In the beginning there was just a lonely drum machine. Then Nick from Viva l'American Death Ray/68 Comeback and Jay from GoGoGo Airheart, recent arrivals in New York from Memphis and San Diego respectively, began adding extra beats and guitar lines to the synthetic groove. In haste they named themselves "Twilight" for an unreahearsed debut performance at a Todd P show with Cause for Applause, Tomorrow's Friend, and Inouk. That night the band also included Knoxville Girl/Pink Monkey Bird Jack Martin. After a few gigs as a duo, Jonathan from Cause for Applause (another of Martin's bands, an Austin transplant, entered the ambiguous swirl. Then the machine dragged the reluctant trio to New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2006 shows with Quintron and Miss Pussycat and Peaches at One Eyed Jacks and a party at casa del MC Trachiotomy. They changed their name a few times to three-word-clusters which all included the noun "banana." And now, for the time being, they're "F.T.C." - a name that made its debut at a Tonic show with Grand Mal and Vietnam. Now that they have a multi-hundred dollar recording deal with New York Night Train, this page is their next logical step towards self-actualization. In July, after disguising, punctuating, and modifying the electronic beat with a combination of manual dexterity, voices, and electric and accoustic instrumentation for many months, the trio finally freed themselves from the bondage of the drum machine. To celebrate, in September, they added the significant sythesizer talents of multi-instrumentalist/Ghost Exits leader Chris Anderson, a longtime NYC scene veteran originally from North Carolina. Why have these four notable musicians from four corners of the globe assembled in the nation's media capital? Now that there is no machine to rage against,with their new freedom and lack of a common cause, why do they even bother? Do they have a hidden agenda? Or are wandering as aimlessly as they appear to be? From recent gigs in the last month with the likes of Low Down Dirty Dogs, Danava, Awesome Cool Dudes, Ex-Models, Oneida, etc, the answer is perhaps best explained by a cryptic quote delivered by their most curious supporter, Busta Rhymes: "You play every show as if it was your first..." The band interprets this to mean, "freshness guaranteed"...
Hey guys,
Thanks for the friend/request/add/thingie. Didn't realize just how mant bands there were with "Twilight" in the name. Add us to pile, I guess! haha!! :)
Thanks for requesting us. It sounds pretty kewl here on your little slice of MySpace. We appreciate and share your seeming fascination with things...Twilight...and hope you and your friends dig our tunes as much as we enjoy composing, recording, and performing them.
