One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
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I saw [State Radio] at Irving Plaza in New York City over winter break. They played to a sold-out crowd among other acts, and State Radio was the band the crowd got into the most.
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That didn't pan out, unfortunately. 'Voices' is all about what's happened to me in the last three years, and a lot of it is about that relationship, about how it ended. I thought it would be pretty cool to write a continuation of it, how being on tour in a band kind of wrecked it.
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It's very exciting. The band can't wait.
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The good news for Christmas is that the album will be finished by late January and we are looking at a March/April release date. It's very exciting, and the band can't wait.
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We're a small band, but we have a following. Our records turn a profit, even if it's meager. And that's something to be said in this day and age. I was surprised at the reaction of most labels we contacted. The calls that weren't returned were shocking. Merge, Matador, Thrill Jockey and Touch and Go were labels I thought I had business contacting. Having a predictable potential that isn't awesome is a lot worse than having an unknown potential.
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Three years ago I had a vision about doing a film that talked about entertainment in Hong Kong - I suggested making a movie about boy bands. And Daniel went, 'Why don't we become a real boy band and we'd experience the whole thing and film it.' That's how we got started.
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I think it's neat to give the band something to enjoy and hang around for after the game. It's a way to give our thanks to the student section and being able to say that to them. It's a good start to a good tradition.
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This is as good as it gets. For a high school marching band, it's like going to the Super Bowl. The national and global exposure is very positive public relations for the school.
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I really want to be able to show these kids what all the years of hard work and practice end up resulting in and what a professional jazz band is supposed to sound like. I would imagine the public would love to support music education because it is so vital to education in general.
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Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
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I've been lucky to play with some of my true heroes, but so has everyone in the band. I think you learn about not just singing or playing great, but connecting with audiences. That's one thing that all those folks do with amazing ability. Hopefully, we've been able to absorb some of that stuff.
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It feels great to have had such a good response early on. Although the players are fairly young, everyone has quite a bit of experience performing. We're all just excited to be doing our own original band.
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They threw a tuba through the window and then they set some notebooks and band music on fire out in the courtyard,.. Every band instrument they had opened up. We are not sure what all they did to it.
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I've been targeting this game for Matt. It's a horses-for-courses selection. He's got great experience and an ability to control the forwards. Against France we've got to be right in their faces. They have a powerful pack that can be dominant if you let them play. If you let your concentration drop, or miss one-on-one tackles, they can carve you up. So we've got to be astute and squeeze the life from them. We've got to stop the band playing and get the crowd whistling.
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A band like Franz Ferdinand are very interesting,.. But a band influenced by Franz Ferdinand are obviously going to be less interesting, and diminishing returns set in until you reach a point where pop music is over.
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Since 1993, they have gone from a four-man business to an million company that employs 100 people locally. Plus, they really give back to the community from donating to the Special Olympics to the Belleville East Band Foundation.
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Most of my stuff there in Denison is on Saturdays. I have been part of that show for seven years now and it is my life. I absolutely love the people there and the band. The owner and I have been friends forever it seems like. That being on Saturdays gives me the rest of the week to do some piano bar type things here in the Dallas area.
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Each January, we would set aside time to pray. We had a band, families, and we traveled. We had 20 people, and we needed to make sure there was cohesiveness and purpose. The Lord would gently speak into our hearts about what songs to do to be that sharp sword. In 1988, we were praying, and we felt the Lord saying that we would fulfill the commitments for that year and then stop. We were obedient, and spiritually, it was right. We missed it, but at the same time, he opened up other avenues in our hearts and minds.
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When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in the church, and our music is very different from the typical church band. It's not praise and worship music.
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It's really been a challenge as we come to the end of the semester to work on this. We're real anxious to go do it. One of the challenges is we continue to function in our separate groups as well as our responsibilities as a band and with the Rose Bowl parade stuff as well.
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I sang with a band and all that stuff, but I did make a choice at one point to favor acting as a career just because that seemed to be the way to go.
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China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.
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I'm just looking forward to getting rolling again. It's hard to beat this band, this show, and what they represent. It's something very special.
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