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Manion Street

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About Me

If you have quesions about Manion Street, you will need to ask the Mayor. About me? I love my baby girl more than life itself. Without her, I truly would not be the Manion that I am. Not to mention, I have the greatest friends in the world. I love to love, and love to rock.... Come take a listen at www.myspace.com/anaura and www.anaura.com. I hope you enjoy. www.myspace.com/jeffersonstreet www.myspace.com/highwaypatrolrock---Video for Man in a Suit (from self titled EP)EPK for, "If we get away with this"

My Interests

My baby girl, love and Anaura.

I'd like to meet:

I always enjoy meeting people that make me say, "hmmm, glad i met them".

Music:

Anaura, Jefferson Street, Pinky (you know who you are), The Dimes, KENT, The Motorhomes, Beach Boys Beach Boys Beach Boys (can I say it enough)? Muse, The Cure, The Doves, Red House Painters, Her Space Holiday, Adorable, Donald Meints, The Cardigans, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Svc, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Ours, Pedro the Lion, (old) S.Pumpkins, Billie Holiday, John Vanderslice, (old) Rush, YES, Queens of the Stoneage, Kyuss, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Bread, NWA, Keith Green, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard, Duran Duran, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Foo Fighters, Prince, Michael Jackson, Justin T, and more. We (Anaura) have also been very fortunate to meet many cool bands which have become great friends in our rock ventures. To name a few, Lowrise (SF), The Disappointment (SF), Addison (SF), Jonah (Portland), The Carolines (Portland), The Dimes (Portland), Derby (Portland), Four Minute Mile (SF), and once again I can't say enough about our friend Josh Pinkston which is "Jefferson Street" (LA), MAP (LA), Summer Darling (LA). We are all honored to have you all as friends on and off stage.

Movies:

Jim Carey movies (the serious roles), Steve Martin, Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, Boogie Nights, Rockstar, Almost Famous, Tom Hanks movies, Saving private Ryan, A Christmas Story, Harold and Maude, Touch, and more.

Television:

Miami Vice, 24, The Greatest American Hero

Books:

im not much of a bookreader, but i am a firm believer on the value of childrens books. "The giving tree", "something queer is going on", "goodnight moon", "where the wild things are", other then that, i love music and drumming magazines such as "modern drummer", jazz drummer, and the newspaper. Rolling Stone usually gets my attention too..

Heroes:

My beautiful baby girl, and many great drummers which i look up to like (to name a few) Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Bill Bruford, Jimmy Chamberlain, Dave Weckl, Neil Peart, Carter Beauford and the list goes on. I have many heroes in music all around, (Bassists, songwriters and composers of many genres).

My Blog

Anaura has completed recording. Cd release January 24 (SF)

Yes, it has been a good 100 plus hours of recording, mixing and (next week) mastering our new release, but well worth it. The cd is titled All the secrets you know, and we will be playing it for the f...
Posted by Manion Street on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:32:00 PST

New Anaura songs posted for your enjoyment

Come to the Anaura page, and take a listen to some new posted songs. Progress is being made in the studio on the new album "All the secrets you know", which we are targeting to be ready by Decembers e...
Posted by Manion Street on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:05:00 PST

finished drum tracks for upcoming 3rd Anaura release

Tomorrow we begin guitar and bass tracks, and we are very much looking forward to getting the new cd out to everyone hopefully late September-ish. Drum tracks are complete, and best of all, everyone s...
Posted by Manion Street on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:21:00 PST

Check out Jonah Live clips

I gotta say I am proud to call these boys friends. They have just posted many live versions of songs done at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland when they played with Silversun Pickups. Here are all the ...
Posted by Manion Street on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:16:00 PST

Anaura interview with KCSC radio in Chico, CA. Enjoy....

http://kcscradio.com/index.php?start_from=50&ucat=&archive=& subaction=&id=&click on the link and scroll down to the January 17th to find a hometown interview with Alex and Josh from Anaura prior to th...
Posted by Manion Street on Thu, 31 May 2007 04:08:00 PST

ANAURA in SF thursday April 26th with The Dimes and Jonah

Hey Friends,Our Southern California tour was a blast! We had a great time playing new venues and introducing (as well as ironing out) all our new songs, as well as getting to know each other on stage ...
Posted by Manion Street on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:42:00 PST

Anaura showdates for April. Manteca here we come.

4.14.07 The Rusty Hook (Manteca) 1 yr anniversary4.17.07 Last Day Saloon (santa rosa, ca)4.18.07 The Mint (LA) 7:00pm Anaura time4.19.07 Thrusters (San Diego)4.20.07 Daddio's (San Diego)4.21.07 TBA (S...
Posted by Manion Street on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:08:00 PST

Jefferson Street March 18th at 9pm SF

As seen on myspace.com/jeffersonstreet: Jefferson Street March, 18 2007 at The Make-Out Room 9pm 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, California 94110 Cost : $6 - 21 and up Josh Manion (Anaura, Highwa...
Posted by Manion Street on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:49:00 PST

Anaura vamping up for the April tour. (A band of three)

So if you haven't heard, Anaura is now officially a band of three again. Our guitarist of the past couple years (Thad) is pursuing other things. Word has it, he may be buying a vinyard and who knows, ...
Posted by Manion Street on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST

I am happy to announce an upcoming Jefferson Street (SF)show

An evening with JEFFERSON STREET MAKEOUT ROOM (SAN FRANCISCO) Sunday March 18 $6 " 9:00pm 3225 22nd street (between mission and valencia) www.makeoutroom.com WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JEFFERSONSTREET New songs...
Posted by Manion Street on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:28:00 PST