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Musical discovery / Sports Fan - This Is Goodbye (piano rock)

« on: May 21, 2015, 08:46:17 PM »

It's been a couple of years, but I've released another single with my band Sports Fan. The video was directed by myself, a definite labour of love but I'm so happy with how everything turned out. I hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60zziB4GSBQ

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Musical discovery / Sports Fan - Shallow Water (feat. Jen Boyce)

« on: August 01, 2013, 06:30:24 PM »

Our second single, really proud of this video. Hope you dig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj3dtrLDFM

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Musical discovery / BFF-style angry piano pop

« on: March 16, 2013, 04:45:46 PM »

Hey guys, it's certainly been a while. Lurker alert.

Just wanted to politely let you know about my new band's first single release, Little White Lies by Sports Fan. It's piano, bass and drums (now, who'd ever have a band without guitar?) and I'd really appreciate the 3 minutes and 30 seconds of your time to have a listen. We're really proud of it and we have plenty more that will be released this year.

It's available for stream and pay-what-you-want at http://sportsfan.bandcamp.com

Love to hear your thoughts.

Dion

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Musical discovery / Remember me?

« on: November 30, 2007, 05:14:01 PM »

Haven't been around in quite a while, been busy with my own musical ventures. Very B.Fo inspired. If you're interested, drop by www.dionread.com and go to the releases section to hear my debut EP in full.

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News / new article (scan)

« on: March 19, 2005, 08:50:09 PM »

this from today's Herald Sun in Melbourne - I Daresay that the article would've been syndicated across the country in the newspaper network. Anyway, just did a scan and it's available here: http://users.tpg.com.au/dionread/heraldsunarticle.jpg

Benny boy is certainly getting political these days.

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General Board / "Just Pretend" video

« on: March 12, 2004, 05:11:42 PM »

It was on "rage", an australian music clip show last night. It was a live clip from i presume the melbourne show, with all three standing around a single mic with folds on guitar, kweller on melodica and lee on bass.

this means that there is footage of this concert around, so lets hope or hassle for more of it to be released.

i don't have a VCR, so i can't record it. hopefully it'll be on next week, and someone else can tape it and share it with the world.

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News / EPs for Australians

« on: December 03, 2003, 04:12:06 AM »

www.sonymusic.com.au/benfolds is selling the EPs for $9.95AUD. I checked the UK version of the sony site, but apparently they haven't caught on yet.

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Transcription / chords - bruised

« on: March 17, 2003, 07:38:52 AM »

I was just playing along with the song, so i thought i'd share. Just a rough version.

Intro:
G#m7 Emaj7 [x2]

Verse: (oh no, love just leaves you bruised...)
G#m7 Emaj7

Pre Chorus: (...into the spiral...)
F# G#m [x3]
F# Emaj7

Chorus: (...i went because you said....)
B F# D#m7 E(maj7) [x4]

F# G#m etc etc

In the second last "ba ba ba ba ba" bit, it does a slight variation and goes
F# G#m
F# G#m
D#m7 Emaj7
F# G#m

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Tour Board / the bens in brisbane

« on: March 14, 2003, 08:46:58 AM »

I just posted an account at the .org
http://www.benfolds.org/forum/?id=12093

I'm too tired to really think. someone can copy/paste it if they want.

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General Board / "xfire" - another bens song

« on: March 15, 2003, 09:55:03 PM »

http://it's not up on my site anymore.

It'll only be up there for a few hours, then other people can host it, just like i did with bruised.

Dion.