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Alternative / Folk / Pop

a version of me i'd like to meet...



Johannesburg,
South Africa

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Member Since9/8/2008
Record LabelJust Music
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 9 2009 6:00P
Grahamstown Festival, Cuervo Room Grahamstown
Jul 10 2009 10:00P
Grahamstown Festival, Cuervo Room Grahamstown
Jul 11 2009 10:00P
Grahamstown Festival, Cuervo Room Grahamstown
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Latitude Festival, Sunrise Arena Suffolk
Jul 21 2009 7:30P
The Hare & Hounds Birmingham
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
The Prince Albert Brighton
Jul 23 2009 7:30P
Club Shuffle at 229 London
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Truck Festival Oxforshire
Jul 26 2009 8:00P
Secret Garden Party in a secret garden!
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
Berlin Festival Berlin
Aug 9 2009 8:00P
Taubertal Festival Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Aug 15 2009 8:00P
Haldern Pop Festival Haldern

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   About Dear Reader


  Member Since: 08/09/2008
Myspace URL: www.myspace.com/dearreadermusic
Website Address: www.dearreadermusic.com
Band Members: Cherilyn MacNeil - piano, guitar, voice
Darryl Torr - bass, keys, loop station, voice
Michael Wright - drums, voice
Influences: These are things slash people we love... you may or may not hear their influence:
Brent Knopf, Menomena, Joni Mitchell, Laura Veirs, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Imogen Heap, The Dodos, The Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkle, Kimya Dawson, Ben Folds, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Regina Spektor, Marching Band, Mew, The Dears, Fionn Regan, The Shins, Bob Dylan, Mutemath...
Sounds Like: ... when you feel so much that you think you might explode and then laugh at yourself for being such a melodramatic douchebag!
 

...dearheart...



...Great White Bear (Live)...



 
 
 
   

label
bookings

press



Just Music / City Slang
SA - claudia@roadshock.co.za
Other - christof@dearreadermusic.com
SA - warren@justmusic.co.za
Europe - anne.mueller@cooperativemusic.de
Other - christof@dearreadermusic.com


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welcome to our home on myspace. thanks for visiting.

some years ago darryl (producer and sound engineer and guy who is generally well-versed in all things musical) witnessed the extraordinarily excruciating process of me spilling my guts on a little stage at an acoustic evening. i was so shy that i couldn't open my eyes. not even one. i still feel like that sometimes.

so really, it's all darryl's fault. he advised and encouraged me. he convinced me to drop out of university, where i was studying languages and politics. we recorded together in his demo studio, and we released our first album under the name 'harris tweed'.

then we began to traipse around south africa playing our hearts out and learning the crazy ways of the traveling troubedour. were lucky enough to be invited to showcase at the south by southwest festival in austin, texas. there we saw things that blew our minds wide open. we heard sounds we had never conceived, and returned with fire in our bellies; inspiration to become more and more free. and more and more ourselves.

we knew we needed someone to shake things up a little. i sent a message to one of our favourite bands: menomena. via myspace. (this very one) and they replied. brent knopf flew out to south africa to produce our new album. the time we spent recording these songs was the best three weeks of my life so far.

it's called 'replace why with funny' (try it. it's good for you.) and it's out now in south africa and germany and austria and switzerland. in april/may it will come out in the rest of europe. and hopefully one day it'll be available everywhere else where there are humans with lumpy blood-pumpers in their chests and ears on the sides of their heads.

oh... if you'd like to listen to our album for free click HERE

i also need to tell you about michael. he's our new friend. and he plays the drums proper good. (even if he does like metal!) and we have an even newer new friend waiting in the wings as well. (she will reveal her marvelous self post-haste, and you will love her like we do.) who knows how many friends may join us on the stage in the months and years to come. it's a good thought.

but i think that's all for now.

over and out!
cherilyn macneiliam
PS. some of you have been asking... if you'd like lyrics for our songs visit www.dearreadermusic.com and you can download them as pretty pdfs.


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 The Dodos 


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 TRUCK 


 MENOMENA! 


 Latitude Festival 


 Berlin Festival 





Dear Reader's Friends Comments
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Emily Baker





Jul 4 2009 11:08 PM

hey thanks for the add,

indeed we shall be gracing the same stage on the 22nd - really looking forward to hearing you guys play, really love your sound...are you actually from Grahamstown?...my lovely cousins live there...small world eh?
take care and see you soon! Emily xx
Lïon Hearted Girl





Jul 3 2009 5:35 PM

I just read on your homepage that you're coming to my hometown Bremen in October, happy happy news!!!
IKARIA





Jul 3 2009 2:06 PM

..thanks!
MARCUS MASCHWITZ PHOTOGRAPHY





Jul 1 2009 2:46 PM

Hey friends.

Just saw the live video of you's playing Great White Bear and it really makes me excited to see you's again soon. I saw you will be in London Town at the end of July, lets shoot that photo that we spoke about.

Hope you all good. Mouth. x
NepTunes


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Jul 1 2009 7:28 AM

Hi There
Thanx for the add!
Our second issue is 99,9% complete and it features a review on your music video 'Dearheart'. I will let you know as soon as it's out.
Keep Well
Steffen





Jun 28 2009 12:54 PM

I hope we see us on the Haldern Pop Festival in August. I love your album.
Greetings from Germany,
Steffen
frankie beagle





Jun 27 2009 4:04 PM

Dear Readers so sadly missed your last show in JHb, hope you are going to be visiting these woods again soon..in fact the last time i saw you was when you played years ago @ room 8 & amos borrowed your guitar to play with me. It was a rare intimate & beautiful glimpse of harris tweed - very inspiring to me. Lots of Love to you both x
sher





Jun 26 2009 10:20 PM

Thanks for being a friend!
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cheers
sher
"Sher Delight"
Tuesdays 12 noon til 3pm EST
www.HGRNJ.org

Check out my Playlist's
Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think!
YMD Presents





Jun 25 2009 2:57 PM

4 weeks too soon!!

Were (very) excited really :)
Need to move those cows out the barn first...!

Isla
Fugitive Dancer





Jun 24 2009 8:33 PM

We just adore your music!
Wich you all the best and many dear reader worldtours so that we can enjoy your wonderful music in germany moreoften!
LOVE, fugitive dancer

buy on itunes
THE LOST VOICE *new Song "FOOL" online*





Jun 24 2009 10:15 AM

HEY LEUTE!

Seit heute gibts die neue Single von THE LOST VOICE

**FOOL** heißt das gute Stück und wir nennen sie die ""ULTIMATIVE GITARRENBALLDE"

für jedes Lagerfeuer tauglich:-)

wenns euch gefällt dann gibts den Song wie auch die anderen drei auf
http://www.thelostvoice.de

zum GRATISDOWNLOAD!

auf der Homepage unter "Media" könnt ihr euch die Songs runterziehen!:-)

Ich hoffe er gefällt euch....

Viel Spaß beim hören........und wenns euch gefällt...würden wir uns natürlich sehr über einen Gästebucheintrag freuen!

Also..auf die Plätze, fertig, ...HEULEN!

Liebe Grüße von

Alex, chisi, tom und dem MEIX

THE LOST VOICE eben!

fran





Jun 20 2009 1:01 PM

thank you!
uts,m! artist booking





Jun 18 2009 5:58 AM


THANKS FOR THE ADD!

björn
http://www.underthestars.de



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Club Shuffle





Jun 17 2009 4:57 PM

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Jun 15 2009 8:10 AM

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PAKY DI MAIO aka ZeroP:M-composer-producer-dj





Jun 14 2009 1:12 AM

TAKE A LISTEN,on my player,TO THE ZERO P:M VERSION OF DAVID BOWIE CLASSIC - DJ (PAKY DI MAIO ELECTRO VERSION)2008! send comments;-) PS: take a look to my blog! P ;-)
Niamh





Jun 10 2009 9:34 AM

ur music is amazing, it is very rare that i take an instant liken to a band.
x
Open Explorers





Jun 9 2009 1:12 PM

adding
Niki Khan





Jun 9 2009 12:46 PM

;)


INDUSTRIAL RESERVA





Jun 8 2009 8:51 PM

MUSICAL GREETINGS And A STRONG INDUSTRIAL EMBRACE

Editor de Imagenes


LISTEN TO -PEACE- DEPECHE MODE REMIX BY PURE HEMP IN :

                       http://lnk.ms/02X6x

TRUCK





Jun 7 2009 12:44 PM

Buy tickets for Truck

Playing alongside ASH / SUPERGRASS /DAMO SUZUKI (CAN)  /  VIEUX FARKA TOURE  / THE CANDYSKINS  /RED LIGHT COMPANY / WINTERSLEEP / FANFARLO / HJALTALIN / ERRORS / YACHT /  DJ FOOD & DK / TOTAL SCIENCE / T.E.E.D./WILD BEASTS / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / GRAMMATICS /THE JOY FORMIDABLE / THE XCERTS /  PULLED APART BY HORSES/ BROKEN RECORDS / MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS / PETE MOLINARI  
 
plus...

and so i watch you from afar/ calories/ chew lips/ colour/ danny and the champions of the world/ data select party / detroit social club/ dive dive/ dusty & the dreaming spires/ house of brothers/ skylarkin/ sportsday megaphone / the candyskins/ the elysian quartet/ the ghost of a thousand / the relationships/ the xx/ this town needs guns/ thomas truax/ treetop flyers/ truckers of husk/ we were promised jet packs/white belt yellow tag
Stan-Gray





Jun 4 2009 6:57 PM

Thanks for adding. This was at your gig in Bielefeld
gutkovski





Jun 4 2009 4:37 PM

Thanks for the add. What can I say: a real honor!!! Beatiful music. Please come to play a show in Madrid!!! Take care
Michelle





Jun 2 2009 11:30 PM

Thank you for adding me as your friend
NATURA





Jun 1 2009 10:06 PM

Thanks very much for the friendship
and Connection.
Congratulations for the good work.
I appreciate your music a lot.


You and your friends are invited to listen to NATURA
It’s really different.

http://www.reverbnation.com/znatura




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