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FULL

About Me

FULL is a six-piece live avant.pop.chamber.rocktronica sextet living in Seattle, originally from Detroit featuring Ms. Wings (vocals), Switch (bass and tweaks), BrassWax (trumpet), Tacket (vibraphone and percussion), Sandon (acoustic/electronic drums), and Pudd'n (bowtar and guitar).
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT FULL:
"FULL has managed to make complex, shifting, and what should be difficult music sound like pure pop. It's a recipe that's destined for the big time."
www.AllMusic.com
"...the most innovative sound I've heard come out of Michigan."
www.MichiganBands.com
"Dimstar is something of a triumph."
www.SplendidEzine.com
"This impressively eclectic Motor City export funnels Portishead's angelic mope through a factory of hyperactive drum samples, vibraphone sprinkles, and brass blasts"
Seattle Weekly
"Imagine Portishead crossed with Tortoise at their jazziest, and shiver in anticipation."
The Stranger (Seattle)
"[Dimstar is] the surprise favorite of the year, the one that swooped in unexpectedly and ROCKED US! BEST of 2003"
Both Sides of the Surface
"...a head-spinningly creative local (Detroit) band who, by all rights, should be the recipients of all the attention and praise that is currently being lavished upon the White Stripes..."
www.NoRipcord.co.uk (UK)
"...perfectly moody and moodily perfect."
www.SponicZine.com
"...vocalist Ms. Wings has an absolutely stellar voice - her vocals and harmonies would be absolutely show stopping"
www.Adequacy.net

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/03/2005
Band Website: http://www.rememberfull.com
Band Members: ms wings::vocals
switch::bass/tweaks
brasswax::trumpet
tacket::vibraphone and percussion
sandon::acoustic and electronic drums
Influences: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, Sloth
Sounds Like: "FULL seem like nothing else on Earth - a furious, terrifyingly rambunctious collision of jazz dissonance, pop philanthropy, punk energy, hyperrhythmic derangment and avant-garde exploration." www.SplendidEzine.com

"They call it avant chamber rock, and while throughout Dimstar FULL often comes off faux jazzy, slick, and too deliberate, beneath the surface this record is really a masterful cross of early solo Björk somnambulance, India Arie soul, and utopian Tortoise-ized post-Disneyland sounds." www.AllMusic.com

"It would be quite easy to compare them to the likes of an experimental Radiohead but luckily FULL are more interesting than that." www.Phase9.tv (UK)

"...Beth Gibbons, Bjork and Prefuse 73 are appropriate comparisons, but the music's sheer organic intensity is warmer than those artists imply." SponicZine

"...they embrace a wide range of instrumental sentiments (ranging from cellos, vibraphones and trumpets to your more standard set) and risk venturing off into the parallels of drum n' bass, jazz and rock. There is no 'typical FULL sound'." www.SoundTheSirens.com

"The music is dreamy, jazzy, loungy, almost trip-hop, and all around cool." www.CollectedSounds.com

"Evocative, sexy, energetic, mellow, anything but what you most expect, [Dimstar] is a beautiful mix of soul. Exotic, haunting, dreamy, psychotic, these songs are a trip through layers of metaphor and complexity while all the more pleasing to the ear and shifting emotion." www.CoolGrrrls.com
Record Label: MadPeeps

My Blog

Halloween X 2 = FULL + Goondocks + E276 w/ BrassWax

*** GET YOUR COSTUME ON! GET YOUR YOUR DRINK ON! GET TO THE PARTIES! ***HandPicked Entertainment foists three acts on two nights to celebratethis year's Halloween. In order of appearance, check it out...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:09:00 GMT

UK says: FULL more interesting than Radiohead!

Britain's Phase 9 TV exclaims: ?It would be quite easy to compare FULLto the likes of an experimental Radiohead, but luckily they are moreinteresting than that? (www.phase9.tv). Wow, and - er - thanks...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:28:00 GMT

1st live appearance in months - May 10!

Greets and deets!---FULL w/ Umber Sleeping &The Tallest Building in the WorldWEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006@ High Dive, 513 N 36th, FremontDoors at 8pm, FULL at 9pm, 21+http://www.rememberfull.comhttp://www....
Posted by on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:42:00 GMT

FULL: BrassWax to play Rock Lottery (Neumos, April 29)

PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS! PEEP THIS!*FULL's still in the studio working out its fourth album, but meanwhile, catchtrumpeter BrassWax at Seattle's second annual ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:42:00 GMT

FULL [heart] February

1. UPCOMING LIVE DATES 2. CD GIVEAWAY 3. INTRODUCING JONNY SONIC *** 1. LIVE DATES IN THE COMING WEEKS Monday, January 30 FULL w/ Cuchata & Supermassive @ Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison, Seat...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:06:00 GMT

Happy New Year from FULL!

In the absence of any pressing news, here's a list of our New Year's Resolutions, in ordering of increasing likelihood that we'll be sticking with them past next week: * Stop smoking while wearin...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:02:00 GMT

Upcoming Shows!

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Posted by on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:06:00 GMT

New FULL review...

FULL 'DESPERANDUM' (MAD PEEPS / HAND PICKED)Hailing from Detroit initially, but now resident in Seattle, this five-piece band appear to be the logical successors of the trip-hop movement popularised b...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:15:00 GMT

FULL: live in PDX for BrassWax's b-day!

That's right. November's one and only live night of FULL madness: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 FULL w/ 3 Leg Torso, Cozy The Fez Ballroom and Lounge 316 SW 11th, Portland, OR 9pm doors, $5 (dirt cheap...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:54:00 GMT

A matter of life and undeath!

Two orders of business: 1) Costume ball on Halloween night in Seattle! 2) BrassWax's birthday party in Portland - Nov 10! ************ 1) First things first: BRING PUMPKINS TO THE COSTUM...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:59:00 GMT