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wintergreen

space-age rhythmic pop

About Me

formed, had too many guitars, got rid of some guitars, imposed the constraint that there must always be a tune quite close by (for exceptions see three heads and 11477), released a couple of pop 7"s and then began recording an album in quite a large bathroom

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Member Since: 11/8/2005
Band Website: iwantwintergreen.com
Band Members: alec guitars, technology
andrew drums, pads, triggers
andy vocals, keyboards, guitars, melodica, that kind of thing
annie vocals, keyboards, accordion, toys
jona bass, left hand keyboards, vocals, guitars

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My Blog

newness

hello everyone,we've got some new(ish) demos up on our page. they're perhaps a little bit more representative of the stuff we've been doing recently, though a lack of (expensive) studio time of late h...
Posted by wintergreen on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:22:00 PST

kidz are our future

another one for tonight. 'are our future' was a bit of a live favourite last year, for me at least, and it's now getting a drummerless makeover. fortunately it had lots of looped drums and stuff anywa...
Posted by wintergreen on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:45:00 PST

somewhere in the night

it's been a while then. two gigs, both somewhat more successful than thei all-dayer, have passed. one day we'll record "dance to the dirty dream (number 2)", but that's another story. today's priority...
Posted by wintergreen on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:19:00 PST

virus

we played the bowlie alldayer a few weeks back. it was classic wintergreen - badly prepared, beset by technical problems but including moments of splendour.so, how have we tackled the serious issues t...
Posted by wintergreen on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:18:00 PST

a rehearsal with the aroma of a summer breeze

this week we had our second big practice of the year at a place called downs sounds (www.downssounds.co.uk) in bounds green. it is unlike most rehearsal studios because it:1) smells nice2) has nothing...
Posted by wintergreen on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:57:00 PST

black special

"black special" was, until recently, the government's code for a heightened state of alert based on a non-specific threat. now they've changed this to something like "challenging event coming on strea...
Posted by wintergreen on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:16:00 PST

ooh

hello, annie here posting for the very first time! i'm sure you're all terribly excited. i was inspired by alec's little rant to be more sociable. though really, he can't expect us to be popular if we...
Posted by wintergreen on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:07:00 PST

we have to build panic stations before we can man them

less than a month to the gig and we still haven't decided what instruments we'll have at our disposal. we also don't know all the bits of music that'll be played on those uncertain instruments. apart ...
Posted by wintergreen on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:21:00 PST

go network your face into the gravel

we're not very good at myspace. our stats are utterly, utterly terrible and we only have six comments, none of which mention our music. i think this is because we don't have any annoying "friends" who...
Posted by wintergreen on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:31:00 PST

gig preparations issue 1

following our studio-bound exploits of late we now have to get back to the hard work of playing live, seeing as we have a gig on the 27th of august.first up: drums. elliot's gone done and left us, and...
Posted by wintergreen on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:34:00 PST