Welcome, everybody.
So...how did you first hear (or hear about) the Thickets? I found them on Napster, because I'm a very naughty man who doesn't necessarily pay for everything he has. You can't buy all of it right now, anyway. But Space Ship Zero is currently available. BUY IT NOW!
So...how did you first hear (or hear about) the Thickets? I found them on Napster, because I'm a very naughty man who doesn't necessarily pay for everything he has. You can't buy all of it right now, anyway. But Space Ship Zero is currently available. BUY IT NOW!
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Re: Welcome
Tue, September 2, 2003 - 4:54 PMI believe that I, too, found the Thickets on Napster.
Are they still about? Wasn't there a movie made by them titled Spaceship Zero? Why is the sky blue? -
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Re: Welcome
Tue, September 2, 2003 - 9:57 PMThey are still about, though the band is more of a hobby to them than a professional venture. Toren Atkinson (lead singer) is mostly an artist, having done some work for RPG books and the like. The Spaceship Zero movie is on hiatus (and has been for at least 2 or 3 years), ostensibly due to some sort of legal complications or contract dispute, but I've really only ever seen scant evidence that such a thing was ever in production. I'm not absolutely certain it was ever actually anything more than a way to promote the album, though they would definitely contend that it was a genuine project. Supposedly, it was a German television program in the 80's, or something. Personally, I hope it is for real, as I'd like to see the movie. There is a Spaceship Zero RPG, though, and I believe it is out now. According to scientific thought, the sky is blue because of the entry angle and refraction of light in the atmosphere, as well as the atmosphere's constituency's tendency to absorb other visible wavelengths of light except blue; something in this statement is true.
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Re: Welcome
Mon, September 8, 2003 - 3:05 AMI should probably mention that I wasn't actually looking for the Thickets at the time...I had not yet heard of them. I believe my search was for "Yog Sothoth", which yielded their song of the same name, as well as a very strange classical/opera-style ensemble called Shub Niggurath, out of France, I believe. Once I heard a couple of their tracks (the Thickets, that is), I was hooked. Shub Niggurath is also worth checking out, but it ain't punk, or anything remotely like it. It's mostly weird. And I have no idea where you could find their stuff. And for all I know, maybe not all of their stuff is philharmonic (to use the term very loosely), but the 3 or 4 songs I've heard are.
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Re: Welcome
Wed, March 21, 2007 - 8:42 PMI first heard of them when I founded the band :)