My Band's First Single. PENTHOUSE: It's Amazing

[Robusto]

http://penthousetheband.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/penthouse-its-amazing-first-single-release/

Hello Gentlemen.

I don't post so often these days due to being very busy indeed with my job and my band.
I guess I'm one of the original/founder members on the site, and so many of you won't know who I am. *Which I understand.


I'm a Havana chomper of many years' standing. *I love playing in bands and am currently in Luxembourg to promote this song in French and German on radio channels.

Enjoy it.

If you think the video is a bit ropey, it's because my son filmed fine footage and I rushed at an edit with iMovie. *Blame me. *My son is ace at his filming.

If you like it, spread it around, please. *If you want to buy the mp3, there's a link.

There is life after covers. *

Bryan x

[cohibaIV]

Nice one Bryan, can't listen to it at the mo but I will this evening...

Sounds like your enjoying yourself anyway...

CIV

[monkey66]

Love it Brian, production is sounding really good

[Deano]

Excellent stuff mate, sounds very professional!

[Jacobwaits]

Sounds amazing, if were you I would be very proud.

[JOAO LA PEZ]

A well crafted tune, i normally get bored with songs over 3 min but i stuck with that all the way.

[RickMG]

Bryan, That song is great. Reminds me of the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald (who is from St. Louis). I'm so glad that the group was introduced individually at the end and put a face behind you. Where was this filmed? Great job.

[Drewmidorn]

Good work!

[Robusto]

Thanks for your replies, chaps.

Matt's voice is wonderful. *He's an athlete. *He can sing softly and forcefully. *High and low. *In-tune. *Find interesting harmonies. *It's a joy to make music and be around such a fine bloke. *He loves Chris Cornell, but I know he'd love comparisons to Michael McDonald.

We come from Maidstone, Folkestone, Canterbury and Deal in Kent in the UK. *The clip was filmed in and around Dover in Kent. *We think we've managed to make Dover look a bit Soviet Block. *It is like that in reality. I can't say where the building site house is but it was fun to break into. *

I might have a bit more to post later. *It's a labour of love. *

Monk - We used a very up-and-coming producer from our area who was recommended to us and we are over the moon with how he treated our live input.

[Robusto]

[Detroit_Waves]

Havent had a chance to listen yet Robusto, but judging from everyone hear, Im in for a treat. Congrats anyway, there isnt much more satisfying than admiring the outcome of anything you create from scratch, for me, especially music.

[RickMG]

My wife and my 1st trip to Dover in '99 was by train from London to see the White Cliffs (even though we saw them when we were driving around the area of Brighton a few days before) and I remember the taxi from (or back to) the train station took us down this street on the way to the docks (or back from). Don't know why it stuck in my brain but had to look over and over again at the video. We ended up going to Calais and then on to Paris for the night even though we had a room back in London and took the train back to Calais the next day and the ferry back to Dover.

Google maps is great. The building site is right here on the corner of Dolphin & Russell.

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Really liked seeing this, and yes, at first I thought you filmed it in Russia until I saw the car driving down the road. Like seeing you enjoy a cigar too.

[HabanoSy]

Great stuff Bry...

Really enjoyed it...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[Robusto]

Cheers, Sy. *Boys.

"RickMG.

Yes. *That general area is the route to the docks from the station, and you see (when we stop trailing the car) the main route from the docks to the M20.

All of us in the band grew up or went to school in Dover. *All of us have escaped it! *That area near the old hotel tower block should have been turned into some kind of themed shopping centre to attract people travelling through or waiting to take the ferry. *Much of this potential business died when the Channel Tunnel opened about ten miles to the south-west in Folkestone. *Indeed, I'm out in Luxembourg at present and I take the tunnel over the ferry any day of the week.

I really hate to disabuse you. *My sister is a naturalised American (I'm making a presumption there, Rick) and she likes to see the white cliffs because of all of the connections to Churchill, and their symbolic history.

This town is a real pit (as we say) and quite nasty at night with violent drunks and so on. *

I should be saying Rule Britannia, but I can't lol.

I had to get the cigar in. *We have a duty to spread the love. *

[RickMG]

I really hate to disabuse you. *My sister is a naturalised American (I'm making a presumption there, Rick) and she likes to see the white cliffs because of all of the connections to Churchill, and their symbolic history. *

Same here. As for the chunnel, in '99 the only choices you had to use it was to go from London to Paris without stops and we were not intending on ending up in Paris. We only went to Calais at the last minute because it "was only 25 miles away" and my wife had never been to France. And then it was one of those, "heck, it's only a 4 hour train ride from here" and since my wife had never been to Paris it made for a great 24 hours. We were at the top of the Eiffel Tower by 9:00 p.m. .