We’ve been really busy touring the antarctic suburbs for the past year since we made the DVD. It’s a little cold, but the people are super friendly on account of they’re crazy. People ask why we’re wasting our time down there when we could be playing NY, LA, Chicago, etc. Playing NY would be so obvious… so 2001. We got a letter from a fan in antarctica and he sounded crazy. At first we just put it in the crazy box along with the rest of those letters, but then we realized that he probably didn’t get enough sunlight and had gone off his rocker as a result. Then someone thought that because of where he sat on the pole he got way too much sunlight, and then we started arguing about it. We decided to go down ourselves and check because we all liked the idea of someone sitting on the pole.
Which brings us to the first quarter of 2006. It took us a minute to edit the DVD last summer because Karina and I had to edit out the thousands of bad shots of us. It’s interesting what camera guys can get when they’re in the pit filming up our skirts. We had a good time in the editing bay laughing at ourselves because for the past ten years we had imagined that we looked way cooler on stage. This is not the case. We are not cool at all . To top it off, when we were doing the commentary the first time around, Karina and I started arguing, which then escalated into a full
blown fight. The guys thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard, but we decided to keep the first pass at the commentary to ourselves. It actually is the funniest thing we could ever release, but we burned all copies, so you will never know.
Now that the DVD is out, we have decided it’s probably time to finish those songs we claimed to be writing. We managed to play one at the show without blowing it, but we really should have finished them all a year ago when we started them, because we forgot a lot of the parts between then and now. I swear we will do it. We are almost done with a bunch of songs. We talked about putting them all together and making one long medley so that you couldn’t tell that they were missing a part. We will ask Fat Mike what he thinks of our Frankenrecord idea and get back to you.
~Elyse
April 10th, 2006
Now that we’re back online, it would be great if we were 100% accurate and complete too. First item to tackle is the discography. I’ve got what i know of in there but there are track listings, lyrics, tabs, pictures and who knows what funny anecdotes or facts are floating around out there. Please take a look and send anything you’ve got to me – controller at dancehallcrashers dot com. Thanks!
*Update 12/8* – Josh Hounshell sent in 12 albums worth of track listings for the discography including 5 compilation and import CDs we didn’t have listed yet. He is a stud! I challenge any of you with a big DHC collection to try and out do him…
October 18th, 2005
Kung Fu record sent a bunch of pictures from the Live DVD for you to view. These are great pics and really capture the band’s energy! Check out the gallery. Please remember these images are copyrighted so respect the photographer and the band.
If you don’t already have the DVD, you should order it now from Kung Fu records. The pre-orders have just started arriving as of yesterday and feedback is incredibly positive.
September 11th, 2005
It’s almost here! Due to release September 13th, we’re just about 2 weeks away from the release of DHC’s first ever DVD covering a House of Blues show. There are 23 songs and a bevy of extras including multiple angles, extra footage, band commentary, subtitles for English and Japanese, trailers and web links. Click the picture to see an enlarged version. You can pre-order it until September 10th for $14.98 from Kung Fu Records
August 30th, 2005
Welcome to the new and (more importantly) online Dance Hall Crashers website! Too much time passed between taking down the old version and bringing this version online. It’s entirely my fault and I apologize to the fans out there who had no place to look. I apologize equally to the band.
Depending on how soon you come to the site, you may or may not see lots of content. I am bringing the site back online without all of the old content in an effort to get people excited again. I am going to allow fans to submit their own articles, stories, reviews and images to be placed on the site in the near future and make it much more interactive.
As always, you can connect with other DHC fans via our mailing lists. The webmaster email for this site has changed due to spam issues – you can reach me (Brian) at controller (-at-) dancehallcrashers.com. Thanks for checking in and welcome back!
August 29th, 2005
Set your tempo to 200bpm and use the following on your Nokia/Sony-Ericsson/Similar phone:
2,*,3,4,#,3,5,4,#,3,2,1,#,3,4,#,3,5,4,#,
3,1,#,7,*,*,1,*,#,2,3,4,#,5,6,5,6,*,*,1,
*,#,6,*,*,2,*,0,1,#,0,6,*,*,9,
Thanks to Simon
August 29th, 2005
For those of you who support Ericsson, Nokia and similar ringtone
s, here it comes courtesy of Roxanne and Mark from the DHC list:
Cricket
+d+e+#f+e+g+#f+e+d+#c+e+#f+e+g+#f+e+
#cb+#c+d+e+#f+g+a+#fa+#ca+D+#ca
DHC (horn intro)
+Dp+dp+dp+d+cbp+CbGppgpbp+cp+
Dp+dp+ep+f+e+D+Cb+C
Legend (in front of a letter):
+ = note taken up an octave
p = a pause
# = sharp note
Capital letter means a long note
August 28th, 2005
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