Starfish

The waiting was long for Human UFO from the Copenhagener Starfish band. Almost 10 years have passed since the release of the EP Yellow Man - so what has happened since then?The song Yellow Man became a nice little radio hit, and Starfish was sent to the studios to make new recordings by CMC, which at the time was a newly started Danish recording company. However, the cooperation with CMC fizzled out, but the recordings got Starfish to New York in the autumn of 1997. Through a common friend, the local musician and producer George Kilby jr. arranged a pocketful of concerts for the band, and he was very pleased with what he heard. Before going home Starfish had signed a management contract with George Kilby jr. A documentary from the trip was later shown on the national Danish television in the youth programme PULS. Within the next two years the band made some trips to New York, and they performed in legendary places as CBGBs, The Bitter End, Kennys Castaways, Arlenes Grocery etc. In 2000 George Kilby jr. arranged two concerts in London. Among the audience was David Oddie, a veteran within the business, who had earlier worked for among others Bee Gees, Rod Stewart and Status Quo. George Kilby and David Oddie agreed to share the manager role, and in 2001 Brian was sent off to London to remix the new number Silver Boys with the producer team 2Phunkies. The result was a rather pumped up version of the song, and the song was later and in a third version included on the album Human UFO under the title SilverPeople. The remixed and pumped up version of Silver Boys was tested by DJs on BBCs Radio One and actually received some good reviews on the way. In 2002 Starfish began recording what was to become the album Human UFO in the Sweet Silence studios. Sweet Silence is synonymous with the legendary producer Flemming Rasmussen, who has turned the buttons for everybody, from Gasolin (DK) to Metallica (US), and with Flemming Rasmussen and the technician Anders Holm Mortensen an emaciated session started, which lasted almost 3 years. In 2003 Starfish signed a contract with Sweet Silence, who had just extended their business to also be a record company. There was every indication of a fast expedition, but in December 2004 the manager suddenly stopped answering the phone. As a rule this is a bad omen, and after some months of confusion it turned out that the company had lost a lot of money and the cash box was closed. After a short round at the recording companies of the city, the master tape ended up at Supersonic Records, who published Human UFO in October 2005. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1