The Characters Part 0: Introduction
Music that tells stories. Writing narrative songs has always been an intimate part of the project. The Decemberist’s “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” is a classic in the genre, and has been a strong influence. In fact, we plan to release a cover of this song as part of the second album…
I am blessed with being surrounded by many multi-talented musicians, and since most of them are also vocalists it seemed natural to have multiple vocalists in the band, each playing different characters with their own stories. A band with characters is not so unusual either, showing up in all sorts of genres – think Ziggy Stardust, the Gorillaz or GWAR…
Are there any other examples of bands with musicians as characters that you can think of?
24 April 2009 at 2:27 pm
the spice girls? don’t think it s quite the same style though…
28 April 2009 at 4:04 pm
The Wu Tang Crew. So much so that they spawned an array of bad movies and computer games.
28 April 2009 at 4:07 pm
Bad movies and computer games… definitely in the pipeline :D
30 April 2009 at 6:37 pm
Interstellar5555?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555
A. :)
20 May 2010 at 2:50 am
Forgive Durden put out a CD where they did a whole musical thing, in which they brought other vocalists from other bands to play certain characters ‘Razia’s Shadow’