THETIESANDTHELIES

NEW-WAVE QUARTET THETIESANDTHELIES FORMED IN 2006. THE GROUP COMPRISES DRUMMER MATTIA MANFREDI, BASSIST ANNA GIORDANO, LEAD GUITARIST DONATO GUGLIOTTA AND SINGER/GUITARIST EMANUELE VENTUROLI. THE LIVE ACTIVITY OF THE BAND, AFTER THE RELEASE OF ONLY ONE SHORT DEMO TAPE IS IMMEDIATLY INTENSE AND FRENZIED, AND GIVES THE BAND THE CHANCE TO PLAY SOME OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT VENUES. THE EP “HELLO TOKYO” IS OUT IN THE SUMMER OF 2007: A FAST PACED, DEEP AND SOMETIMES DARK WORK WHICH EARNS COMPARISONS WITH THE POST PUNK MUSIC OF EDITORS AND THE THICK SOUND OF INTERPOL. DURING THIS YEAR THE BAND COLLECTS MORE THAN 50 LIVE DATES, WINNING WELL-KNOWN CONTEST AND BECOMING ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST INTERESTING UNSIGNED ACTS. THE FOLLOW UP TO HELLO TOKYO COMES OUT IN THE BEGINNING OF 2009, UNDER THE NAME OF “BEHIND THE BARRICADE”. THE RECORD -INCREDIBLY DEEP, DARK AND DRAMATIC- IS PRECEDED BY THE SINGLE “FALL”.
The use of coloured and patterned ties to indicate the wearer's membership of a club, military regiment, school, etc., goes back no further than late-nineteenth century England. The first definite occurrence is in 1880, when Exeter College, Oxford rowers took the College-colour ribbons from their straw boaters and wore them as neckties (tied four-in-hand). They went on to order a proper set of ties in the same colours, thus creating the first example of a College tie.
It didn't take long for other colleges, as well as schools, universities, and clubs to follow suit. At about the same time, the British military moved from dressing in bright and distinctive colours to wearing more subdued, discreet, and practical uniforms. They retained the old uniforms for dress occasions, but also continued to use their regimental colours and emblems on embroidered blazer badges and ties.
The most common pattern for such ties was and remains diagonal stripes in alternating colours (running down the tie from the left in the U.K. and most of Europe, rather than the U.S. preference for stripes running down from the right); the alternative is either a single emblem or crest placed centrally and designed to appear where a tiepin would normally be, or a repeated pattern of such motifs. Sometimes both types are used by an organisation, either simply to offer a choice or to indicate a distinction between types or levels of membership. Occasionally a hybrid is used, in which alternating stripes of colour are overlaid by a pattern of repeated motifs.
Many British schools use variations on their basic tie to indicate the age or house of the wearer or status (e.g., prefect), or to show that the wearer has represented his or her school competitively (especially at sports). A different design is usually worn by Old Boys or Girls (alumni).