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As many great stories do, the tale of Moving Picture Show began with a solitary want ad in a Los Angeles paper. "Guitar Player Wanted”, it read. That little ad proved to be the catalyst that put Matt Kap in a room one day with Amy Oliver and Jeremy Nesse. And with a few half-forgotten prayers from Sunday school, a handful of sweaty rehearsals, and some slyly won eBay auctions of rusty marching band instruments, Moving Picture Show was born, as if sprung from the heart of the City of Angels herself.
In these cynical days, there are precious few tricks that will rouse the butterflies in your stomach, but this savvy band of indie rock upstarts knows at least a handful. During tracks like “The Boy Who Lives Backwards” frontman Matt Kap floats his Bowie-meets-Byrne baritone in catchy couplets, and dispenses guitar riffs like shotgun blasts or liquid caresses, depending on whether you were naughty or nice this year. Amy Oliver is the girl-next-door keyboard prodigy, with an arsenal of buzz saw New Wave electronics and fevered vocal harmonies. Jeremy Nesse, ever the hunter-gatherer, dominates the bottom end—via pluck and/or slap. On “Saturday Night” his throaty bass grooves will throb in time with your dance-addled blood vessels.
Moving Picture Show is a school bus sing-a-long if the Police, Peter Gabriel, Danny Elfman and the Cars were all in first grade together. Their songs fuse the peach fuzz sounds of the early 80s with modern dance rock energy, but don't lump Moving Picture Show in with all the four-on-the-floor revisionists making the rounds these days. Or better yet do, and then cough/sputter/exhale from the band's sober understanding of what makes a song memorable—lyrics that might help you remember your past lives and melodies coated with cranial krazy glue so they stick in your head (in the best way possible of course).
Moving Picture Show's mission is simple: to make you spasm, shout and drop your jaw with their songs, spirit and fierce joy that could make your heart pound a little harder. Moving Picture Show. Take as directed.
PrefixMag.com Feature
"Local boys (and girl) Moving Picture Show are a terrific pop-rock outfit founded on the muscular vocals of singer/guitarist Matt and the new-wave touches of their Uber-cute, Uber-charming Uber-keyboardist, Amy O. Bassist Jeremy's [the] bomb, too, demonstrating his Berklee-trained chops in every funky, fluid bottom end manipulation. And while we're at it, how about that drummer? Moving Picture show are classy, sincere, danceable and possess just enough of ze rock to satisfy the masses."
PrefixMag.com Feature
Moving Picture show are classy, sincere, danceable and possess just enough of ze rock to satisfy the masses. If you're lucky, they might even pull out some tricks they learned at band camp...
I just got a book by Victor Wooten called, "The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Searth for Growth Through Music." Camila gave it to me. And, there's a quote on the front by Tony Levin, which of course made me think of you. Um, plans? Let us make them. For REAL. Dude.
Hey! Good to see you again.. I missed the female harmony, but you guys sounded great last night as a trio. Like the John Myung picture on your page- that guy is bad ass. - Adam
OMG I miss you :-( Let's go out and have some drinks. What's your weekend look like? I might go to an opera, but it's up in the air. And, I'm coming on Thursday to the Silverlake Lounge come hell or high water.
Thanks for inviting me over to your place last night. Hope you dug the tunes I spun, as I definitely dug the Andy Summers stuff. I wish you and Julie a wonderful holiday season. :-)
