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SHANA TOVA

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3 cheery bears drizzling melodic honey onto hot buttered alterno-rawk.Shana Tova switch 'awkward' into 'insanely hummable'...

Shana Tova are pop purveyors boasting more hooks than a Peter Pan convention and more catchy than a Velcro Virus!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/11/2006
Band Website: shanatova.net
Band Members: GEORDIE BLAKE - 1st voice + six string scuttling

LEANNE TAYLOR - 2nd voice + bass wingbeats

ALAN WILSON - 3rd voice + percussive nectar

Influences: Folk wot grace & invade our lives
Social awkwardness
Jeff LeVine comics
Kandinsky
Searching for real Pop bursting with fruity goodness
American Splendor
Klee
Pretending not to be geeks when we may as well just admit we are
80s hand drawn album sleeves
Wile E Coyote for his persistence
Trios of legend (3 amigos, stooges, kings, blind mice, 3 is the magic number etc).
Comet Gain
The Carpenters
Fugazi
Primitives
Soeza
Milky Wimpshake
Thingy
Stapleton
Mew
Dinosaur Jr
Jetplane Landing
No Fun At All
The Starries
Panda Love Unit
Sugar
Minus The Bear
Television Personalities
Nation Of Ulysees
Rival Schools
Husker Du
Socratic
The Hidden Cameras
Delgados
Pinback
Sounds Like: A composite eye of our musical vision...buzz buzz
Record Label: Viann & Violet
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Casting Of The Pods!!

Good Evening all, First things first: we discovered we'd been in a Birmingham newspaper (Birmingham Post) and Geordie was interviewed, but we never even knew it got printed. If anyone has a copy the b...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:20:00 GMT

End of Level Bosses...

As I write this, tomorrow Shana Tova support Cursive: This is a big deal for the band as they grew up under the shadow of bands like Cursive, Q and not U, Weakerthans, Owls, etc etc and when you liste...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 08:38:00 GMT

KILLER THRILLER WAS AN AWESOME SUCCESS!!!!!

Thanks...or indeed FANGS to everyone who slimed their way to the Killer Thriller!!!! Fancy dressers get a special HOOOOOOOOOWWWWWLLLL!!!!!!! Thanks to Ness Noo and Sarah for (wo)manning the door, Suns...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:11:00 GMT

Little Dipper on BBC 6 Music on Steve Lamacq

Just had a text to let me know that Rob from Little Dipper will be speaking LIVE to Steve Lamacq on his show tonight at 6pm. If you read this in time TWIDDLE YOUR DIAL NOOOOOW!!!http://www.bbc.co.uk/6...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:44:00 GMT

Split EP with Little Dipper

Since I've been asked a few times about this and I ain't had any answers for you; just to fill you all in on the split EP details with Little Dipper, all I can say at this stage is that it will defini...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:36:00 GMT

OMG It's 'COOOOMING!!!! Our first EP coming May 4th 2009!!!!

It gives me a gigantic amount of physical and mental thrills to announce LOUDLY that Shana Tova's first EP will be released on Monday 4th May 2009 through Viann & Violet. It's entitled...Shana Tova......
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:31:00 GMT

Upcoming show and the inescapable rise of indiepopdom

Howdy, On Friday 23rd Jan 09 we'll be playing at the Victoria again, one beautiful old school PUB venue....the kind that developers around Birmingham would prefer was levelled for the purposes of h...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Take down your trees....strip the tinsel...

Shana Tova will be going for their first rehearsal of 2009 tomorrow after their show on the 27th December at The Victoria with Johnny Foreigner, Calories, Little Dipper, Miss Haliwell and Kidnapper Be...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Our Biography for the reading....

Shana Tova are accustomed to critical acclaim and a fanatical following from indie record collectors UK-wide, from their roles played in previous musical incarnations: Geordie co-fronted The Starries ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:47:00 GMT

More local press coverage...

Shana Tova appeared in the November 2008 edition of the Edgbaston & Harborne Observer, where they wrote a goooorgeous 500 words on our tuneage, our psychotic lust for the scene, and the fact we're ner...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:35:00 GMT