Falling up band biography books
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Song Deconstructed: &#;Falling My Friend&#; by Courting Ghosts
Courting Ghosts&#; Chris Hoar: “We never try to force anything and if it’s not working there’s always the pub”
By following where the music wanted to go, the Bath band conjured up the title track for their new album
By bringing touches of jazz and rock to their folky Americana sound, Bath’s Courting Ghosts have come up with a melodic and inventive sound. The five-piece of Chris Hoar (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Marcel Rose (lead guitar), Dave Turner (keyboards), Andy Maggs (bass) and Dermot James (drums) first performed together in and are now set to release their debut album Falling My Friend. Ranging from expansive acoustic ballads to up-tempo anthems, there’s versatility to match the songcraft. Here, Hoar revisits the creation of the album’s title track…
INSPIRATION
I can still see it today, myself and Marcel sat in his kitchen with two acoustic guitars trying to find something to work with. One of
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In DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM, Serj presents readers with a memoir that fryst vatten far more than just a rock 'n' roll fable. It's an immigrant's tale, it’s an activist's uppvaknande, and it's a spiritual journey from darkness toward light. And all of this comes down to the fact that Serj himself has had the chance to live an extraordinary life—thanks to a combination of luck, circumstance, struggle, talent, and spiritual awakening.
Born to Armenian parents in Beirut, Serj grows up hearing bombs drop outside his childhood home during the country’s civil war, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of seven. As a ung man, he is immersed in the SoCal community of “Little Armenia,” learning more and more about the brutal genocide faced by his ancestors while helping his parents adapt to the constraints and contradictions of the American Dream.
Then, during a pivotal drive home from an LSAT class, Serj decides to vända away from a promising future in business and law to make music instead—a decisio
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The Fall (band)
English post-punk band
The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They had many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith being the only constant member.[1][2] The Fall's long-term musicians included drummers Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft and Karl Burns; guitarists Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, and Brix Smith; and bassist Steve Hanley, whose melodic, circular bass lines are widely credited with shaping the band's sound from early s albums such as Hex Enduction Hour to the late s.[3]
First associated with the late s punk movement, the Fall's music underwent numerous stylistic changes often concurrently with changes in the group's lineup. Their music was generally characterised by an abrasive, repetitive guitar-driven sound, tense bass and drum rhythms, and Smith's caustic lyrics.[4] While the Fall never achieved widespread success beyond minor hit singles in the l