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Open Choir Fire

Getting a show in San Diego is a bitch!

About Me

Seattle Sound Magazine May/June 2006:

Open Choir Fire's debut EP assembles a richly diverse collection of sounds and styles. By turns, it reverts to the screeching guitars and guttural screams of early Modest Mouse, Pixie-esque plodding progressions, and the fusion of syrupy pop rhythms and up-tempo beats. Amo DelBello's embittered vocals sound almost exactly like Aveo's William Wilson, so it's difficult to tell with which of these styles the band ultimately wants to identify. If Open Choir Fire simply subsists as an amorphous amalgamation of them all, the resulting dynamicism will undoubtedly win them fans.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2005
Band Website: www.openchoirfire.com " openchoirfire.com
Band Members: Amo - Sings and guitars and sleeplessness; Brian - bass guitars and makes sense; MC Scram - Siko Sticks and Tyko Trucks
Influences:Amo has no musical influences because he doesn't like/listen to music. Terry refuses to admit that he has any influences, probably because "eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." Brian is influenced by American Idol re-runs and overdoses of Tang.
Sounds Like: see influences and the press in our blog
Type of Label: None

My Blog

9/3/07 Dare to Dream to Raise Awareness update

Don't look so sadI know it's overBut life goes onAnd this old worldWill keep on turningLet's just be gladWe had some time to spend togetherThere's no need to watch the bridgesThat we're burningLay you...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:29:00 PST

9/1/07 Dare to Dream to Raise Awareness tour update

Well, we pulled it off. Last night was a stunning success. We played a delightful old-timey set at the Red Room about 8:30-9:15 or so. The best parts were with old Timo playing on the skins. Thanks to...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:28:00 PST

8/31/07 "Dare to Dream to Raise Awareness" update

Hey we're in Tucson. We enjoyed green chile omelets and 2lbs of bacon for breakfast. Amo is washing the sleeping bags because they are full of spiders.Played at modified arts last night in phoenix it'...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:43:00 PST

8/30/07 Dare to Dream to Raise Awareness update

at wheatberry in Pasadena. Yellow tortilla. Don't know. Don't know. Thanks to Sarah and Orin for letting us stay at their place.  And Mikey Mike for the same here in papa new guinea sa dena....
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:10:00 PST

8/28/07 "Dare to Dream" Tour update

After much discussion, we've decided to dub this west coast tour the 2007 Open Choir Fire "Dare to Dream Tour to Raise Awareness". Yes. Let's see. I'm sitting at a wooden table in San Francisco. We ar...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:50:00 PST

8/26/07 tour update

OK, now we're in business. I've got a least one confirmed reader.Thursdays Seattle show was stunning success, great bands and all our good friends I mean all our good friends came out to offer us tidi...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST

8/25/07 tour update

Thanks to Brian and Erin for letting us stay at their respective places.Since I don't think a single person is at all distantly interested in reading our tour blog, I'm not going to write anything abo...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:05:00 PST

Lineout! "Open Choir Fire’s Music isn’t Really So Terrible"

Well we were featured in this week's Stranger Lineout music blog as the BAND OF THE WEEK.  Once again our douchebag drummer makes an ass out of himself and his entire family. We are currently an...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:11:00 PST

Ball of Wax vol. 9 is out now!

Hey for those of you who weren't able to make it out to the release show at the Sunset lo those couple weeks ago, know this: You can still get it NOW online from our good pal Levi (while sup...
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

Check it out! Were on the CMJ and Sonicbids websites! (week of 8/6/07)

We were selected as a "CMJ Sonicbids Spotlight Artist" and have links to our EPK posted at www.cmj.com and www.sonicbids.com, as well as a little blurb about us on the CMJ website at http://prod1.cmj....
Posted by Open Choir Fire on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:55:00 PST