Sunday 28 March 2010

More on the vote!

That vote was from people on yahoo answer and i like the suggestion of extending the High Street Glory to something like High Street Glory seekers, or something around those lines.

The peoples vote

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My band are trying to decide between three new band names, help!?
My band have just started out we cant decide between the following names

1. high street network
2. high street glory
3. high street survivors

we cant decide and need your vote into which one. and for personal reasons High street must be in the name.. cheers!
6 days ago
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we're britpop/indie band similar to the Enemy... :D cheers for the help!
6 days ago


by Bubba T. Ramone Member since:


Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
I like High Street Glory
It has a good, positive ring to it, the words 'high' and 'glory' complement each other.
May I make a suggestion?
Make 'glory' a compound word, something like High Street Gloryboys

by KarlS Member since:


high street network sounds a little nerdy and glory makes you sound a bit conceded, of the three id go for high street survivors. it would help if we knew what genre of band it is though


High Street Survivors is the best, but they're all pretty lame. Sorry to say.
by Laurence Member since:




High Street Network is the best out of the three.
by andrew Member since:


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by the underdog girl. Member since:



i vote high street glory

Monday 22 March 2010

Is Simple Silence really a good name?

As I am now looking into designing my digipack and poster I keep thinking is the name really suitable for a britpop band. I feel that 'Simple Silence' may be more of a pop band name rather that a rock band so I'm now looking at bands that may be similar such as Oasis, Blur, The Enemy, Artic monkeys, etc....

My ideas are based around the fact the band are experienced in living rough as they traveled Europe trying to make it big and how they suffered from the sad reality of dangers on the street and learned to be better people from it.

So the new name will be based around the word High street, but i cant choose between the three secondary names, they are :
-high street network
-high street glory
-high street survivors

so im now going to ask the world on their opinion as i seek advice on yahoo!answer.

Conerstone

Bittersweet Symphony


















The Verve ~ bittersweet symphony
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This is the video to the Verves Bittersweet Symphony whish the song has slight relevents to mine as the themes of change and regret go together well. But its the video im intrested in and how through most of the video he addresses to the audience which is what I want, however its how they done it on location is what im really intrested in and what kind of shots they used and see if theres any way i could use these methods on my selected locations that relate to the 'if i was' lyrics.


through out the video the camera is infront of lead singer Richard Ashcroft as he barges through a busy london highstreet with no care for others. but its the way how the camera move with him down the path to show these locations.


if i was to do a location video, i would want to match the lyrics with the location but try to cut the shots together to make it look like a journey with the odd cut to show the location in more detail.


So how will I match lyric to location? well i was thinking something like this:




woolwich ferry-sailor



royal artilliry woolwhich-soldier


belmarsh prison-jailor


ladbrokes (welling)- betting man



london city airport- areoplane



petrol station (welling)- rich manwaterstones(inside) writertate modern- painter

decisions

I think it would be more affective and probably more practicle to represent the lyrics through costume rather than location as for most of the places i go to i will need permisson to film not to mention finding the sutible place, but at the same time i dont know how display the change of costume.

I have decided to look at two videos in which i think i can use my ideas of location or costume; For location i am going to look at the video for Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve and for costume the video for Conerstone by The Artic Monkeys.

Visual lyric

The song lyrics are based on the idea of if the person was of a different profession other than a musician and how he would treat the woman he is in love with. the professions and life styles he describes are:
-Sailor
-Soldier
-Jailer
-Rich man
- If i had an aeroplane
-Betting man
-Writer
-Painter

So i want to try and find away to represent these lyrics clearly through the video either through costume or location.

personality change

With the change of song I think the band's image will have to change with it, the song is rather emotional to the sense that regret is the theme of the song so i think that the band will now be of a softer nature compare to the original rough, lower class type of band known before.

This also means that there publicity will be a tad different compared to previous, I still want a the band to be known for there journey together suffering the knock backs over the years of trying to make it big, but stay away from the oasis style of public feuds with other bands and between themselves.
publicity traits:
- Well known history (moved out when they were 16 to tour the world and finally make it big in mid 20's.
-Clean lifestyle after growing up in a world fueled by drugs and alcohol.
-Song will be second release showing a different side of the band after first song reached top ten with a more heavier approach.

The band will stick to the stereotypical appearance of a Britpop band such as Oasis, Blur and more recently The Enemy.

the bands target audience will be mid teens to mid twenties and to people who like the indie/britpop genre.