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Astra Nova

About Me

Astra Nova is a band.
We're stretchy, but we're not rubber.
We have promise, but we're not a ring.
Ebert and Roper gives Astra Nova 4 thumbs up.
Astra Nova thinks that Ebert and Roper are entertaining, but art following an old formula. We think it was done by Siskel and...somebody...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/12/2006
Band Website: www.astranovaband.com
Band Members: orange ghost =guitars, key bass, bass, synth, bells
pink ghost =nord, guitar, bells, vox
blue ghost =drums, vox
Influences: Radiohead, Jesca Hoop, Shiner, Sunny Day Real Estate, Edison Glass, Feist, Frou Frou, and Broken Social Scene
Sounds Like: Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold as painted by George Seurat.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Guitar tracks have been cut

what up my people b-ran in the hizzy--  listening back to the guitar tracks i overdubbed last sunday, I'm excited to get this all mixed and out there for yall.  Used the new MJ on The Tide&n...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:55:00 GMT

Studio update 1

Friday night, after a very busy week, the band set up to do drums tracks in a nice sounding room at a local church building. The acoustics were great and the drums were sounding huge from the first pl...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:46:00 GMT

Recording Studio and Custom Guitar Pedals

    Hey Everyone, just wanted to update you on what we've been up to. We played our first show in quite a while at The Brick, and it  was a lot of fun. We tried out a lot...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:45:00 GMT

Tribute to our bass player Dan Clemens

For those of you who don't know our bass player Dan passed away on April 30th, 2007. He battled with juvenile diabetes and although the exact cause of his death is unknown it was most likely due to co...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:15:00 GMT

Catching fire......or Run for the fire exits!

Yahweh Underground show 1-6-07   Wow! What a strange show. Nothing seemed to be working right. Power amps going out. I don't know what happened next, but we were itching to play after a long hiat...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:25:00 GMT

We have a new member! & other news

After a while of everything being kinda up in the air we're really excited to anounce that we have added a new member making us a five piece.  His name is Brandon and he is a really talented guit...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:59:00 GMT

Moving forward

Just to let you all know what's going on with us.  Our guitar player Matt did move to Oklahoma to go to school.  He is doing fine.  Even though we would like him playing with us full ti...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:14:00 GMT

New Chapter

Well, we have some big news.  Our good friend and lead guitarist, Matt, will be leaving us for Oklahoma.  He feels that the next step for him is to go to school for Pastoral Ministries. ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:17:00 GMT

Just an update.

What's up everyone?  Sorry we've been quiet.  Still workin' on the demo.  The sounds are killer.  It just keeps getting better and better.  We're anxious to put more musi...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:34:00 GMT

News

Yawn...............   Hey folks. Played our last scheduled gig for this spring last night at The Oasis in Parkville, MO. Cool place and cool people!!!!!  Thanks to the staff there for a...
Posted by on Sat, 13 May 2006 21:47:00 GMT