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vandaveer

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About Me


VANDAVEER is the partly sunny, mostly cloudy, town-folk, city-pop song & dance routine penned and put forth by DC-based songsmith Mark Charles. Grace & Speed, Vandaveer's debut record, entered this great big world in March 2007 via DC's Gypsy Eyes Records, earning stellar reviews and repeated comparisons to Donovan, Dylan, Drake, Waits, and scores more. Vandaveer has enjoyed the good fortune of performing up and down the east coast and beyond with a host of humbling artists, including Vashti Bunyan, Alejandro Escovedo, Smog, The Ditty Bops, Vetiver, Joan As Policewoman, and his dear friends in DC's ramshackle collective, The Federal Reserve.
For more information and/or general browsing pleasure please visit www.vandaveer.net
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
"You may not yet know the name Mark Charles, but you should. When he's not tearing it up with The Apparitions, he's creating well-crafted modern folk music under the moniker Vandaveer. Grace & Speed is superb from start to finish, showing [Vandaveer]'s gift for storytelling and sense of economy." -- PERFORMING SONGWRITER MAGAZINE
"The Vandaveer name carries with it far more of Dylan's spirit than other contributors to the [folk] genre... This is a singer who can tell a pitch-black story in a way that makes it sound more like unfortunate happenstance than world-moving tragedy, as an observer rather than an interpreter." -- POP MATTERS
"This generation's Nick Drake." -- XM CAFE
"Very dark and beautifully grim. It’s like the Decemberists with a Tom-Waits-by-streetlight feel, and just a hint of Andrew Bird in the vocals.” -- YOU AIN'T NO PICASSO
BOOKING:
Mark Charles
[email protected]
703.477.5129
UK PRESS:
Peggy Manning
Fistral PR
[email protected]
+44 (0)161 835 4142
US PRESS:
Tony Bonyata
Pavement PR
[email protected]
262.903.7775
GENERAL INFO:
Gypsy Eyes Records
Kalani Tifford
[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Band Website: vandaveer.net
Band Members: ON ALL FRONTS:

Mark Charles: melodies, words, instruments & mistakes...

ON THE ROAD:

Rose: the loveliest harmonies this side of Eden
Tom Hnatow: any music-making toy within arm's reach
Robby Catholic: drumbs, drumbs

ON THE RECORD:

Robby Cosenza: and more drumbs
Justin Craig: electric guitar, drums
Chris Sullivan: clarinet, ukulele

FOR THE RECORD:

Duane Lundy: producing, coaxing, mixing, guiding, recording & ridiculing

Influences: tom waits :: bob dylan :: paul mccartney :: john lennon :: nick drake :: magnetic fields :: radiohead :: andrew bird :: leonard cohen :: tom petty :: scout niblett :: kitty hawk :: beatles :: kinks :: drinks :: things :: montybeast :: queen josephine :: johnny cash :: super furry animals :: neil young :: willie nelson :: david bowie :: feist :: joni mitchell :: c3po :: shel silverstein :: m. ward :: neko case :: beck :: flaming lips :: sesame street :: 3-2-1 contact :: the electric company :: the princess bride :: spinal tap :: the old testament :: saved by the bell :: pearl jam :: nirvana :: the shins :: the federal reserve :: the 90s :: the 80s :: the late 70s :: star wars, not star trek :: conan the barbarian, the destroyer, & the o'brien :: mr. show :: mr. rogers :: mr. garrison, my elementary school music teacher :: wesleyan hymns :: wesley willis hymns :: bruce springsteen :: michael jackson :: madonna :: madonna :: madonna :: lady madonna :: and other stuff too... like pink floyd :: and pink floyd...
Sounds Like: Kentucky (the state).
Nebraska (the record).
Record Label: Gypsy Eyes Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Knee-deep into Vandaveer record 2, I suppose now is as good a time as any to update this ole blog (I did it! I did it! Look, ma! I'm a blogger!)... As I type, my dear friend Justin Craig (he of Scourg...
Posted by vandaveer on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:23:00 PST

VNDVR XMS EP

hear ye, hear ye, ye millions o' myspacers!when vandaveer was a wee little chap he played bob cratchit in his middle school's production of "a christmas carol." we were 12, 13 years old tops, but the ...
Posted by vandaveer on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:48:00 PST

What I really need right now is a 3500th friend...

Legion of Myspacers,I'm feeling down, unfit, unsure, and just a little bit lonely right now. What I really need right now is a 3500th friend. Is that too much to ask? In this crazy world? I mean, I've...
Posted by vandaveer on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:49:00 PST