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dites leur album, j'arrive pas à la trouver sur amazon, c'est normal? c'est quoi le distributeur? la maison de disque?

@ Greenou
Pas de concerts à Paris pour 2004. Mais deux concerts à Londres ( 5 et 14 Mai ) auxquels je vais
... Et un concert à Berlin ( 8 Mai ), si tu préfères l'Allemagne.

NEW EUROPEAN CONCERT DATE

Ghost Of The Robot have added another date to their European concert schedule in May.

Tickets are now on sale for a show special at Amsterdam's famous Melkweg venue on Tuesday, May 11.

Full details available from ~lien~ under 'Europe 2004'.

ta l'album? moi oui il déchire!!

Released Febuary 2, 2003

Review by Mike Clark

So a friend of mine told me that I “have to check out this band!!!” He told me they were kind of like Weezer. I was half expecting him to hand me an All American Rejects album which I would have promptly beat him with severely. Instead however, he hands me Mad Brilliant, the debut album from Ghost of the Robot. The band’s biggest claim to fame thus far is that it’s fronted James Marsters, Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Having heard Keanu Reeves’s Dogstar and River Phoenix’s band, I was slightly tentative about Ghost of the Robot, but I gave it a chance.

I have to say that they are certainly interesting. Half their songs are early Weezer inspired straight forward rock songs, the other half are James Taylor and Bob Dylan inspired folk songs. There are four really stand out song with a couple more that will stick with you. What’s remarkable is how different these stand outs are. The title track, Mad Brilliant, is a hard rocking, angry plaint to an ex-lover. “Angel” is soft spoken folk tune featuring only an acoustic guitar, a melodica, and Marsters’ mellow voice. “German. Jewish.” is a song about trying to work through the lack of common ground with the object of his affections, but it’s the radically shifting tone that makes it stand out. Finally, “Good Night Sweet Girl,” the closing track, is almost a lament from a rock opera, simple chords with emotionally agonizing lyrics.

If there’s one complaint to be made here it’s this: While the Weezer influence is apparent in many of their songs, a couple sound like they literally are Weezer songs. The song “Call 911” sounds like a Weezer song, and James sounds remarkably like Rivers Cuomo during it as well. There are certainly worse bands to be influenced by than Weezer but I’d like to see them grow away from this since they’ve made it clear elsewhere that they are capable of such.

Actually I have another complaint.... the album is way too damn short. It’s only about 35 minutes long. I want more dammit!

I think this album is currently only available through the band right now, but it’s pretty good and Ghost of the Robot is a band to watch out for in the future.

The Review:

In the world of Actors turned singers, most of them are so talentless and not so successful in the crossover into the music world.
But here,James "Spike" Marsters, as a frontman for local LA band, Ghost of the Robot, shows that he has quite a strong vocal presence. He is backed by a solid 4 piece band.

For reference not comparison, James' voice treads into the Billy Idol territory which I think will help bring a familiarity and a god way to categorize this band's musical output.

There's no "new" ground covered within the Mad Brilliant CD, but with the combination of memorable hooks and lyrics as well as some well played alternative rock is sure to please most of today's audiences. And it's not that bad of a CD too, at just under 40 minutes.

I like the fact that it's a group effort, with the refreshing inclusion of keyboards that is virtually unheard of in a rock band in today's market. The guitar playing is raw in your face while also subtle melodic playing throughout the disc.

The David Letterman cd single contains an edited version of "David Letterman" along with two unreleased tracks. Personally, I think that they should have released "Liar" instead, mainly because it's more of a rocking tune that will get the mtv and vh1 generation audience to listen.

The track that caught my ear was a song called "Mefiant". This is an atmospheric sounding song that is way different than the other songs. So different that it may be appealing to more adventurous music fans such as myself.

~Ron for ProgNaut.com [March 14th, 2003]