[I think I should warn you not to save in source, as I use a rather odd
program to create my web pages, called Pagemill, which is a graphically
orientated program, have not upgraded, and it contains some nasty bugs when
you come to tags. Netscape understands it, but you probably won't as it
places lots of wierd sizes, heights etc. where you would not expect it.
Thankyou, back to the band.]
Yes, the band I am talking are, of course, the one and only "Stony
Sleep", whose album entitled "Music For Chameleons" is a
masterpiece, especially for fans of Nirvana, Radiohead or the Pixies, to
which they have been compared. Signed to Indie label Big Cat, for a five
album deal, despite rumours that they would sign to Columbia.
Who are Stony Sleep? Stony Sleep are a North London trio who amazed many
big labels when they heard the deal that indie label 'Big Cat' had given
them for a five album contract. They originally began when lead singer,
guitarist, songwriter Ben Smith was only thirteen years old, with his brother
Christian, and friend, Will Salmon. Christian plays drums in the band, and
Will played bass when the band first started. This was until a disagreement
between Ben and Will, unfortunately lead to Will being fired. This was after
the recording of their album, 'Music for Chameleons' recorded in 1996, so
Will is pictured in the album sleave.
Ben is now 19, Christian is 16, and so too Christian's friend and new bass
player Lee Citron. It is Lee who is my indirect contact with the band. Most
correspondence will actually go through Daniel Parmenter, close friend and
ex-guitarist of his other band, which I was encouraged to promote.
This is the exclusive part, and the area which gets most complex; it is
also the part that might contain no further development. Lee is the Bass
player of both Stony Sleep and 'French Car and the Bolemic Wizard', or often
referred to as 'French Car' for short. Christian is one of the guitarists
in this band, and the drummer is Julius Nidu (I now know his full name, thanks to Alberto Gambaruto (a friend of mine/Dan)).
I will try to keep you up-to-date with info on this page, if anyone reads
it. Anyway, French Car, are, according to Dan(iel Parmenter) trying to get a record deal with 'Touch and Go' and, if my memory from 19th August 1997, during Stony Sleep's
gig at the Borderline, West London, serves me right, they are trying, at
the same time, for a deal with Capitol. Latest which I've heard is that Dan wants Lee to help him form another band, which will be more like a metal band, as he is currently scurrying through issues of Kerrang!'s Musicians wanted sections, hoping to find a band he likes.
This page will be sorted out in the next couple of months/years?, so expect
changes. I suspect that this introduction will be shortened/edited to solely about
Stony Sleep, and I will have a link to the section specifically on the latest
info, which I hope will feature interviews with the members of the band
and their forthcoming releases, and even, sound samples if I can get hold
of them. I might even make a link from the music section, specifically for
French Car. Please send me info on what you think of the site and any ideas
through my guestbook/comments/direct. I have changed the background colour,
after i was told that the bright green clashed with the Album Colour green
picture at the top of the screen, any opinions, please email me direct
Here are the sites aforementioned containing interviews with the band
Xposed
interview with the band at Chris Houghton's Web page
Album
Review from Xposed
Review
of Stony Sleep's first gig with Lee from Xposed
Interview at the
Blind Youth page
I do intend to do an interview with the band, but haven't had the time,
at present due to the large quantity of work that I have had for my A Levels.
I am also sorry that I could not bring you information of the band's Virgin
Megastore/MTV tour around UK, but will try to provide some better coverage
in the future. I think I have had enough response to keep the site going,
but that does not mean that if you visit, you can feel the need not to sign,
as i like to hear from everyone who visits.
The track that Lee wrote from the single, This Kitten is Clean, and the
track is called "Lee's Concerto". It is an instrumental, but the
interesting part comes at the very end, when Lee and Ben/Chris start mumbling.
Ben/Chris says "Yeah, something like that". To which Lee replies,
"No, it does actually end like that." Now, here it is. Just click
the link. For PC users, it should save as a .wav file, and for Mac users,
you will need ZipIt available from:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~franke/SoundApp/
track3.zip 922k
[I could have done a Quick Time Version, but thought that a wav file would
make it the easiest for PC users, and a simple download for mac users; I
know that if I used Quick Time, I will receive a host of emails from PC
users asking how to open the file, and not being an expert in that field,
I decided on this idea. Also, I was limited in ftp space]
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