Velour 100 - Flourish

[edwinmusic]

I  love it!!!!!!!!

[tofuleg]

Nice. I never knew this video existed. So great.

[mtraceboston]

so cool to see this. Wherever Trey Many is i hope he's still making music. maybe it's easy to write off v100 as 'christian 4ad-lite' but i really love their albums and songs and still listen to of colour bright and fall sounds. thanks for posting this i'd never seen it.

[leamanc]

Wow, the biggest American rip-off of 4AD and shoegaze since the Lilys' first album!

I tease, I tease...well actually, it's true, but I like Fall Sounds anyway. Great work on posting this vid; I always wondered what the mysterious Amon looked like.

[fatcatbuzz]

That's because Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive help with recording of the album. I think Karin Oliver sings on one of their albums. 4AD and shoegaze rules.

[leamanc]

Yeah, this is all true. Velour 100 was Trey Many's band (Trey was the drummer during HNIA's best period). Karin (HNIA's best singer ever by far) did sing some on the last Velour 100 album.

I do love HNIA, Karin, 4AD and shoegaze too. I just always thought Velour 100 was a little too derivative. Heck, even the cover of Fall Sounds is a rip-off of Galaxie 500's Today album cover.

[leamanc]

And also, Trey had a band called Liquorice that Warn produced and 4AD did pick up. However, they passed on Velour 100. I think that may say something about the artistic quality of Velour 100, because Ivo (4AD founder and president at the time) was totally into most everything HNIA related. He even dedicated the This Mortal Coil boxset to Warn, so he obviously thought a lot of him.

[metalpsalm]

This album is just soooo good!

I saw them live @ Cornerstone 1999 or 2000. It was so funny, because the singer would begin to nod her head to the beat just before singing. She also drank from this huge water bottle (it was really hot out) with both hands. It looked like a baby holding it's own bottle. It was very quirky.

[Panchoroy]

I remeber this group like went through 3 to 4 singers. She's my Fav and this album was a gem.

[moominmaldoror]

:D :D

[connermal]

I'm actually listening to them right now! Got a copy of their first demo CASSETTE from a friend of mine when they traveled to Indiana for a small show. Ahh those were the days.

[rossxsa]

Yes, Amon is indeed now a teacher. Her mom is Jan Krist, a folk singer who tours.

[BeakerChi]

Saw them 11 years ago in Pontiac, MI, thanks to Big Sonic Heaven & Darren Revell. Amazing live. Too bad they broke up.

Big Sonic Heaven (online radio show) is on Monday thru Thursday nites (10pm Pacific) at Indie 103. Darren plays Velour 100 sometimes! Velour 100 and Cocteau Twins fill up my iPod. Thanks for the vid!

[noraaboy]

Absolutely one of my favorite bands, thanks for finding this.

[rogerhil]

Thanks a lot for that video, I was looking for that video for so long time.