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The Churchills!
I went to GERMANY to meet the Churchills!!! If you want to hear all about it, just ask me! If you want to see the photos, click here!
The Churchills are my second favourite band, rated only behind the Beatles (they don't mind) - but it's a very close run thing!
According to something I read, they are a "hard rockin' indie pop band" so for lack of any other description, I'll go with that. It's just nice, fun (but not in an annoying allSTARS sense or anything - completely different), unobtrusive music that I don't think anyone could dislike. The band is from New York City - and they are absolutely brilliant!! :-)
The Churchills consists of Ron, Bart and Greg and Scott - and they all ROCK!! The four of them (ok, so I've not met Scott... but I'm sure it's true) are just the sweetest guys you could ever wish to meet - they're 100% adorable!
The Churchys play their own music. They write their own music. They sing their own music. They are TRUE musicians, and are a REAL band, and they deserve real success, and they're well on their way to getting it!
So far their on-screen credits are looking pretty good - they're physically ON 2 episodes of Spin City (true, one is a flashback to the other) and then their song is played during Mike's last episode. Meadow, in The Sopranos, is often found sporting a Churchills t-shirt, and in the film Swimfan, a Churchills sticker is prominent in the leading actor's locker. One of their songs is featured at the end of a new film dodgily entitled Porn'n'Chicken, and another is featured on a show created by the guys who made Dawson's Creek, called Everwood. Not forgetting one of their songs which is to be heard in The Division, and another which is in Summerland, and yet another in ER.. Another song is also to be (just about) heard in episode 19 of series 2 of Scrubs when JD and Turk are in a bar near the end. And also there's posters/stickers in School of Rock but to be honest, I didn't spot them!
I first heard these guys on the sitcom Spin City where they are playing on the street, and Mike and Nikki are walking outside and they meet by the band, and make up. And the song that the Churchills were playing was brilliant, and the only two lines I could vaguely remember circled my head literally for almost a year, coz I had no idea who the band were (I didn't catch it in the credits, and I'd not recorded it), and I didn't know the title of the song!
Anyhoo, it seemed to be one of those things: everyone I asked who had seen them on Spin had no idea who they were, and people had indeed been asking themselves the same question. However, I then was looking through a Spin City website, and was looking through the pics of the special guests at random. I suddenly found a pic of the band, and underneath it said 'The Churchills'!!!!!!!!!
I could have cried I was soooo happy I'd found my band!!! yay!!!
I immediately went to Amazon.co.uk and searched for them. YAY!!! They had a CD for sale!!!! I looked through the titles of the songs, and immediately knew which one it was that was Mike and Nikki's song!! YAAYY!!! I'D FOUND THE SONG (Everybody Gets What They Deserve)!!!!!
So, I ordered the album (entitled 'You Are Here'). For just the one song. This is how much I love this song!! The CD took an AGE to arrive - but one day it did!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I just spent hours lying on the floor listening to it. :-)
And then in summer 2002 the guys released their NEW album - Big Ideas. After a few technical hitches (thanks to Ron for the solution!) I ordered it (and their very first album Magnifique 400 with some of their earliest songs on... including an early version of Everybody Gets) and YAY they both rock too!!!! Mag400 has some brilliant catchy songs on, and I love Big Ideas just as much as I love You Are Here - and I love that loads!! Big Ideas is more on the rock side than You Are Here... after everything that went on in between the two, they didn't much feel like "retro pop-rock"ing anymore.
All the songs are of a totally different style to each other, but all are wonderful!! There's real rock ones (Lights Are On But No One's Home), then more Beatley ones (thinking of 'Cars' here) and then drop-dead-beautiful ones (Smile) and everything in-between. But they're all extremely catchy and, of course, brilliant.
PLUS - and this is what makes it all extra great - the guys themselves are THE MOST FANTASTIC PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE. They have a great sense of humour, get on so well together, are awesome role models, and are just amazingly sweet! They made me feel really really really special when I met them in Germany, and I had the best night EVER. I can't sing (ha ha) their praises highly enough!!
Find out MORE!! Simply ask me and start a torrent of extremely biased opinion, or go to www.thechurchills.net and BUY THEIR ALBUMS to form an opinion of your own. Or at least just check out the songs on the mp3 player thingy on it - there's some new ones up on there too. You won't regret it, and any Churchill fan is a pal of mine (did I mention that the wonderful Mikey J Fox is a fan?? .....)
Also go to www.houstonautomatic.com for (admittedly, rather limited) info about Greg's other (old?) band. The two songs available from the link there are awesome... **and you'll see, he'd do annnyyything for yooouu**