Pictures of Lily play "Judy"

Althoug this blog is dedicated to professional artists, it goes without saying that I shouldn't neglect the opportunity to plug my own band by including at least one of our songs.

This is a demo recording of an original that we recorded around 2004 on a Vostex 8-track hard disk recorder. It was virtually recorded live and it doesn't contain any overdubs, apart from the vocals which were recorded separately. The band consists of a rather basic and conventional line-up, with two guitarists, a bass player and a drummer.

After a pause of more than a year, we have recently started to rehearse again with the original line up but with a new drummer. We hope to start gigging again in the Summer of 2009.

For more information, please feel free to contact me at; maels@xs4all.nl.

Thao Nguyen

I'm rather impressed by this young lady. She's released three albums so far; "From The Linen" and "We Brave Bee Stings And All" and "Know Better Learn Faster". This is an acoustic performance at NPR Music.

Sparks at Paradiso, Amsterdam, March 2006

Sparks at Paradiso, Amsterdam, March 2006
Ron and Russell Mael

Title Sparks' new album announced!

Sparks' 21st album will be released on May 19th. Its title will be "Exotic Creatures Of The Deep", which is even by Sparks standards, a rather unusual album title. There will be 13 tracks this time. A single off the album, "Good Morning" will be released on May 12th. The album coincides with the 21 concerts they are giving in London in May during which they will perform all of their albums chronologically, ending with the new one on May 21st.

This is the track list:

'Intro'
'Good Morning'
'Strange Animal'
'I Can’t Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song'
'Let The Monkey Drive'
'Intro Reprise'
'I've Never Been High'
'(She Got Me) Pregnant'
'Lighten Up, Morrissey'
'This Is The Renaissance'
'The Director Never Yelled Cut'
'Photoshop'
'Likeable'

dinsdag 2 april 2013

Thao Nguyen

I'm rather impressed by this young lady. She's released two albums so far; "From The Linen" and "We Brave Bee Stings And All". This track, "Big Kid Table", is an acoustic live version from he latter.