla Recovery officially started in 2004.<br />
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<b>Where did you find the members of your band?</b><br />
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We met and played together at our church every week for about 3 years, and then just ended up sticking together. The sensibility that was established over that course of time has held on, and we're still just trying to take advantage of it.<br />
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<b>Who are your major influences? Have you been able to play with these artists?</b><br />
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My major songwriting influences are Counting Crows and Goo Goo Dolls. It would be a thrill to get to play with them someday. As a band we're influenced by a wider array of artists, including mewithoutYou, Sleeping at Last, The New Frontiers, Jimi Hendrix, and Dave Matthews.<br />
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<b>When first starting your band, what were your goals? Have you been able to reach them?</b><br />
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At the beginning I really just wanted to have an outlet for this expression that I felt I needed to make in order to truly know and be myself. In a way, that's what I'm still trying to do, although I've added gradually over time the expectation that other people will connect with a song and it will help them to know themselves as well. Even though we've met goals for specific projects we've set, there's still something about what I do that makes me feel as if I'm never really finished. There's always another creative idea to pursue, and it's not until I finish one that I see where it's taken us to begin another. Logistically, I've always had the goal of spreading the music around to as many people as possible by giving away free songs, and that is something we're still doing as well. So those plans are continually being met and reset in different ways. For me, it's always been about creating something beautiful and being able to share it with others, so we can all be affected by it and see what happens afterwards.<br />
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<b>What was it like having your song Beautiful You played on MTV’s The Real World XXV: Vegas?</b><br />
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It was fun to tell my family and friends about, because it was a show that they'd actually heard of before. The experience opened my eyes to the fact that there's always a way to reach the plethora of people out there who have never heard our songs. "Beautiful You" was over 6 years old when The Real World used it. I knew we were (and still are) extremely unknown, but it was surprising to see some listeners call it 'new' and recommend it to their friends. This gives us motivation not to give up on a song; to keep the older songs alive and see what good they can still do for people.<br />
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<b>What is it like making your first full-length album? Have you run into any snags or has it gone smoothly?</b><br />
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Obstacles abound, but that only serves to keep it interesting most of the time. When a task isn't easy, it helps me to continually make or strengthen that decision to keep going; if I persevere, it's all the hardship that will amount to the end result being worthwhile. This album is a little different, because it's mixed media, and based on a fictional story I'm writing. So there's a literary element, and some tangible pieces that have to come together alongside the music, to help tell the story. It's the most diverse and ambitious project I've ever attempted, which makes for a scary learning curve. Most of my time is currently spent on developing the characters and imagining plot events that fill in any holes the story still has, and learning from others what it is to be a good writer. I've had a lot of fun focusing on something besides musical composition for a while, but I am looking forward to finishing up songwriting for the album, where I feel more at home. The whole thing has been a very stretching experience for me as an artist.<br />
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<b>You said your new album will be based on a story. What is the story behind it?</b><br />
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The story is about a young boy and girl who meet early in life. As they grow up together, he falls in love with her and they intend to marry. She loves him, but has trouble committing because of insecurities brought on by her abusive father, who's never given her a single day of peace or love in her entire life. The young man desires to provide a home and a life for her where she will never be hurt by her father again. He goes out on his own to work and buy some land where he can build a house for her, have a family, and be with her until old age. He builds the perfect house on a beautiful piece of land, and cultivates a farm so they'll have all they need. He returns to marry her and finds that while he's been gone, she's taken another lover: a coward who ran away as soon as he found out she was pregnant with his unwanted son. The man is now faced with the decision of continuing his plan of loving her, sharing his new home with her and the boy, or giving up on them altogether. As the story unfolds further into the past and future, we see how the characters are affected by suffering these hardships and others to be revealed, and what they become because of it.<br />
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<b>How do you come up with the songs you write?</b><br />
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They mostly come from personal experiences (especially our last EP "With Trembling..."), although with these new songs I am writing from a bit of a distance, building allegory to what's happened in the lives of some of my friends and family, about suffering which I have not had to endure personally. I'm an introspective, overly analytical person, and I love to see someone encouraged. I have many flaws and know that it's been helpful for me to confide those in someone, to be known, for better or worse. I tend to approach life and songwriting from these angles.<br />
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<b>How did you create your EP, With Trembling?</b><br />
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I wrote the songs over about a 6 year span, reflecting on the process of learning what it means to trust in something bigger than yourself. Recording took place over 2-3 years, gradually. We self-produced and recorded it, then mixed and mastered it in-house. It was tremendously fun to put ourselves so fully into those 7 songs and allow one another in the band to affect the final product. It was one of the most confidence-building experiences of my life.<br />
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<b>What has been your biggest hardship?</b><br />
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I constantly struggle with producing the best quality and most insightful art I possibly can, in all aspects (recording, performing, marketing, and business), while simultaneously being able to focus on my day job. After years of that I've realized that it's the day job that allows me to do what I love, rather than being a hindrance, as it seemed to be at first glance.<br />
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<b>What has been your biggest success?</b><br />
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Believing in my passion, no matter what. I've found a deep satisfaction in using my life for what I feel I was meant to do, even if it's not my only full-time job.<br />
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<b>What’s your biggest inspiration to keep your music going?</b><br />
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I couldn't keep going without the support of my wife. Seeing a new listener have joy over the sounds and ideas that we've put on tape really helps to put things in perspective as well. Meeting people and telling our stories together really enhances life and makes it more enjoyable.<br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and where is your favorite place to play?</b><br />
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We've performed mostly in our hometown and the surrounding area, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, although we have ventured out on occasion to Austin and Nashville. My favorite shows are always in someone's home or in small coffeehouses or churches, where we can be close to the audience and control the atmosphere, and where there's not a really boomy sound system preventing musical intimacy from taking place.<br />
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<b>What are your future goals?</b><br />
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I like to take things a step at a time, because it's easy for me to get distracted by all the possibilities. We do our best to do what we know we should and constantly reevaluate to adapt to the needs of those around us. So we'll be focusing on the new album until it's completed, working on our live show so that we can create really memorable and interactive events, and continuing to build our little community of friends, conversing about the same hope and joy we can all have in believing in something bigger than ourselves.<br />
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I'm grateful to have the chance to tell you what The Walla Recovery is all about and what we have on the horizon. I would love for everyone to have a free download of 3 of our best "cello-folk" songs at <a href="http://thewallarecovery.com/">http://thewallarecovery.com</a>, and to find us on Facebook (<a href="http://rcvr.me/fb">http://rcvr.me/fb</a>) and Twitter (<a href="http://rcvr.me/tw">http://rcvr.me/tw</a>). Thanks!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-80506332768198270512011-08-01T11:25:00.000-05:002011-08-01T11:25:43.501-05:00Tyrannosaurus Alan<script src="http://img153.imageshack.us/shareable/?i=band2r.jpg&p=tl" type="text/javascript">
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Tyrannosaurus Alan is a seven piece punk/ska band from Medway, Southeast England.<br />
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“We’ve all been involved in music from around 11 years old…just starting by picking up guitars and teaching ourselves to play, forming bands and trying to write songs,” Ben Robinson, singer and bass player of the band, said. “We all started playing music to have fun, using whatever instruments we could get for as little money as possible.”<br />
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When starting out, the band found it needed a name and came across it in a unique way.<br />
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“We couldn’t come up with a name,” Robinson said. “We didn’t have a name when we started booking gigs. An advert came on TV with a character named Tyrannosaurus Alan…it made us laugh and stuck in our heads, so the next time a promoter phoned us, we told him that’s what we were called.”<br />
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The band has been influenced by many artists, but its biggest influence is its experiences.<br />
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“With seven members, there are a lot of influences,” Robinson said. “A good tune is a good tune, but we don’t aim to sound like anybody. Our music and lyrics come from things that have happened to us or things that we’ve done. Places we’ve been, and stuff that we’ve seen happen.”<br />
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As for Tyrannosaurus Alan’s sound, the band finds that its music is its own and not a specific genre.<br />
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“We’ve always thought that rap music and metal music work well together,” Robinson said. “A horn section can make a simple song sound huge. We love the energy of punk music, the honesty of hip hop, the technicality of metal, the groove and feel of ska and reggae music. It’s all come together out of seven impatient young guys. We want to hear our favorite bits and skip the rest, so we wrote songs that make the most of all the things we like about music.”<br />
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Tyrannosaurus Alan has performed throughout the U.K., Germany, and the Czech Republic and it hopes to continue to play in other areas.<br />
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“We’d love to play in Japan and the USA, Canada and Australia, too, eventually,” Robinson said. “We’re very privileged that we get to travel around and see so many places and meet so many people.”<br />
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The band released its debut album, “Campaign,” in 2010, which was a great success.<br />
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“We were contacted by Andy B, the producer, before we’d even written the album,” Robinson said. “The studio was on a farm in the countryside in Southwest England. We lived for two weeks in a caravan in the next field over. We slept three in each bed and two on the sofas. The caravan smelled terrible and we were woken every morning by the cows on the farm. We were completely cut off for the whole recording process and it was brilliant. We were initially going to do a 5 track EP. We recorded 5 tracks and we were offered a deal from Moon Ska records to put out an album, which was to be the 5 new tracks plus our old EP put together. The songs are all basically about growing up in Medway and the things that we encountered. A lot of them are about specific people, but as a whole it talks about life growing up in a concrete jungle.”<br />
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The band plans to release another album in 2012 and hopes to continue making music in the future.<br />
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“Probably looking back, thinking about everything we’ve done and still trying to push ourselves even further,” Robinson said. “This band won’t last forever, but we make the most of every opportunity.”<br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Tyrannosaurus Alan Interview with Ben Robinson:</b><br />
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<b>Where are you from?</b><br />
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We're from a place called Medway, south east England. <br />
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<b>How and when did you get your start in music?</b><br />
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We've all been involved in music from around 11 years old... just starting by picking up guitars and teaching ourselves to play, forming bands and trying to write songs. Some of us played in school bands and some of us were involved with electronic music and DJing. We all started playing music to have fun, using whatever instruments we could get for as little money as possible.<br />
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<b>How much musical education have you had?</b><br />
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A few of us have had lessons on our instruments. It really helps to know the basics... we all have quite different musical histories. We all have some sort of musical education in the form of lessons at school and college but most of what we've learnt as a band has just come from working from the bottom up, repeatedly trying and failing and constantly pushing ourselves.<br />
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<b>Who are the members of your band and how did you find <br />
them?</b><br />
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The members are Ben (bass/vocals) Ollie (guitar/vocals) Simon (trombone/vocals) Craig (drums) Chris (sax) Sam (trumpet) and Tom (sax). We basically all met through playing in different bands when we were younger and all playing the same venues in the same towns. Ollie met Simon at college studying music technology, he started rapping over the demos we recorded at college and we got him in permanently pretty soon after that.<br />
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<b>How did you come up with your name?</b><br />
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We couldn't come up with a name, we didn't have a name when we started booking gigs. An advert came on TV with a character named Tyrannosaurus Alan... it made us laugh and stuck in our heads, so the next time a promoter phoned us, we told him that's what we were called. The only reason it hasn't changed is because we haven't bothered to think of anything better.<br />
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<b>Who are some of your influences?</b><br />
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With 7 members, there are a lot of influences... There's the obvious bands like The specials, Rage Against The Machine, The Wailers, Capdown, Voodoo Glow Skulls... but as a band we're more influenced by places and events than by other bands. We listen to everything from John Lee Hooker and Nirvana through to Katy B, Willy Mason, Slayer... a good tune is a good tune but we don't aim to sound like anybody. Our music and lyrics come from things that have happened to us or things that we've done. Places we've been, and stuff that we've seen happen. <br />
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<b>In your own words, how do you describe your music?</b><br />
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Skacore Hip Hop. We decided on that after years of not really knowing how to describe it. We get asked it a lot.. and that pretty much covers it.<br />
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<b>Did you always want to play punk/ska music, or did you <br />
try other genres?</b><br />
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We didn't really try to do anything. We've just put together our favourite aspects music that we hear and turned it in to our own thing. We've always thought that rap music and metal music work well together... a horn section can make a simple song sound huge... we love the energy of punk music... the honesty of hip hop, the technicality of metal, the groove and feel of ska and reggae music... it's all come together out of 7 impatient young guys. We want to hear our favourite bits and skip the rest, so we wrote songs that make the most of all the things we like about music. Our music sounds like who we are.<br />
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<b>How do you write the songs for your music?</b><br />
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We usually just come up with an idea and it sort of flows from there. We all have a very similar idea of how we want something to sound. If we come up with a short idea for a song, we straight away know how the rest of that song should go, our brains just do it. The hard bit is getting a song from inside our heads and turning it in to music. Lyrics always come last for us because we write lyrics to suit the feel of a song. We're not good at just writing words though, something has to happen to inspire them. Our lyrics are usually written about something very specific, phrased in a way that they're accessible and have a wider meaning.<br />
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<b>What has been your biggest success?</b><br />
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When we started the band we always wanted to play at The Underworld in Camden. It was our favourite venue to go see bands when we were younger. We played there at the end of last year to a sold out crowd. It's probably not our biggest success but to us it was everything we ever set out to achieve.<br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and where would you like to play?</b><br />
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We've been lucky enough to perform all across the UK, as well shows in Germany and the Czech Republic. We'd love to play in Japan and the USA, Canada and Australia too eventually. We're very privileged that we get to travel around and see so many places and meet so many people.<br />
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<b>What is the story behind your debut album, “Campaign?”</b><br />
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We were initially only going to do a 5 track EP. We recorded 5 tracks and we were offered a deal from Moon Ska records to put out an album, which was to be the 5 new tracks plus our old EP put together... which we weren't happy to do at the time, but realised there was a demand for an album and that it did make more sense than doing another EP. It also meant we'd have more songs written and could play longer sets... and was an opportunity to write better songs. So we carried on writing and went back to the studio to record 3 more new tracks and 2 from our previous EP. The songs are all basically about growing up in Medway and the things that we encountered. A lot of them are about specific people but as a whole it talks about life growing up in a concrete jungle. Small town mentalities, short sightedness and frustration. The artwork was done by our friend Establishment Arts, who does all of our artwork. We left it to him to listen to the album and do whatever he felt like doing and we were happy with the first things he showed us. <br />
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<b>How did you come about the recording process for the album?</b><br />
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We were contacted by Andy B, the producer, before we'd even written the album. He said he'd heard our stuff and would be up for producing and recording it. He did us a good rate at his studio and we went away for 2 weeks to record it. The studio was on a farm in the countryside in south west England. We lived for the 2 weeks in a caravan in the next field over. We slept 3 in each bed and 2 on the sofas. There was no gas or running water, we just had 1 plug and a microwave. There was an outhouse we could use at the farm house and we were allowed to shower in the farm house between 7.30 and 8am... The caravan smelled terrible and we were woken every morning by the cows on the farm. Some nights we walked the 2 miles to the nearest pub and there was a shop 5 miles in the other direction. We were completely cut off for the whole recording process and it was brilliant. We just focused on the songs and enjoying ourselves.<br />
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<b>Where do you see yourself in 10 years?</b><br />
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Probably looking back, thinking about everything we've done and still trying to push ourselves even further. This band won't last forever, but we make the most of every opportunity.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-9707604195568167472011-07-28T19:41:00.002-05:002011-07-28T19:41:53.235-05:00Erin Boheme<script src="http://img64.imageshack.us/shareable/?i=erinboheme.jpg&p=tl" type="text/javascript">
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Erin Boheme is a local Jazz artist from Oshkosh, Wis., who grew up listening to her parents’ music and singing in the back seat of her mom’s car. It was then that her dream of being a singer began. She attended Oshkosh West High School and sang in choir, church and participated on the TV show, Star Search.<br />
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“It was a very interesting experience,” Boheme said about Star Search. “I learned a lot about the process of how these shows work. The best part about it was meeting some really amazing people that I’m still in contact with.”<br />
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When she was a junior in high school, Boheme signed a deal with Concord Records and moved to Los Angeles, Calif. <br />
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“A friend of mine (who is also an Oshkosh native) and I made a demo together,” Boheme said. “He knew someone at Concord and just wanted to send it in to get a feeling of where I may be at. A month or so later they got back to Mike (Melvoin) and wanted a meeting with me. An hour into the meeting they offered me a deal!”<br />
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When she was 18, she released her first album, “What Love Is” in 2006, which was a tribute to one of her biggest influences, Frank Sinatra. This showed her love for traditional jazz. She started touring with well known artists and learned what it was like to get out in the world.<br />
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“I think the greatest thing is working with some of the finest musicians in the world,” Boheme said. “I mean, on my first tour, Esperanza Spaulding was the bass player. And look, she just won the Grammy for artist of the year! I am just always learning from them and it’s so exciting to never know what’s just around the corner.”<br />
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Boheme toured throughout the U.S., visiting cities such as New Orleans, Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, as well as other countries like Spain and England. She hopes to travel to Holland next.<br />
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“My mum is Dutch and I would really like to visit and have that experience,” Boheme said.<br />
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Boheme just finished making her second album with Michael Buble, which was recorded in Los Angeles and Vancouver over a five-year period, and will be released in 2012.<br />
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“We are looking at February,” Boheme said. “It’s a series of stories of my life, experience, pretty much all to do with love-the joys, the pains, the in between. I think that’s something we all can relate to.”<br />
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Buble has been a lot of fun to work with, according to Boheme.<br />
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“He’s silly like me…so we had a lot of laughs,” Boheme said. “Luckily, we have been friends for 7 or 8 years now, so it wasn’t something where it was intimidating or unfamiliar. Of course, because of who he is, it was very humbling for me to have him want to be such a tremendous part of this. His musical director, Alan Chang, served as co producer. He’s got a great sensitivity and understanding of the music and he brings a dimension and life to it that may not have existed before.”<br />
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Boheme enjoys her career and looks forward to each day, which has been her biggest success.<br />
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“I think getting to wake up every day and do what I love,” Boheme said. “They say if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life. It’s so true. Don’t get me wrong, there are struggles and obstacles as with everything in life, but those moments make you appreciate the victories that much more.”<br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Where are you from originally?</b><br />
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Oshkosh<br />
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<b>How did you get your start?</b><br />
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Singing in the backseat of my Mum's car.<br />
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<b>What was it like to be on Star Search?</b><br />
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It was a very interesting experience. I learned a lot about the process of how these shows work. The best part about it was meeting some really amazing people that I'm still in contact with.<br />
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<b>Who are your influences?</b><br />
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Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carole King, I could go on and on and on.<br />
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<b>Did you get to meet or perform with those artists?</b><br />
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Unfortunately Frank and Antonio have passed, but I did get to meet Carole! She made an album on my label.<br />
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<b>How did you get your deal with Concord records?</b><br />
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A friend of mine (who is also an Oshkosh native) and I made a demo together. He knew someone at Concord and just wanted to send it in to get a feeling of where I may be at. A month or so later they got back to Mike (Melvoin) and wanted a meeting with me. An hour into the meeting they offered me a deal! So unexpected!<br />
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<b>What got you interested in music?</b><br />
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Growing up listening to it through my parents...thank God they have good taste. <br />
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<b>Where was your first gig?</b><br />
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I honestly couldn’t tell you. I do know the first time I sang on a stage was probably in church!<br />
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<b>Do you tour? If so, where have you been?</b><br />
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I do in preparation for the release of this album. Starting in January I'll be back to doing shows on the road. I’ve been very blessed to have visited some amazing US cities like New Orleans, Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and lots of others. I’ve also had the great fortune to travel abroad and sing in places like Spain and England.<br />
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<b>If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?</b><br />
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Holland. My Mum is Dutch and I would really like to visit and have that experience!<br />
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<b>What artists are you currently listening to?</b><br />
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Honestly...guilty, guilty pleasure. There is a Boys II Men Cd in my car right now...greatest hits!<br />
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<b>What was one of the most interesting experiences you’ve had on the road?</b><br />
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There is a saying…What happens on the road…Stays on the road. But honestly, I think the greatest thing is working with some of the finest musicians in the world. I mean, on my first tour, Esperanza Spaulding was the bass player and look, she just won the Grammy for artist of the year! She beat Bieber!!! I am just always learning from them and it’s so exciting to never know what’s just around the corner.<br />
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<b>When you released your debut album, “What Love Is,” how did you feel?</b><br />
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Excited, scared, happy, all sorts of things. I mean it’s like having a child and then dropping it off at its first day of college! I mean, not that I have done that yet, but I'd imagine. You do everything you can to prepare it and give it all the right elements to be successful and then you let it out there! I’m really excited to do that with this latest album. Very.<br />
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<b>When does your new CD come out and what is the story behind it?</b><br />
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We are looking at February 2012! It’s a series of stories of my life. Experience...pretty much all to do with love. The joys, the pains, the in between-I think that’s something we all can relate to!<br />
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<b>What was it like to work with Michael Buble?</b><br />
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Fun! He's silly like me, so we had a lot of laughs. Luckily we have been friends for 7 or 8 years now, so it wasn’t something where it was intimidating or unfamiliar. Of course because of who he is, it was very humbling for me to have him want to be such a tremendous part of this. He really is incredibly talented. His musical director Alan Chang served as co producer. Alan is a genius. He’s got a great sensitivity and understanding of the music and he brings a dimension and life to it that may not have existed before. He and I also co wrote 2 of the tunes.<br />
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<b>How did you come about your recording process?</b><br />
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We did some of it in LA, some in Vancouver where Mike is from. Took 5 years!! Oy. But it’s done now...whew.<br />
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<b>What has been your biggest success?</b><br />
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I think getting to wake up every day and do what I love. They say if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life. It’s so true. Don’t get me wrong, there are struggles and obstacles as with everything in life, but those moments make you appreciate the victories that much more.<br />
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<b>What has been your biggest hardship?</b><br />
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Being away from my family.<br />
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<b>What are your future plans?</b><br />
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Get this album out and hit the road! Hubby, babies...all that good stuff eventually, but I think I’ll give it a little time.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-64144915250335501132011-07-24T14:24:00.002-05:002011-07-24T14:44:00.613-05:00EvalineEvaline is an alternative rock band with a story unlike many bands. <br />
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“We all sort of grew up together in central California and have been playing music in one form or another since 2001,” Steve Pedersen, bassist of the band said. “It started as a way to escape the monotony of small town suburban life. We wanted to make a lot of noise and get creative with it. After a while, we all fell in love with doing just that and dedicated our lives to Evaline.”<br />
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While in California, the band produced its EP with Quinn Allmann, one of the members of The Used, according to Last.fm, and was signed and continued its music with Maverick Records. Unfortunately, The band found out the record label was bought out, leaving the band back at the beginning. After a while, it found that the band, Placebo was signed to Riverman Music Management in England after a concert. <br />
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“Back in 2007, we toured with Placebo in the states and developed a relationship with the guys,” Pedersen said. “They are also with Riverman Management, so we just all kept in touch and a few years ago we were in need of new management, so we signed with Riverman.”<br />
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The band decided to drop everything and follow its dream to London, England, and Riverman Management became a home for the band.<br />
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“We grew up going to shows in the U.S. and playing shows around here, so it’s all very familiar for us,” Pedersen said. “I think there is a certain level of excitement for us to play over in the UK, because it is still relatively new for us. There are plenty of music lovers on both sides.”<br />
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They have been influenced by Radiohead, Nirvana, At The Drive-In, Explosions In The Sky and The National, which hints to their experimental style.<br />
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“There are six of us who are all involved in the writing process, which makes for some pretty diverse music that we create,” Pedersen said. “We have been fortunate enough to have performed with bands we are influenced by, such as Deftones, Placebo, Elbow and Foo Fighters."<br />
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The band released its new album, “Woven Material” last month, which has been its greatest success.<br />
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“It is basically a collection of all the songs we have written over the past four years,” Pedersen said. “It was a long writing process and we have gone through a lot as a band and each of us individually. It has really influenced a lot of the moods and themes throughout the record.”<br />
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The band has finished some European festivals and touring in Southeast Asia and hope to keep going in the same direction.<br />
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“Since our record just came out, we plan to tour as much as possible and get out in front of as many people as we can,” Pedersen said. “We want to break into markets, such as Southeast Asia. Try new things. There will also be another Evaline album to follow up “Woven Material.”<br />
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Evaline said it appreciates their future and current fans for their support.<br />
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“We thank you for listening to our music, for the continuing support from our old fans and for coming out to see us live,” Pedersen said. “Much love, thank you!”<br />
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<b>Band Members include:</b><br />
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Richard Perry - Vocals<br />
Christian Lewis - Guitar<br />
Dominic Di Ciano - Guitar<br />
Steven Pedersen - Bass<br />
Greg Petersen - Drums<br />
Daniel Petersen - Baritone Guitar<br />
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<b>When and where did Evaline form?</b><br />
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We all sort of grew up together in central California and have been playing music in one form or another since 2001. It started as a way to escape the monotony of small town suburban life. We wanted to make a lot of noise and get creative with it. After a while, we all fell in love with doing just that and dedicated our lives to Evaline.<br />
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<b>Who are your influences? Have you been able to meet or perform with them?</b><br />
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There are so many influences and they are always changing. There are six of us who are all involved in the writing process, which makes for some pretty diverse music that we create. Just to name some bands that I think we can all agree on, we are influenced by Radiohead, Nirvana, At The Drive-In, Explosions In The Sky, and The National. We have been fortunate enough to have performed with bands we are influenced by, such as Deftones, Placebo, Elbow, and Foo Fighters.<br />
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<b>As of June 27th, it said you were unsigned and with Riverman Music Management in London. How does it work to record an album without being signed?</b><br />
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Well it means that we don't have the financial backing of a record label, but also that we have the artistic freedom to create and record the type of album that we want. Luckily, we live in a day and age where anyone with a laptop and a home studio can record and produce a record. We are also fortunate to have great management that allowed us to work with a producer, Dan Austin, and record at some top-notch studios throughout England.<br />
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<b>How did you get in contact with Riverman Music Management?</b><br />
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Back in 2007 we toured with Placebo in the states and developed a relationship with the guys in Placebo. They are also with Riverman Management, so we just all kept in touch and a few years ago we were in need of new management so we signed with Riverman.<br />
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<b>What is the difference between playing the US and playing in the UK?</b><br />
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We grew up going to shows in the US and playing shows around here, so its all very familiar for us. I think there is a certain level of excitement for us to play over in the UK, because it is still relatively new for us. There are plenty of music lovers on both sides, although the UK seems to be a bit more open-minded when it comes to new music, at least when it comes to popular music and the kind of stuff that gets played on radio. <br />
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<b>What is the story behind your new album, “Woven Material?”</b><br />
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It is basically a collection of all the songs we have written over the past four years. It was a long writing process and we have gone through a lot as a band and each of us individually. It has really influenced a lot of the moods and themes throughout the record.<br />
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<b>How did you come about your recording process?</b><br />
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We spent about a month in preproduction with our producer, Dan Austin, and selected about 14 songs to work with out of an original list of over 30. In the studio, we tracked the drums, bass, and some guitars live in order to achieve the essence and feel of our live sound and energy on record. We experimented with a lot of different sounds and added many layers in order to replicate our "wall of noise" sound we have live. The vocals we mainly went with the best whole takes of a song in order to capture the rawness, emotion, and spontaneity behind Perry's vocals.<br />
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<b>What has been your greatest success?</b><br />
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"Woven Material" is our debut album and it has been a very long time coming. I think right now we are extremely happy to have it finally out.<br />
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<b>What has been the most interesting experience of your career?</b><br />
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We have been doing a lot of traveling lately. We just did a month of European festivals, which was incredible. We also just got back from touring in Southeast Asia, which was like nothing else we have ever done.<br />
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<b>What are you future goals?</b><br />
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Since our record just came out, we plan to tour as much as possible and get out in front of as many people as we can. We want to break into new markets, such as South East Asia. Try new things. There will also be another Evaline album to follow up "Woven Material."<br />
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<b>What would you like to say to your future and current fans?</b><br />
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We thank you for listening to our music, for the continuing support from our old fans, and for coming out to see us live! Much love, thank you!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-43346962745957675062011-07-20T21:10:00.000-05:002011-07-20T21:10:01.859-05:00The Midwest Beat<script src="http://img16.imageshack.us/shareable/?i=midwestbeatcopy.jpg&p=tl" type="text/javascript">
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The Midwest Beat is a band with a 1960s style and a Wisconsin flare.<br />
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“We formed in Madison, WI, in the fall of 2005,” the band said.<br />
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The band has been influenced by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Kinks, The Beatles and Bruce Springsteen. <br />
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“Angry bubblegum seems to be our favorite term (for our music),” the band said.<br />
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When asked about what inspires their music, they said it comes down to relationships.<br />
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“It would be nice to say that life in the Midwest is so inspiring. Blue collar, hard working, simple pleasures, fishing, camping, sailing, beer…but honestly the answer is girls,” the band said. <br />
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After the release of their first EP, The Midwest Beat has been looking on the bright side of their music.<br />
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“Having the first EP out on vinyl was great for us,” the band said. “It was our first introduction to many people and we got a great response and it’s still the record that most people know us by.”<br />
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One thing that has been the biggest hardship for the band is keeping its music original, but it is proud to do so.<br />
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“We Wisconsinites like to keep it cheesy. It’s easy to be cheesy,” the band said. <br />
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They had the opportunity to tour Europe this year.<br />
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“We play mostly in Wisconsin, but we’ve done a few tours to the South, East coast and we just got back from a three- week tour in Europe,” the band said.<br />
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In the future, the band said it hopes to record later this summer and hopes to return to Europe next year.<br />
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Matt Joyce - Guitar, Vocals <br />
Logan Kayne - Bass, Vocals<br />
Kyle Denton - Guitar, Vocals<br />
Christopher Capelle - DrumsRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-72311875480137739622011-07-20T10:15:00.005-05:002011-07-23T14:45:39.140-05:00Sister JaneSister Jane, a Jim Morrison/Doors-sounding band, got its start in Blue Mountains, west of Sydney Australia. <br />
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“Three out of the five of us worked together in a suburban retail store and spent so much time talking about the music we loved to play and listen to that we decided to start a band,” Dan Davey, lead singer said.<br />
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The band’s musical style is a mix between blues and rock ‘n roll, which refers back to some of their influences such as Freddie King, Gram Parsons, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and more.<br />
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“Sister Jane’s music is like finding an old tree stump with its roots deep in the electric blues and country and gleefully grafting it with the indie rock we all grew up listening to,” Davey said . “From the outset, we took older music styles and dabbled in blending it with what we already knew just for the pure joy of doing it, which is probably why some of it is kind of sixties sounding.”<br />
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After the band started to play some gigs, they signed with Broken Stone Records.<br />
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“One of the owners of Broken Stone Records came to our shows and loved us and we became like an unofficial member of the Broken Stone family,” Davey said. “So it was only natural that when we’d recorded our LP, we’d play it to the guys at Broken Stone. They loved it and took us in from the cold."<br />
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"Most of our shows are in grimy old beer-soaked hotels up and down the east coast of Oz. We rarely get invited to festivals and such, but we kind of like it that way. In a small, sweaty venue, it’s like you own the stage, and the audience owns you, and it just feels so good to play and jump and go nuts.”<br />
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Their first LP, “Mercy” was recorded over a three-year period by their guitarist Liam Judson, according to Davey.<br />
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“We had all the gear at our disposal, but it was just a matter of fitting in time whenever Liam wasn’t working on a paid job,” Davey said. “It was tremendously frustrating at times when we just wanted it finished and out there, but in the end it made for a more interesting record.”<br />
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Along with their LP, they released a single called “Be Kind.”<br />
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“It wasn’t our first choice for a single, but the label really responded to it and their instincts proved right because people seem to absolutely love that song,” Davey said.<br />
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The band plans to record its next album in an old school house.<br />
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“(The school house) is owned by a relative of one of the label guys and is in an isolated bush location in northern New South Wales, called Wauchope,” Davey said. “It offers the chance to live within the recording process for extended chunks of time. We’re taking two months off playing shows and have begun rehearsing the new material ready to head up north for a week or two to start tracking the songs. We are very excited about it.”<br />
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<b>How did Sister Jane get its start? Where are you from?</b><br />
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Three out of the five of us worked together in a suburban retail store and spent so much time talking about the music we loved to play and listen to that we decided to start a band. Soon after that the store went broke and we lost our jobs so the band was all we had for a time. We’re mostly all from the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, which is kinda a string of small townships along an extended ridgeline with cliffs either side. It really makes you feel like you’re living on the dusty outskirts.<br />
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<b>How do you describe your music and who are your influences?</b><br />
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Sister Jane’s music is like finding an old tree stump with its roots deep in the electric blues (Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King) and country (Glen Campbell, Kris Kristofferson, Gram Parsons) and gleefully grafting it with the indie rock we all grew up listening to (The Smiths, The Pixies, The Stone Roses, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, The Brian Jonestown Massacre).<br />
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<b>You guys have a great sound. Did you always play this type of music, or did you experiment with different genres?</b><br />
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From the outset we took older music styles and dabbled in blending it with what we already knew just for the pure joy of doing it, which is probably why some of it is kinda sixties sounding, it’s the same approach those artists took to make their music.<br />
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<b>What inspires you to keep your music going?</b><br />
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It’s the unbridled thrill of creating something. It’s like tinkering in the infinite nature of the universe, really, it’s like something mystical takes place and you’re like “wow that was fun, let’s do it again”.<br />
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<b>What were your goals when first starting your band? Did you reach them?</b><br />
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Well at first it was like “maybe we can get a gig”, then it was like “maybe we can do some recording” and local radio picked up on our first demo and played it endlessly and gigs led to more gigs and then we were like “maybe we can tour the east coast of Oz” which we’ve now done a few times and it’s kinda where we’re at now.<br />
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<b>How did you get your record label?</b><br />
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One of the owners of Broken Stone Records came to our shows and loved us and we became like an unofficial member of the Broken Stone family. So it was only natural that when we’d recorded our LP (which we were determined to do on our own and in our own way) we’d play it to the guys at Broken Stone. They loved it and took us in from the cold.<br />
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<b>Did you have any musical education? What is your musical background-who taught you?</b><br />
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We’re mostly self taught. Although Liam, our guitarist, was trained to play trumpet as a child. Everything else comes from doggedly listening to records, emulating those sounds and learning our chops the hard way.<br />
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<b>How do you come about your writing and recording process?</b><br />
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We’ve all written songs for the band, though Dan (Davey) does most of the writing and brings new material to rehearsals where it takes on a life of its own. The arranging of everyone’s different parts is where it really all comes together and it either feels good, and we keep the song, or it doesn’t and it gets thrown outside with weeping and gnashing of teeth.<br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and where do you hope to go?</b><br />
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Most of our shows are in grimy old beer-soaked hotels up and down the east coast of Oz. We rarely get invited to festivals and such but we kinda like it that way. In a small, sweaty venue its like you own the stage, and the audience owns you, and it just feels so good to play and jump and go nuts. We’d very much like to get ourselves to the US next year and do a small run of shows. We have a feeling you guys know how to have a good time and we reckon you might really go for it over there.<br />
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<b>What was it like releasing your first LP and what is the story behind it?</b><br />
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‘Mercy’ was recorded gradually over a three year period by our guitarist Liam Judson who does a lot of producing and mixing for other bands with his mostly vintage tape and outboard gear. So we had all the gear at our disposal but it was just a matter of fitting in time whenever Liam wasn’t working on a paid job. It was tremendously frustrating at times when we just wanted it finished and out there, but in the end it made for a more interesting record.<br />
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<b>When releasing your first single, “Be Kind,” did you get an automatic response?</b><br />
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Yeah, it wasn’t our first choice for a single but the label really responded to it and their instincts proved right because people seem to absolutely love that song.<br />
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<b>How did you create the video for “Great Highway?”</b><br />
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It was made by a friend of ours, Ian Backer from Portland OR, who painstakingly pieced together the clip from hundreds of hours of royalty free stock footage. He had a real feel for the song, and the free-spirited emotion behind it all, and came up with a real gem.<br />
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<b>How did you find the old school house?</b><br />
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It is owned by a relative of one of the label guys and is in an isolated bush location in northern New South Wales called Wauchope (aka ‘Timber Town’). It offers the chance to live within the recording process for extended chunks of time without annoying the neighbours or paying for an expensive studio.<br />
I heard you are starting to work on a new album. What are your future plans?<br />
We’re taking two months off playing shows and have begun rehearsing the new material ready to head up north for a week or two to start tracking the songs. And we are very, very excited about it.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-42820344578642029062011-07-17T15:05:00.002-05:002011-07-17T15:18:23.506-05:00The Cape RaceThe Cape Race is an unsigned punk rock band from Manchester, England, which was influenced by the likes of Say Anything, Motion City Soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday and Manchester Orchestra. <br />
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“There are five of us,” Matt Sayward, guitarist of the band, said. “My main man, Scott, plays guitar also, our singer is called David, our drummer’s name is Jonny and Adam plays bass. Four of us used to be in a pop-punk band called The Honeymoon Suite, and that kind of came to a head where we felt we’d taken it as far as we could. The Cape Race was a natural progression of that.”<br />
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The band named itself after the area where the Titanic’s distress call was heard.<br />
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“Cape Race is actually a place - a little peninsula on the eastern tip of Canada,” Sayward said. “All there really is there is a lighthouse, and it's there that the distress call from the Titanic got picked up. We found out about it from a documentary!”<br />
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While touring, they have been able to perform with bands they looked up to and had the opportunity to open for the band Parachute.<br />
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“We've had a couple of really great shows that have been a lot of fun,” Sayward said. “We played at a festival a couple of months (ago) with a lot of heroes of ours from growing up in the ’90s, which was really humbling. Also, I've really liked a band called Parachute from the States for a long time and we got to support them when they were over in England which was a lot of fun.”<br />
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The band recorded their debut album “Now, Voyager” with producer Peter Miles and released it on the Fourth of July of this year.<br />
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“The actual title is from a short poem called ‘The Untold Want’ by Walt Whitman,” Sayward said. “It’s about people who don’t settle for what they are given and take it upon themselves to better their situation and create the life they want for themselves.”<br />
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The Cape Race’s musical inspiration comes from personal experiences and life observations, according to Sayward.<br />
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Sayward says the goals of the band are to tour, make music and do what they enjoy.<br />
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“We really want to be able to hit the European and American festival circuit next year,” Sayward said. “We’d love to be at SXSW in 2012. I just want to be able to carve out a living doing what I love with my best friends.”<br />
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Outside of the band, Sayward works at a record label in Manchester.<br />
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“I do some work at an independent record label in Manchester called LAB Records with a couple of my friends,” Sayward said. “I also have a creative media agency I set up with my friend Duncan. We’re currently working on some really cool new digital marketing techniques within the music industry.”<br />
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<b>Who are the members of your band and what instruments do they play?</b><br />
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There are five of us in The Cape Race. My name is Matt and I play guitar. My main man Scott plays guitar also, our singer is called David, our drummer's name is Jonny and Adam plays bass.<br />
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<b>Where is your band from and how did you get your start?</b><br />
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We're from Manchester in the United Kingdom. Four of us used to be in a pop-punk band called The Honeymoon Suite, and that kind of came to a head where we felt we'd taken it as far as we could. The Cape Race was a natural progression of that.<br />
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<b>How did you come up with the name The Cape Race?</b><br />
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Cape Race is actually a place - a little peninsula on the eastern tip of Canada. All there really is there is a lighthouse, and it's there that the distress call from the Titanic got picked up. We found out about it from a documentary! <br />
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<b>Who are your influences?</b><br />
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I know that lyrically, David is very inspired by people like Jesse Lacey from Brand New, Max Bemis of Say Anything, Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack and Adam Lazarra from Taking Back Sunday. I'm massively influenced by bands like Rival Schools, Manchester Orchestra, My Vitriol and Harvard, and as a guitar player I really look up to Kenny Bridges from Moneen and Dave Knudson from Minus The Bear.<br />
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<b>How did you get your manager?</b><br />
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Our manager came to see us in London in early 2010 when he was running a label called A Wolf At Your Door. He kept a little bit of an eye on us over the year and got hold of our new mini-album after we'd recorded it. At this point he'd moved onto a new job with Universal and was looking to branch into artist management. We came back to London to chat to him about the future and started working together.<br />
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<b>Do you have a record label? If so, what is it and how did you get it?</b><br />
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We are currently unsigned at present - still waiting for the right offer!<br />
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<b>What is the story behind your debut album, "Now, Voyager"?</b><br />
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The actual title is from a short poem called 'The Untold Want' by Walt Whitman. It's about people who don't settle for what they are given and take it upon themselves to better their situation and create the life they want for themselves - quite a fitting summation of The Cape Race and how it came to be.<br />
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<b>How do you come about your recording process?</b><br />
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We worked with a producer called Peter Miles on this release, who has done some of best sounding records to come out of the UK in the last few years. Working with him was comfortably the most enjoyable recording experience I've been a part of. You work with some producers who seem jaded and detached from their job to the point where they're phoning it in. Pete is in love with music and devoted to getting the best from the bands he works with. He also completely understands that different bands like to work in different ways and lets the whole process come about very organically. It doesn't surprise me how in demand he is, I'm proud he decided to work with us and feel privileged to have been able to. <br />
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<b>What is your inspiration for your music?</b><br />
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I think we're a bit of a melting pot of the stuff that we all listen to, bands like Brand New, Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Kings Of Leon and Manchester Orchestra. Lyrically, most of our songs are based on personal experiences and life observations - notably Bets was written about the passing of our singer's grandmother Betty. There's some good humour within the lyrics at times - never to get a laugh, mind - always in Every now and then <br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and what's your favorite?</b><br />
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We've had a couple of really great shows that have been a lot of fun - we played at a festival a couple of months with a lot of heroes of ours from growing up in the 90s, like New Order, The Charlatans and more which was really humbling. Also, I've really liked a band called Parachute from the States for a long time and we got to support them when they were over in England which was a lot of fun.<br />
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<b>Where would you like to perform?</b><br />
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We really want to be able to hit the European and American festival circuit next year - we'd love to be at SXSW in 2012.<br />
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<b>What has been the most interesting experience in your career?</b><br />
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Personally, I think recording our mini-album has been the most interesting thing we've done to date. I'm really into production & recording and working with Pete - who I look up to massively - was very eye-opening.<br />
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<b>What do you do on your free time outside of the band?</b><br />
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As well as The Cape Race, I do some work at an independent record label in Manchester called LAB Records with a couple of my friends. I also have a creative media agency I set up with my friend Duncan - we're currently working on some really cool new digital marketing techniques within the music industry. <br />
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<b>What are your future goals?</b><br />
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I just want to be able to carve out a living doing what I love with my best friends. If we could all be in a position where our mortgages and the like were covered by our art... that would be the dreamRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-86939662862268240142011-07-16T20:24:00.000-05:002011-07-16T20:24:43.479-05:00My First Tooth"My First Tooth" is an upbeat, alternative band from Northampton, England, consisting of Ross K. Witt (guitar and singer), Sophie Galpin (violin, bouzouki, guitar, percussion and singer), Jo Collis (bass and singer) and Gareth Amwel Jones (drummer).<br />
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“It initially began as a solo project for Ross but he got lonely so he recruited Sophie,” Gareth Amwel Jones, drummer of the band, said. “They played together for a while before realizing that they needed a bit more sex appeal in the band. They naturally turned to Jo and I for this.”<br />
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When first starting out, they aimed for a simple name.<br />
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“I think that Ross was initially looking for something that evoked a certain simplicity and innocence,” Jones said. “The simplicity soon fell by the wayside and innocence passed us by a long, long time ago. Now we always get asked about the name and wish that we were called something really cool, like ‘Slayer’ or ‘Megadeth’.”<br />
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The band has been influenced by many bands, including “Neutral Milk Hotel”, “Okkervil River”, “Eels” and “Bruce Springsteen” and got their record deal with Alcopop! Records and have been touring the UK for a couple years.<br />
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“We’ve played a lot of festivals, including Glastonbury this year, which was amazing,” Jones said. <br />
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The band doesn’t define itself in one specific genre.<br />
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“We all knew each other from playing in various other bands before “My First Tooth,” Jones said. “I think that we’ve probably been in about a hundred bands between us, playing different sorts of stuff. The key thing is to write really good songs and not necessarily be too defined by genre boundaries.”<br />
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This month they start touring with “Athlete.”<br />
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“The tour kicks off next week and we’re all really excited about it,” Jones said. “It’s a massive opportunity to play to a lot of people every night and 99 percent of them probably won’t know who we are, so it’s a good chance to convert people. I think we’re going to have a great time.”<br />
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The band plans to continue what it is doing.<br />
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“We tour with ‘Athlete’ this month and we have a few more festivals to play before the summer is out,” Jones said. “We are doing a short headline tour in September and then probably are going to take some time to knock the songs for the second album into shape. I think we’re committed to trying to make the next record better than the last, making the next show better than the last. We have a lot of fun doing what we do and we meet some amazing people and you’d be a fool to not want to continue doing that.”<br />
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<b>Where is your band from and how did you get your start?</b><br />
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Northampton, via York and Rugby. It initially began as a solo project for Ross but he got lonely so recruited Sophie. They played together for a while before realizing that they needed a bit more sex appeal in the band. They naturally turned to Jo and I for this. In a handy twist of fate, we were able to play bass and drums respectively.<br />
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<b>Who are the members of your band and what do they play?</b><br />
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Ross K. Witt plays guitar, drives the van and sings. Sophie Galpin plays violin, bouzouki, guitar, percussion and sings. Jo Collis plays bass and sings. I (Gareth Amwel Jones) play the drumset, make the sandwiches and sing a bit sometimes.<br />
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<b>How did you come up with the name My First Tooth?</b><br />
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I think that Ross was initially looking for something that evoked a certain simplicity and innocence. The simplicity soon fell by the wayside and innocence passed us by a long, long time ago. Now we always get asked about the name and wish that we were called something really cool, like Slayer or Megadeth.<br />
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<b>How would you describe your music?</b><br />
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Lovely. But not all of the time. Watch your back, y’hear?<br />
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<b>Who are your influences and have you been able to play with them?</b><br />
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We all listen to a varied amount of music but there are certain shared influences such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Okkervil River, Eels and Bruce Springsteen. We’ve not yet been able to play with any of them (and never will in the case of NMH) but we’ve been lucky enough to share stages with a lot of bands that we really love and admire. Frontier Ruckus and Rural Alberta Advantage have been particular highlights.<br />
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<b>How did you get your record deal?</b><br />
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Jack Clothier (label manager of Alcopop! Records) is a fine man with discerning tastes. He knows a good thing when he sees it. Once we realized that we had a shared encyclopaedic knowledge of nineties indie rock it was a done deal.<br />
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<b>How did you know what type of music you wanted to play? Have you played other music genres?</b><br />
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We all knew each other from playing in various other bands before My First Tooth. I think that we’ve probably been in about a hundred bands between us, playing different sorts of stuff. The key thing is to write really good songs and not necessarily be too defined by genre boundaries. There are songs on our album that wouldn’t have worked on our EP. There will be songs on the second album that wouldn’t have fit on either. I like to think that they all sound like My First Tooth.<br />
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<b>What is it like to open for Athlete this month (July)?</b><br />
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The tour kicks off next week and we’re all really excited about it. It’s a massive opportunity to play to a lot of people every night and 99% of them probably won’t know who we are so it’s a good chance to convert people. We’ve been reliably informed that the Athlete boys are a good bunch - I think we’re going to have a great time. <br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform?</b><br />
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We have toured pretty relentlessly all over the UK for the last couple of years playing everywhere we can. We’ve played a lot of festivals, including Glastonbury this year which was amazing. We made our first trip to Europe earlier in the year where we played on top of a mountain in Bergen, Norway among other shows. That was pretty rad.<br />
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<b>How did you create your music video for Orchards?</b><br />
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The director was our good friend Tom Levinge. We borrowed the upstairs room of our local club, roped in a handful of extras and played. Tom instructed the extras to mess with us while we played. We didn’t quite know what they were going to do so the reactions are genuine. We all got very drunk.<br />
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<b>What is the driving force to continue your music?</b><br />
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I think we’re committed to trying to make the next record better than the last, making the next show better than the last. We have a lot of fun doing what we do and we meet some amazing people and you’d be a fool to not want to continue doing that. Also, I’d like a swimming pool and I think we’re going to need to sell a few more records before I can afford it.<br />
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<b>What are your future plans?</b><br />
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We tour with Athlete this month and we have a few more festivals to play before the summer is out. We are doing a short headline tour in September and then I think we’re probably going to take some time to knock the songs for the second album into shape. Looking further ahead than that is asking for trouble. I don’t even know what I’m having for dinner tonight.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318246593342587222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458148076870322423.post-54555439931813599182011-07-16T19:54:00.003-05:002011-07-16T19:56:08.790-05:00Oh Mercy<script src="http://imageshack.us/shareable/?i=alexandergowwebcopy.jpg&s=691&p=tl" type="text/javascript">
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I had the chance to interview Alexander Gow, one of the members of the band”Oh Mercy,” who got his start with the band in Melbourne, Australia.<br />
“I’ve been playing in pubs around the country since I was 18,” Gow said. “We’ve had support from Australian radio stations and some of our favourite Australian bands.”<br />
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“Oh Mercy” picked up their name from a Bob Dylan album and started making music. <br />
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"(When first starting out), I wanted to make recordings and travel the world, playing music and meeting girls,” Gow said. <br />
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They had the chance to perform and meet with their favorite artists, such as The Traffics, The Church and Paul Kelly. <br />
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Gow said that one of the biggest opportunities was playing lead guitar in Paul Kelly’s band.<br />
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"Oh Mercy" released their first album in 2009, called “Privileged Woes.” <br />
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“It was recorded with my friend Myles Wootton,” Gow said. “We recorded it all in his bedroom in Collingwood, Melbourne. His room was barely bigger than his single mattress. We would push his mattress up against the wall and could only fit the two of us in there at once. I thought we were recording demos. Myles turned out to be incredibly good at using his limited resources and the demos turned into a record.” <br />
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Then in March “Great Barrier Grief” was released, which has been a big success. <br />
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“I had the title before I had any of the songs,” Gow said. “I liked the way it looked and read. It sounds bitter sweet, which turned out to be consistent with the majority of the lyrical content on the album. It has the words ‘great’ and ‘grief’ in it. It’s awesome.” <br />
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The band plans to record its third album. <br />
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Eliza Lam - Bass Guitar<br />
Rohan Sforcina - Drums<br />
Simon Okely - Lead Guitar<br />
Alexander Gow - Rhythm Guitar<br />
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“I have known Aaron for about 15 years,” Jeff Schneeweis, lead singer of the band said. “The timing was perfect for us together. He comes into the studio all the time, but it’s not because he wants to check up on us. It’s because he is a friend that just wants to hang out and have fun working with us.”<br />
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The inspiration for the songs the band comes up with are all original.<br />
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“It usually starts with a melody on my head. Then immediately I have to go to the studio and [it] recurs my ideas,” Schneeweis said.<br />
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One of which is their hit single, “Get It,” based off of an original cartoon by Schneeweis.<br />
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“To be honest, the song is about a cartoon I made up in my head of two snoopy looking dogs, a female and a male with a love/hate relationship,” Schneeweis said.<br />
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After releasing their single, the band hit the bowling alley to make their music video with the bass player of Sugar Ray.<br />
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“Murphy Karges is the mastermind behind the video concept,” Schneeweis said. “He is so creative and amazing.”<br />
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The band’s love for music and friendship has helped them go a long way and plans to start a US tour in the fall.<br />
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“The Make has yet to play a show,” Schneeweis said. “Everything has happened so fast and we are currently planning some shows right now for the near future.”<br />
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For the members of the band on their free time, they are just like everyone else.<br />
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“We try to live life to its fullest,” Schneeweis said.<br />
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The band is made up of Jeff Schneeweis and Trevor Sellers (originally from the band Number One Gun) and Sarah Ann (See You Soon).<br />
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<b>How did you get your start in music?</b><br />
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I started playing guitar when I was 7 years old and fell in love with music right away. It was addicting. <br />
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<b>What was it like to form The Make after being in previous bands? Did you take what you learned and applied it?</b><br />
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I think having the experience from our other bands definitely helped us make crucial decisions on how we would approach marketing this band.<br />
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<b>Who are your major influences?</b><br />
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It’s too hard to tell because we all listen to so many different types of music.<br />
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<b>What artists are you currently listening to? </b><br />
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EVERYTHING! ha<br />
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<b>What is your favorite instrument?</b><br />
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Guitar<br />
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<b>How did you get a deal with Suspended Sunrise and what was it like?</b><br />
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I have known Aaron for about 15 years and is a close friend. The timing was perfect for us to with together for both of us. It just made sense.<br />
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<b>Does Aaron Rodgers come in to see you work? If so, what is it like to work with him?</b><br />
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Yes he comes into the studio all the time. But it's not because he wants to check up on us. It's because he is a friend that just wants to hang out and have fun working with us. <br />
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<b>How do you come up with the songs you write?</b><br />
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It usually starts with a melody on my head. Then immediately I have to go to the studio and recurs my ideas. Then I start building from there. <br />
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<b>What is the story behind your single, “Get It?”</b><br />
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Well, to be honest, the song is about a cartoon I made up in my head of two snoopy looking dogs, a female and a male with a love/hate relationship. <br />
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<b>How did you create your music video?</b><br />
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Murphy Karges (Sugar Ray bass player) is the mastermind behind the video concept. He is so creative and amazing. <br />
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<b>What’s your biggest inspiration to keep your music going?</b><br />
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Love for music and people <br />
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<b>Where have you been able to perform and what bands have you been able to play with?</b><br />
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Well, The Make has yet to play a show. Everything has happened so fast and we are currently planning some shows right now for the near future. In past bands we have played with bands like Jimmy Eat World, Relient K, Switchfoot, ect ect. <br />
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<b>What are your future plans and where are you touring next?</b><br />
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We plan on doing a US tour in the fall of this year.<br />
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<b>What do you guys do outside of being in the band?</b><br />
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EVERYTHING fun!! Ha. Rollerskating, bikes, bbq's. Tons of stuff! We try to live life to it's fullest<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This year, I couldn’t ask for better weather at Summerfest. I went to the Briggs Stratton stage to see Ryan Sallis, Malea McGuinness and Parachute perform on July 8<sup>th</sup> in Milwaukee, WI.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ryan Sallis:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ryan Sallis and his band introduced folk rock and soul. Sallis’ vocals were excellent, keeping the audience wanting more. The keys player had a great rhythm as well as the rest of the band. They had two encores, one of which introduced a new song they just finished. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malea McGuinness: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malea McGuinness and her band had a southern twang with a Californian twist. Overall, the band had a great attitude and it was shown that they love what they do. The guitar players were excellent, having a few solos and harmonizing together. McGuinness’ vocals were great, keeping the audience moving with her. The band did their original songs,</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along with two great covers from The Allman Brothers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Parachute:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Parachute had a great intro for the band’s entrance for “White Dress.” Will Anderson’s energy encompassed the crowd. He came up to the audience, balanced on barricades, threw guitar picks and his jacket into the audience. Kit French did a great job on saxophone and keys and played with Nate McFarland in a duo. Alex Hargrave and Johnny Stubblefield played out excellent rhythm throughout. Each member kept the positive energy going</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The band did a Tom Petty cover of “Won’t Back Down” while the audience sang along and ended with their hit single, “Something to Believe In.” The band told</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the audience that Friday's crowd</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was the biggest they’ve had in Milwaukee</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and were glad people came out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the end of the concert, the band did a meet and greet with their fans and signed autographs. Overall, the band did a great job. At times, the sound was off as the band battled equipment problems but they played through it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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