The Whitsundays

I was in Liverpool a few years ago and of course I visited the Beatles museum or better The Beatles Story there. You walk through the museum with an audio guide on which yoo can hear the comments at the exhibition and a lot of music, of course. But the best thing about this museum was the fact that it wasn't only a museum for 'old folks'. I saw a lot of teenagers in there who were singing the songs out loud. Songs from the time of their parent or even grandparents. I also like it when I discover young musicians who are influenced by the sixties. Like The Whitsundays from Edmonton, Canada.

The Whitsundays not only sound like a band from the sixties, they also try to look that way. Paul Arnusch, Dave Swanson, Clint Frazier, Lyle Bell and Doug Organ (which one is not in the picture?) start their own biografy with 'It could just as easily be 1967' and according to their MySpace-page they sound like a soccer game in '67 between The Kinks and The Zombies using Syd Barrett as the ball. But now about their music. The reason why they sound like 'the sixties in the 21st century' is because frontman Paul Arnusch owns a collection of vintage music gear and you'll get this sound because of the combination with modern recording technics.

The Whitsundays have released their debutalbum "The Whitsundays" on Friendly Fire Recordings from Brooklyn in collaboration with Pop Echo Records from Edmonton. There's a nice drawing on the cover of the CD, but maybe it would have looked better with a picture which was also influenced by the sixties.


>mp3: Sorry James

>mp3: It Must Be Me


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