are you in a band?

2. Guitar pop. Two folk.

People: Two people (i suppose if the other guy gets off his arse and does anything)...

MP3: http://www.mp3.com/autofire

http://www.mp3.com/pondrika

I'd start my own band, but I have the worst case of writer's block ever.

Vietgrove - instrumental progressive/cosmic type thang (duo). Blue apple boy - indie/cardiacs/magazine type thang (6-pc band) BMSTR3 - whore cheese trance muzak (gimme$$$$$) (3-pc studio-bound thang- dj/me/producer)

I play synthesisers/12-string elec guit/bass/drum machine

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But if I were in a band, we'd be called Special Ed and The Rocket Scientists, and I would probably rip from Timmy of South Park.

Also a member of the Simon & Alex Post-Rock Experience, with, erm, my mate Simon. You can fill in the rest yourselves.

I'm also involved in some capacity with computer musik maestros the Crouch End, in the grand tradition of all those bands who came from Manchester etc. but had some token member who came from somewhere totally different. I don't know what I do with them, really. Drink I suppose.

I'm not in a band, but I've got a bunch of instruments lying around the house. When I have access to a studio I occasionally record. It tends to range anywhere from jangly pop to electroacoustic noise, depending on my mood. I haven't recorded much lately, but next time I do it'll probably be more acoustic, because I've been collecting things like a mandolin and a banjo. Not that it'd be worth hearing, likely.

we are new contributors to I Love Music. We are 15 years old, and our main out-of-school activity is Youth In Support Of Hunting (YISH), an organisation open to anyone under the age of 25 who supports the continuation of fox-hunting. We already have 734 members across the country.

To answer the question: we are in a band at our private school which, sadly, has only done cover versions so far. We are very good at covering songs by Travis, however, and feel that they do not deserve the criticism they get on Freaky Trigger. We have covered "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?", "Writing To Reach You" and "Coming Around". We are called Ragnarok, and have recently performed at a few social gatherings in the Taunton area, as well as at school concerts. The last song we learnt was "So Why So Sad" by the Manics, who we think are still quite good despite the commercial failure of their album. For the older members of the audience, we have mastered Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly's "Moonlight Shadow", which Sarah sings beautifully.

We do however think that Destiny's Child are disgusting, disposable drivel and do not deserve coverage on such a fine website and discussion forum as this.

Regards, Jamie and Sarah.

There are no instructions on what music you should listen to, except that our headmaster once confiscated a copy of Julian Cope's "Fried" album because of the revolting anti-hunting sentiments contained in the song "Reynard the Fox" (we were behind him on that matter, not least because there are some fine traditional songs of the same title with far sounder sentiments on hunting). We both like Travis because they are intelligent, educated people who write well-written, well- crafted songs, and we both dislike Destiny's Child because they are ill-educated people with a narrow command of the language, whose songs have been thrown together in five minutes and will last about as long.

Regards,

Jamie Ashley and Sarah Hutchings.

okay, imagine that stuart murdoch was the screenwriter for the film and then read the previous message...and be very frightened.

I will admit that we can sometimes be a little behind the times down here, but even Taunton now has more internet cafes than tea shops for tourists. We both quite like Belle and Sebastian, who are sensitive enough to fit into our environment, so we wonder what you are worrying about ...

Regards,

Jamie Ashley (Wiveliscombe, Somerset) and Sarah Hutchings (West Bagborough, Somerset), currently at Taunton School.

We knew when you wrote your obnoxious street rap article that you were ashamed of your past, but why do you deny the existence of an email you sent us expressing your envy of us for going to a comparatively progressive independent school.

We do not know who "Robin" is, but would appreciate a less sarcastic attitude from you in the future. Do you find our support for hunting offensive, or the names of our villages funny?

We are going offline to do some academic work for the next two hours. We are sorry if we sound agitated, but we are still suffering withdrawal symptoms since all hunting was suspended two months ago.

Regards, Jamie and Sarah.

The next meeting of YISH is at 6.30 pm on Friday evening in the Debating Hall of Taunton School. There is, however, a close friend of ours who will be submitting to the evil lure of the metropolis at the exact same time. Actually, he is standing right next to us now.

We hope to talk soon, all the best, Jamie Ashley and Sarah Hutchings.

Look, Tom, I'm sorry that I invoked you personally. I'm sorry that I worked you into it. But I wanted to make it slowly more and more obvious that these people couldn't exist; apologies that it backfired. Can we still be friends?

Oh, and yes (as "maria marten" already knows), Ashley Hutchings is precisely who I was referring to.

On Friday night, in the Debating Hall at Taunton School, a certain Alexandra Denny will be kicked out of YISH for liking the "frivolous and metropolitan" Destiny's Child. The group will then splinter, the Lib Dems will hold Taunton, and hunting will be banned forever in 2003. The remnants of YISH will remain the only people under the age of 25 reading the Daily Telegraph, or writing to it, but never again will it be a serious force in the land.

Meanwhile, a certain progressive ruralist, bruised and condemned, will be getting the last train back from Waterloo ...

Does a choir count as a band? Because I'm in two of those:

The Concordia Society: A 19 person a capella chamber choir. See website for details on our May 11 concert.

: The official chorus of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras. I've been on the A&E Holiday Pops special for the past two years now and will be on this year's, as well.

My brother is in an actual band: Poem-Cees a DC-based hip-hop group featuring a four person band and two MCs.

I am a big tool.

FWIW, give me "Anthems in Eden" over "The Man Who" ANY day....

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I'd concur with your sentiments but I'd better shut up now because enough damage has been done without upping my unhipness factor.

or as creepy as my sudden uncalled-for patriotism. i swear, they program us for this when we're babies or something. usa all the way. it's bad enough to be from a country that trains dictatorships to kill people, but to defend it like it's a fucking baseball team or something. jesus.

I'd say it was the best thread ever, too, were it not for the fact that my disowned cousins contrived most of it.

To think that anyone thinks in such terms in the internet age anyway *sigh* have we learnt nothing and gone nowhere in 20 years?

And that is the end of this thread.

Is it 10pm in England right now or dos y'all twats DRINK ALL DAY LONG??

Keep it up.

I'm curious to see how many people on ILX are in bands.

I was in one for one night, as something my best friends and I wanted to do a small Showcase of the Bands just for fun senior year. It was a small affair, not the large one that the school put on, and we knew it'd be low pressure. I won't reveal the name of the group or where it happened. But suffice it to say we played all covers. I was a decent guitar player, my other friend played guitar, and my best friend had just picked up a bass two weeks earlier. We didn't have a drummer.

Our setlist initially only included Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", and I taught all of the guitar parts, bass, and vocal harmonies. We then decided to add other songs, but couldn't get a grip on the full setlist. We rehearsed songs like: Stone Temple Pilots' "Creep", Alice in Chains' "Sludge Factory", Metallica's "Motorbreath", Misfits' "Halloween", Pearl Jam's "Nothingman"....and we threw all of those away.

Our guitar player vocalist went to California for a short vacation, and the bass player and I decided we'd add a Misfits medley, Metallica's "Jump in the Fire", and call it a day. We never even rehearsed "Jump in the Fire" with the friend in California, and he barely knew the song.

My friend comes back and finds out we scrapped "Nothingman" and throws a shitfit, so it gets added back in. The performance comes and we still have no drummer, and at soundcheck, the guitar player from another group that did all metal covers agreed to play drums for us, and ran through a few songs with us. He agreed to play.

We started with the Misfits medley, and things were good, but then we go into "Jump in the Fire", and the guitarist/vocalist friend has a panicked look on his face, as he'd tried to memorize the lyrics and melody before the show, but he'd lost it all. I told him to just get out there and sing it, and he blanks, so he decides to just start yelling "yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!" offkey over and over throughout the song, occasionally throwing in a "Jump in the Fire" for good measure. This prompted the sponsor of the show to ask if all of our songs were going to have less than a sentence of lyrics in them, being that the song we'd done prior aws "We Are 138".

After about 2 minutes of him yelling "Yea", I start losing my shit and laughing and my fingers start slipping on the fretboard, and this kid comes out of the audience saying he knows the lyrics, so my friend pulls him up, and he starts singing the verse while we're playing the bridge, which confuses everyone. After he leaves the stage, I realize that since we've never rehearsed the song , we never really rehearsed the ending, and I don't know how to tell my bandmates it's time to stop. I did some kind of weird head gesture that probably looked like I was having a seizure to signify I was going to stop playing in two measures and I ended the song on a chord that was way out of tune with what the bass player played.

After that, our covers of "Nothingman" and "Nothing Else Matters" surprisingly went across flawlessly, and we broke up immediately after the show.

HOW ABOUT YOU

dudes i think know that i'm in a band called SHARK MATTER we gots 4 peeps come see us chicago ilxors sunday night at 8pm subterranean 17+ for you young folks we's punky loud rock-n-roll.

Thread for my band: The vaguely rolling ExDetectives thread of self-promotion (Do Not Read If You Hate Us)

i play guitar and sing in a pretty fun, kinda sludgey, pretty noisy garage punk band with two of my friends from high school. we're two guitars and a drummer, and things generally get pretty wild at shows, have done my share of crowdsurfing guitar solos.

i'm also starting a 50's pop band and a feelgood noise improv thing with some other dudes but they're both taking forever to get off the ground and i'm starting to doubt they'll ever happen.

my highschool hardcore band (Cerebellum) is reforming and playing at a benefit show in Louisville, Kentucky for a friend who has cancer. The lineup is:

Endpoint
Cerebellum
Face Value

It's now, gulp, SOLD OUT and I have to relearn a buncha songs we used to sing when we were 17 years old. Yikes! But it's for a good cause so I don't have to feel like it's entirely nostalgic and self-indulgent. But it is *very weird* to return to that music, I gotta say. Stoked to do it tho . . .

I am not in a band.

NO IM NOT

Yes. Four people. Some kind of music that I'm not sure how to define.

sometimes. sightless rock/noise thing, still trying to sort the sound out. numerous conspirators.

too long didnt read

self-promo barf alert / hay guyz my band is on tour

we're playing London May 20th: Matmos / John Wiese / Birds of Delay at Auto Italia

plus: we need singers to be in a choral piece so holler at me if you fancy being part of the show

the world ends the very next day so this is your last chance

yeah!!!!!!!!

looking forward to this. any other ilxors planning to go? auto-italia is a damn cool space. can totally imagine you guys doing something great there...

oooooops! fuck! I am wrong about my own gig

it is on THURSDAY May 19th

good thing I am not the tour manager here

sorry folks for the bum-steer

but, um, yeah, May 19th / Thursday / let's do thisss

I wanna start a band, but none of my potential bandmates can drive and we're having trouble finding practise space in the local. I wanna make a cod disco-reggae project with lyrics about toxic UK seaside ephemera.

I want to go see Matmos ;_;

me too - i can't make this one though :-\

hello, you can preview two of my band's new songs here:

http://soundcloud.com/cartamusic/sets/faults-follow

semi-barfy self-promotional pleading alert:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1230101509/society-of-rockets-new-lp