Saponification : Resurrection

For those of you that have been there since the beginning, you will remember that this started when I was a student mainly to share music news I found interesting and to update people on when Disarm gigs were.

I then got a job, Disarm disbanded so have only sporadically updated now and then.

Well I'm a student again, which means I may blog more, or this could be an isolated sporadic post -you never know - but there have been a few noteworthy developments in the past month or so I'd like to mention.

Grammatrain, my first all time favourite band is reuniting to record a new album and play a couple of shows! more info on Facebook and myspace

Michael Tait from DC Talk is joining the Newsboys and taking over singing from Pete Furler on tour. Pete Furler will continue to be involved in song writing and production.

A certain up and coming band from Fernie in British Columbia has a couple of songs on youtube.

Parachute have cancelled noise conference this year, citing the lack of excellent contributors as the reason.

Project 86 are in the studio working on a new album, MewithoutYou have a new one out soon, as do As Cities Burn, and Stavesacre have recently finished recording another EP.

Oh and for those wondering how the band saponification is going, After and enforced hiatus as both key contributers were living in different cities, we are now in the same city, but taking a break to concentrate on other projects.

I have nothing to say and somewhere to say it

so I will just say a few snippets of random music news that interests me that I've found out here and there.

Underoath and Emery are touring Australia together during June, but unfortunately are not coming to New Zealand. And by annoying coincidence they are playing in Sydney are mere two days after my wife and I come back from a holiday there... Grrrr. Anberlin are also touring Australia in June, and again, aren't popping over the ditch to New Zealand either.

Project 86 have a new album out shortly, and are giving stuff away with it if you pre-order ti from their website.

Blindside are recording an EP, or at least they told us that at the show in Auckland in April and have also said so on their myspace.

The Canterbury finals of the Smokefree Rockquest were on last Friday. Frankly Mauve won and I know the drummer, so that is quite exciting. Another band called Much to Much were also impressive, I thought they should've gotten a placing as well. Also, for a young guy, the vocalist from Beneath the Silence had quite an excellent metalcore voice.

alright, time to stop blogging and go play some guitar.