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Sat. AUGUST 7th, 9:30pm @
with
Graham and Tim At Bottom Lounge
BRAND NEW NAMES SONGS
(rough mixes, still need to be mastered, tweaked)
(unplugged)
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Graham
LATEST NEWS
| Next Show | July 2nd At the Mutiny with Hoyne and Harmoniass |
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| CDs Available | If you want a Names CD, you can get one from a show, or download it from here. We will not have a whole album probably until the end of this year. Also my solo project Electrogram has a full album if you're interested. |
BAND INFO
| Venues Played | Beat Kitchen, Prodigal Son, Martyr's, Bottom Lounge, Quencher's Saloon, Subterranean, Gunther Murphy's, Empty Bottle |
| Formed In | January 2003 |
| Booking Info | GrahamJ64@aol.com |
| Style Range | We are an excitable rock duo. |
| Vocals/Guitars | Graham Jorgenson, 25 |
| Drums | Tim Sommerville, 21 |
| Song List | American Ride, Nails, TV, Renee, Get Me High, #12 Song, You Bring Me Down To My Knees, Lonely Days, School, Angel, Kill Me Where I Stand, Crying, Peppermint Walls, All About a Girl, Bad Man, The Lamb Song, Hell, The Moon, Ghetto Girl, Wonderful Pain. |
| Occasional Covers | Do You Realize?, I'm So Excited, Hotel Yorba, Day Tripper |
The Names are two-piece rock band from Chicago.
They were formed in early 2003, and consist of
Tim Sommerville, the drum-banger, and Graham
Jorgenson, the word-sayer.
THE ORIGIN OF THE NAMES
The Names were formed in the early 1800's during a routine voyage of Dr. Gilmer Toad to the local library. After checking out the only copy of How To Impress Badgers, Gilmer suddenly realized he was not wearing any pants. He fled into the woods to escape from an angry mob of Puritans. Unfortunately, he stumbled into a group of mountain-folk who were not very friendly. They let him go on the condition that he fix their Kenmore dishwasher and shave his feet. Back in town, the Puritans burned an effigy of Gilmer Toad and gave all of his Fats Domino records away. When Gilmer finally emerged from the forest, the Puritans threw a rope around him. He proclaimed that he was hungry, but Wendy's was closed. The hangman, who was famous more for his embroidery of aprons, read a solemn condemnation aloud before the Puritan committee. "Friends, countrymen, lend me your combs, because I've got a hot date and this hairspray isn't doing a thing." The mayor arrived in his Acura, with one hand constantly waving (part of his bid for reelection). Things became chaotic when he accidentally slapped the whole Puritan bridge club in the face. "I'm sorry!" He screamed. But it was too late. Someone yelled, "All hell has broken loose and frozen over in four different holy shades that hath no fury like a woman's scorn!" The priests threw their bibles up in the air and ran into the mountains. The mountains threw their trees up in the air and ran into the sea and the sea said "Whoa, this was just supposed to be a small gathering." Somebody shrieked aboved the fray, "Sausage is not transparent!" Gilmer Toad grabbed a young lass named Leslie Wurst and said romantically, "Buttresses were standard in gothic architecture." They took a ferry to Staten Island and built the world's first and last "Ride The Polar Bear" attraction. They had six children who all grew up to be coffee farmers with skin problems. When the great depression struck in 1930, they were forced to pay all their late fees at once at Blockbuster. Eventually, Leslie developed Herbert's syndrome wherein she thought ordinary appliances were being sarcastic.
Link, the coffee farmer begat Sue who begat Benny with Bob, and Bonnie and Bill begat Boris, who gave birth to Barry Bones who begat all his children with no B's in their names and thus Tim Sommerville was born.
Tim was born, learned to use legos and applied for a job at IBM at the age of eight. They were so impressed when he presented them with Doorways. A way of passing from one room to the next without leaping over a nine foot wall. Tim climbed the corporate ladder, and built a huge treehouse on top and armed himself with snowballs in case Bill Bixby showed up.
Meanwhile, Graham Jorgenson had been born for a few years and was getting his taxes done when suddenly, Tim Sommerville called him and asked if Maria Hernandez still lived there and if she did could she please return his broken curling iron because although it didn't work it looked cool next to his aftershave in the bathroom. Not only did Maria no longer live there, but she had mailed herself to Luxembourg out of boredom. Tim and Graham decided to form a band because they could not find any good reason not to and thus is the story of The Names.
BANDS WE KNOW
As you may or may not be aware or not, the Wicker Park Chicago music scene is loaded with tremendous talent (not us). Many bands began as solo artists toiling in open-mike bars years ago. This list will continue to grow as websites for our friends appear.
THE RICH EXPERIENCE
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