Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
You know that moment when your favourite Italian rock-noir band announces a crowd funding project so they can play their greatest hits with a full orchestra backing them? Belladonna’s Orchestral Album is looking for funding. I’m in.
I’ve been following Italian Rock Noir band Belladonna for years now. They’ve stayed independent, turned down various record label contracts, and continued to push out some alluring albums. The latest release, ‘Shooting Dice With God’, has been officially released today. I’ve been listening to the final mix of the album since SXSW in March, and this is one album I’m more than happy to recommend.
Belladaonna‘s Dani Macchi, via Facebook, on scoring 20,000 downloads of their new album,” And There Was Light…” Wow, almost 20.000 downloads in a week! Yes it’s an illegal download website, so we won’t see a penny out of all these downloads… but it’s hard for us to give a damn about that, we are too busy celebrating the fact that so many people chose to add our beloved latest album in their collection! Pop quiz, is Macchi right? I think the honest answer is yes. If someone had approached the band and said they could get their music into the
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TPCRock_Friday200/tpn_rock_friday_20110722_200.mp3] Yes, there are more than 200 shows, with Rock Again Shows, Band Sessions, Guest Hosts and other episodes, but #200 is still #200, so a chance to pick out some favourites and play them very loud. With Liquid Carousel, The Flare Up, Magdalene, Rattlebus, Stone Lake, The Loaded Dice, Lily Green, The Martians, Locksley, Belladonna, Mike Borgia, and The Revolutions. And if you want to add the show to your podcast listening, here’s the RSS link, and here’s the iTunes page.
Belladonna are at Camden’s Purple Turtle tonight, going on stage at 9pm. Thoroughly recommended, even if you have no idea what a "Rock Noir" band from Italy would sound like.
The annual festive frenzy, with The Dollyrots, DJ Rico and Marcie, Kevin Devine, Wiser Time, FuMP, Robin and the Giant, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Belladonna, Ukulele Jim, Mike Borgia & Juliet Echo, and Geoff Smith. Hosted by Ewan Spence.
