Glenn (Cantona) Posted January 1, 1970 Report Posted January 1, 1970 The Doves CD or the Cantona one? I love the Doves one, but I'm hoping you're gonna say Cantona :-) Glenn
DiggsUK Posted January 1, 1970 Report Posted January 1, 1970 So now we've got Keane, Rooney, Butt(hole-surfers), Bobby Charltons and Cantona. Can you think of any more? Regards
Nicky_B Posted March 8, 2005 Report Posted March 8, 2005 I Want to get the word out about a Seattle band that is getting a a lot of buzz and should be doing great things soon! They are called Cantona, and they've been around about two years now. These guys make great pop music (Britpop meets alt Country meets Power Pop with a bit of Soul), and they are kind of a mix of a lot of bands, but they've been compared to Rilo Kiley, The Cardigans and The Sundays, to name a few. They just released their first EP, A Sort of Smile, and the songs are available for preview, purchase and download at both CD Baby and iTunes! I have some links below. In the meantime, check out their site, new pictures and songs are going to be added soon! Lemme know what you guys think ... I just started coming here and getting a lot of good music reco's, hopefully you'll like mine! Meet Cantona! http://www.cantonamusic.com Buy Cantona! http://www.cdbaby.com/cantona iTunes->Advanced Search->Artist=Cantona Request Cantona on KEXP , Seattle's non-comemrical radio station. This station is available for web streaminng and most all of the bands I've read about in this forum are played here! It is one of the most streamed websites in the world! http://www.kexp.org Thanks everyone. :-) Nick
DiggsUK Posted March 8, 2005 Report Posted March 8, 2005 Hi Nick, I haven't got any speakers on my PC so I can't listen unfortunately. Question - is the band named after the mercurial hairy eyebrowed Frenchman, Eric? If so, does it sing about seagulls following the trawler, and does the crowd chant 'ooh-ahh' at gigs? Regards
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 13, 2005 Author Report Posted March 13, 2005 Firstly Nicky, thanks for the kind words! I see you're Seattle based, next time you make it to a show come and say hello, we'd love to meet you! Diggs, we're kind of named after the famous Kung Fu Frenchman. I'm an exiled red, moved to Seattle from Manchester 6 years ago, and Eric was my favourite player. When we were looking for a name I was reading a book about Mexico and saw a town called Cantona, plus our bass player is called Erik, so it seemed fitting! As great a player and an entertainer as Mr. C was, our singer Leslie has the edge on him when it comes to expressing herself in her lyrics, maybe not in kicking the crowd tho' :-) Great idea about the chant, might stop so many Americans calling us can-toner! Thanks guys! Glenn (from Cantona)
Foxy Posted March 13, 2005 Report Posted March 13, 2005 Wow...umm...what a coincedence? Both new users, one praises a band, and low and behold a band member registers a few days later! Hmmm....setup?
Foxy Posted March 13, 2005 Report Posted March 13, 2005 P.s I've just bought this CD from CDBaby Without plastic covers only costs £4.80 GBP with postage...!
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 14, 2005 Author Report Posted March 14, 2005 Actually it is a coincidence, one of the wonders of the net :-) Sad as it seems I trawl the net regularly looking for mentions of Cantona, I saw this and checked it out, don't you love Google/MSN ? Hope you like the CD, I do :-)
Nicky_B Posted March 14, 2005 Report Posted March 14, 2005 Hi everyone, Nick here. So awesome that others have posted messages, I didn't expect it anyone would write back to the thread! Hi Glenn! Hope we can meet up, I'm a friend of Leslie's. She was telling me some stories about you guys and I have been sorta getting hooked on songfacts just looking up cool stuff on other bands, I thought I'd try to add some for your band! I'm not sure if they'll be added, we'll see. But it's awesome that you check out the message baord, hope you don't mind me trying to spread some work on your band, I think you guys are great! I saw you guys play at The Sunset on your Cd release but didn't have a chance to come up and say "hi" there were so many folks around you. when do you guys play again? Kind regards, Nick Currently listening to Kasabian's self titled, how about you guys?
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 14, 2005 Author Report Posted March 14, 2005 I'm seeing Les tonight I'll mention it! We're back at the Sunset on Friday, come along and say 'hello'. Go ahead and spread the word like crazy :-) I'm mostly listening to the new Doves record, reminds me of home! Love Glenn
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 16, 2005 Author Report Posted March 16, 2005 The Wedding Present had an album called "George Best" :-) As a matter of fact Gedge was a Seattle resident until recently and the new WP record has a lot of references to the area. Glenn
DiggsUK Posted March 16, 2005 Report Posted March 16, 2005 'Who's Bobby Charltons?' Mid nineties UK Indie band if I recall. Sometimes played on John Peel. Had an album called 'Glow'. I can't remember much more, but I think I saw them once with Half Man Half Biscuit many moons ago. Regards
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Posted March 17, 2005 Half Man Half Biscuit, there's a name I haven't heard in ages! "Dickie Davies Eyes" to keep up the sports theme! Glenn
DiggsUK Posted March 17, 2005 Report Posted March 17, 2005 Or anything by 'Mottie The Hoople'! Regards
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Posted March 17, 2005 OK, I'm bailing on this now before this gets worse hehehe :-) Glenn
DiggsUK Posted March 17, 2005 Report Posted March 17, 2005 Worse Glen? My sense of humour is of the highest integrity - unlike most of the gutter-dwellers here! Regards
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 18, 2005 Author Report Posted March 18, 2005 They think it's all over... It is now! :-) Glenn
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 22, 2005 Author Report Posted March 22, 2005 Thanks to everyone who has shown interest in Cantona on this thread! If you're into the social networking thing you can check us out at http://www.myspace.com/cantona and stay in touch with what's happening. Thanks again! Love Glenn
Glenn (Cantona) Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Posted March 26, 2005 Excellent! I hope you like it.
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