OT Look ma, I'm on ebay!

[Rodgre]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4016386608&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

The Curtain Society's Life is Long, Still CD on ebay....

I'm almost tempted to buy it myself since we've been sold out of that one for a while, but I don't want to pay for it twice

Roger

[RDV]

I think we've been through this before but, I'm still a little unclear on this "shoegazing". I personally can't see me shoes. I look down, I see stomach. :wink:

I like your band though.

RDV

[AL]

Hey !! You got a distribution deal with Caroline ??!!! Sweet.    Nice review also.

AL

[Rodgre]

Well, Bedazzled had a distro deal with Caroline, Dutch East, Parasol, Twin Cities, etc.... We had good distrobution. Maybe just not enough promotion We have a new CD coming out soon, but we're not sure how its going to get out to the masses yet

And shoegazing. If you seriously need an explanation, I'll give you one. We never really were part of any particular genre. We jokingly coined the term "swirl core" back in the day, making light of the fact that there were a million different "blank-core" bands back in the mid-90s.

Shoegazing, as a generic term, refers to an early-90's scene of mostly UK-based bands who tended not to have a lot of stage presence or personality, and therefore stared motionless at their shoes (or more likely, their pedalboards) while this massive wall of reverb-drenched wailing bathed a foggy stage.

Classic shoegazer bands were Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse and Cocteau Twins. New Order and Joy Division were also textbook shoegazers, though their music was much less typical of the scene that the name was originally given to.

It's usually melodic music that's buried beneath a hazy wall of effects.

Current bands that carry the torch are Sigur Ros and in a way, Interpol, who mine a slightly less classic shoegazer, and more classic UK guitar rock thing (think Chameleons, Joy Division, etc)

Roger