Here's what you've all been waiting for.
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Matt
-Manic Bloom
Last night, I went to Atlanta to see Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory. I’ve been listening to Dashboard Confessional a lot lately, especially their album that just came out. This was the first time I had ever seen them live though, and the performance was nothing short of amazing. Chris Carrabba has energy, passion, and a range to rival Freddy Mercury. His lyrics are poetic, his songs are melodic, and his emotions are honest. If you have a chance to see them, you should. Just don’t pay attention to the swooning girls all around you. In fact, for all you single guys out there, forget going to the grocery store to pick up chicks. Head to your local Dashboard concert.
Now, I hadn’t listened to New Found Glory in quite awhile, but they used to be one of my favorite bands. So when they played many of my old favorite songs, I had a blast. They even played my favorite song off their first album, which I ended up being one of the only ones singing along with. I’ll admit, that made me feel kinda cool. The funniest part about last night though was that it was an acoustic set for both bands. If you’ve listened to New Found Glory, you’re probably as surprised with the idea of them playing acoustic as I was, but it ended up being really good. It inspired me to try and get Manic Bloom to work up an acoustic version of our set. We’ll have to work on that after the album’s done though. All in all, it was a great concert experience to rival some of my favorites.
If out of all the concerts you’ve been to you had to pick one favorite, what would it be, and why? And we know that probably everybody’s answer would be Manic Bloom (obviously), but for this we’ll exclude The Bloom from the running.
Matt
p.s. Here’s a couple pics from the show.
-Manic Bloom
What do you want to know about us? Do you want to know what each of our favorite movies are? Do you want to know our most annoying habits (biting my nails)? Do you want to know if we would rather be missing three fingers or have a mullet? All your burning Manic Bloom questions can be answered…we just need the questions.
We’re looking to add individual bios to our page, and we want to make sure we cover the topics YOU (our fans) want covered. Post any questions you want answered as comments to this blog.
Matt
-Manic Bloom
p.s. Don’t forget the sale right now, at http://www.manicbloom.com/store.php.
David's not a morning person, so we like to take advantage of that as much as possible. Check out our latest YouTube video.
Don't forget that everything is at least 20% off in our STORE for the remainder of December.
Matt
-Manic Bloom
We want you to have a Manic Bloom Christmas. That’s why we’re offering everything in our Merch store at 20% off. Also, we’re offering a Christmas bundle with 2 shirts and a CD for only $25, which is a savings of >25%. So, with our prices so low you may be asking yourself, “How can I utilize this great deal to the max?” Here’s some suggestions.
Christmas is the time for giving, so GIVE US YOUR MONEY!
Matt
-Manic Bloom
Everything is a process... It's crazy to remember how some things start when you look at the finished product.
Most everybody will probably barely even realize it, but I've been working on the site for a good while, trying to clean things up and make it easier for all of us (and you!) to communicate well and more often. By that I mean via blogs, stuff on our pages, comments, etc - not meaning I created a website so we could have some sort of intervention where we all talk about our feelings. Though a digital psychologist might not be a bad idea...
Anyhow, I just launched all the new stuff. Like I said - you probably won't notice much. Small change over here, a new deally over there... And there's a bunch of stuff on my list that still needs to change. But believe me, it's better. Unless it's broken. Then tell me.
The deal is, I'm kind of a perfectionist (and I would say that the other guys in the band are as well), but sometimes that sucks. Why? Because I'll work on something for a really long time, and just keep finding new things to tweak, so that by the time it's actually ready for other people to see/hear it, I'm kind of disinterested in it. So occasionally, I have to present things to the world, knowing that it's not really done to the extent that I'd like it to be, knowing that (in this case) certain pages might look weird, or (in musical cases) somebody might not catch the vision that I/we are going for...
I'm kind of anticipating a couple of hundred people to email me because when they get this blog in their email, something was freaking out, or they got it 300 times... So, for any of that sort of thing, please accept my apologies.
For any other sort of thing - like someone not understanding what we're trying to do with a song, and why there's a part that sound a little rough because we haven't perfected it - I'm not going to apologize for that... However, I will ask for you to hang with us. We're all in a process... Ours is just here on the web, exposed to everyone with a computer or iPod! :)
And speaking of process, one of the songs on the new album is called "Thousand Angels," which you can hear on YouTube or on many of our Manic Monday videos, or download an acoustic version if you're on our mailing list. If you want to hear a much rougher beginning of that song, here's my old band (Phase of Jen, with Joe Prichard and Tucker Caton) playing a MUCH different version. (There's still time if you want to sing the "Na Na's" on the new album! Record yourself singing them and send them to david@manicbloom.com by Dec 1st to make sure you're included!)
-David
MB
So we finally posted some of the video footage from our trip to Austin last Spring. We went down to Texas last March for the Red Gorilla Festival and had a blast! We stayed the night at Brink's parents house, hauled our stuff about a mile to get to the venue, and had a great turnout at our show. It was awesome! If you're in the Austin area, make sure to come out this year when we come down.
Also, expect more videos to come from this footage, depending on how long it takes me to edit it. I'm thinking we're gonna have a video capturing people's reactions when they first hear Manic Bloom, the act of waking up several of the guys in the band (one with particular enjoyment), and even some live concert footage...filmed by David...while on stage!
It's gonna be good stuff, so make sure to check out our YouTube channel, at http://www.youtube.com/user/manicbloom, where you can find all sorts of fun behind the scenes peeks at Manic Bloom. Here's the first installment of the Austin footage though, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_W2tcBTGmc
Matt
-Manic Bloom
Some of my favorite moments in life have been times where a band or artist has gone out of their way to make me feel like I mattered to them. Like when I got to go onstage in high school and play Jaret’s guitar for the last song of Bowling for Soup’s show, or when the guys in Pax 217 hung around to talk to me and my friends for hours after their show. I’ll never forget those experiences, because they went out of their way to include me, even though it would have probably been much easier not to. All of us in Manic Bloom have had similar experiences throughout our musical careers, and it’s one of the main reasons we do what we do. We’ve experienced what it’s like to feel like part of a band we like, and our goal is to always make our fans feel that way.
So, in that light, we’ve decided to let you all have a bigger part than ever in Manic Bloom…by being on our new cd. If you’ve been to one of our shows, or if you’ve watched live videos online, you’ll know that we have a sing along part on our song "1000 Angels". We want you to send us yourself singing the sing-along "Na Na" part, and we’re going to add them to our cd. We want that part to be full of the voices of our fans. Here’s an example of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNhJJHfBIgc So hook a mic up, sing away, and let’s see what you got.
Matt
-Manic Bloom
P.S. We are the main featured artist on Sunset Island Music right now, so make sure to go check that out. http://www.sunsetislandmusic.com/
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