Interesting band seek guitarist &/or Keyoboard player

doublethink

I am the singer/guitarist in a band, and we have been interested in taking on another guitarist for some time now. We recently decided that if a likeminded keyboard player came our way we would gladly take him/her onboard also.

First things first, I should say that what we want to do as a band is not for everyone. Most people do just want to sing songs, get pissed, and become rich and famous. It can be quite difficult to explain in less than a couple of hours what I and the rest of the band want to do with this band.

We would like to think that our lyrics are an obsolutely essential part of who we are, both as people and as a band. We try to merge so many things that it can be very overwhelming to try and explain what we are looking to do. We would like to mix poetry with music, pashion with expression, words/thoughts with people's lives. I want to put some art back into artistry, and meaning back into music. We don't expect to change the world with one flawless embracing motion, all we really hope for is to reach some people to who will adopt what we create, and graft it into their lives. Whether 60 people, or 60 million people feel that way about us, I don't think it would make that much of a difference to whether we viewed the band as a success or not. Either way, we'll just keep slugging away at it.

Our main interests as friends and as a band generally float around things like philosophy, politics, sociology, art, anthropology, film, literature... etc. This, I have to say is quite important, because it works into our personalities, our lives, our lyrics and hopefully our music.

We are not ogre's, but we have tried one degree of compromise after another and it hastn't worked out in the past. We can't really afford to take on anyone who wants very different things from the band, or someone that isn't up to similar musical proficiency. Basically it's the same deal as practically any other band, we would need you to have similar interests, want to make similar music, and be able to hold your own weight musically.

Influences: I hate to sound like such a stereotypical indieboy, but I have to say that similar influences would probably go a long way, especially in the early stages. It just works much better if the people trying to play together know the same songs. At least a few of them.

Our main influences in music: would be The Manic Street Preachers, The Cure (quite recently), The Smiths, Joy Division... etc. We all obviously have our own personal tastes as well, but these are ones we all share (off the top of my head). Oh, and The Clash. We don't tend to play much by them, but we all like them and have been listening to them for some time. We used to play a lot of Smashing Pumpkins, not so much anymore, but they still linger in memory and style I suppose. Although we tend to have a slight disaffection for the oxford boys now, we have also all been fans of radiohead at some point too.

Our main influences in books etc: Everything from Orwell to Wittgenstein, Nietzsche to Camus&Sartre, Chuck Palahniuk to Luke Rhineheart, Derrida to Guy DeBord, Miller to Marx. ****, the list goes on and on. It's like being asked to describe the day you were born.

Art: We have covered a whole wall of the shed (soundproofed place where we jam) with politicised collages, some of it is quite hilarious. I might be able to get pictures if anyone shows particular interest. We like taking other peoples pictures and words and twisting them into some sort of expresive message. In terms of artists that have influenced us... phew... em, Francis Bacon, I was fairly into Cezanne in school. Dabbled with dali too. Oh, and we often take the piss out of the Dadaists, but thats only because we are jealous. Destructive art can be really interesting too.

Based: We all live in Naas, Co. Kildare, but we all go to college in Dublin city centre, so we spend most of our time in town. As long as you would be prepared to travel a little bit, living in Dublin shouldn't pose too much of a problem. We wouldn't expect anyone to travel down all the time anyway, we could sort something out in town.

Oh, by the way, I'm 19 going on 20 soon, Hil is 19, and calv is 21. We have been playing together for a few years now. Especially myself and Calv, the last 4 years give or take. Someone roughly the same age would be good, but we are not super picky. As long as your not going to be settling down with a ford focus, or stuck in secondary school it shouldn't pose a problem. So basically that means someone between 18-25, preferably anyway.

Keyboards: After listening to a lot of The Cure lately, the rest of the band have had a bit of a turnaround on the idea of having a full-time keyboard player in the band. If you want an idea of the kind of keyboard sound and style we are looking for, I would suggest listening to all of "Disintegration" (Cure album), "Going Nowhere" (Cure song off "The Cure", the self-titled album), "Goodnight and Farewell" (Pumpkins song off Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness). They would be just a few examples that we all think would be a lovely sound for the kind of music we would like to make as a four or five piece.

Guitar: Well most of the songwriting is done by myself and Calv. Calv plays the drums, and is also in my opinion (not in his) a very good guitarist. He's about as good as me on the guitar, and I have been playing for almost 7 years now. Everyone in the band has written lyrics at some point or another. The usual writing dynamic would be one of us writes something, pass it round, it usually goes through a few re-writes while we play around with guitar riffs alongside. Sometimes together, sometimes alone. Basically, you would probably want to be able and willing to write songs with me (or Calv in guitar terms). It seems to be where a lot of our work is done. I would be able/willing to bring a guitar into college with me and jam wherever in town (relatively often) if someone interested in joining did live in Dublin. Thats how I would imagine getting around the distance between Dublin and Naas.

Wow. I didn't realise we had so many criteria. We have learned to be more picky and blunt due to some bad experiences. I think that's more than enough for now anyway.

I hope I didn't put anyone off. The things I said here are not neccessarily iron clad, if you are interested at all at least give me a shout. Again, we're not ogres.

Thanks for your time

Mark: Undoinghistory@hotmail.com

Mr. CooL ICE

I love your attitude. If i didnt give up piano lessons when i was 13, if join ye

doublethink

Thanks. We have at least one half-fan, before we even put out a single note of music. I hope the rest of the project is as easy as this

Mr. CooL ICE

Oh My God I Love You Guys!!! You Are My Heroes!

doublethink

Em... cheers. I hope some day we can hand you a cd, if we do ever get to make one! (yes we do intend on doing so sooner rather than later). We are and have been trying to get some recording gear from the states, over $2100's worth actually. So hopefully I'll be contacting you for a preview when we do get something recorded. If your interested, PM me your e-mail and I'll keep it for reference for when we do finally get something recorded.

Cheers, Mark

marvin2k

Class !!!absolute Ledgends ,please put me on mailing list , Il make Panninnis for after the gigs !!!

tj-music.com

:eek: Finally, some musicians with the right attitude.

I am doing pop with a meaning for ages now and have lately specialised in melancholic pop. check: www.tj-music.com

Anyway, my "Best Of" is planned for spring 2005 and I might call you when its finished and maybe we can do a gig together somehwere.

Like - Minded bands welcome - we could do a festival and share the costs or something along those lines.

Keep on playing folks