New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Sunday, February 15, 2004

Okay, insert the howling and the gloom and doom but I'm guessing that the rising success of Fountains of Wayne may make or break the band. By my count they've been tour almost a year now. And they were touring the year prior to the album even coming out OR them even having a label.

Every band needs to take a break once and a while...but none of us are getting any younger. I am certainly not getting any more patient. I can only hope that a side project or two sticks. Ivy is a great band...but give me four snarky boys on a stage any day of the week and I am going to buy a ticket...

As pulled from an article in Billboard with the full link being: http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2079377

...It leaves the future bright, but also up in the air for both Fountains Of Wayne and Ivy.

It doesn't leave much time for Schlesinger's other band, Ivy, whose fifth album has languished partly completed, since Fountains took off. "Both bands work on long, slow cycles," says Schlesinger, who admits Fountains is affecting his participation in Ivy "kind of adversely at the moment. I think I'm starting to drive [principal Ivy songwriter] Andy [Chase] completely bonkers." Ivy also includes singer Dominique Durand.

As if two full-time bands weren't enough, Schlesinger runs Scratchie Records with former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha and a third co-owner, Jeremy Friedman. And it looks as if the Fountains pool of opportunity isn't likely to run dry any time soon. The band contributed a remake of the Beatles' "Help!" to the "Cheaper by the Dozen" soundtrack ("Not that you'd know that; it's buried in the film somewhere") and is now getting a "fair amount of calls" to contribute to other films and television projects.

Declining to give details until things firmed up, he says, "If we manage to pull any of it together, it'll be cool."

Schlesinger says he hopes there won't come a time when he has to sacrifice one for the other. "I've personally put so much time and energy into both that I'm not willing to give either up," he asserts. "If there's a way for both bands to continue making records, I'm sure we'll continue to do so. We'll see."


Printed without permission from Billboard Online...


posted by JustKeepMum on 10:52 PM