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The Sailing

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Member Since: 07/11/2004
Band Website: randy.com
Band Members:
Michael Kirkland - Bass

Gus Stathes - Drums

Tech Honors - Vocals & Keyboard

James Webster - Guitar & Vocals

Influences: Radiohead, Quasi, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Blur, The Flaming Lips, Video Game Music (especially Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Nobuyuki Hara, & Naoki Kodaka), Muse, Oasis, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails, Grandaddy, Led Zeppelin, Guided By Voices, and Kraftwerk.

Sounds Like: Muse, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Explosions In The Sky, Doves, Kent, Hope Of The States, and, yes, probably Radiohead too...
Record Label: Squids Eye Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Shiny Boy funs!

Hey, asshole! Vote for us to open for Shiny Toy Guns at The Madison Theater! All you have to do is send an e-mail to [email protected] telling them that you wanna vote for The Sailing. Easy, huh...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:45:00 GMT

Something new...

Weeeeeeellllllllll, Sailbotz we have a little bit of news.  As you may have noticed, there are some different songs up on the page.  We took down all the older stuff and "Indifferent Girl," ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:12:00 GMT

A Website Is Born

You know, like A Ghost?Anyway, Am Sailz officially has a website. It's www.thesailing.org, but unfortunately I (Tech) am not savvy enough with the infranets to "link" you to that page with the aforem...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:18:00 GMT

The Infinity Gate is finished.

As of 11pm on Sunday, Jan. 20th, our album The Infinity Gate is finished. It will soon be sent off to Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service to get it's final touch ups, then off to press via Dayto...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Hatching of the egg

As of 4:45 AM Wednesday morning, Mike Kirkland (gem bass fâtum) is a daddy! His wife, Marissa gave birth to a little sailor girl named Lorien Eloise Kirkland. She's 7lbs, 10oz and 19.5 inches.-Gus
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:27:00 GMT

The most important video ever made.

PRAISE GOD.
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:30:00 GMT

Sad, But Good News...

Well, we have come to the conclusion that it is in our best interest to axe one of the songs from the album. "Gun Metal Trees" will not be on The Infinity Gate (which means that it will more than lik...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:34:00 GMT

Stuff For’m U’zom

Have you listened to the new song we just put up, "Glass Altar?" Like it? Then you should buy a copy of "Squids Eye Presents Dayton, Ohio Vol. 1" from Gem City Records! Or Amazon.com! Or directly ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:19:00 GMT

Regarding "The Infinity Gate"

Just wanted to clarify that while the name of our album shares its name with something from the Star Wars Extended Universe, our infinity gate and the Star Wars infinity gate have nothing to do with e...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:51:00 GMT

Sailz in the DDN blog

This is HERE! Mmmmmbop.The Sailing to play Canal Street on FridayBy Kris Neises | Monday, August 6, 2007, 11:13 PMI heard straight from the mouth of the Sailing's drummer Gus that the band has finishe...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:29:00 GMT