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Standing Up Hollywood Style

About Me


This will probably have the most impact if you try and imagine reading it in the voice of the movie preview announcer guy with the deep voice from all the clichéd Hollywood blockbuster trailers...
In late October 2007, an unlikely partnership was forged. She was a feisty and talented comedian slash fiddle virtuoso. He was a somewhat repulsive but yet still somehow alluring editor slash guitarist. Steering away from the obvious brainchild notion of editing comedy videos, they pooled their creative talents in a different way and decided to form a band. That band eventually became known as… STANDING UP HOLLYWOOD STYLE!!!
Now it helps if you kind of imagine a dramatic chase scene and driving montage just to end on a high note
You can read this one in your own voice or perhaps choose a favourite celebrity. I would suggest maybe Bobcat Goldthwait. The choice is up to you…
Jag’s passion for playing music pretty much stems from a second hand Iron Maiden T-shirt. To this day he still hasn’t heard any Iron Maiden songs and at the time, he didn’t even know they were a band. The shirt was a gift from a family friend and quickly became the pick of choice for school casual days. Unintentionally disguised as a music fanatic, Jag stood out to the year level’s token musos, three guys named Cooba, Combi and Space Cadet. Under their collective wings, Jag was shown how to read tablature and play the stereotypical guitarists first song… Nirvana’s “Come as you are”.
Apart from C, C and SC’s coaching and a brief stint of piano lessons (He couldn’t play Greensleves which made his teacher angry so he quit) Jag has never had any formal music tuition. When he finished school, his neighbour was tragically killed in a car accident and Jag was fortunate enough to inherit his nylon string guitar. Jobless, he spent a solid year teaching himself how to play this guitar before finally emerging from his room and re-joining society by getting a job as a pizza chef, where he would often write songs during his lunch breaks.
A few thousand pizzas later, Jag left the restaurant business and spent a year travelling around Europe with two best mates. Together they filmed an independent doco series called Backpackers about their adventures along the way. He took a small travel guitar on the journey and wrote many songs in the back of their motor home as they travelled between countries. The sound recording and editing experience gained during this project carried across to Jag’s passion for music and he now records and produces his songs on the same makeshift home editing suite that was used for the TV series.
In late 2007, Jag met Kat Chishkovsky, a talented fiddle player with a flair for music production and they began to collaborate, working under the name “Standing Up Hollywood Syle”. Their live setup consists of vocals, an acoustic guitar and a violin but when recording, the instrumentation is much more diverse and includes keyboard, mandolin and sampling. The music has a pretty alternative, rocky and emotive sound for an acoustic act and lyrically tends to be a bit edgier than what you might expect from the instrumentation. Their songs are often about very random subject matter as opposed to over saturating the clichéd love-song market and are inspired by everything from an 80’s cartoon super villain to an erotic dream about one of the Golden Girls.
Early solo acoustic versions of some Standing Up Hollywood Style tracks were featured in the Backpackers TV series which has been screened in over ten countries around the world. These tracks have since been re-recorded to include further instrumentation. Check out the video below to see some examples...
So that’s about it. If there’s anything else you want to know, shoot us through an email at [email protected] and we’ll expand our bio just for you. Thanks for your support everyone!
Cheers,
Jag and Kat
STANDING UP HOLLYWOOD STYLE
Standing Up Hollywood Style also has sites at Facebook, Triple j Unearthed, The Sixty One and Mp3.com.au

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Member Since: 2/12/2008
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/standinguphollywoodstyle
Band Members: James Grech and Kat Chishkovsky

If anyone feels the urge to send us a message (hate-mail etc.) and you're more of a traditional emailer than a myspacer, you can get in touch here...
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and for those of you who are too lazy to open thier email browser and type out the address for themselves, you can just click here!

Influences: Gotye, The shins, Queens of the stoneage, Angus and Julia stone, Ray Lamontagne, The white stripes, Ed Harcort, The black keys, The Eels, The strokes, The hives, Kemp, Jeff Buckley, Ben harper, The beautiful girls, Something for Kate, Augie March, Hot hot heat, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Foo fighters, The Fauves, Red hot chilli peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Cody Chesnut, Broken Social Scene, The beatles, John butler trio, Beck, Ben Folds five, Muse, Coldplay, Damien Rice, The Dandy Worhols, The postal service, Weezer, etc, etc.

Sounds Like: Seeing as one of our songs is autoplaying right now, you should already have a pretty good idea what the music sounds like... but for those of you who are hearing impared, who have ridiculously slow internet connections or who cannot figure out the difference between the speaker output jack and the microphone input on your computer, let me try and give you a non-aural description... I guess you could say it's kind of like being gently caressed in an erogenous zone by a hot celebrity you've had a massive crush on for most of your life... Kind of... In a way... In a more acurate way, it's probably just like a guy singing and playing acousic guitar while a girl plays a fiddle

In addition to fronting STANDING UP HOLLYWOOD STYLE, Jag is also a member of THE GOOD CHINA , a 9 piece collaboration from singer/songwriters around Melbourne. It was expertly crafted together by the multi-skilled Cara, from Melbourne band 16 MILLIMETRE .

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Facebook page

Hey guys!  I've just set up a Facebook page for the band so if you fabulous bastards feel like showing your support, we'd be chuffed if you would drop by and become a fan!  It's easy and fun!!  All yo...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:56:00 GMT

Debut gig at GB...

Last night we had our first ever official gig at the stupendous Great Britain Hotel in Richmond (http://www.myspace.com/gbrichmond). We were preceded by the incredibly talented Joel Griffith from SubA...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:20:00 GMT

S.U.H.S featured on MP3.COM.AU

Hey guys! The legends at MP3.COM.AU have listed our song "Postcard from Dimension X" as one of their Featured Tracks on their homepage which is absolute quality news. Hopefully this will give us a b...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:53:00 GMT

"Me and My Wife"... The back-story

Hi guys. For anyone who is interested I thought I would give a little bit of a back-story for the song "Me and my wife" which was essentially co-written by a good friend of mine, James Hannah. James...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:04:00 GMT

Change Film clip shoot at the GB

A mate of ours from Finland, the very talented Film-Maker Aleksi Raij had recently been holidaying in Oz. Four days before he flew back home, we were having a massive night out on the piss and he dru...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:46:00 GMT

More Kat than you can handle...

Hey guys! Welcome to the official site (because we're poor musos and can't afford to buy a proper one) for the two piece acoustic outfit, "Standing Up Hollywood Style". Thanks for dropping by. I ju...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:46:00 GMT