en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/group/Unconventional+Tastes/journal The Last.fm group journal for Unconventional Tastes. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/17/5611j_new_issue_of_sonik_magazine_with_raining_pleasure_in_the_cover%21 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:43:38 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/17/5611j_new_issue_of_sonik_magazine_with_raining_pleasure_in_the_cover%21 The new issue of Sonik magazine, one of the most popular greek magazines, has been released with Raining Pleasure being one the four anglophone greek indie bands featured in the cover.

Apart from RP, the other three bands are: Film, Closer and Matisse.

Each band is making questions to the other bands about music or even completely different things [such as the questions Raining Pleasure do:) ]

This issue of Sonik magazine is dedicated to the greek indie music scene.

Check all these bands out at their MySpace pages.

http://www.myspace.com/closergreece
http://www.myspace.com/filmgreece
http://www.myspace.com/matissetheband

Cheers,

potis

http://myplanetb612.blogspot.com]]> http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/17/5611j_new_issue_of_sonik_magazine_with_raining_pleasure_in_the_cover%21#comments http://www.last.fm/user/Gjervan/journal/2006/11/13/ppi_more_lyrics-quiz Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:43:28 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Gjervan/journal/2006/11/13/ppi_more_lyrics-quiz More of the good old lyrics-quiz. Remember that I set up each artist that I can think of performing that-and-this song as an option, and some artists may appear more than once. To conclude, the amount of artist will not correspond to the number of lyrics.

1) I remember when we were so small

2) Ja det var Kåre og Roar og Einar og meg

4) Quite a surprise

5) You could have a steam-train

6) Don't talk to me, I don't belive a word

7) The most interesting thing about King Charles I is that he was 5'6'' tall at the start of his reign, but only 4'8'' tall at the end of it...

8) Take a little walk to the edge of town

9) Well, the moon is broken, and the sky's cracked

10) I'm a grim and lonesome wanderer

11) OK Corral... OK Corral...

12) While George was a good, straigth boy to begin with

13) When you were young and your heart was an open book

14) The city of sin is lying in the evening glow

15) Bored of the life in the City of Gold

St. Thomas
Øystein Sunde
Primus
Peter Gabriel
Motörhead
Monty Python
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tom Waits
Falconer
Frankie Laine
Paul McCartney
Guns N' Roses
Reverend Bizarre
Genesis]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Gjervan/journal/2006/11/13/ppi_more_lyrics-quiz#comments http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/10/560wo_my_first_raining_pleasure_gig... Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:53:13 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/10/560wo_my_first_raining_pleasure_gig... Back in 1995, it was carnival time (the famous carnival of Patras). I was just getting to know a new band from Patras, my hometown, from a Pop and Rock Magazine cd-collection.

It was a cd about the local anglophone music scene, featuring bands like Mayday Overdrive, Dirty Saints and a band by Chris Gallanopoulos, called Lexema (or something like that, i don't quite remember).

Raining Pleasure's contribution to the sampler was the following three songs:

A Sad Universe
My Planet B612 (yeaaaaahh, right - our godfather)
and
Let The Light Lead You

Three beautiful, yet "plainly" produced, songs. Nice vocals, sing along personal and kinda melancholic lyrics and a violin that made them stand out!

Well, for the next few months, me and my best friend, Sotiris, never really stopped talking about their music. In February (don't expect me to remember a date, ok?) the school was talking about a very live concert, in theater Pantheon (bought by Village Cinemas eventually). The line up:

Raining Pleasure
Dirty Saints
Mayday Overdrive

and Ksylina Spathia

That's right... Almost all the bands featured in this Pop and Rock sampler, plus one of the biggest then greek-singing rock bands (Ksilina Spathia).

Raining Pleasure were the opening act. I didn't really know the songs, apart from these 3. But, their appearance is the memorable appearance i have since my youth. Lousy sound (Pantheon is kinda notorious for its bad quality sound), but an exceptional closure. Their final song was a cover to Paul Anka's "You are my destiny". A song that later would prove to be a special part of their live sets for quite a few years, prior to signing for Emi.

I also remember having a brief conversation with Dimitris Poulikakos, one of the most respected (kinda cult for me, though) rock personas of Greek "underground" music. He told me that these four guys from Patras have a bright future ahead!

Man, you were soooo right :)

Eleven (11) years later, Raining Pleasure have recorded five (5) albums, three (3) of them at Emi Greece. They have been nominated two (2) golden records and they have sold more than 55.000 copies. Thousands of loyal fans follow every new step of theirs.

And most important? They are pretty ready for the big (and quite difficult until someone proves it a myth) step to foreign audiences.

But the most important of all, for me at least, is that they are currently working on their new album! :)

Hope that it won't take long guys...

cheers,

Potis

http://myplanetb612.blogspot.com]]> http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/11/10/560wo_my_first_raining_pleasure_gig...#comments http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/30/560oj_raining_pleasure%27s_reflections_has_gone_gold%21 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:36:55 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/30/560oj_raining_pleasure%27s_reflections_has_gone_gold%21 Raining Pleasure's tribute to Manos Hadjidakis and New York Rock N Roll Ensemble, the famous "Reflections" album has been certified Gold, in Greece!

It is the second golden album for the band!!! :)

cheers,

potis

http://myplanetb612.blogspot.com]]> http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/30/560oj_raining_pleasure%27s_reflections_has_gone_gold%21#comments http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/19/560nd_check_my_planet_b612_blog_-_a_raining_pleasure_fan_club Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:36:16 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/19/560nd_check_my_planet_b612_blog_-_a_raining_pleasure_fan_club Hi there, i have created a new blog about Raining Pleasure, my favorite band.

You can find it here: http://myplanetb612.blogspot.com

Hope you like what you will read there. It's all about Raining Pleasure!!!

:)

Cheers,

Potis]]> http://www.last.fm/user/potis1980/journal/2006/10/19/560nd_check_my_planet_b612_blog_-_a_raining_pleasure_fan_club#comments http://www.last.fm/user/metricks/journal/2006/09/26/2lon_international_online_music_awards_2007 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:12:10 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/metricks/journal/2006/09/26/2lon_international_online_music_awards_2007 If you are an independent artist, this event may be of interest to you. It's an opportunity to show your respect and admiration for your peers who impressed you most, during the past year.

Also, if you're just a listener, or a fan of a certain genre, and would like to discover some of the best artists around, this event's for you. You will get to hear their music and find out why they've been voted as the best of the best by their peers.




Welcome to the International Online Music Awards (IOMAs)

The IOMAs were established by R Cat Communications in October 2003. This unrivalled and prestigious independent music awards event, now in it's fourth year, was originally launched to give Independent online artists the chance to vote for their fellow artists in a number of meaningful awards categories that had never previously existed online.

IOMA nominations were invited to give artists the unique opportunity to show their respect, admiration, and appreciation for each other's musical works and for their contributions and involvement within the global online music community.

The IOMAs today, has become the single biggest independent online music awards event of it's kind and has gained both media and industry recognition for the integrity of the awards and for the value of recording artists contributions to the industry throughout the world.



R Cat Communications Main Site


Hall of Fame (All winners and nominees of the past three editions)


To know more, rules and submission


The IOMA group in Last.Fm]]> http://www.last.fm/user/metricks/journal/2006/09/26/2lon_international_online_music_awards_2007#comments