Ripchord - the next big thing??

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This is Ripchord, the band formed in my school. They are brothers Chris and Phil Wallbank, James "Sully" Sullivan, Rosalind Duignan-Pearson and Tom Beal all aged about 17 or 18. They have won a competitions on Midlands Today, have many links with the BBC (ie, they have been interviewed a few times and one of them was a journalist for "Blast!" on BBC Online), and performed at Children in Need in 2005. They have a deal with Sony *already* and have made some professional music videos made... at this rate they may actually hit it big (they always seem to be in the right place at the right time...). Everyone in the school and in the local area has multiple orgasms everytime someone mentions their very name... there must be someone out there who doesn't like them.... anyone?..... or are lyrics like "Whatever happened to your best friend? / I heard she moved to the West End / She scared the living daylights out of me" becoming the elixir of modern songwriting.....?

What do you think?

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt they're as good as this band:

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/uk/ripcord_main.html

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

seriously. get one google search, kids, before you name your band.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

*already*

Rosalind Duignan-Pearson is kind of hot

The music itself is... competent

― DougD (DougD), Sunday, 4 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe. Yes there are several Ripchords around... this doesn't seem to matter though... try living here, they are never off the news. I don't dislike them, they could develop into something better. I went to some of their gigs and they have a good stage personality, plus Phil and Sully are two good mates of mine for about about 7 years.

But what annoys me is that most of the band members are pretty arrogant about being famous (even though they aren't) and seem to live on a totally different plane to anyone else. I wish that they, and that local society, would realise they are just a little school band and have achieved sod-all yet!!

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Roz *is* hot though... :)

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "The English Ripchord" will be a much better name.

― Jack Noble (jcknbl), Sunday, 4 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Think I saw this band supporting The Others at the Little Civic in Wolves last year. Lots of energy and some good shouty choruses if I remember rightly. Didn't realise they were quite that young, though.

― Dead Kenny (Dead Kenny), Sunday, 4 June 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

in no way is that girl hot

― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

*yawn* i agree with Colonel Poo though.

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

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