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About Me

Variety Show's goal is to get our music to your ears and into your head BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. That could mean you hear our version of the songs or other artists performing them. Anyone who wants to is invited to cover our songs in their live acts. We will provide lyrics and chords if needed. When you record your first album and become a big rock star, you can start paying us royalties at that time. Until then, the songs are free to use! Just let us know who you are and which songs you are using. Contact us if you would like more songs—there are many more available than the handful here on MySpace—and songs can also be written on commission.Dan Oliver has been writing and recording music since 2002 and Brian Gay has been in a number of bands over the years, playing both bass and guitar. These include Government Issue, Savage Beliefs, The Watchmen, Buzzmuscle, and The Indicators. Brian currently plays guitar in the Chicago garage rock band The Emerald Lizards. CD NOW AVAILABLE!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/07/2008
Band Members: Dan Oliver, Brian Gay
Influences: Overheard conversations, the el train, Belleville, Kansas City, the D.C. Punk scene, film noire... lots of music from lots of genres: Elvis Costello, Wilco, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, The Beatles, Wire, Joe Strummer, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Kings of Leon, White Stripes, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Kinks, Hound Dog Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, Alfred Hitchcock, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Nick Lowe, Jet, The D4, Johnny Cash, The Meat Puppets, REM, Louis Jordan, Stanley Kubrick, Crime and the City Solution, Jarvis Cocker, The Cars, Radio Birdman, Billy Wilder, The Shins, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Captain Kangaroo and the Donnas.Special thanks to Ayman Samman for his vocal inspiration (and backing vocals on White Trans Am), and to John Alderson for his mojo and harp and sax playing on Lovin' You Girl and Sometimes a Girl.
Sounds Like: You tell us!
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Variety Show now on iTunes!

As promised in our previous blog - our album All About You is now available on iTunes!This is great for you because you can buy the whole album as mp3s, or if you don't feel like shelling out $9.99 fo...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:39:00 GMT

Variety Show on the air

Hey everybody,We're on the radio! Internet radio, that is. Without our even lifting a finger, the influential program, The Little Lighthouse , hosted by Stanislav Zabic has chosen to feature Variety S...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:13:00 GMT

CD NOW AVAILABLE!!

Variety Show's new 11 song CD - All About You - is now available from CD Baby! You can purchase either the physical CD, or a digital download! Check it out at http://cdbaby.com/cd/varietyshow
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:19:00 GMT

Variety Show album

Variety Show's first album - "All About You" is HERE! Go to cdbaby.com to buy it, either as mp3s or as a hard copy. What's next for us you might ask? We're thinking global domination.
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:21:00 GMT