Little Comets
We have chosen to use the Little Comets song 'One Night in October' for our A2 music video, this song fits into the indie/alternative genre.
We have chosen to use the Little Comets song 'One Night in October' for our A2 music video, this song fits into the indie/alternative genre.
The existing band is made up of three males, Robert, Michael and Matt two of which are brothers; they originate from Newcastle in the North-East of England. The band started out in 2008 and are still recording at present; however along the way they lost one band member as he chose to leave the group, Mark.
The band aim their music at the ages of 15 - 30 year olds, they manage this goal by the upbeat pace creating a 'cheeky and chirpy' vibe to their music, as quoted from the BBC.
The general style of music is alternative and would be classed as indie by genre, on websites about the band it suggests they play 'kitchen sink indie music'. We tried to look into the definition of this but there is not a specific answer to the question; their influences are Debussy, Roald Dahl, Ella Fitzgerald and Paul Simon. These influences are not common of musicians as they are a range of talent; our inspiration for our music video will not necessarily be taken from the same people.
We picked 'One Night in October' as our song for our music video because it's upbeat, has clear use of instruments and the lyrics are abstract as the lines do not run into each other; this shows the indie/alternative genre well as it is typical of these styles of song to not tell a story or make any sense sometimes.
The original video for the song is set in what looks like an empty stock room or large garage, we would like to look at similar settings as well as some outdoor locations to film our version of the music video.
The band aim their music at the ages of 15 - 30 year olds, they manage this goal by the upbeat pace creating a 'cheeky and chirpy' vibe to their music, as quoted from the BBC.
The general style of music is alternative and would be classed as indie by genre, on websites about the band it suggests they play 'kitchen sink indie music'. We tried to look into the definition of this but there is not a specific answer to the question; their influences are Debussy, Roald Dahl, Ella Fitzgerald and Paul Simon. These influences are not common of musicians as they are a range of talent; our inspiration for our music video will not necessarily be taken from the same people.
We picked 'One Night in October' as our song for our music video because it's upbeat, has clear use of instruments and the lyrics are abstract as the lines do not run into each other; this shows the indie/alternative genre well as it is typical of these styles of song to not tell a story or make any sense sometimes.
The original video for the song is set in what looks like an empty stock room or large garage, we would like to look at similar settings as well as some outdoor locations to film our version of the music video.
Good stuff Jess. Kitchen Sink Indie simply means they throw everything into it (from the saying throwing the Kitchen sink), The Little Comets, as you've stated, have lots of influences and not all are music. Without wishing to sound like a geek Claude Debussy was keen on making music that didn't stick to one tone, if that makes sense, he would contrast notes, if you listen to the opening of Claire de Lune
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
he gets very close to being discordant without ever actually being so.
Likewise there would be no Vampire Weekend, Gorrilaz if it weren't for Paul Simon. He brought influence from African music into the mainstream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw
about 1min 40 in you'll hear it.
Whether you can take this african influence into your skeleton motif I don't know but it can be very striking
http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/b5/00/africa,body,paint,face,paint,gun,man,soldier,tribal,warrior-b500253fbb19d2a26fb63fd738b161b8_m.jpg
and its influence can be seen in this beck video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrG6xBW5Wk&ob=av2e
Good work by the way.