Silence is Sexy

For the Coverclub’s Guilty Pleasures edition we recorded our version of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. Other artists on this 10-song compilation include Anne Soldaat (ex Daryll-Ann), Solo, Pien Feith and Ponoka. Download it for free on www.coverclub.nl. And please spread the word (Blog, Tweet, Facebook, Last.FM) if you like it.

Check out the video featuring Michael Jackson himself:

Or listen to the entire CD:
Silence is Sexy – Billie Jean by Coverclub

You know we love to share our music for free. If you want to thank us for doing so, share our music with your friends and ask them to do the same thing. An other way to show your appreciation is to make a PayPal donation or order a CD (or two).

At the moment we are working on songs for our third album. And we have big plans. Think real strings, horns, church organs, trumpets, vibraphone’s and so on. You can imagine we can do with a little more budget for this. So if you want to help us make our dreams come true, hit the button below!

We noticed that lots of people like to use our music for their (YouTube) movies. Check out some examples here and here and here and here. That’s great! So we decided to give you some more options by releasing the instrumental versions of our album This Ain’t Hollywood. As a free download of course.

Download the torrent from our friends at Mininova or listen to the songs and download the files at bandcamp. We would love to see the results of your creativity. If you use our music, leave us a message!

PS. If you’re into karaoke, sing your lungs out to these versions!

During Eurosonic/Noorderslag we received the Interactive Award. This is a European award for bands that use the internet in a creative way to promote their music. We won the prize for the way we use torrents to spread our music.

The prize consists of a very ugly cup, two days of studiotime and 5000 euros. We will use this money to record another album. This budget is going to help us a lot to make this a very special one.

There were four other nominees (Blof, Zuco 103, Aart Lus & Ed Lip and Georgia Wonder). The decision was made by a jury combined with a voting round. Thank you all for voting!

We’re one of the 5 nominees for the Noorderslag Interactive Award 2009. If we win we’ll get 5000 euro’s. That’s enough money to record another record. You can help us by voting for us. Give us 5 stars and then click vote here for our concept “Using torrents as a succesful marketing tool”.

We’re very happy with the way things went in 2008! Although this still ain’t Hollywood ofcourse… Anyway, two years ago we recorded a Christmas cover. A song called Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet of Tom Waits / Gavin Bryars fame. It sounds a bit more Sigur Ros / Mogwai than you are used to hear from us. Download it here!

There’s even more Silence is Sexy Christmas joy to spread. About a week ago we played a Dutch national Radio / TV show called Freaknacht. DJ Giel Beelen asked us to make up a Christmas song in 20 minutes time. Together with rapper Algerino and fetish model Ancilla Tilia. So we took Night Out and turned it into Christmas Night Out. Enjoy!

In America there’s a guy with a wonderful taste in music who puts a playlist together every month. He handpicks about six hours of the finest and upcoming indie bands and shares his selection on Mininova. Then tens of thousands people download this playlist and discover new bands.

The selection of this month includes ‘Where Were You’ from our album This Ain’t Hollywood. Are you starting to get curious? You can find the list (and the torrent) here.

A couple of weeks ago, we played club 3voor12. Here are the video’s for Come Back To You, 1984 and Night Out from that memorable night:

Come Back To You:

1984:

Night Out:

Music is just like love, you have to share it. You can put the splendid bandcamp player for our album on your Blog / Myspace / Website / Whatever. Just click on ’share’ in the player below. Thanks for helping us spread the word.

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We had a great time at the This Ain’t Hollywood releaseparty. Thank you all for showing up and destroying the big black balloons. Check out a raving review and picures at 3voor12/utrecht. If you missed out on this, a lot of new shows are confirmed, we hope to see you there. Watch the balloons here: