1. Scared of Heights
2. Comin Home
3. Amber
4. Cravin
5. Liz
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Influences
The Police
Feeder
Stereophonics
Queen
Supergrass
The Kinks
The Clash
The Smiths
Rolling Stones
The Alarm
Manic Street Preachers
Simple Minds
The Human League
The Cure
Big Country
U2
Modern English
The Icicle Works
Talk Talk
Tears for Fears
Peter Gabriel
Jeff Buckley
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Some gig reviews:
"Leaning more towards an old school hard rock sound, Bamboojuice gave a brilliant performance. Singer with rock star personality Mark Villarosa put on a deep American rock style voice, giving an Audioslave-like backdrop to the strong guitar riffs and drum rolls.
The band was friendly with the crowd making sure to involve them in their act. The 3 Londoners had clearly brought some fans along, as many already knew the lyrics to the last song.
The performance was flawless and very professional. It ended in a surprising twist, with a catchy pop-rock song."
Surface Unsigned Festival Review 2008 (Round 1)
Pauline Eiferman
www.surfaceunsigned.co.uk
"Bamboojuice have been one of my favourite bands so far and let me tell you why....They sound like they are having so much fun with everything they do. This permeates an enormous sense of well being throughout the audience and by the time the set has finished you somehow feel infinitely better in yourself. The band has also done their bit for charity having raised £200 for Oxfam’s Oxjam and have also appeared on MTV. The whole band looked as if they were having the best time of their life onstage and that makes all the difference for a live band".
Surface Unsigned Festival Review 2008 (Round 2)
David Couchman
www.surfaceunsigned.co.uk
Bamboojuice draw from an old-school rock background, building their devoted fanbase through hard-gigging, a strong sense of self-belief and gradual but steady progress.
"At the moment," says Mark, "if you're not in the mainstream, you're outside of it, which is cool with us, revolutions have always been born outside of the status quo... wed much rather influence the mainstream than be in it."
Bamboojuice would be grateful for the marketing support a label could bring to the table but while thats not yet in place the band are doing what they do best, which is to build the house themselves.
Moving to London in '95, Mark started doing solo gigs and working through several jobs in London's busy West End, where he would meet Sav. The friendship would become the core of the band, keeping it together through several stops and starts and line-up changes.
The bands diverse global rock influences would always be a major factor in their sound, not easily pigeon-holed into the British contemporary music scene but at the same time setting them uniquely apart.
"Weve often been described as having a U.S. sound", Mark offers, "which is funny because our major musical influences are classic UK Rock bands like The Police, Rolling Stones, Queen, The Kinks, U2. You wonder, did these UK acts influence an entire generation of American musicians to sound the way they do now? or did America influence the sound of these bands way back when they started?...or better yet, does it matter?...music is so globally crossed-over in this day and age, everything is interconnected."
Two EP's down the line, "Nightsong" (2002) and "Comin Home" (2007) the band are set to release another batch of brand new tracks soon. "The new songs will be a testimony to how much the band has grown and developed musically. "I've started exploring a different side to my songwriting psyche," admits Mark, "theres a darkness in all of us, and Im putting the spotlight on that area for a change plus I get to vent on an audience and get away with it."
"Im very confident, that the fans will see a different side to Bamboojuice with these new songs and were looking forward to releasing them soon and playing them live."
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"Amber" live @ the Spice of Life 2008
"Liz" live @ the Surface Unsigned Music Festival 2008
Hey Buddy, I'm sorry to write this on your wall but we really need your help!! Out of 130 bands, we have been chosen as one of the 15 finalists for the Fox 9 Battle of the Bands. If we win we get to star in a Pizza Hut commercial!! Plus tons of other stuff, first prize is worth over $65,000. All we need to do is get more online votes than all of the other bands we’re competing against. Voting starts TODAY and you can vote once an hour. So it would be awesome if you can just leave the window open and vote for us (The Run*) whenever you think of it. Here is where you need to go to vote:
www.cravingstogo.com
Thanks so much for supporting us; hopefully we can make you proud!!
hy! i see youre online... ;-) Hope youre life is groovyn man! ;-)) IN FUNK WE TRUST!
I got a second player on my profile... Just with Remixes from other Artists like TAL M. KLEIN, DAVEE, Dr. Funkenstein, Fredbox and the Butterscotch Pancakes, and more... ;-)
hy! hope youre fine... fine like wine... ;-) got a brand new tune in my player!!! Called I STILL HAVE A DREAM!!! with the incredible Voice of: MARTIN LUTHER KING!!! Funk Bless You... PulpFusion
Do not forget: Sa. 19. Mai PulpFusion Live Set at Theater La Fourmi Lucerne!!! With Massivefunk and Dj Mole... Funky Breaks at its Best!!!
Hey Bamboojuice, how are you, how's your day starting out? I hope you're well and I just stopped to say hello. By the way I just uploaded a new song called "Mufaro", hope you get to stop by sometime and listen in. Have a wonderful day my friend. Love,
Dude! the gig was smokin! If you didnt qualify it would have been a tragedy... but ive a complaint to make, that track that goes "...got this feeling in my soul..." isnt on the CD I bought?! Now ive been informed its on the 1st ep? Mark.. Savage, sort it out :)
Another friends band is playin on Wednesday at the bull and gate... theyre superb, come check em out... called Wayward.. sanj, me, van, seb etc will be down. let me know.
