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About Me

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Fishing for Comets is a four-piece band from Dallas Texas that is known for their sunny songwriting, smart lyrics and captiating vocals.
At the 2005 & 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards the band won the award for Best Folk Acoustic act and received a nomination for Best Female Vocalist (Camille Cortinas) three years in a row. 2006 has seen the release of the bands first full length album "Scattered Among the Archipelago", recorded b Chris Machart at Purple Pear Studios and mixed by Derek Taylor. The album looks at the marriage of inspiration, and art and how the two can change a person's life. "We are Like Water" is featured in the film "Float", winner at the SoCal Independent Film Festival, and the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
In 2007 Camille Cortinas hosted a documentary celebrating music and art in Dallas Texas. Fishing for Comets was featured in the documentary and their music provided the soundtrack. 2008 the band performed "Lies" live on television talk show "The Gordon Keith Show" which can be seen to the left.
"Bouncy, beautiful, and acoustically driven, Fishing For Comets is a worthwhile effort and listen". -Jake Nuckolls, cdreviews.com
"What's wrong with a little happiness? Nothingâ€”at least according to Fishing for Comets, with their sweet, unapologetic melodies, acousto-jangle and occasional accordion forays. When singer Camile Cortinas sings, "It's just so cute/Watching the waitress/Get swept off her feet" in her happy-go-lucky voice, you don't mind a bit. With pop this coy and catchy, you can throw away your Zoloft". Jonanna Widner- Dallas Observer
"Although super-positive girlie pop usually makes us want to run and hide, it's not hard to like Dallas band Fishing for Comets. Camille Cortinas is one of few people who can pull off hap-hap-happy lyrics. Why? Because we believe her". -Hunter Hauk- Quick Magazine
"The sweet, melodic sounds of Fishing For Comets could be therapy for the sad, or medicine for the downhearted. If the good vibes emitting from this acoustic-rock group could be bottled, it would surely be the cure for something". - Wayne Ansell, Harder Beat
"This band is sheer excellence, so bookem, buy their music, go seeem live Youll thank me in the morning". -Cindy Chaffin, The Fine Line
"Listening to Fishing for Comets, youll wonder where these songs have been your entire life". -Michael Ramirez, freelance writer/ Flagpole Magazine Athens, GA
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Member Since: 12/23/2004
Band Website: fishingforcomets.com
Band Members:

Camille Cortinas (vocals/guitar)

Sam Romero (guitar/bass)

Eric Neal(bass, upright/guitar/vocals)

Aaron Thomas(drums/percussion)

Fishing for Comets on The Gordon Keith Show
Influences: Jeff Mangum, Letters to Cleo, Eric Bachman, Robert Earl Keen, The Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson, Belle and Sebastian, Leona Naess, Innocence Misison, Grant Lee Phillips

Sounds Like: Falling in love-- someone once said! but serious now..... 10,000 Maniacs, TheSundays, Lisa Loeb, Frente, Leona Naess

Type of Label: None

My Blog

November 28, 2007 they were red

wrote a new song on sam's birthday ..> they fell into the yard, they were trashyou pushed my pillows over the driveway into the lawn the were red.I fell into the pile i slept and d...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:47:00 PST

Fishing for Comets on NPR's Open Mic

Fishing for Comets was selected to be on NPR's Open Mic and will be featured today this week. "Hope Is Calling" ( Scattered among the Archipelago) was the song selected .check out...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:13:00 PST

Green Elephant this Friday/new tunes and updates

-update from camille Happy 2007 in the words of my father "it's going to be a good one i can tell" We have new tunes on the page...ladies and gents we have new tunes Go, a dark tale ...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:28:00 PST

QUICK & THE LIVING ROOM SESSIONS

There's a nice write up in "Liner Notes" by Hunter Hauk in Quick this morning - check it out here:http://www.quickdfw.com/poplife/weekendq/localtracks/st ories/DN-pop--liner_13ick.State.Edition1.24bbf0...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:07:00 PST

Album on the way....

i'm so anxious... i'm so excited for the release of this album. We are finishing up the mixing/artwork part and then on to be printed. All i can say is help me make it .... i have such little pat...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:09:00 PST

Northeast In-Tune Review

Our EPK was selected and we received a nice review in the current issue of Northeast In-Tune ( E-Zine Publication) The article was written last year and just no...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:40:00 PST

Sounds of Spring photos

We had a blast in North Richland hills... it was a close call though.. several of us were going to pass out due to heat exhaustion but managed to hang in there! Thanks Lori Brown for inviting us out, ...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:25:00 PST

2006 Best Folk Acoustic

For those of you who havent heard, last night we received the Dallas Observer's Best Folk acoustic award for 2006. So, for your continued support, kind words of congratulations, and the drinks youve a...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Thu, 11 May 2006 08:44:00 PST

12-01-2005 Dallas Morning News

A couple of our friends told us about the mention in this mornings Dallas Morning News, so i ran to get a copy! how cool! look under GuideLive liner notes (a weekly round up of local music ...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:11:00 PST

PodQast 10-27-05

Thank to Hunter Hawk with Quick DFW for featuring us in the second podquast featuring favorite local artists! If you want to take as listen just visit. PodQast with Hunter xoxo. ffc...
Posted by Fishing For Comets on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:41:00 PST