What I feel, and I truly like to believe, is that regardless of where you live, it's your innermost feelings that connect. It just doesn't mind where you come from, you can always find one point to relate to, or feel identified with. I like to believe a lot of artists I listen to are talking about something I went through or something I can pretty much imagine. And I think that's the best thing about music. You don't really have to know the band members, it's not even about images or labels or whatever. You can lay down, with your headphones, and voila, listen. Talk to them, find someone who can understand you, and understand them back.

 

Yes, I'm pretty much rambling and making no sense, but I don't care :smug:

 

 

(And I reallyreally wish you Dani the best for your college future. I feel so misplaced all of the time, so I'm extra glad whenI find out about people sticking to what they like and believe in, and make it real :nice: lmao I'm such an emotional wee girl sometimes! :laugh3::\)

Well I think it's pretty fucking cool Danielle. Seriously. Especially knowing where you are from and about your school etc.

 

When I was at school (i went to a rough, rough school) if you didn't like what everyone else liked, you pretty much either got beaten the shit out of or just bullied for it. So I pretty much decided in my head to just 'conform' the whole time I was at school, which is rediculous, but I did. And I wish I hadn't now...it was spineless.

 

So you just keep on being you hun :wink:

 

And if your move to NYC is anything like my move into London, you'll have the best time of your fucking life, and finally feel like you belong. It's a great feeling :nice:

 

 

 

See, my school's actually kind of like that. I mean, it's not rough or anything.... But if you're really different, and one group of people decide they don't like you, that can translate into a LOT of people (relatively, since a lot isn't really a lot where I'm from lmfao). But yanno I've always been really nice to everyone, I've never made enemies, and I'm pretty respectful to anybody who comes up to me. So it's been easy for me to just be as different as I like. I'm just glad that I've got good friends who don't mind lmfao lmfao

 

 

 

eeee, I'm so excited. I just hope I get into this school. I'm feeling confident, but yeah there's always a chance... so just keeping my fingers crossed. All the other places I'm looking at are similiar, though, and yanno, either way it'll be good to get out of a small town and PHYSICALLY find people who like the same stuff as me (cuz since I don't have anybody aroudn me that knows my music, I end up coming on here, which is why I'm always in this thread! haha). I'm so excited. :dance: I really feel like NYC is like the London of the USA, so.... it's my kinda town haha ;)

 

right sorry 'bout ramblin' LMFAO

Yeah NYC is definatley the London of the USA, if not better! God i'd LOVE to visit NY some time, it's a real dream of mine. Oooh im so excited for ya!!! :dance:

I know exactly how you're feeling, it was me a year ago...and then again this year lmfao, and it's an exciting time. My fingers & toes and crossed for you! :)

 

Woah it's almost 4am, i should be going! I'm such a fucking student :rolleyes: :lol: sleep most of the day, up all night. It's terrible!

 

Night hun! :kiss:

What I feel, and I truly like to believe, is that regardless of where you live, it's your innermost feelings that connect. It just doesn't mind where you come from, you can always find one point to relate to, or feel identified with. I like to believe a lot of artists I listen to are talking about something I went through or something I can pretty much imagine. And I think that's the best thing about music. You don't really have to know the band members, it's not even about images or labels or whatever. You can lay down, with your headphones, and voila, listen. Talk to them, find someone who can understand you, and understand them back.

 

Yes, I'm pretty much rambling and making no sense, but I don't care :smug:

 

 

(And I reallyreally wish you Dani the best for your college future. I feel so misplaced all of the time, so I'm extra glad whenI find out about people sticking to what they like and believe in, and make it real :nice: lmao I'm such an emotional wee girl sometimes! :laugh3::\)

 

 

 

That made total sense to me Andy, fuckin' amen. I can't even add anything, other than amen.

 

aw thank you :nice: I definately never wanted to conform, cuz I mean my interests are SO opposite of mine it'd be really impossible for me to try and be anything else. ;) Aw I love talkin' to you girls.

And I think that's the best thing about music. You don't really have to know the band members' date=' it's not even about images or labels or whatever. You can lay down, with your headphones, and voila, listen. Talk to them, find someone who can understand you, and understand them back.[/quote']

 

Quote of the day i'd say!! :D :thumbsup:

Yeah NYC is definatley the London of the USA, if not better! God i'd LOVE to visit NY some time, it's a real dream of mine. Oooh im so excited for ya!!! :dance:

I know exactly how you're feeling, it was me a year ago...and then again this year lmfao, and it's an exciting time. My fingers & toes and crossed for you! :)

 

Woah it's almost 4am, i should be going! I'm such a fucking student :rolleyes: :lol: sleep most of the day, up all night. It's terrible!

 

Night hun! :kiss:

 

 

You should totally come out! Haha, I'll show you the town. NYC is the best place ever, I love it. Haha, next year sometime when I'm there HOPEFULLY *fingers crossed* LMFAO

 

 

Oh shit, crazy time zones. well, night steph!! :laugh4: :) Oh shit yeah you don't have Thanksgiving in the UK, right? I was about to say, you shouldn't have class tomorrow if it's Thanksgiving. Oy I'm confused ahah

It's been a bit different for me, my school I mean. It was only 30 of us graduating, literally, and almost everyone was/still is friends with each other. So yes, I guess everyone knew how weird the others were since day one, so that was no problem at all. I can't really think of a single bad thing about my school days actually, I do miss them a lot. And actually most, if not all, of my friends are still the ones that used to be my classmates :nice: awww high school days were fun for me!

 

 

And NYC :dance: woooo Visiting it was a dream of mine as well, and that was given to me as my 18th birthday present! wooo for my dad :D That has got to be one of my best memories ever :nice: It's such a cool place on earth, that.

 

 

Night Steph :kiss: Sweet Didzy dreams :sneaky:

omg random but we're probably going to hit 300 pages at the end of the week!

 

 

:dance:

 

 

THAT'S SO CRAZY LMFAO.

We can't really celebrate every hundred when we hit it every couple of weeks! :laugh3: lmfao we're totally mentally unstable.

LMFAO. I can't handle it! hahaha Imagine by the end of... I dunno, February how big this'll be.

 

 

 

wow. LMFAO.

Yayyyy end of feb= my birthday! You guys better find some interesting photos of John to prevent me committing suicide the second I turn 20 :stunned::bigcry:

Oh shit! haha old fart! :P

 

 

LMFAO just joking obviously ahha ;)

 

 

Oh I'm sure we'll manage :sneaky: hmmm... *gets started right now* heh lmfao

 

 

Hey, so, do you know if Yeti was ever planning on doing some sort of album instead of just an ep? Maybe mid/late 07? I mean I'm not totally on top of their news, though I try to be... I dont' really know where to find it! hm :thinking:

Well Harmony (was it Harmony? Or John? ermm I'll do a quick search in a sec) definitely mentioned an album on an interview, even saying they've got the producer and all (same as Magic Numbers :wink2:), so yes, considering how good the EP seems to be doing, I'd say there will most definitely be an album :dance:

:dance: Definately psyched about that!!!! whooooo

 

 

Man, I really really love 'In Like With You'. The tune is just beautiful, and the chorus is... I dunno, I just love it. Really, Yeti astounds me because their songs make me feel like I've heard them so many times, just instant classics. :nice:

There you go, I master at the search function :cool4:

Q: Can you tell us a bit about the new album you are working on?

HW: We were working with Craig Silvey, the producer and he is great. He works with The Coral and worked on The Magic Numbers first album.

 

Q: What has it been like to work with Craig Silvey?

HW: He's great. He's American but a good kind of American. He's a laugh a minute and we had lots and lots of fun. In fact, quite often to the detriment of actually getting any recording done. We trundle in at midday and don't start recording until 6 in the evening. We're getting back together next year to re-record some bits and put down a few new tracks.

 

Q: So it's due out in 2007?

HW: That's the plan. We have a couple of labels interested in us so it's just a question of figuring out who is best for us. An independent is my choice because you get more money.

 

Seriously, don't you just loooove him? :laugh3: That last bit :lol: Harmony: BE. MY. FRIEND.

He's great. He's American but a good kind of American.

 

 

HEY! :P hahaha :laugh4: love him lmfao

And this message goes out to everybody who scrolls by it who's interested in what I'm writing for yeh ;) I told Andy, but yeah just wanted you other guys to know that I'm working on the next part, it just won't be done today. I'll probably get a part or two out tomorrow, and all that. It's definately relaxing to write, and I've got 4 days off. The whole POINT is relaxing heh so I'll probably do a lot :D

 

 

Just wanted to say that, I know nobody else but Andy's here haha, but yeah, figured someone will scroll by ;)

I was just reading the lyrics to 'In Like With You' today and I'm still amazed. That song is truly wonderful.

 

A friend from uni (yeah, that friend :rolleyes:) was just listening to 'The Last Time You Go' on my ipod today and she said they sound exactly like The Kooks :\ I was all hmmm? :thinking: "I don't think they'd be particulary flattered by that" lmafo you just heard about the kooks the last week!

Ehmmmmmmmm....

 

The Kooks??

 

 

 

Is she listening to the same stuff as us? Or is she on crack?

 

 

:laugh4: That's so weird...

Oh and I totally didn't get back to you on that in my PM :\

 

:dance: woooo for Thanksgiving and days off! I can't wait to read more :wideeyed: Remember to either PM/email whatever you get done :wink2:

She's just trying to sound smart and music-literate :P

 

No, really, she is.

And just incase you missed it the first time, here's the whole interview: http://www.lycos.co.uk/music/features/yeti-interview.html

 

 

 

 

In the back of his mind, Harmony Williams loves John Hassall :uhoh:

fuck, andy you're on late...

 

hi everyone! btw, i love yeti especially magpie blues... man... it suchhh a good song.

Ok, blame Dani for bringing it up! :laugh3:

“I have never lived anywhere else apart from London, it’s inherently apart of who I am and who the band are as well, whether we like it or not.” Although acknowledging the power of the capital, John Hassall’s new band Yeti seem remarkably more intone with Liverpudlianmulticoloured acid-rock from a bygone era. Yeti isn’t quite the monster the name suggests, but a combination of Beach Boy melodies, jangly guitars and funky drumbeats.

 

Meeting through other band members, flatmates and friends, Yeti came together ‘properly’ after the disintegration of The Libertines and Hassall recalls putting the band together like a jigsaw puzzle.

 

Yeti is a tribute to their own, true influences rather than any of the other former bands the members were in. However pinpointing their inspirations is thorny. “No one knows anymore what their influences are because there is so much shit that’s being forced on you: everyday you walk down the street you’re being bombarded with music and advertising and people and fashion. It all rubs off on you I suppose,” says Hassall. It is rather isolated artists and situations that imbue fantasia into the band. “It could be a Beatles track…there aren’t many bands that I am into nowadays really, it’s a sad truth of the matter…there were 10 years ago, I liked Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Oasis, Blur, now – not so keen on bands that are coming out.”

 

Hassall prefers to think outside the pre-conceived box, he prefers to think of Yeti as a stand-alone entity, like oddballs in the veins of pop music, or an inverted version of modern Britpop. He can’t really empathise with the current scene, preferring to revert to a reminiscent naivety. “There is a lot of optimism in Yeti, I think its something that’s lacking a lot in the music nowadays.”

 

Growing up with his dad’s records of monastic chanting, Hassall was left to discover musical richness on his own, until he stumbled across his dad’s lonely copy of The Beatles’ Revolver which ‘opened his eyes up to a completely different world’. Whilst bass player Brendan Kersey had a wealth of creativity; a divine ineffable inflatus, very much the antithesis to John’s childhood musical drought. “My granddad used to own a record shop in the sixties, so I had a wealth of records that I grew up with, and he’d have everything from Tamla Motown to Television.”

 

Rapaciously admitting that they want to create music that they would still think was worth listening to in five or ten years time, Yeti are striving to make something that first and foremost they are happy with themselves. “You wanna reach personal success, you wanna please yourself…[but] once you reach one goal you’ve always got another one set” says Brendan.

 

Nostalgic about the past, sceptical about contemporary music, John simply puts it: “If you can’t find a band you’re into, you’ve got to try and be that band yourself.”

 

Amen to that last phrase love.

 

 

 

Haaaarmony :lol::kiss:

 

fuck, andy you're on late...

 

hi everyone! btw, i love yeti especially magpie blues... man... it suchhh a good song.

Damn I know! I should have gone to bed aaaages ago :anxious:

 

Have you got those songs Tea posted btw? 'Midnight Flight', you gotta love that one!