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Tuesday, August 8th, the Hysterics will be at SpiegelTent opening for Menlo Park.
Check out the updated show calendar for more info on upcomming shows.
Hysterics are so so so so so close to finishing their album it's like
a joke. Final overdubs on Potato Famine, What Swallows a Rainbow and Xerxes and nowww it's all mastering in the next week. The tracks
on the album are gonna be these ones:
Potato Famine, Mostly
Untitled, What Swallows a Rainbow, Uptight Staircas, Radical Chic,
Charlie's Infatuation with Magical Moss, Debris, I Don't Know Man, I
Played Her Pet Sounds She Showed Me Diff'rent Strokes, You Tell
Yourself It's Easy, Ascend Again and Xerxes.
It's gonna be one bammer
lammer jammer. Now to find a label to release it on.
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| Hysterics began as a trim of a dream in early 2004. Oliver Ignatius
had been bouncing around righteous rama lama indie rock bands for a
year or two and was suddenly bandless. It was his second year at St
Ann's school in Brooklyn and Charlie Klarsfeld's first. Oliver and
Charlie initially bonded over a shared appreciation of the Mars Volta
and guitar playing kinship. After no time at all they became closer
than most anyone and decided to form a band based around Oliver's
vocal/rhythm guitar and Charlie's lead guitar/vocal. Initially they
played with a drummer from New Jersey, almost placing an ad in the
paper for a bassist before remembering their school mate and Charlie's
friend Josh Barocas. Josh had the hair of a golden god and was also
the future of the American bass guitar so he was clearly in. Around
that same time they all began to get acquainted with Josh's best
friend Geoff Turbeville (the lungs of a giant) and on one stoned
sunkissed Thursday realized that they must put two and two together
and ask Geoff to drum. They never called the boy from New Jersey
again.
The first practise they ever had clicked like nobody's business. They
became aware that with each bringing a completely different
sensibility they could concoct a stew (a cake!) of pop music twisted
by rampant psychedelia. Songs began to fly out of Oliver and Charlie
and everything was going swimmingly until-in one fell swoop Charlie
was expelled from St Ann's and spent the next few months in various
rehabilitations mostly out of the loop. Hysterics rehearsed
occasionally but were essentially placed on hiatus. Then at the end of
the school year, Geoff was also expelled on trumped up charges. The
band was in crisis, even more so when it was learned that Charlie
would now be going to school in Putney, Vermont, very very far away.
It seemed like the band was over.
BUT! After a miserable summer, the decision was made to regroup and
continue in whatever way they could. Charlie would be able to come
down on many weekends and the band would diligently rehearse and then
get lazy. A fairly miraculous event transpired next of all: JP
Connolly, their biology teacher at St Ann's revealed himself to also
be the curator of vaunted mp3 blog Music for Robots. He heard a demo
of "Mostly Untitled" that Oliver had cut in overdubs during that
summer of discontent and put it on the blog. The response was
surprising to say the least and Oliver found himself propositioned by
MTV for a "You Hear it First" feature. But would Oliver do it without
the band? Would he fuck! He refused a solo spot and wham bang
Hysterics were on the air.
All this was before they had played their first show. But soon they
did, at the Crash Mansion, and spent the next year honing their trade
in live shows, improving with every one and gradually recording their
first album. Now, in 2006, they are settled men. Charlie lives in a
tree in Vermont, pontificating and rationalizing to his heart's
content. Oliver stays at home a lot of the time but enjoys popcorn and
mastodon battles. Josh is really, really stoned. And Geoff is a
superhuman billionaire and will soon be founding the greatest rap
label the world has ever seen.
Until then!
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