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Nov. 21st, 2001
Irgendwie hab ich es im Moment wieder mit dem schlafen. :-( Aber ich glaube, dieses mal liegt es nicht so an den Depris, sondern an der Erkältung. Bin heute wieder von der TK nach Hause, wollte mich eigentlich noch in die Stadt aufraffen, aber bin dann wieder auf der Couch eingepennt. :-( Naja, dieses mal aber "nur" bis halb acht gepennt. Dafür bin ich jetzt mal wieder nicht müde. Ist doch alles sch... !
Nunja, das Gespräch in der TK war heute gar nicht so schlecht. Bin wohl "nur" noch bis zum 08.12. da, aber es wird jetzt einiges noch angegangen. Hoffe, dass ich in den nächsten Tagen dann klar Schiff bekomme, wie es nun weiter gehen soll. Ansonsten habe ich echt ein Problem.... Vielleicht fahre ich für 4 - 6 Wochen in die Kur...aber irgendwie kann ich mir das auch nicht vorstellen. Auf der einen Seite wäre es gut um noch Luft zu gewinnen, denn ich muß ja jetzt bis August gucken wie ich "über die Runden" komme, weil ich dann erst weiter machen kann, aber auf der anderen Seite eine Kur ?! Irgendwo ? Ganz alleine ? Ohne I - Net ?! Ich weiß nicht....
Morgen komme ich auf jeden Fall mal wieder raus...haben ja Mittwochs immer "Ausflug" & morgen wollen wir nach Lünen in die Eisdiele...vielleicht erreiche ich ja bis dahin noch Sebastian & der kommt auch mit...würd ich mich irgendwie freuen.
Naja, ich muß mal gucken, dass ich jetzt mal ins Bett gehe...werde zwar eh nicht schlafen können, aber besser da rumliegen & versuchen als wie heute früh morgen wieder nicht aus dem Bett kommen....
Nunja, das Gespräch in der TK war heute gar nicht so schlecht. Bin wohl "nur" noch bis zum 08.12. da, aber es wird jetzt einiges noch angegangen. Hoffe, dass ich in den nächsten Tagen dann klar Schiff bekomme, wie es nun weiter gehen soll. Ansonsten habe ich echt ein Problem.... Vielleicht fahre ich für 4 - 6 Wochen in die Kur...aber irgendwie kann ich mir das auch nicht vorstellen. Auf der einen Seite wäre es gut um noch Luft zu gewinnen, denn ich muß ja jetzt bis August gucken wie ich "über die Runden" komme, weil ich dann erst weiter machen kann, aber auf der anderen Seite eine Kur ?! Irgendwo ? Ganz alleine ? Ohne I - Net ?! Ich weiß nicht....
Morgen komme ich auf jeden Fall mal wieder raus...haben ja Mittwochs immer "Ausflug" & morgen wollen wir nach Lünen in die Eisdiele...vielleicht erreiche ich ja bis dahin noch Sebastian & der kommt auch mit...würd ich mich irgendwie freuen.
Naja, ich muß mal gucken, dass ich jetzt mal ins Bett gehe...werde zwar eh nicht schlafen können, aber besser da rumliegen & versuchen als wie heute früh morgen wieder nicht aus dem Bett kommen....
bnd Press Biography
Meet Mark Saunders and Dean Begley, a.k.a. bnd, two young talented Liverpudlian singer-songwriter-musicians who are destined to literally take the pop world by the scruff of its neck, and prove that great new British talent can still win through on a world-wide basis in the Nineties.
During a musical decade that has not been particularly notable for either outstanding pop songs or great stage performances, bnd's sheer musical personality, combined with that unique irrepressible Liverpool humour which helped bring The Beatles to international prominence more than thirty years ago, will ensure that this exciting pop duo make a considerable impression on the contemporary music scene.
During the last two years, bnd have been making a considerable impression on the pop scene in Liverpool, a city which has been well known over the years for its rich diversity of top pop and rock talent. The duo have twice been overwhelmingly voted the best local pop band by the readers of The Liverpool Echo - one of the biggest-selling regional newspapers in the country - while their first single Baby Baby Babe, released in their own record label, soared to number two in the local HMV chart. They also became the first Liverpool pop group since The Beatles to appear regularly at the legendary Cavern Club.
Since then bnd's route to pop fame and fortune has included mainly hard graft and occasional setbacks, with bnd paying their professional dues and demands performing in dozens of Liverpool clubs and venues. However, international success is now beckoning in a big way for the duo.
Comparisons with the 'Fab Four' would be unfair to Mark Saunders and Dean Begley who, at the respective ages of 21 and 22, were not even born when the world's most-famous pop group broke up after eight years of international hits. However, there can be no avoiding the fact that these two Liverpool groups' respective careers have followed not dissimilar paths ... like their famous predecessors, bnd have attracted a huge local fan following, with girls even camping outside their homes, and they have succeeded in winning over young Merseyside audiences who are notoriously difficult to please.
bnd also started their professional career singing and playing well-known pop and rock and roll classics, while steadily developing their own considerable songwriting abilities. They have become local pop heroes who are now ready to take on the rest of the world outside of Liverpool, just as the city's most famous musical sons succeeded back in the early Sixties. Their talents came to the attentions of top Liverpool managers John Pile and Colin Maddocks of Discovery Management who quickly saw their huge potential and signed them up.
As for countless other pop stars before them, the ingredients of talent, good luck, and right timing have played crucial roles in bnd's burgeoning career. At one of their Liverpool gigs their performance was witnessed by Paul Blake, A&R manager for top publisher Bryan Morrison, who was accompanying Aftershock, the headlining band that evening. Sufficiently impressed, he reported back to his boss in London.
When he heard bnd for himself, Morrison was immediately won over by their youthful exuberance, good looks, unforced natural personalities, and their abilities to deliver on-stage a good pop song in an effective way. What Morrison didn't realise at the time however was that Mark and Dean were also very talented songwriters!
Mark takes up the story ... "Apparently when Bryan did get to hear one of our songs, he became very enthusiastic and predicted that it could be a big hit. We could hardly believe what we were hearing since this was the man who had been behind much of Wham! and George Michael's early songwriting success, and here he was raving on about one of our songs! We'd hardly had time to take this in when our managers John Pile and Colin Maddocks arranged a meeting with top record producers Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, and we were taken round to their offices and sang to them with just our acoustic guitars for accompaniment! It certainly made a change from the old demo tape routine."
Stock and Aitken - whose many credits have included writing and producing hits for Kylie Minogue, Robson & Jerome, Nicki French, Cliff Richard, Band Aid, Jason Donovan, Bananarama and Rick Astley, among dozens of others - were also immediately impressed by what they heard and immediately signed up bnd to Mike's flourishing record label, Love This Records (which scored its first international hit with Nicki French's Total Eclipse Of The Heart).
Mark Saunders and Dean Begley were originally members of a four-piece Liverpool pop band which eventually slimmed down to become the duo band. Since deciding to work together as a duo, Mark and Dean have gradually shed their teenybop image and have started attracting a fan following from across a far wider age group. Their gigs have become 'must see' fixtures in many social diaries, and the word about their musical talents has begun to spread further afield.
Now bnd are busy in the recording studios, working on their first single and album which promise to be really something. Mike Stock, who is no novice at discovering and naturing new pop talent, reckons that they are one of the most promising acts that he has ever worked with .. "They're really quite special - probably the most talented songwriters and musicians I have ever worked with - and I think that people are going to be very surprised when they hear bnd for the first time. I'm really very excited about their future, and I'm convinced that Mark and Dean are going to be huge pop stars," he says.
Praise indeed from Britain's all-time most successful record producer ... and a prophecy which Mark Saunders and Dean Begley, a.k.a. bnd, fully intend to become reality.
Wah, ich will wissen was aus den Beiden geworden ist ! *heul* *schnief* Hab gerade wieder mal meine "Ich vermisse die Jungs, erinner mich an die schönen Zeiten mit ihnen & will sie wiedersehen" - Phase. *schnief*
Meet Mark Saunders and Dean Begley, a.k.a. bnd, two young talented Liverpudlian singer-songwriter-musicians who are destined to literally take the pop world by the scruff of its neck, and prove that great new British talent can still win through on a world-wide basis in the Nineties.
During a musical decade that has not been particularly notable for either outstanding pop songs or great stage performances, bnd's sheer musical personality, combined with that unique irrepressible Liverpool humour which helped bring The Beatles to international prominence more than thirty years ago, will ensure that this exciting pop duo make a considerable impression on the contemporary music scene.
During the last two years, bnd have been making a considerable impression on the pop scene in Liverpool, a city which has been well known over the years for its rich diversity of top pop and rock talent. The duo have twice been overwhelmingly voted the best local pop band by the readers of The Liverpool Echo - one of the biggest-selling regional newspapers in the country - while their first single Baby Baby Babe, released in their own record label, soared to number two in the local HMV chart. They also became the first Liverpool pop group since The Beatles to appear regularly at the legendary Cavern Club.
Since then bnd's route to pop fame and fortune has included mainly hard graft and occasional setbacks, with bnd paying their professional dues and demands performing in dozens of Liverpool clubs and venues. However, international success is now beckoning in a big way for the duo.
Comparisons with the 'Fab Four' would be unfair to Mark Saunders and Dean Begley who, at the respective ages of 21 and 22, were not even born when the world's most-famous pop group broke up after eight years of international hits. However, there can be no avoiding the fact that these two Liverpool groups' respective careers have followed not dissimilar paths ... like their famous predecessors, bnd have attracted a huge local fan following, with girls even camping outside their homes, and they have succeeded in winning over young Merseyside audiences who are notoriously difficult to please.
bnd also started their professional career singing and playing well-known pop and rock and roll classics, while steadily developing their own considerable songwriting abilities. They have become local pop heroes who are now ready to take on the rest of the world outside of Liverpool, just as the city's most famous musical sons succeeded back in the early Sixties. Their talents came to the attentions of top Liverpool managers John Pile and Colin Maddocks of Discovery Management who quickly saw their huge potential and signed them up.
As for countless other pop stars before them, the ingredients of talent, good luck, and right timing have played crucial roles in bnd's burgeoning career. At one of their Liverpool gigs their performance was witnessed by Paul Blake, A&R manager for top publisher Bryan Morrison, who was accompanying Aftershock, the headlining band that evening. Sufficiently impressed, he reported back to his boss in London.
When he heard bnd for himself, Morrison was immediately won over by their youthful exuberance, good looks, unforced natural personalities, and their abilities to deliver on-stage a good pop song in an effective way. What Morrison didn't realise at the time however was that Mark and Dean were also very talented songwriters!
Mark takes up the story ... "Apparently when Bryan did get to hear one of our songs, he became very enthusiastic and predicted that it could be a big hit. We could hardly believe what we were hearing since this was the man who had been behind much of Wham! and George Michael's early songwriting success, and here he was raving on about one of our songs! We'd hardly had time to take this in when our managers John Pile and Colin Maddocks arranged a meeting with top record producers Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, and we were taken round to their offices and sang to them with just our acoustic guitars for accompaniment! It certainly made a change from the old demo tape routine."
Stock and Aitken - whose many credits have included writing and producing hits for Kylie Minogue, Robson & Jerome, Nicki French, Cliff Richard, Band Aid, Jason Donovan, Bananarama and Rick Astley, among dozens of others - were also immediately impressed by what they heard and immediately signed up bnd to Mike's flourishing record label, Love This Records (which scored its first international hit with Nicki French's Total Eclipse Of The Heart).
Mark Saunders and Dean Begley were originally members of a four-piece Liverpool pop band which eventually slimmed down to become the duo band. Since deciding to work together as a duo, Mark and Dean have gradually shed their teenybop image and have started attracting a fan following from across a far wider age group. Their gigs have become 'must see' fixtures in many social diaries, and the word about their musical talents has begun to spread further afield.
Now bnd are busy in the recording studios, working on their first single and album which promise to be really something. Mike Stock, who is no novice at discovering and naturing new pop talent, reckons that they are one of the most promising acts that he has ever worked with .. "They're really quite special - probably the most talented songwriters and musicians I have ever worked with - and I think that people are going to be very surprised when they hear bnd for the first time. I'm really very excited about their future, and I'm convinced that Mark and Dean are going to be huge pop stars," he says.
Praise indeed from Britain's all-time most successful record producer ... and a prophecy which Mark Saunders and Dean Begley, a.k.a. bnd, fully intend to become reality.
Wah, ich will wissen was aus den Beiden geworden ist ! *heul* *schnief* Hab gerade wieder mal meine "Ich vermisse die Jungs, erinner mich an die schönen Zeiten mit ihnen & will sie wiedersehen" - Phase. *schnief*
