Who is funeral party

Rosegarden Funeral Party is my first time taking the role of a lead guitarist. This is also the first band that Wil has ever taken on bass in. Before that, he was always a lead guitarist. We liked the concept of having a simple guitarist and a complex bassist rather than the more common inverse situation.

More focus on the rhythm and less on intricate guitar work. The fact that all of us are in new territory breeds innovation and creativity as we are all constantly learning new things about our instruments. I think Dylan was born behind the drums. How did the members of Rosegarden Funeral Party meet each other to become a band?

When I decided to create this band, he was the first one I asked to be a part of it. We knew that we wanted to do something that harkened back to traditional goth and post-punk, but we also were driven towards innovation with influences ranging from psychedelic garage rock to shoegaze.

We were extremely lucky to find Dylan. I felt like I had found a unicorn. We had just let our drummer go not two days before and I told Dylan about Rosegarden and asked him to listen to it and see if he would be interested in joining us. We got a drink that night, talked music and the band, and that was it.

Rosegarden Funeral Party was finally whole. Leah: I used to co-front a psychedelic band called Moon Waves on guitar, vocals, and organ.

Our drummer Dylan has played with several bands over the years up in Rhode Island, where he is from. We all have played with different groups and, in all honesty, it makes us appreciate the dynamic that Rosegarden has more than anything. We care about and respect one another and that breeds a truly emotionally creative environment. We are more family than bandmates. I think one of the more rare aspects of the dynamic within our group is we like to be around each other, just as much as we like playing music together.

Who thought of the name and what prompted you to go with it? I was driving myself crazy trying to find an original name for the band because we had to change the name SWAY upon the knowledge that there are about 1, artists under that title exaggerations, but you get the point.

I wanted to settle into something and name it and be attached to it and commit to it. We made list after list in my apartment night after night and checked name after name on Discogs… Nothing fit. We almost named the band 62 Reissue because all our guitars at the time were 62 reissues! Woke up the next day and instantly took that one back, ha!

I liked the images both titles conjured up. I liked the dichotomy of beauty and pain. We worried at first that it was too long and possibly forgettable, but pretty quickly people started telling us how much they liked the name.

I feel good about that. How did that video shoot come together? The clip was of a woman dressed in a dark, glistening gown, stumbling in tears across a moonlit beach. We met up and shot the video at the lake. Erin gave that video its magic. She completely fulfilled every wish I had for it. What bands, in fact, would you say are influences, and are there any bands that you all are fans of that would surprise other folks?

Leah: Siouxsie and Banshees are definitely a huge influence. As are most bands of that movement and time. Are you recording any new material right now?

If so, what can you tell us about it and on what label etc will it come out? What is the songwriting process like for Rosegarden Funeral Party? Are you all equal partners or is it pretty divided up between who comes up with the riffs or melodies, and who writes the lyrics, etc.?

How does it typically work, and what is an example of this? Leah: I write the songs… meaning I write my guitar parts and the vocal melodies at home and then I bring them to the band and they all write parts around it.

My bandmates are incredible and I truly am the luckiest girl in the world to have each of them. Wil Bass has an incredible talent for transitions and structure. He also always catches on very quickly and creating parts comes naturally to him. He effortlessly and effectively creates counter melodies to my guitar part that adds to the sonic space while still holding down rhythm. Dylan Drums is everything I could have asked for in a drummer. He plays for the song, rather than for himself.

He is so committed to achieving exactly what part will benefit the music best. All of my bandmates are exceptional, and again, I am so insanely lucky to have them.

Thank you! Be kind to each other; we love you. They have a Bandcamp page here. They also have a Facebook page here. Rosegarden Funeral Home, which hosts the Obituary deathrock events, has a Facebook page here. Used with permission. Please support Post-Punk.

I had been avidly following all of them for years prior to the formation of Funeral Party. How about his pick for Funeral Party's most underrated release? This is a record that is, in my opinion, criminally underrated. Mysterious post-punk that sounds like Rudimentary Peni, Crass, and Crisis thrown into a blender and spit out through a 4-track recorder.

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