In preparing to be in front of a crowd, some performers might picture the spectators in their underwear. Fire at Play take this a bit further, as they claim to envision making sweet love to each audience member when their onstage. No wonder they decided to call their blues/soul/rock sound (with Grace Slick-esque vocals) “sexy rock.”
Fire at Play was born four years ago when vocalist Priscilla Yolanda met Chris Lopez at a party. Chris had brought a guitar along, and “tricked” Priscilla into an impromptu jam session. The Culver City residents had always wanted to be in a band, but all previous attempts had gone bust.
The pair continued playing together as an acoustic act, until they realized their instruments couldn’t contain the energy of their Motown and Hendrix influences, so they upgraded to electric. Though their first incarnation was titled Hush, they landed on the Fire at Play name when it appeared in a line from a poem.
When a friend took Priscilla to a Ninja Academy show, she had a musical epiphany while watching bass player Joey “Indo-Ninja.” She came to the conclusion that every song she’d ever loved had been bass driven, and decided to pick up the instrument, an experience she describes as “love at first bang.”
Chris and Priscilla then began work to dispense their tunes to music lovers, recording tracks for MySpace, and playing shows at Southern California venues like The Good Hurt. After courting three drummers, they finally found love this year with Matthew Barreca of Tuesday Boozeday when Priscilla was hustling to find someone to beat the skins at an upcoming House of Blues show. Now that a solid lineup is in place, the band plans to spend the year recording some new songs, as well as staples like “Sugar Daddy,” and to spread the fire at shows up and down the west coast and beyond.
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Hey well we added another show since the last one went so well:) this one is going to be great!(i know i always say that, but they are getting better every time) we are opening so its going to be an early one.. we go on @8:30pm some really good bands are playing with us... so hope you can come!
Hey so we need your help x10 lol we got picked to do a KROQ show @ The Knitting Factory and we need to get a big crowd to look "cool" and hopefully get picked to go to the finals... it sucks but there's politics in the music biz and a "crowd" for some "reason" determines a little of how the band does. so do you think you can help us? maybe bring some people?
Stupid Flanders at 1st Annual Ska in the Park Festival w/ Voodoo Glow Skulls, Suburban Legends & Starpool!!! Saturday, June 27, 2009 2979 Dexter Dr., Riverside, California 92501 Cost: TBA ....
Yes, being music geeks is always fun... and your legs are beautiful! haha You deserve to have more than just 1000 friends on myspace, wtf, you guys are awesome <3
Hello you all, just letting you know we will be at the Old Towne Pub tomorrow night, and it would be really great to see you all. Oh yeah how about dinner one night real soon? We'll be playing with new kids to the scene (yes I am keeping it going and growing)so come out.
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