Band Dimensions
All together, OVERHANG is 24ft. 8 in. tall and weighs 718 lbs.
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All together, OVERHANG is 24ft. 8 in. tall and weighs 718 lbs.
U2's new single is out now and, to our relief, it is not identical to anything on our upcoming album, which we will be releasing (in its totality and free of charge) to several hundred lucky people at various rock shows throughout the city of Chicago as a promotion for a local band showcase we've been invited to participate in as well as an upcoming show at Martyrs. The band recently had several days of soul-searching where we were wondering about the future of the band (finances being as they are and all etc. etc.) but we came out of intense negotiations with a renewed sense of purpose. Matt and Dan will be taking a two-week break before we launch into a string of shows in the Chicago area in late October and November...if Joel remains in the country, that is.
A big "Thank You" goes out to the person who emailed to remind us just how naive and in need of marketing help we are. Yes, we are looking for people who know what they are doing because we have only a few clues based on other bands' success stories (which we desperately mull over for answers to our own career questions). But who wants to work with a 6 month old band that still hasn't proven itself. We're trying lots of stuff and stupidly publicizing our attempts on *cino...I'm not always sure why.
We just had to send a big fat $1,000 dollar check to the INS to speed the process along on our application for keeping Joel in the States with OVERHANG. With the money, we're buying an 80% chance that they'll look at our application. Yep, that's right. In a matter of two weeks, the young band, OVERHANG, could no longer be together. That's a pretty heavy thought for all involved. Let's hope and pray the INS folks have good taste in music.
Thank you to all those who attended the Lilly's show last Saturday. It was our biggest turn-out yet. The little coupons we made to keep the price down for our fans must have been a success.
We had a great practice yesterday. We're trying to reproduce some of the harmonies on the album for our live show coming up at Lilly's here in Chicago. Amazingly, our voices blend pretty well. This will add new sounds to our guitar-heavy music. Joel and Grant are going guitar shopping this week to try to get the right kind of percussive sound on an electric guitar. So far, the closest we've come to the right sound is putting an acoustic guitar through an amp with distortion. Maybe we'll stick with that in the end, anyway. We'll have to see.
OVERHANG is pursuing an idea for a music video but has yet to find the money to do it. Our film-maker friend is writing up a proposal for it so we have some idea as to how much it will cost and how long it will take. We just found out that one of our friends got a job at MTV, so we'll see if that connection can be of some use down the line.
Dan is going to Florida this week, so we won't be practicing as much. Matt is still sending out promo packs. He's painting the envelopes red and pasting a spooky picture of us on the front to increase the chance that someone will open it and read our materials. Joel is taking a few days break from the last mix of the album to get some objectivity before we send it off for final mixing.
And our review is now in HM Magazine. It's short and it goes like this:
"Having already won a contest this year that gave them rights to a main stage performance at Cornerstone in Illinois, Overhang's future looks promising. Their sound has elements of classic rock, yet is innovative enough to sound completely new and original. With songs that keep you guessing as to where they'll go next, Overhang is a refreshing reminder that old can sound new."
We don't disagree with any of that. It's a good first review of our demo. We look forward to hearing more feedback on what we've done with our album--hopefully in the not-too-distant future.