The News Review:
- Band strikes out with Pirates fans
- Sandi Thom: ‘The world is full of doubters and always has…
- Goodbye cassettes and CDs
- Program City: TRNT
- Are Christian Bands Losing their Credibility?
- Plays f The Weak: Revelations
- (From Hull Daily Mail)
Band strikes out with Pirates fans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Aug 26, 2006
It’s throbbing bass guitar and drums. But the punk nature of their covers may not have been the best choice for the crowd. By morning word of the disaster had made it to San Francisco where publicist Vanessa Burt of the label Fat Wreck Chords was gearing up for the ct. 17 release of the band’s next CD a country music spoof titled “Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country. “I mean why they hired a punk rock cover band is surprising to me” she said. “What did they think would happen?”WDVE-FM morning disc jockey Randy Bowman said the station was flooded with calls about the Gimmes… But the punk nature of their covers may not have been the best choice for the crowd. By morning word of the disaster had made it to San Francisco where publicist Vanessa Burt of the label Fat Wreck Chords was gearing up for the ct. 17 release of the band’s next CD a country music spoof titled “Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country. “I mean why they hired a punk rock cover band is surprising to me” she said. “What did they think would happen?”WDVE-FM morning disc jockey Randy Bowman said the station was flooded with calls about the Gimmes. “It was about 70-30 opposed to the band” he said. “Most times people really like to hear songs they know in a different way but in this case they just didn’t dig it.
Sandi Thom: ‘The world is full of doubters and always has…
Independent – Aug 26, 2006
“That’s where she’d stand Sandi singing her little heart out when she was but a wee girl. Always a wonderful voice. “ne of her aunts a music teacher at a nearby school tells me that she knew her niece would become musical the very moment she first rested her fingers on the piano. “We’re a musical family anyway” she points out. “All of us either play something or we sing but Sandi? Sandi was different – special. I always knew her talent would take her places. “Thom’s talent has indeed taken her places… Initially it was all a fairytale for Thom and it went something like this. Scottish folkie moves to London to seek her fortune and promptly signs a small publishing deal. Her nostalgia-pining debut single “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)” is released on a tiny independent label and reaches a very commendable 55 in the charts. She plans to go out on a proper British tour her first but can’t afford this and so sets up a series of webcasts from her bedsit instead where she hopes her music will reach fans across the country and who knows beyond. She bills this “21 Nights From Tooting” and initially attracts a few hundred people each time. Word-of-mouth spreads and within two weeks she is reaching 86000. A Sunday broadsheet picks up on the story and the following day the number of views peaks at 92000.
Goodbye cassettes and CDs
Hindu – Aug 26, 2006
Finally the Internet has now become a medium to market niche music and this could be of important for us. Folk songs or even music by a garage band can be sold online bypassing the entire mainstream recording industry. Sites are already popular are.
Program City: TRNT
CBC.ca – Aug 26, 2006
(8 AT 8:30 NT) on CBC Radio ne. FUSE: Kinnie Starr says her music sounds like “anything” and that means it can swing easily from folk to funk to punk. And Vancouver’s Skeena Reece can pretty much do anything from filmmaking to comedy to performance art. Together on Fuse Kinnie and Skeena create a West-coast community vibe with stories songs by their friends and a good dose of humour. Hear them on Fuse with Amanda Putz Saturday at 9 p.
Are Christian Bands Losing their Credibility?
California Chronicle – Aug 26, 2006
It’s not the first time they have shared the stage with these types either. Because of Flyleaf’s heavy sound (which borders on metal at times) and screamo style they bear many similarities to the ‘stickered’ acts (groups like Staind and Breaking Benjamin whose CDs are usually slapped with parental advisory stickers) and have accordingly been offered tour spots with many of them. Christian music has come a long way since Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant carved the niche. It’s definitely not all praise-and-worship any more. Is that to say it’s all bad? Can Christ-like traits and qualities be uplifted without using Jesus’ name? Can the ambiguous rendering of the word ‘you’ in many Christian songs suffice as a reference to God? Does the word ‘Christian’ even have a biblical justification for its standing in the loud and sweaty rock ‘n’ roll scene today?Those questions are for the ongoing debate between the two Christian camps that are constantly debating for and against contemporary Christian music. I’m addressing the question of whether or not Christian bands lose their credibility (and testimony) as Christians when they associate with evil secular bands on tours such as the so-called “Family Values” tour… Christian ‘metal’ pioneer Disciple proves it doesn’t take touring with the giants of secular music to gain a following. After 14 years they still tour with Christians and play Christian venues and their latest album wasn’t any worse for it debuting in the top 10 on the heatseeker chart. Relient K is one of the most popular ‘punk’ rock bands in the U. Forget the fact that they are self-proclaimed Christians they are wildly popular across the board. They are also getting ready to kick off the national Nintendo Tour which also features Hawthorne Heights Plain White T’s The Sleeping and another Christian act: Emery. Despite getting more and more mainstream (with lyrics that refer less-and-less to God) Relient K has not minded talking about God in the middle of their concerts.
Plays f The Weak: Revelations
newsbyus.com – Aug 26, 2006
We were summarily vilified called the typical names told we were out of touch and that “gangsterism” was an “authentic” voice of today’s urban youth. As an old school composer I will never forgive what the music industry has allowed to happen to what was Rhythm & Blues. Black people used to write beautiful music that is before the politically correct allowed punk a** thugs to redefine the genre. Lazy hoodlums who can’t compose or sing were allowed to “lift” hooks from pre-existing hits and “make them their own. ” They rap and their idiom is less sophisticated than what’s heard in your average elementary school playground during recess. Gone are the melodies and lyrics that made us the trend setters in music. Now it’s just a bunch of gold-toothed homies flashing gang signs and surrounded by light-skinned black women (obviously the music executive’s preference) either providing a back-up vocal or just gyrating like a high-priced Beverly Hills escort.
(From Hull Daily Mail)
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 26, 2006
Polar Bear Spring Bank Hull. From around 9pm Tomorrow The Bash Come just to watch or make music. King William Pub Cottingham. Call (01482) 847340 The Sunday Sesh Unplugged With Mak Baggot & Baz featuring Sesh resident John Copley.