The Turkish Delights

BAND NAME: The Turkish Delights
HOME BASE: Dayton, Ohio
FORMED: 2008
STYLE OF MUSIC: Art Rock
MEMBERS: Andy: drums; Steve: bass & guitar; Josh: guitar, keyboard, & singing
SHARED INTERESTS OF BAND MEMBERS: good hygiene
DISCOGRAPHY: …Ahem! (2010)
SONG THAT BEST REPRESENTS YOUR BAND: The Eye of a Newt, The Heart of a
Blackbird, & The Blood of a Banshee’s First Born
NUMBER OF DMF APPEARANCES: This will be our second appearence (2009-2010)
LATEST NEWS: We just recorded an ice-cream truck
PLANS FOR 2011: write, record, & play shows
WEB SITE: www.myspace.com/thethetheturkishdelights

MP3: The Turkish Delights “Please Forgive Me”
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Father’s Day

BAND NAME: Father’s Day
HOME BASE: Dayton, OH
FORMED: 2010
STYLE OF MUSIC: Folk / Gansta Rap
MEMBERS (names and instruments played): Kris N. – guitar and vocal, Joe A. –
guitar and vocals, Patrice – violin, Justin S. – drums, Wild Tiger 2k10 –
Gansta Rap and General Thug
SHARED INTERESTS OF BAND MEMBERS: All of our spirit animals match
DISCOGRAPHY: Couples Skate (digital video single) –
2010
SONG THAT BEST REPRESENTS YOUR BAND: Pat Riley Taught Me How to
Pimp – It is pretty much the story of how we devastate the community with
our wit, charm, and unabashed good looks.
NUMBER OF DMF APPEARANCES (and years): A member of Fathers Day has
participated in some capacity in the Dayton Music Fest every year.
LATEST NEWS: Aside from Fathers Day, the band is looking to
start its own merchandising empire my marketing their custom brand of Summer
Shandy.
PLANS FOR 2011: The release of their debut album “Songs for Your Spirit
Animal”
WEB SITE: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fathers-Day/116992981680789?ref=ts

MP3: Eat Sugar “Shadowside”
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MP3: The Turkish Delights “Please Forgive Me”
Download audio file (Please_Forgive_Me.mp3)

MP3: The Turkish Delights “Lite Brite”
MP3: The Turkish Delights “Dig Yourself”

…it appears as if this year we find one of our favorite locals making a push toward the finals: The Turkish Delights. Tonight the band will play in Round 3, hoping to make it to the semifinals. We wish them good luck in their title bid this year…

MP3: The Turkish Delights “Frightening Lightening”
MP3: The Turkish Delights “Vowels to God”

Hospital Garden is moving to Chicago. When I moved to Dayton two years ago, it was never with the intent of permanence. I hoped to complete graduate school, and, once again, move on. However, I did not anticipate making so many amazing friendships. I was lucky enough to have met Ian and Sarah, thus forming Hospital Garden. The shows we have played and the songs we have created have been far beyond my expectations, thus moving as a band makes sense right now. It’s hard to leave the people and bands that we love here, but in Chicago there is a lot of opportunity in my field (Community Counseling), and a lot of new venues to play. Sarah and Ian are also going to be finding employment and continuing their educations there. We’re still young and it’s the right time to do something like this. We love Dayton and we love playing and hanging out here. We will be back regularly for as long as we are a band. Naturally, we will miss you all and can’t wait to see you again in the near future. Thank you so much for coming to our shows, listening to our demos, and singing along to our songs. It means more to us than you know.

Love,
Hospital Garden.

…in addition to their migration north, Hospital Garden are gearing up to release their debut album. Stay tuned for more on that as details emerge…

MP3: Hospital Garden “Ypsi”
MP3: The Turkish Delights “Dig Yourself”
MP3: Electric Banana “Denim on Denim”

…over at Blind Bob’s, The Buddha Den Presents series returns with The Interiors (Chicago; pictured), along with The Seedy Seeds (Cincinnati) and one of our local faves, The Turkish Delights…

MP3: The Interiors “I’m So Happy”
MP3: The Turkish Delights “Lite-Brite”
MP3: The Seedy Seeds “Drive Me to the Center”

…out at The Fusion Chamber, you’ve got a heavy bill featuring Corpus Christi, Imbroglio, Ambush, Minutes, By Way of Sunstorm, and Hester Prynne…

…whatever yr choice, we’ll see you out tonight….

…this Friday The Buddha Den Presents series returns with a great band from Chicago, The Interiors. The band’s excellent debut came out last year on the 54′ 40 or Fight imprint and the band quickly started making some inroads with incessant touring. We took a minute to speak with guitarist Chase Duncan and here’s what he had to say…

The Buddha Den: For those who aren’t familiar with The Interiors’ backstory, how about a little rewind first? How/when did you all come together? What other bands were you involved in previously? What brought the three of you together?

Chase Duncan: In early ‘04. [Interiors' drummer] Brian [Lubinsky] and I had been playing together for a bit with different bass players but none of them worked out. [Bassist] Collin [Jordan] came in after seeing an ad we were running in the Reader where we name checked Desmond Dekker as an influence. He was really into that as he had not yet heard American music.

Brian played in a handful of bands in Cincinnati and Chicago but he had yet to find his “shining star” until he met me.

Collin had something to do with some kind of free-jazz rock thing that involved copious amounts of drugs and a warehouse. Although no one bothered to document those events, we’re confident that they must have sounded glorious.

TBD: Your self-titled debut quickly caught some big attention, i.e. you performed for a Rolling Stone magazine showcase in Chicago last summer. How has the reception of your album compared to your expectations? What has been the general response in performance?

CD: We had no expectations, in all honesty, but we’ve been very happy.

People love our show. It’s hard not to, really.

TBD: Although you’re from Chicago, your sound doesn’t necessarily fit in with the classic perception of the “Chicago sound”. Has that had any consequences for you at home and on tour?

CD: Not really but we do close every show with “Johnny B. Goode” so that everyone knows we’re keeping it real.

TBD: We understand you are currently at work on a full-length follow up to your debut. How soon do you expect that to hit the streets? What can we expect from the record? Any sonic surprises?

CD: Not much to say in terms of the ‘how’ ‘where’ and ‘when’. As far as the ‘what’ goes, I think it will be a stronger synthesis of our ideas than the first record which was written over a number of years and experiments. This will be over a much more concentrated period of time and, therefore, more focused, streamlined and themed both sonically and lyrically.

Going on the road makes you a better musician in a way that nothing I’ve ever experienced can. We’re way better musicians individually and a much stronger band as a result.

There will be many sonic surprises. I intend to introduce the concept of the ‘fade-in’ whereby a song is ended by gradually increasing the volume of our ‘jam out’ until you are forced to turn it off before damage is done to your person and/or stereo.

TBD: How do you see 2009 shaping up for The Interiors? What does the remainder of the year have in store for you?

CD: Writing writing writing

TBD: Is there anything else you would like The Buddha Den readers to know about The Interiors?

CD: We love you!

…tune in to The Interiors now and we’ll see you Friday night at Blind Bob’s with special guests The Seedy Seeds and The Turkish Delights…

MP3: The Interiors “I’m So Happy”
MP3: The Interiors “Powerlines”
MP3: The Interiors “You Should Have Known”