Fogarino/Franklin's Setting Suns Forced to Nix Name
Band to be henceforth referred to as Magnetic Morning
Photo by Christy Bush
Band nomenclature: it ain't what it used to be. Pretty much every second nowadays a perfectly serviceable bandname gets snapped up, forcing musical types to resort to atrocities like Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Does It Offend You, Yeah? (A: It does), and P4k HQ's current LOL of choice, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
For Interpol's Sam Fogarino and Swerverdriver's Adam Franklin, a blah name like the Setting Suns was just blah enough to have been used before (well, almost) for a musical undertaking. And now, under pressure from a fellow NYC act called Setting Sun, Sam and Adam have obligingly retired their blah moniker and opted instead to be forever known as-- wait for it-- Magnetic Morning. Expect a cease-and-desist any day now from my seven-year-old sister, who once used that name for a tweegazer outfit she started with a Rainbow Brite doll and two My Little Ponies.
Under their former name, Magnetic Morning played a gig and dropped their debut EP digitally late last year. The Setting Suns EP-- no word yet whether it will retain that title-- has been bumped from its original February 5 physical release date and will emerge in CD form this March via DH Records.
Between the Swervedriver reunion, Interpol's next round of live dates, and plans to record the Magnetic Morning full-length debut this year, these guys are in for a busy 2008. Ooh, and Adam Franklin has a few solo dates in queue too. Check those and the Interpol dates below.
Interpol:
02-14 Auckland, New Zealand - Logan Cambell Centre
02-17 Perth, Australia - Metro City
02-19 Brisbane, Australia - Convention Centre
02-21 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavilion
02-25 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall
02-26 Adelaide, Australia - Thebarton Theatre
03-06 Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caupolican
03-08 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Teatro Gran Rex
03-11 São Paulo, Brazil - Via Funchal
03-13 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Findicao Progresso
03-15 Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Chevrolet Hall
Adam Franklin:
02-01 London, England - The Luminaire
02-15 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo
02-16 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory
02-17 Melbourne, Australia - East Brunswick Club
Band nomenclature: it ain't what it used to be. Pretty much every second nowadays a perfectly serviceable bandname gets snapped up, forcing musical types to resort to atrocities like Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Does It Offend You, Yeah? (A: It does), and P4k HQ's current LOL of choice, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
For Interpol's Sam Fogarino and Swerverdriver's Adam Franklin, a blah name like the Setting Suns was just blah enough to have been used before (well, almost) for a musical undertaking. And now, under pressure from a fellow NYC act called Setting Sun, Sam and Adam have obligingly retired their blah moniker and opted instead to be forever known as-- wait for it-- Magnetic Morning. Expect a cease-and-desist any day now from my seven-year-old sister, who once used that name for a tweegazer outfit she started with a Rainbow Brite doll and two My Little Ponies.
Under their former name, Magnetic Morning played a gig and dropped their debut EP digitally late last year. The Setting Suns EP-- no word yet whether it will retain that title-- has been bumped from its original February 5 physical release date and will emerge in CD form this March via DH Records.
Between the Swervedriver reunion, Interpol's next round of live dates, and plans to record the Magnetic Morning full-length debut this year, these guys are in for a busy 2008. Ooh, and Adam Franklin has a few solo dates in queue too. Check those and the Interpol dates below.
Interpol:
02-14 Auckland, New Zealand - Logan Cambell Centre
02-17 Perth, Australia - Metro City
02-19 Brisbane, Australia - Convention Centre
02-21 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavilion
02-25 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall
02-26 Adelaide, Australia - Thebarton Theatre
03-06 Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caupolican
03-08 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Teatro Gran Rex
03-11 São Paulo, Brazil - Via Funchal
03-13 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Findicao Progresso
03-15 Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Chevrolet Hall
Adam Franklin:
02-01 London, England - The Luminaire
02-15 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo
02-16 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory
02-17 Melbourne, Australia - East Brunswick Club
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