DESTROY CONSENSUS REALITY
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Dec 31 2009, 7:12 PM
David Devant and His Spirit Wife are one of my all time favourite bands. Unfortunately they've never really achieved the success I believe they deserve. They came pretty close in the UK in the late nineties with their single Ginger. It was just a couple of sales off breaking the top forty and that was at a time when you needed to sell a ton of records to accomplish that.
Despite their not breaking through to the mainstream, they had a massive effect on me. When I was growing up I had 'Destroy Consensus Reality' scrawled on my school bag, which was something I'd seen held up on a sign by one of their spectral roadies (people they had on stage performing outlandish antics whilst they played). Also their lead singer sporting a mustache is the reason that I had one for a number of years, and at one point I even sprayed my shoes silver with car paint to make them look like shoes I had seen Vessel (their lead singer) wearing in a press shot.
I am quite a big fan.
Their singer Vessel has a solo career now as Mr Solo, but a decade ago he had a side project called Carfax. Their first album 'Mementos From A Digital Age' has been quite hard to get hold of for a while. Until today, that is, as he has posted it for free on his blog.
Now I know, sadly, I'm talking about quite an obscure band here, and an even more obscure side project on top of that. If you want to dip your toes in and have a listen, though, I recommend checking out 'Kisses With Love In Them', 'You Are Here' and 'Window Box'
http://wondersnevercease.webs.com/apps/blog/show/2467762-momento-por-favor/
And here is the video for their nearly breakthrough hit Ginger
David Devant and His Spirit Wife are one of my all time favourite bands. Unfortunately they've never really achieved the success I believe they deserve. They came pretty close in the UK in the late nineties with their single Ginger. It was just a couple of sales off breaking the top forty and that was at a time when you needed to sell a ton of records to accomplish that.
Despite their not breaking through to the mainstream, they had a massive effect on me. When I was growing up I had 'Destroy Consensus Reality' scrawled on my school bag, which was something I'd seen held up on a sign by one of their spectral roadies (people they had on stage performing outlandish antics whilst they played). Also their lead singer sporting a mustache is the reason that I had one for a number of years, and at one point I even sprayed my shoes silver with car paint to make them look like shoes I had seen Vessel (their lead singer) wearing in a press shot.
I am quite a big fan.
Their singer Vessel has a solo career now as Mr Solo, but a decade ago he had a side project called Carfax. Their first album 'Mementos From A Digital Age' has been quite hard to get hold of for a while. Until today, that is, as he has posted it for free on his blog.
Now I know, sadly, I'm talking about quite an obscure band here, and an even more obscure side project on top of that. If you want to dip your toes in and have a listen, though, I recommend checking out 'Kisses With Love In Them', 'You Are Here' and 'Window Box'
Despite their not breaking through to the mainstream, they had a massive effect on me. When I was growing up I had 'Destroy Consensus Reality' scrawled on my school bag, which was something I'd seen held up on a sign by one of their spectral roadies (people they had on stage performing outlandish antics whilst they played). Also their lead singer sporting a mustache is the reason that I had one for a number of years, and at one point I even sprayed my shoes silver with car paint to make them look like shoes I had seen Vessel (their lead singer) wearing in a press shot.
I am quite a big fan.
Their singer Vessel has a solo career now as Mr Solo, but a decade ago he had a side project called Carfax. Their first album 'Mementos From A Digital Age' has been quite hard to get hold of for a while. Until today, that is, as he has posted it for free on his blog.
Now I know, sadly, I'm talking about quite an obscure band here, and an even more obscure side project on top of that. If you want to dip your toes in and have a listen, though, I recommend checking out 'Kisses With Love In Them', 'You Are Here' and 'Window Box'
http://wondersnevercease.webs.com/apps/blog/show/2467762-momento-por-favor/
And here is the video for their nearly breakthrough hit Ginger
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