Five Star Dive

Music:

Member Since: 10/2/2004
Band Website: fivestardive.us/
Band Members: David Sempier

HEY PRESS PLAY FOR A TASTE OF THE NEW CD:
The song is titled "Sundown" and it's the 3rd track off of the new EP titled "A Fighter's Heart" which will be released 2008...I had fun recording the songs on my Mac and Pro Tools...hope you like the clip...it's been a learning process

Some things said about the previous record:

"Shutdown'...Fantastic! One of the best tracks I've heard."

"Perfect'...Outstanding nuf said!"

"Silence'...Strong instrumental intro, Franz Ferdinand-like, a great song."

---Billboard

Here's the first video we ever made...Shutdown

"4 Stars Holy Shit, the train from the 80s just pulled in again. Except this time it's some rock in the vein of Echo and the Bunnymen with some cheesier Flock of Seagulls synthesizer stuff thrown in for Molly Ringwald's approval. I like this. Solid from start to finish."

---Origivation Magazine

7 out of 10...With "Stuck Between These Lines" you can do a time-voyage to the eighties and with that attractive mixture of alternative, gothic, rock and lots of pop with even a small dose of punk-influences not only a voyage between the times but also between musical dimensions.

---blurb taken from the Obliveon Magazine review

If you missed us at the now closed CBGB, NY

Forget The Strokes! Screw Interpol! Not to suck anyone's dick but you should all check out this band from New York called Five Star Dive. Two of their biggest influences is The Smiths and Joy Division. And unlike frikkin' Interpol, their lead singer doesn't try to sound like Ian Curtis! Killer dude!

---Tecknobitch

"Before we Manage to take over the world, We are Going to have a little Fun Listening to a lot of Great Music. Like tonight. The caliber of the Local stuff is Almost surpassing the Mainstream...FIVE STAR DIVE is Goth? That’s what the Reviews say. Possibly from the dark Lyrics, but the Music is Pure Hard Indie. Some of the songs have Those four letter words that you wouldn’t Want sensitive Ears listening to, but They are well-placed four-letter words. And the music’s the thing."

--- from The Fevered Brain of Radio Mike
Influences: Life.
Anger.
Wild Mood Swings.
Foam.
Bondage.
Relationships.
Love.
Nature.

“Emotions masquerading as thought”

"Is the planet shaking or is it just me?"

"I Sleep With 1 Eye Open...Live With 1 Eye Closed"
Sounds Like:

A short list of a very long list of bands that made me the way I am:

The Cure
Cranes
Placebo
Echo and the Bunnymen
James
Adam and the Ants
(early) Killing Joke
Fugazi
Dinosaur jr...

I have been writing on my body since day 1 of me playing and writing music...it started out where I wrote song lyrics on my arm, anyway I'm SO SICK of seeing other idiots copying this and it's always the lame ass words on the knuckle/finger...write this on your hand so when the camera takes a pic of you placing your hands together it reads "I Suck Ass"

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