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Elvis Presley is DEAD.
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So is Jim Morisson and Jimmy Hendrix, and Alexander the Great, and my grandfather and my grandmother...
So depressing. |
21 Jul 2005 by Starcry.gr
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American Bananas 1
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The Bush family-line has been proven a fatal danger to the world. Imagine what their competitors are like for the US citizens to keep voting for them.
1 out of 2 Americans is embarassed of their nationality, thanx to the Bushes. This might be good news. Holywood is turning subversive and movies show increasingly more frequently the ugliness of patriotism. Music is showing evidence of abandon to all hope, and art, in general, is gettimg more interesting, celebrating mass murder and genocide with greater sensitivity.
And Batman has gone back to his adolescence, mysteriously, and also to the far East, where he learnt to fight in Ninjitsu and talk in Death Metal.
Oh! and Father-Christmas-Santa-Claus isn’t real, apparently! (he is a 1930's Coke advert) but suspicion is rising about aliens watching us with their invisible UFO's...
Long live the zombies! (including Rob) |
21 Jul 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Eurovision is really about music...
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Eurovision is really about music, not international politics. Can you imagine England, Germany or France making it to the top?
Or did you think Israel is not in any way European?
And what great lingerie they wear on that stage!
And what a lovely song the '05 champion is!
The 1st-prize/welcoming-of-the-next-Eurovision party in the center of Athens had started and was being broadcasted by the local media six and a half hours before the election of the Greek song no 1 at no 1 - and the subsequent appointment of next year's event thereby - (There is nothing suspicious in that...). And then, Greek National Heroin, Paparopreezou (or whatever her name is), got her place next to the Olympics, the European soccer championship, Alexander the Great, Hercules, Santa Barbara, Virgin Mary, Corfu, the Parthenon, tzatziki, moussaka, and other such nobble things, and everyone understood what a mature peoples we Greeks are, and what a highly civilised place Greece is.
(And around 2.00 o'clock in the morning, when Eurovision '05 and the Greek national anthem was over and the TV screens were off, Opus finally came on stage in a half-empty Athens Club, and sang their 80's hit about what life is).
Foreigners, come take your summer holiday in our delirium of concrete and cement! We’ve got dolphins, too, doing their trendy belly-dance in Dolby Surround techno-folk, in the middle of the motorway! |
21 Jul 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Parent-member of the band getting MARRIED!
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Parent-member of the band, Nikos Doukas, has gotten MARRIED!
(Cyprus, 9 July 2005, Featuring (play back) Dj-Set by Schwartzjohan)
This is good news actually.
CONGRATULATIONS, MAN! ALL THE BEST! |
21 Jul 2005 by Starcry.gr
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New Starcry "music"!
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These things happen occasionally...
- the Giaour project -
is the latest in freaky trend music, brought to you by the one and only band that is unfortunately predominant over this tiny webscape.
Track 01 (self fuck) has already been BANNED in certain public places in Greece, due to its anti-militaristic nature. The voices incorporated are a rehearsing of the oath sworn at the actual initiation ceremony to the Greek army, once in his lifetime by almost every Greek male, sticking at the word ypotagi (=submission, subjection, obedience...) and a moan moaned several times by a girl named Victoria in a Private Castings video, bless her.
Mr Dachris' pledge to the Greek government that accompanies the Giaour project via this news section is as follows: WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE WAR, ARMIES, CAMPS, WEAPONS, MARCHES, IMAGINARY NATIONAL THREATS, FASCISM, RACISM AND FANATICISM, NATIONAL DUTIES, MILITARY SERVICES, BIASED SCHOOL (DE-)EDUCATION, FAKE LIVING STANDARDS, MIMIC CULTURE, IDENTITY CARDS AND THE LOAD OF SHIT THAT COMES WITH BEING BORN F*****G GREEK. WE MIGHT AS WELL BE TURKS, ALBANIANS, IRAQIS AND EVEN AMERICANS. GIVE US SOME REAL EDUCATION, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT, GIVE US LIBERTY AND THE CHOICE TO BE WHATEVER WE ARE NATURALLY INCLINED TO BE. GIVE US SOCIAL PROVIDENCE AND HEALTHY CREDIT AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIGNITY AND WE MIGHT LOOK AFTER THIS LAND AND PROTECT IT ON OUR OWN. SHAME UNTO THOSE WHO FORCE CITIZENS BY LAW TO TAKE SUCH (military) OATHS, SHAME UNTO THOSE WHO GIVE TEENAGERS G3s AND F16s TO SHOOT WHOEVER THEIR CORRUPTED MINDS THINK HOSTILE IN A PEACEFULL COUNTRY. SHAME UNTO THOSE WHO PLEDGE ALEGIANCE TO (IN)JUSTICE AND COVER UP THE TRUTH AND SHOW THEIR FACES AFTER HAVING BEEN SO OBVIOUSLY BRIBED OFF. STOP CULTIVATING TERRORISM, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP OUR LIVES TO NATIONAL CAUSES, WE OWE YOU NOTHING BUT THE MIDDLE FINGER.
A fair cause that might bubble up the same old stir up in the local underground genre, but, sadly, not a big chance for them or the government to hear. Most of the people directly concerned, probably don't even speak English.
All 7 tracks of the Giaour project are free to download from the band's published turdies section, since October the 19th, 2005. This is an internet-only album that may also act as a promo for the rest of Starcry's releases.
Download it and play it everywhere offensively loud! |
08 Sep 2005 by Starcry.gr
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The rich richer and the poor dead
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A new institution has been established in the Athenean music micro-universe. The Terravibe Festival! Which isn't a festival really, it's a series of snatchy gigs every other day during summer season. A gig ticket costs an average fan at least 7% of his/her monthly salary and packed with that, are the expences of an 86 km ride to and from Terravibe, the drinks and other supplies that are needed to survive the Greek summer heat and sun and cost a fortune within the venue. Following the great success of Rockwave festival, Big Star Promotion is now expanding and making sure that all the big Rock names and the summer holiday seasons get thoroughly exploited and Greek Rock fans are regularly abused and humiliated.
Anything that is thrown at us through the media, we buy, be it local neo-folk-EBM or nu-Black-Metal-pop, Dodheimsgard or Placebo or Logic Bomb. And we hardly have a choice of media. The little para-education we get is grumpy, too. We asked the editor-in-chief of a local Rock magazine why they don't promote other forms of art closely related to the Rock culture and the answer we got was that they, themselves, don't promote, they just exploit already promoted things and the Greek Rock fans are "goats" (in a sense, unintelligent ruminantia with no individuality and personal will, that jump around and can be milked regularly) and get what they deserve.
True.
Hail, new institution! those about to drown salute you!
By the way, what happens to the small stars, Mr Big Star Promotion and acquintances? What happens to the experimental independants who are making all the difference and stigmatize truthfully the era and the whereabouts? They don't get buried alive to be silenced, do they? Despised and outcasted, for who are they to deserve your noticing? How are they ever to be heard having no support from you, people? Surely, we all appreciate those who stand out of the crowd, right? This is what culture is about, no? Well, bands like us, cannot finance themselves in this country, artists sacrifice their artistry daily, to work as waiters and security-guards to survive, their dreams die desecrated when all there is around them is proven to be deception and they must co-operate to keep breathing. And how the hell do you see the revolution that is the Rock'n'Roll movement apply to your grand institutions?
It all sounds like a horrible snatch to us... Rock is imported goodies and can partially go mainstream in a non-English-speaking fraud-cultured place. Let those foreigners take all the risks and if they succeed, we import their successful products, no sweat. Why bother with our own losers?
When Black Sabbath played "Black Sabbath" this summer in Terravibe, and 100000 Greeks joined the Ritual with voices, hearts and lighters in unison, one of the biggest underground events just took place. Only Byzantine Easter Mass could be compared to it, and that kind of thing doesn't happen anymore.. But there it stops. As Marilyn Manson had put it on the same stage the day before, Rock is dead. For Rock is about change and constant revolution. Not suitting the modern "fans" who enjoy the social status of listening to it to relax after kissing arses all their lives so they can show up at a trendy Big Star gig, neither the traditional low class Rock fans who cannot afford it at all and que up outside the venues begging the security people to let them in - and occasionally horde up and "doo" the gates.
We are talking about open discrimination issues here. Class discrimination.
Rock is a luxury for the rich only. Both as performing and as enjoying.
Rock!
Nevermind the bollocks, here has never been the Sex Pistols.
Starcry will kindly maintain their humble "ascetic" protest refraining from the stages of their local gig-scene. |
08 Sep 2005 by Starcry.gr
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American Bananas 2
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We do feel sorry for New Orleans and all the victims of natural causes and national indifference who suffer in abandon in USA these days, almost as sorry as we feel for Baghdad and the victims of the US crusade for the Holy grOIL, and we hereby offer our sympathy to both, since it's all we can afford.
We also once more join in the protest against war in Iraq and call the US forces back to look after their own people who are desperately in need, and leave the rest of the world to itself.
It is a great relief to see that, however impotent the contemporary western societies are, the peoples react regardless of their governments, and raise funds to aid those in need (as promoted by the mass media), although we are still a bit confused about why should we aid a people who spend their own funds and send their young to make war against innocents.. It means the Economy Crisis isn't as bad as they tell us.
Of course, it seems to us, primeval believers, that the Anti-Christ comes from the White House, Washington DC, and that Al Qaeda will be favoured by history in the centuries to come.
And as we are the average ignorant strangers to the norm, we have to ask: who is going to be punished this time, Mr US pres? Nature? probably? Destroy the environment completely in revenge for the hurricanes?
Or does it not bother you that much, since most of the victims were blacks?
Now, let's presume you have seen this kind of criticism hundreds of times already, and you are not the US pres, so what has this got to do with you?
Well, we don't particularly care about your part in this context, how come you read this article anyway? These news are about things that affect us and you are just about welcome to enjoy them, so that you get a better idea about your favorite artists that we secretely are. Thank you. |
09 Sep 2005 by Starcry.gr
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580 euros
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That's how much the average basic monthly wages used to be officially in Greece for a full time job, until recently; 600 euros if you've been to college, 620 if job's not very healthy. Low cost living in Athens is estimated to be around 860 euros at least. Since recently, 580 is not standard any more and it tends to become less, while full time no longer means 8 hours daily, but well over 9. Even so, there are not enough job vacancies for the population, and every year more students give up their studies to enroll to the military forces as a last resort.
Food is expensive and terrible, just like Insurance, Health and Medicine. To have children is a risky enterprise very few people can afford. Transportation is pitilessly pitiful. There are not enough trees in Athens to produce sufficient amounts of oxygen and cement works increase by the minute, man-powered by former-communist-countries immigrants, who sooner or later realise they are being cheated and turn criminal. Space is intollerably confined and costs a Hell of a lot, to rent or to buy or to own. At least 40% of one's income (if one has any) goes to the state's anual taxes. The police is only there when you least nead it. The sewerage system is like all Greek systems incapable of functioning to its purpose.
If you want a decent life in this country, you squeeze your guts and become a dealer. Not a sales person, a dealer. Any kind of dealer, but preferably the illegal-rated kind (piece of cake, even smoking pot is still illegal here). Or else a tourist abuser (Greek salad 10 euros, 15 if you want Feta cheese in it), provided you have inheritted some land or business you can use for tourist abuse (the government will help you full on). Everything else fails but you are too busy watching football and other porn-substituting sports on tv to notice, while you are suffering.
There is no social, public or private awareness. There is no real attempt for academic education, just some kind of training for the sake of social status, and extremely rarely some kind of theft-sponsored scientific research. Religious faith is still thriving here, as there is nothing else to believe in, and the omnipresent inanimate church is ridiculously wealthy, heir to many rich people's fortunes, for God has made them lucky dealers but not parents.
The News are synthesised in biased and mass-controlling formulas by means of political profit. The Media broadcast only what they're given and payed to broadcast. Music like Starcry's in such an environment is a luxurious delicacy only for the rich (meaning usually illegal dealers and their children) who pretend to appreciate Art, while popular/radio 'economy-pack' music is the crumbs the poor majority is mentally fed by to play happy.
This is not mere observation. This is our life.
Please God, let OUR music be heard by ALL people, especially the church. |
14 Sep 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Do not expect traditional news-information from this page
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We don't care (=we don't get paid to (yet)).
We abstain from common media guidance, we are 'media ascetes', we are timely enough with the important events by the divine means of oral information and internet research, sometimes a bit outdated, but who cares? WE LIVE IN GREECE!
Isn't this great news? |
19 Sep 2005 by Starcry.gr
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French nON-fRENCH REVOLUTIOn hooray!
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It was about time it happened, though we expected it to come from countries with more intrinsic problems. France has got its own car industry, so burning all the cars in the country may prove very good for the local economy.
Of course the pawns / media of the "liberal" modern West order, had to focus only on the terror of the riot-squashing techniques, so that the rest of the world with discrimination issues get too scared to attempt anything similar. The original demands of the rioters were overshadowed by the single event that triggered the little 'revolution' and the law action taken to repress it, and so the majority of the rest of the world was left only with the fear of the unyielding forces of command of the tyrants whom we have elected to govern us, and ignore the fact that the people have the power and it is time to overthrow all this race and class discrimination system of slavery.
Why don't the Greek non-Greeks burn all those ill-colored Athenean Taxi cabs to clear the traffic-mess of the bastards that won't pick you up if you are dark skinned, spiky haired, over 60yrs old or broken legged, and that make you feel horribly insecure if you are young and attractive and they do pick you up after dark...
If the Albanians in Greece started a riot today, in consequence there would probably be no more Greece in a week, even if only due to lack of labour. You see, we, Greeks, are not very much into labour for ourselves, we like ready-made, risk-free immediate solutions and commanding others to work for us for crumbs and in lightining speed, we're such a lovely people.
Why don't (the young) people everywhere unite and kick fascism and discrimination in the arse and equalise the opportunities for a better today and tomorrow and everafter? Why is there still in this century such a low standard in public information and such narrowness in state education?
Why are there all these hooligans of the sports' industry still roaming free, and European - of all - Countries have such customs as compulsory military services and national travestries with marches under national flags and armed surveillance?
Why doesn't the Human Rights code apply to all humans?
Why, we are all sheep, naturally. Thinking we are heroes fighting for their birth-rights to the pantheon! Silently cattled and mercilessly slaughtered for leisure. And as such, we respect and applaud the French riot.
Let's imitate it, too, like those in Germany.
I am setting fire to my bike and my old man's cripple of a car, later on. Or I am simply arranging that I just get gloriously arrested for that, and not burn the poor things at all. May be, indulging the Greek spirit once more, I should only tell a cousin who writes for the newspapers the story and avoid going into the real trouble, altogether.
No, sorry, let us all think and talk it away, none of the above needs take place and tomorrow the matter will be neatly forgotten.
Oh, but now, that a thing like that took place in the European Community, are we not so proud of being Europeans! |
09 Nov 2005 by Starcry.gr
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the Giaour project actual cover
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Due to the flawlessness of Greekstyle living and working and managing things around, and loads of luck, and trust towards the effectiveness of the fanatically right-winged conservative church-manipulated shameless (sub)authority of censorship in Greece, and although we deliberately do not use Greek language, the electronic picture that serves as a visual accompaniment to the Giaour Project is not yet on-line.
What you see in the published turdies section, is a cryptographic outline of the real thing, that, thankfully, doesn't look too bad.
The use of national, religious and pornographic symbols on it, may be read as indecent by certain people, and we'ld rather not put our site at stake, as we are not that wealthy and famous yet.
If you would care to help us issue it however, in a non Greek means of electronic or printed media, please contact us, we will be so very grateful! 
Revised on 21 June 2006:
Bollocks! We'll take the risk and post it as an art-piece in our gallery. No one else offered. |
09 Nov 2005 by Starcry.gr
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a Fact about the Giaour
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This isn't all cross-referenced but it seems that not many people are aware that "Giaour" is a Turkish swear-word meaning "faithless", used through the Ottoman empire to describe Greeks, and that the so-titled Lord Byron's poem was one of the greatest fuelings to the Greek revolution in 1821. This poem is also recited by many researchers as the first Vampire tale in modern literature. What is the most striking fact about it though, is that there are barely 1000 modern Greeks who are aware of it's existence, let alone having read it.
Lord Byron was making a statement about all Europe when he wrote it, not just about Greece. Starcry think that this poem is still in fashion in the contemporary world, the situation having spread across the ocean, and that Greece has not progressed positively since the times it was written, when the Greeks were slaves to the Turks. |
09 Nov 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry, the name and the creed
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Starcry is, indeed, a 'made-up' concept, deriving from esoteric philosophies and occult / new age theories, as many have already presumed.
The word 'starcry' has also deliberately a science-fiction accoustic aura and it calls up a semi-fantastic event correspondent to traditional ghost-stories, so that lyrical and musical atmospherics are hinted directly, and special effects of some sort are likewise to be expected.
In the context of western occult writings by Waite, Crowley and the likes, the term can be explained through ancient-origin beliefs, such as that 'each individual on earth corresponds to a star in the sky'. Like the stars, we tread silently our paths through life and never doubt or question our course, until the strain is too much and the pain unbearable, for Love is not the only Law, be it Love under Will or otherwise. Then -unlike the stars- we break down and cry and come to change courses, create new paths and so create anarchy and chaos, that is the deeper essence of cosmic harmony, and the borderline between the end of an old and the beginning of a new era of order. This, most often, requires isolation, bridges burnt, the individuals have no choice but to stand alone, and there is nowhere for them to return to. And then, our correspondent stars cry, too. As a call for unison and comfort for all the strays and the prodigals scattered in the universe...
In raw historical and socio-psychological lines, however, the answer to the riddle of 'starcry' lies in the overly dramatic, neo-romantic, metal-exaggerated inspiration of Nick Dachris, that occured during his adolescent relationship with an electric guitar, and meant "I'ld rather read Poe and paint skulls than watch football and soap-operas, hey, girls, I'm your dream-love, why can't I get laid with that particular bitch, because she's devoted to Guns'n'Roses while I prefer listening to Judas Priest and Venom, let's get pissed and rock'n'roll about it!"
Of course, vocally, 'starcry' might mislead one to expect a Vidna Obmanda sort of ambient project or a space-opera related subject, but neither of these will be too far from what it actually is. What this 'Starcry' definitely isn't, is a board / role-playing / war game particle, although such a 'starcry' is apparently evident elsewhere in the internet.
Pay no attention! We all love being unique. |
30 Nov 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Today, we celebrate the human rights
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Tomorrow and all the rest of the year's days, we celebrate the human wrongs...
It had to be a cold, miserable and moody winters day, the human rights one.
In case one is wondering about the lyrics "not permitted" at the lyrics bit of this site, one has to know that those lyrics are in Greek and a greek font would therefore be required for one to view them on their terminal screen.
Now, the human rights don't particularly apply to the Greeks, and the Greek fonts are a sub-case of the Greek Graphic Design and Typography section of the grand Greek Arts and Cultural Advance case that is not likely to be resolved very soon.
How are these subjects related?
It is one of those matters of material wealth. If you can afford them, you can have human rights, Greek fonts, culture, education, opportunities in life... If you can't, you shut up and do as you are told, if you can guarantee that you are fitted for it without expecting compensation for qualifications. Take Adobe trouble-shooting for example. Only Anodos' (the Greek department) versions have problem with fonts -that is the Greek fonts. You have to buy all the new fonts, 250euro/family minimum, since none of the old ones work in CS2 CE. And publishing houses pay electronic typesetting 0,75euro per page, 75euro per cover-illustration. And do you know how much a Mac costs in Greece? 4-5 PCs at least. If you are a graphic designer around this place you either live of piratical software and your parent's income or your job is valued by your thighs and the space between them... And don't think that it's simple to go on the dole in Greece...
Well, this is not a guide to all the degrading attitudes of the Greek State Education towards its citizens, and all we can do is suggest that the E.U. pays a little more attention to the quality of each of the "United States of Europe" before relying on them, and maybe, certain vital updates in public awareness and other internal affairs should be compulsory and regularly checked to ensure their proper functioning, or the U.S.E. is going to end up as bad as the U.S.A.
With liberty and justice for all.
We don't claim being any better, since we too are Greeks, but we've paid off our software and, people, know your rights! and your wrongs, that you should constantly try to recognise and face. If you are comfortable with English, read the "full story" by clicking "there's more where that came from" at the end of this article, if you want it in Greek go to:
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/grk.htm
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand this, and it concerns your everyday living. |
10 Dec 2005 by Starcry.gr
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Harry GreeceMass and Merry New Bollox!
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24 Dec 2005 by Starcry.gr
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OH! Hello! It's a brand new year!
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Didn't you notice? |
19 Jan 2006 by Starcry.gr
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No news, bad news!
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We, Starcry, have been working on our new album (approximately the 4th one), which is foresaid to be our worst to date. It is almost musical. A ridiculously ambitious attempt to blend in to the general cyber-goth scene, it is set out to be, although the distant but ever-increasing mental resemblance to Mr. Lydon's PIL is kicking us back home down to zero. This new album is meant to come in double cd format, the second disk including all our major failures from the past that have not appeared on an album yet. That is, to say, legendary poo from our very beginning, our Rockshire days, our demos, our album-secluded tracks and, if all is not dead by the time we finish working on it, a new edit of the infamous Made of Pain video-clip, which is still making us laugh.
We have no idea when this is due to be available.
Tough.
Worse news than the above is that NUNSINZ is triumphantly bankrupt (what a surprise), and Mr. Dachris is broke once again. So, please, somebody, give us a chance, a job, some spare change, their love, anything, you're welcome, thank you.
Equally bad is the news that STARVOX is shut down. This is painfully marking the historical decline of the underground quality gender of the modern world. We are being taken over by nu & blak & euro & hop. What drugs is everyone on?
The worst news, now, is the terrifying re-surfacing of 2004's ONE NIGHT STAND, about to conquer the world with the dazzling amount of 300 fresh copies of the cd. -Like the ancient Spartans in Thermopylae that held the Persians from intruding the USA-. Look out for it at all the crappy review resorts you can think of in the next couple of months. If it gets any good ones we won't know unless you (or they) tell us... Starcry's 2nd album is going to be available at all the good record-stores that will kindly volunteer to stock it, which definitely are a lot less than 300 and probably not very near you at all. Get out there and buy a fucking copy, anyway! Please! |
04 Apr 2006 by Starcry.gr
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The Richer and the Dead-er wanting More
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(reference to the o8 Sep article nearer the top of this page)
April fool's day 2006, the Sisters of Mercy, live in Athens, 35 euros.
Presented proudly by -guess who- Big Star Promotions / DiDi music and Eleuftherotypia's Epsilon (Sunday inset).
This was the 2nd Sisters gig in Athens, the first one being the 1997 one, at the "Rock of Gods" aka Rockwave festival (aka Big Star DiDi)...
Here it is.
Sporting "Arena", Saturday, 21:30, sold out, packed. Not more than 3000 people. The Sisters got on stage precisely on time.
Over 200 people left the venue before 22:00 because they couldn't bear suffering from asphyxia. Over 200 people with tickets did't get in at all. 2-3 songs in the beginning where sound-engineered beyond recognition, Eldritch's voice started sounding around "Dominion" and sounded sort of recognise-able from "Romeo Down" onwards.
Most people got let down by the lack of a drummer and accused the Sisters of gigging play-back. The same ones also freaked out about the stage-smoke that didn't allow the innocent voyers a clear view.
The Sisters of Mercy were as crap as ever, of course. Doctor Avalanche was thriving on the beat and the Sisters stage-smoke must be a secret patent for the band don't choke despite their age. And Eldritch hardly spoke at all besides his lyrics. Only a "thank you", just like the last time in Greece. No jokes about the crowd, no terrible covers of Dolly Parton and Kylie Minogue songs, nothing like the party-shows in England. Just like the last time.
Everyone felt let down, everyone soaked themselves sweating, everyone thanked god they survived asphyxia, almost everyone hated Big Star Didi promotions and the Sisters of Mercy and Sporting Arena, by 23:00.
Well.
Noone yelled, noone revolted, noone answered the phone at the DiDi office on Monday morning, no article or comment on Eleuftherotypia's Monday paper (where we usually read about the cultural events that take place during the weekend and although they had a sort of extended interview with the Sisters / promotional article before the gig and its Sunday inset was proudly co-presenting the live, too), and someone at Ta Nea made a little complaint about not getting in to the place with a ticket, degrading the name of the band to make his point.
(Eleuftherotypia and Ta Nea are two of the grandest newspapers in Greece)
This is our local New World Order, as a friend pointed out. Noone protests in Greece. Noone is wakeful enough to realise in time we are being cheated and mistreated and exploited and abused.
Only constant media insulting to maintain our chloroform silence.
Some people don't get by at all.
Well, I love the Sisters, nevertheless, precisely because they're always so honest and sincere and (subsequently) crap, and this time, I was lucky enough to bump into the (current) Sisters at the Athens Imperial Hotel main cafe on Thursday -30 March- afternoon, and I know now what Eldritch looks like without his sunglasses on. (the geek -me).
(Man, I hope you've taken your word back about Tony Blair's promising government since that interview you've got on-line... and I think Doctor Avalanche is way too post-modern - like you care).
Now the great Rock crowd of Athens, Greece, is preparing for the Guiness book of records as the most expensive Rock concert tickets are being sold out:
25th of June (one year after Marilyn Manson and Black Sabbath),
The Rolling Stones, Live in Athens' Olympic Stadium,
presented by:
American Express
and -GUESS WHO-
Big Star Promotions / DiDi music !!!!
Cheapest ticket: 78 Euros (for the no-sight-of-the-stage back of the arena)
Most expensive ticket: 297 Euros
They call it A BIGGER BANG!
Yeah.
It's just a kiss away... |
04 Apr 2006 by Starcry.gr
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The DaLordi Code of the EuroviSSion
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In short, we thank Finland for breaking the taboo and giving us the (American Rip-off) shite with the Slipknot vs Kiss look to vote for in the Greek Eurovision, long live GWAR. And as we felt compeled to vote for the first time since Dana International, we are proud the smileys with the fitness legs'n'tits and especially the Greek one, got sucked so gloriously. Lordi, hallelujah!
No mess with Greek super-flags and bad-taste Greek super-pop flooded the Greek super-streets afterwards, just silence and the ringtones of the Greek super-song with sms at some 4-digit number for our super mobile phones... Poor Anna Vissi, poor Greek Nation, poor Greek Economy, you is truthfully the best and you was injustfully wronged. So sorry.
Still, the King Diamond show 2 days later was apparently unaffected and so was presumably the Buzzcocks one to which we were too pissed to attend, on the same night with Eurovision (Both of these cases had their dates mysteriously altered by a day almost at the last moment...). It was a bit unsettling though, that Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin cancelled their Greek gigs, the Rolling Stones's Bigger Bang got infinitely postponed and nobody really mainstream is coming any nearer.
So our attention got drawn to the DaVinci Code film, which we watched glamourously with giant potions of pop-corn and frosties. DelRey is the publisher of such quality books like the Dan Brown one they made into this movie. Soon there is to come more like it. DelRey knows how to take marketing that one step ahead... If you've watched the film and found it a turn down, it's because you didn't have enough pop-corn to get you through the long quest of Forest Gump flirting with Amelie and Gandalf. Next time, be warned: It is no coincidence that DelRey, DaVinci-code and Dan Brown begin with D. Like Devil and Didi-music. And (oh-no!) Dachris also.
And therfore this article is titled the DaLordi code. The ancient politics of the Eurovision conspiracy are hereby exposed again. Finland is one of those gorgeous but low profile places that is finally attracting attention. The cheesiest American Rock style (also the Germans had a similar idea that didn't work) is the 2006 winner of the greatest European song contest. Next: Soulfly Vs System of a Down. Maybe even Ministry Vs MotleyCrue. With refreshingly pathetic English accents.
SPECIAL ANOUNCEMENT:
Starcry are willingly offering their incredibly commercial inteligence to the altar of representing their glorious super-Nation at the next Eurovision. We always wanted to go play at such a breathtaking waste of spectacle. Please invite us. (We have more grossery to show, ugly pin-up models and more "flying" devices than anyone. We are really monsters without masks but we'll get some of them too, with discount from JeanPaulGaultier, for their excessive effect. We are sexy beyond competition, of course, and very very talentlessed.)
Info at the usual info@this site. |
27 May 2006 by Starcry.gr
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One Night Stand Again
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As it is stated somewhere on the cover of One Night Stand, time is no linear occurence.
That to us, means we release our second album after the third. Which is magnificent. We are indeed very experimental and revolutionary.
Even more magnificent is the Greek quality of this publication. The mastering of the sound bit is typical of Greek productions, although Nick has spent a lot of long hours trying unsuccessfully to find out what's wrong with the first half of the album and deduced that it's not the mastering after all, the second half is equally bad. The printing of the graphics bit is entrancing. Each copy is a unique surprise. Some copies are too red, some too grey, some are folded correctly, some may be cut straightly... The only thing in common is that they were all amateurishly handled enough for vectors to be rasterised and for bleeds not to be cut off. Greek printers are notorious for crap print-jobs.
But we are absolutely charmed with Arcadia Digital SA who manufactured the thing. These people are just fabulous. Besides them Greek printers, they are definitely recommended, by all means.
Anyway, it is a wonderful artifact, and it actually plays in most cd players (pathetically, it doesn't in Nick's one). If you consider yourself a music-literate you ought to have it, especially if you are into New - dark electro noise gothic industrial black thrash disco crap - Wave and similar freaky stuff.
If you are under the spell of that arrogant (Greek) poser mentality and you are still reading this (not very likely, but just in case), you are probably discrediting everything Starcry are doing as something unfamiliar, unbelievable and unworthy. If you happen to also know us in person you are probably not even listening to our music. Well, people, get over it, even the million-dollar super-stars are human people with neighbourhoods, families and little goofy-do's. Has one to come only from California to deserve your phlegmatic-bourgeois admittance? Or does it have to sound like God Current '93, God Cradle of Filth, God Soulfly, God something else that belongs to whatever hollow trend you may be following thinking you are making a difference?
Now:
Watch out for news on release-party dates and other promo nonsense that we are about to embark upon. You will have the unique chance to meet and hang around with us in person (don't you dare ask "what's the point?"). And buy the CD. It cost us a fortune. We are poor.  |
27 May 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry's Gigs Policy
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It seems necessary at this time to set things straight about the frequently asked questions:
is there a Starcry gig schedule?
do they play live at all?
why haven't they showed up on stage for 12+ years now?
how do they perform all those computer-programmed arrangements live? etc. etc.
When Starcry was formed, all we wanted to do was play gigs locally and become deified by our school-mates. When Starcry grew up a little, after a dozen gigs or a bit more, we no longer cared about being deities, superstars and admired by our school-mates. All the former and present band members have played live ever-since, in various formations, but not as Starcry. What matters for Starcry thereafter, is communicating certain values of artistic expression in social, sub-political, emotional and critical terms; exchanging ideas with similar minded people; suggesting alternatives to the pathetic Establishment we are living in. We don't value heroic stands for the sake of exploitation of entertainment for ourselves or anybody else.
Don't get this wrong, we enjoy gigging and watching others gig very much indeed. However pathetic the Nephilim are i.e, they are amazing to watch live. "No job is a shame" as my old man used to say.
But no, we are not heroes.
Musicians and artists are not political leaders, riot starters or idols of worship, get over your moms and dads, or listen to Slipknot and VNV Nation instead and let us go in peace.
Neither are we the "anarchist" facists that will only exist within their tight little sub-societies shouting at each other about ideology and never really act towards the correction of this damned world, these should also get over their moms and dads soon.
Like us or not for being the stupid freaks that we are.
Like us the same way you should like life and the world you've got to make better.
Starcry are neither the Beatles nor Nirvana nor any other similar commercial revolution that kids will go hysterical for, mostly after we die. We are making our humble noise we call music and mental rebelion to celebrate life and free thought and cultural evolution, NOT MONEY. We don't find it very seductive to enact the same puppets that convict us and our friends to a lifetime of misery.
This means, if you like our music and you want to offer its poor creators some financial support, or if we like you very much for whatever reasons we might find suitable, we may as well arrange that we perform live for you, which means that we are going to offer the experience of something altogether different compared to the recorded music to whoever attends to it (this generally stands for most gigs but is also generally discarded), played in raw, traditional rock orchestrations and bereft of engineering effects and whatever dramatic fantasies there may have been attributed to it. This automatically includes working with and for events-organisers who also promote social mentality liberation and development, revolutionary arts and independence from the money, media and psychotropic drugs matrix-cube; and it excludes co-operations with vultures like BigStarDiDiPromotions who promote their benefits only, and therefore a subordinated New Wold Order.
So, there is no tour or gig on schedule.
But if you are interested and comfortable as seen fit to the above, give us a few months notice to get ourselves into gigging mode, and you have us. Just don't set the gig's ticket prices too high. Fans are human individuals, not a mindless crowd. We don't ask to be overpayed at all, just basic expences (that may include decent sound engineering and technical support).
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07 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Imported Bananas
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Starcry.gr has been performing a little survey, aiming at the comparison between audiences that come from different backgrounds, concerning the music of Starcry and the likes. So far we've been able to deduce that the larger the population of one's surroundings, the easier it is for one to listen fairly comfortably to Starcry. Fact is in Greek towns of population less than 30000, where people aren't very comfortable at all with electro/industrial sounds and English language, the possibilities for the existence of a Starcry fan are 0.0001% (although awareness of the band's existence can reach 3.5%); in larger places of up to 150000 people the percentage increases to 0.00042% and in cities of over 150000 people the number becomes 0.00054% (but awareness of the band's existence doesn't even reach 1%).
(e-mail info@starcry.gr to contribute to the survey)
There is no need of a survey of course, to show how little attention is drawn to the Indie release of Starcry's One NIght Stand, as compared to several other first-time-heard-of bands around the globe, which proves that MUSIC IS NOT WHAT WE ARE LISTENING TO, MARKETING IS, and to be more precise, American marketing.
The same stands for most art forms, of course and a look at the current biggest names in the industry -and their histories- shows that even if not American in origin, if it is big, it comes via the U.S. I.e. Ministry (to stay in musical regions) started as an experiment of electronic/industrial in Europe with lyrical aspirations about the Isle of Man et.c. and are now playing U.S. thrash metal offering exclusive negative publicity to president Bush.
It seems like carrying the American flag (either upside down or burning or whatever) is even more popular than abusing the Christian cross, these days. All we need is to be threatened, insulted and offended, and we deify the shit.
(Talking about Ministry, the commercialisation of Anarchy and its symbols and creeds is so very well documented in Merilyn Manson's, David Bowie's and Nine Inch Nails's work, that we think it a pleonasm to comment extencively upon)
Evolution in most cultures follows the pattern: born and cultivated in the underground in reaction to the mainstream, marketed by a genious or a millionaire or both, took over the mainstream and fueled up new underground.
Evolution in Greek culture follows the pattern: born, cultivated, marketed and mainstreamised in USA, England, Germany or Italy, copied and adjusted for cheap reproduction and audiences that haven't ever realised the educational value of advertising and entertainment, forcedly brainwash-bombarded into the consumers' everyday life by means of bribing the mass-media.
As worth-noticing information, let it be known that Madonna in Greece has tragically less fans than Dead Kennedy's. Any kind of Madonna's literature, be it music, videos or books, are more difficult to find in Greece than Biafra's staff. The sense one makes out of this is initially that Greeks must be cleverer than the rest of the world. Then comes the thought that Greece is too small for the achievements of Madonna, or Michael Jackson, or Britney Spears or fucking Chilly Peppers as the matter of fact. If the Tiger Lilies (indie and not American) ticket cost 35euros, what should the Ozzy Osbourne one cost? Yes, the Rockwave with Manson and Sabbath was miraculous... I almost thought I wasn't in Greece watching it (fucking DiDi!).
Anyway, enough with the worth-noticing info-vagueness, let's not pretend we are journalists.
Starcry's One Night Stand has been -so far- informally characterised as very different to most things we know and quite original, although it bears some resemblance to late 80's - early 90's extremities like Ministry (Twitch), Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Leatherstrip, Spahn Ranch and loads of other bands, yet Starcry is not quite as good. It is difficult to understand, hard to swallow and even harder to digest. Informally still, unless the band is signed by a huge label like Warner or SPV or Metropolis (to be in suitable catalogues), it is not very likely to make it anywhere or even survive a few more years.
Well, formally, Starcry is not American Marketing and not carrying the American flag, so that a few more morons across the globe get to know us for their own nationalistic reasons. The Giaour Project was already too much for us, bearing the resemblance to the Greek flag on its visual accompaniment, and this was not intended for targeting a selective Greek audience. It was commenting instead on the thing with flags and religions and discriminations generally, taking on some political stance, so that none of the 0.0001, 0.00042 or 0.00054 % get fooled into liking us for the wrong reasons.
We're going to try and stay a non-American choice for all independant music fans for as long as we are the Starcry. Definitely not Pop. Hardly even Rock.
Whatever.
Thanks for the comprehension. |
22 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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One Dark Sun Stand
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Rumors have it that on Suturday, July the 1st, on a multi-dj party that is taking place at club Dark Sun, Athens, Starcry's One Night Stand is going to be featured with over 10 free copies to be given away to the most unfortunate clubbers present at the event.
Good for us, because the local record shops aren't helping much with selling the damned thing. If anyone local is reading this, can you please make a fuzz in the market? And show up at Dark Sun? We'll be there.
Leo Skiadas is offering some very important media support on his radio show (Dreamhouse) at 94FM and let us also aknowledge here Kostas Brellas, Manos K and all the rest of the electro-darkie-et.c. dj's for including us in their playlists.
Thanks a lot, folks! We owe you an apology...
July the 2nd, revision:
Rumors verified, "this is my battlefield II" @ Dark Sun, was a great success, despite the heat violating our privacy in Athens these days.
What a fantastic night out! Thank God, none of the seven (7) dj's of the party played any Starcry to spoil it!
The art contest announced two (2) days before the event for winning the free One Night Stands resulted gloriously in one (1) entries and the tickets for the draw that were making people wonder wether they were the unlucky ones got genuinely despised, but still, 10 cd's with a sticker offering our sympathy for winning an One Night Stand on the front were happily given away.
In Greece there is a saying that goes like: "On the deaf man's door you can knock for as long as you like". I guess, the openning song of One Night Stand is about something like that, and by coincidence it is titled "Dark Sun".
However, Leo's idea about the art contest was tremendous! Bravo, Leo! And thank you, man!
And thank you, Kostas Brellas, again, for all the support! |
24 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Nick's Exostosis
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Nature is the greatest artist ever (with a little help from technological advancements).
Nick Dachris is currently undergoing several medical exams about this little pain in the thigh, and is soon to be surgically treated. Apparently, it isn't anything lethal.
After having rightfully gained certificates about being a schizo a few years ago, now he is also proven a monster.
What a Rock'n'roll superstar! |
24 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Get an One Night Stand right away!
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100 copies of One Night Stand are now available to order on-line from GEMM (Global Electronic Music Marketplace) - just go to www.gemm.com search for Starcry and you should get it.
This is the only option you've got at the moment if you aren't in Greece and near Athens, for getting hold of this cd.
That's why their banner on our front page.
Until reviews start creeping up in the usual media, record-shops aren't very keen on stocking a globally completely unknown band published by a globally completely unknown label, like Starcry by Cockroach Studio.
Of course, you should make a fuzz when they tell you they haven't heard of Starcry before, or any other silly excuse for not having our cd's when you ask for them... Let's be modern consumers!
If you're a record-shop, please contact us.
If you're a distributor or record label, please contact us.
If you're a fan of our music, please contact them. |
26 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry's One Night Tour
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This bit of information keeps being updated so watch it out.
(The Rolling Stones eventually cancelled their Greek show completely, as we knew they would.)
If all goes according to oral communication, Starcry are to appear on stage again after 12 years. Club Underworld's owner himself called us in. One of the most beautiful clubs in Greece supporting it's local scene. Thanks a lot to Underworld! So.
STARCRY LIVE!
JULY the 20th
UNDERWORLD club
Athens
The usual Club's entrance tickets - Buy some merchandise and cd's to support us. If any of you show up...
The event is going to include another 2 bands which we will be honored to share the stage with, wonderful new-comers Madidus and legendary Ding An Sich.
Fantastic night of the superstars this is going to be! Apparently we are the headlining ones, so...
We suggest you'ld rather go for the alternative choice, the other gig on the same night, somewhere else in the city, by... Shakira!!! -if she doesn't cancel it, which will then leave you with no choice but to come see us... 
Gig poster created by Katerina Haralampidou. |
28 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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One Night Stand reviews
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Actually the plural is only a prophetic manner of speach as there is only one review we know of at the moment, which couldn't have been by someone else but the great Master of the Goth-school himself... So go read what the all respected MICK MERCER thought of One Night Stand, at his own web-page: http://www.mickmercer.com/mmset.html, on the 28th of June 2006.
We love you Mick!
(ATTENTION: If this be the first time you read Mick's writing, you are bound to misunderstand this review. Don't rush into conclusions just because you are fairly comfortable with English as a second language. Try and study Mick's intellectual ways a little, before you anounce comprehension. Especially if you're Greek.)
If anything else shows up, it's added here.
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13 July 2007: And here's the first Greek one!...:
http://www.postwave.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=19
which, naturally, had to be the POSTWAVE.GR's review.
"Postwave.gr" is the Greek web-site that should be considered a model for all forum-based sites, in terms of friendly usability and programming, which is the least we could have expected from the ashes of "electrowave.gr" and "shockwave" which in turn had emerged from the ashes of "synthpop avenue"...
(It must be a Greek thing... History is always too fucked up to help us follow it...)
However, postwave.gr is on our side. They cared, they researched, they bared listening to our cd and they gave us a good rating, too! If you haven't visited it yet, visit it now, and if your Greek is ok, register immediately and post your love for Starcry at the Greek Bands section.
Thank you, Vasilis Papadogeorgopoulos! You rightfully won a place in our next album's apologies list!... |
29 Jun 2006 by Starcry.gr
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RookWave's 10th birthday
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(I've had a shite day today, so I've got to moan a bit about DidiBigStar to relieve meself of some tension before going to bed)
It all started with Saxon taking Motorhead's place supporting Slayer at Drapetsona's marina near Peireaus, ten years back. We were so happy to witness such an event in our country, back then, that we never thought there was something rotten in that.
Motorhead have never played Rockwave at all.
This year Blackie Lawless got himself a heart attack when he heard WASP was to act as support to Twisted Sister. It never happened. Wasp cancelled their European tour.
So, two or three days ago the 8th (?) Rockwave festival occured at the usual TerraVibe. Sponsored by Cuervo.
With a thing called Silent Disco going on in paralel within the fenced area, that I doubt anyone noticed...
Twisted Sister were awsome and Dee Snider proved once again that he is the king of parties, and Didi's Greek sound engineers (ha ha) proved once again that they can't sound engineer. It's all right, Nick Dachris can't really sing and Mick Mercer likes Ataraxia, what can you do? Nobody's perfect. We bore Moonspell, who were quite cool actually in retrospect, and Crimson Glory, who were quite a disappointment sadly, and Celtic Frost who, despite the fact that some people confuse them with Boston Celtics, were absolutely Celtic and German and Swiss Frost with long black coats in the boiling sunset, and eventually we bore Didi's and Animal Mendoza's combined birthday cake, boo-ing Didi's blond promoter from the top of our lungs, while Dee Snider's microphone kept going off... Sponsored by Cuervo.
Crapradio stations in Athens, like Kiss fm, kept calling the headliners Twisted Sisters, even after the gig, and some of them hadn't read the news and press releases at all in the last few months and kept anouncing that the headliners were the Cult, as Didi had originally declared when everyone thought that Rockwave was over. And some of those crapradio producers must have been there, at the VIP's section, "scratching their balls" and getting Dee's middle finger. Sponsored by Cuervo.
There were other days in this Rookwave, far duller by all means, like the one with Guns'n'Roses and special guests (?????) that is someone who used to be Axl Rose and some last minute's band pretending there never came the 90's, and the bunch of junkies day with Franz Ferdinand, the Dandy Warholes, the Editors, Mecano, the Sunday Drivers and loads of anti-revolutionary neo-rock fans pretending this was Bob Marley's ghost in Take That's lyrics... Sponsored by Cuervo.
Happy 10th anniversary Rockwave! We're going to miss your sense of humour if you get discontinued. And then Didi is going to bring one artist at a time with even more expensive tickets... Please carry on! Become the Greek real-life Coronation Street or something! You're such a luxury! Sponsored by Cuervo.
I drink Scotch. |
15 Jul 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Live after 12 years
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Tremendous!
Shakira wasn't canceled! Who would rather come watch Starcry instead?
Only (some of) our friends -including the other bands-, (most of) our crew, and the people (who didn't find a good excuse to be absent) working at the club!
Nick Dachris chose not to say thank you on the PA to every single person of the crew and friends when the gig was over, naming them one by one (thank goodness because we already had to go to bed urgently). So once again, Starcry must apologise to the folowing:
Chris Kontorinis
Jimmy Zambogas
Anastasia Koukouvitaki
John Katsaros
George the studio man
Alex Chrysidis
Themis Antoniou
Postwave.gr
Madidus
Ding An Sich
Jim Stravolaimos
Katerina Charalampidou
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Ok. I think this is all of them.
More about the show when and if our local underground culture calms down and stops being insulted by every single word we utter. |
21 Jul 2006 by Starcry.gr
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AFTER-SHOW dePRESSion
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This article has caused a terrible communication breakdown and serious hard-feelings to people we respect.
Therefore it is no longer available.
Our apologies for the inconvenience.
PS. One Night Tour is over. The pictures are in the gallery.
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23 Jul 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry - Charm1 (live extension)
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The gig video (Low Res)
stream @
http://www.myspace.com/starcry0
or download @
http://www.hatzikos.com/pavlis/Charm1.mpg
Our apologies for the Resolution. |
08 Nov 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry @ myspace music
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http://www.myspace.com/starcry0
Being the cyber-handicaps that we are, we finally got Starcry on myspace, where chances are that even more people aren't gonna give a toss about us, than in starcry.gr.
It makes the news here for we are happy to announce the uncanny discovery of the surprising existence of a "Star Cry" user in myspace, coming from across the planet, Chile, and who has taken the "starcry" url since early 2005, and hasn't logged in ever-since. Hence the o (zero) tail.
It makes the news here also because there you can find, (besides the video mentioned at the previous article), Starcry promo mp3's of songs that aren't yet released in any other form, and also pics and things that you can't find here.
And, please note, that such a notion from our part as stepping a tiny bit into the wonders of global Americanisation, is only an act of peace and friendship towards the things that we despeakably hate but cannot survive without. Let there be no war.
The rest is not our kind of thing, so please be patient if you are trying to get in touch with us via the friends request process et al.
Eventually it will happen. |
14 Nov 2006 by Starcry.gr
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Late News
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It's bloody 2008! What a wonderful sensation!
This is an apology for having been so irresponsible about this "News" section and the rest of this site subsequently.
We've been so happy about myspace and the crappy way of virtual socialisation running on it, that we left the re-disigning process of starcry.gr to the hands of fate. Fate doesn't approve.
We will be back very soon, now, making use of more software/technological/cheapass advances than before, to offer our fans and friends a more integrated website to neglect and forget about.
Please bear with us a few more weeks as we are trully busy as always, preparing the release of our new album "Syphilisation" and other similarly unimportant things that are to manifest during this year.
In the meantime you may check out Vampirefreaks.com/starcry for weird songs 'n' shite and again Myspace.com/starcry0 for videos and a taste of the foulness that is on its way, called "Rain of Stars". Also do not miss out "Rockshire - Barbarella" on the videos branch on myspace, for it is the funniest thing we have managed to do so far.
More analysis and crappy English are to be anticipated about all the things that may be arousing questions to the interested, on the thing we are re-designing.
Most importantly though, we have to inform every-one that "THE MICK" no.40 contains the ground-breaking interview Mr Dachris gave last year to Mick Mercer, and can be found on page 160 of the free to download pdf at www.mickmercer.com.
Get the Mick no.40, before it's replaced by no.41!
It is really worthy of writing a new News-article here after so long (this interview) even if no-one visits regularly anymore.
We're so pathetic, aren't we? |
12 Jan 2008 by Starcry.gr
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Starcry on THE MICK no 40
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In case you didn't read the article before this one...
It's a very entertaining interview, in a very entertaining e-magazine about real Goth culture, by the most important journalist of the dark and underground music genre, who's been substantially supporting the scene since the Punk Age.
Repeat:
Get THE MICK no 40 NOW!!!
It's going to be replaced by no 41 very soon! |
12 Jan 2008 by Starcry.gr
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Mid-summer, mid-night, mid-dream
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At this rate of News adding, we'll end up having hardly one article per year.
News-update, at forty degrees Celsius. The electronics are holding, silicon hasn't started melting yet. There are three fans on in the room.
Cockroach Studio isn't very likely to release anything again, unless the thing to be released is properly Mastered, at least.
Fair enough!
"Syphilisation" is currently qued up at Precision Mastering, waiting to be Mastered by Tom Baker.
Still, Cockroach Studio isn't very likely to release Starcry's "Syphilisation" anyway. Finance is pretty low.
We keep pressing. Nobody else is interested.
That's really why there was this demonstration, last night, organised by the Greek General Confederation of Labour, at Syntagma Square in Athens. Every-one stood proud against Expensiveness and Profiteering, for a better living... and Starcry's "Syphilisation" (for the world needs this album to be released asap). Because...
It's time we stopped being ashamed for being who we are, born unwealthy, unable to grow wealthy, miserable in this world ruled by the wealthy. It's time we stopped pretending we're so well-off and that we can make it independantly, sucking off the rot of crumbs spilled by the bourgeois's and the government's parasitical policy and its vermins.
It's time the poor stopped sacrificing their lives for a better tomorow and straightened up their todays.
Stupid parades through the Capitol cause chaos and distress only to the poor that are the majority of the city-center inhabitants. Politicians aren't affected. Our lives get worse.
It's time the civilians started taking up responsibilty for their own quality of life.
It's time for Art to show the way.
Read Art. Understand it. Admit it. Make it. Challenge it. Support Starcry.
And it will be a better (to)day, everyday! |
20 Jun 2008 by Starcry.gr
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Justification of civilisation
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The odd person that will come upon this page may reach the deduction that it is not much of a happy page, really.
Madonna performed her Athens gig and so did Kylie Minogue, George Michael and REM. Even the Sex Pistols performed their giggy, too, with John Lydon more rotten than ever, denouncing the 26 year literature about why there cannot be any more Pistols since one of them is dead... Very nice gigs. We missed them.
Nevertheless, we are terribly happy today, to finally have "Syphilisation" mastered by the God of Mastering, Tom Baker (NIN, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Static X), at Precision, in Holywood. It sounds fantastic. Now it needs to be released somehow.
Please, read on, as there are a few things about our band members, following. They actually have got some news as well.
Zoe's got a cool myspace music page, eventually, with some very cool music on it. Visit it: www.myspace.com/zozova .
Nikos Pavlis has completed his PhD in Logistics. Sort of. Old habbits die hard. It's taken a decade or so. Now he's got to join the Greek Army.
Jimmy Zambogas, one of those much honoured ex-members of Starcry, featured in the Rockshire - Barbarella video clip, has just gotten married. Bless him.
Nick Dachris is working on a new little project, called "Hellenica" (like we say "Metallica"), the word meaning "Greek" in plural, and it's in Greek, as a national duty. It's scheduled to have its own myspace page.
And from here on, this article is dedicated to Greek civilisation. The original Western Civilisation. And Greek National Pride... Because we are obsessed by these things and we mast talk about them all the time.
1. Socrates. The original philosopher. Father of cultivated thinking and rationing. Makes Greeks very proud to be his descendents. Dangerous to the system. Died in prison committing forced suicide. He really drunk from the bitter cup. In memorial, there is a place in Athens, on Filopapou Hill, overlooking the Parthenon, that is thought to have been that prison where Socrates received his Greek humiliation of honour. We shot the Rockshire - Barbarella video clip at that location for obvious reasons.
2. Theodoros Kolokotronis. The greatest hero of the 1821 Greek upraising against the Ottoman Empire. General of the Greek Army, for he was the only Greek to have some idea on organised war at the time, having previously served at H.M. Army of England. Makes Greeks very proud to be his descendents. Dangerous to the system. As soon as there was a liberated Greek government formed, he was arrested. Died in prison in his own stench. In memorial, there is a place in Nafplio, in the town's acropolis, built by French, Italians and Turks, then serving as house of the Greek Parliament and Guildhall, that is thought to have been that prison where Kolokotronis received his Greek humiliation of honour.
3. Nikos Kazantzakis. Writer and poet, author of The Last Temptation, Zorba the Greek and other world acclaimed novels that haven't all made it to film yet. Graciously keeping his copyright to himself and his heirs, no Greek publisher ever to make a cent from his works. For other than his works, there is not much Greek literature that is humanely honest and sincere, to the slightest. Dangerous to the system. Aphorised by the Church. Died abroad (Germany). Burried in the wall outside his hometown since aphorised souls do not deserve the hallowed ground of cemeteries. His epitaph reads "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
4. Bob Marley. Musician, song-writer, singer, Rastafarian, Jamaican. Not Greek at all. But because Jamaica is almost as shit as Greece, regarding its political, social and economical history, and because Marley was familiarly stubborn concerning the Jamaican Health system, and because 90% of Jamaicans are descending from African slaves, while 90% of Greeks are descending from Ottoman slaves, and because Greece hasn't gotten any Brittish structure at all, while Jamaica even speaks English and has only a professional military force, and because of the ever-growing social inequality and moral deterioration that we have in common, we smoke tons of pot and listen to "Exodus" regularly. Dangerous to the system. Greeks (semi-)speak English or so they claim. Marley died of cancer, in Jamaica, saying "Money can't buy life."
5. Che Guevara. Absolutely Greek. His name means "salute and strike" in Greek, his Alberto Korda portrait photograph sits right next to the Santa-Euro icon of sweet Virgin M. with baby J., both bought at the Monastiraki street market, proudly hung at the office of the Greek state employee, the poor civil servant, who is thus acknowledged for his grand-heroic revolutionary individuality, despite that he has to suck his parents' saliva off some politician's arse for life to have his heavenly do-fuck-all, pretending-authority-not-having-a-clue job. Che was captured and executed by the evil Americans who control everyone we ain't acquainted with and are also to blame for all disasters.
6. Starcry. Not dead, yet.
There. That's better, now. Thank you. |
07 Oct 2008 by Starcry.gr
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