The Dalloways in Video!
The Dalloways debuted their new music video for the title track from their new EP Dirty Money and Filthy Love at last Friday night's show.

Check out the Music Video filmed by Hectic Films:



Also check out this Dalloways Mini-Documentary by ABC23/Noveltown's own N.L. Belardes:



Buy the Dalloways EP at: CD Baby.

Labels: ABC 23, Dirty Money and Filthy Love, Hectic Films, music video, N.L. Belardes, Noveltown, The Dalloways, video, youtube.com

  posted by Matildakay at 1:28 PM 0 comments

Dirty Money and Filthy Love

The Dalloways get a little dirty on their new EP release Dirty Money and Filthy Love. With talk of secret skins, filthy love, Godlessness, tramps, ice queens and ‘using it before you lose it’ all woven into catchier more danceable tracts than those of their debut album Penalty Crusade, the Dalloways have reinvented themselves into a moodier, grittier brand of Brit-pop music with a hint of romance.

Dirty suits the Dalloways.

Although they sing about filthy love, the Dalloways music is by no means filthy. Rather its moody, lush, textured and a melodically driven machine that has you singing along, tapping your feet and even clapping your hands in Me and Thomas Hardy. These are the kinds of songs that keep playing in your head long after the CD has stopped spinning.

Lyrically the Dalloways don’t disappoint with their creative story-telling, literary references to Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles in Me and Thomas Hardy, mature themes, moodiness, romantic undertones and sound bites from that classic 1960’s gothic soap Dark Shadows in Didn’t Have the Time.

I love lyrics that make me contemplate their meaning as Cerro Coso Community College creative writing professor and Dalloways front man Gerhard Enns’ lyrics always do. But I have to tell you he had me stumped for a while with the Dark Shadows sound clips. I recognized the actor’s voices and even the scene, but I couldn’t remember their names or the name of the show. It plagued me so I had to search it out on the Internet! A classic soap opera as a metaphor for life, clever.

Dalloways keyboardist Cortnie Cleary co-wrote I Love You Regardless and Didn’t Have the Time and is more present on this EP with her moody vocals proving she’s more than just the Dalloways hot babe.

I’ve been listening to Dirty Money and Filthy Love non-stop since I received my copy of the Dalloways new EP its one of those pieces of music that you just can’t let go of.

Get your copy of Dirty Money and Filthy Love at CD Baby today!

EP Track list:

1. Dirty Money and Filthy Love
2. Me and Thomas Hardy
3. Let’s Climb the Staircase
4. I Love You Regardless
5. Didn’t Have the Time

The Dalloways hope to release their full-length album Distant Fairs later this summer, which is sure to be a musical masterpiece if Dirty Money and Filthy Love is a sample of what’s yet to come. No matter what the Dalloways turn out next, I’ll love them regardless.

Read the ABC23 article and watch the video about the Dalloways, Lost Ocean and other bands creative methods of marketing their music.

Watch Cortnie Cleary’s youtube after school special.



Catch up with the Dalloways on myspace.

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Join the Dalloways at their BIG CD RELEASE PARTY Saturday, February 9, 2008 at Sandrini’s in downtown Bakersfield, 9:30 PM, Cost: $5.00. Featuring an incredible line up of: The Sleepover Disaster, The Filthies, a Hectic Films screening of the new Dalloways video and the Dalloways backed by Matt Munoz of Mento Buru on sax, Melissa of Near Miss Mallet and Mystic Red on backing vocals.

Don’t miss out on the fun, it’s going to be a great night of music!!

Labels: ABC 23, Brit Pop, Cortnie Cleary, Dirty Money and Filthy Love, Dream Pop, Gerhard Enns, Hectic Films, Mento Buru, Music, Mystic Red, Near Miss Mallet, pop, The Dalloways, The Filthies

  posted by Matildakay at 1:31 PM 1 comments

Hectic Films releases Wretched Flesh trailer!
Hectic Films just released their zombie movie trailer for their film, Wretched Flesh. This short film is due out by the end of March... It's the first in a 3-part flick that will be packaged as one film.



I can't wait to see it!

Oh did I mention that I'm in the movie? I am! I'm one of the zombies. I might even be in that zombie crowd scene in the trailer.

Here's a photo of the Matildakay zombie look Hectic Films gave me last summer on filming day.

Labels: filmmakers, Hectic Films, independent film, Jason Sanders, Ricky Bird, Wretched Flesh, Zombies

  posted by Matildakay at 12:46 PM 1 comments

Matildakay Zombie
A few weeks ago Hectic Films put out a call for people to be zombies in their local zombie movie extravaganza: Wretched Flesh. Last Sunday was the big zombie filming day and I came prepared to put on my best zombie face.

As it turned out there were some talented makeup artists who put my zombie face on for me.



You will be so impressed by the zombie makeup in this movie…

Ricky and Jason of Hectic Films are two hard working, talented local filmmakers and two of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. I was very impressed with the amount of people and filmmakers that came together to make this film project come to life. There was no drama. No competition between the various filmmakers. Just an amazing amount of teamwork and great attitudes from everyone involved who were genuinely happy to be working on the project.

Once I had my zombie face… it was time to become a zombie.

“I already have the zombie walk thanks to knee surgery.” I previously joked.

As it turns out, being a zombie is a little harder than it looks. Especially when it comes time to die.

I joined the other zombies, walking slow and stilted, clawing at the ‘live’ people and other zombieness that you’ll have to wait and see in the movie.

Becoming a character and hiding behind the makeup allows one an escape from reality. How many times have I been a zombie in my own life? How many years have I walked through life like an undead zombie, instead of really living? I wondered. I know there were a few years where I didn’t exist beyond being a zombie. But these days the only place you'll see me being a zombie is in Hectic Films Wretched Flesh.

Although the day of filming was long, in the end it was an extremely rewarding experience to be part of such a great project. I can’t wait to see the finished film.

Read Noveltown’s the making of a zombie movie: part one and see more zombie pics.

Labels: Bakersfield filmmakers, Hectic Films, movies, Noveltown, Wretched Flesh, Zombies

  posted by Matildakay at 11:18 PM 3 comments

Wretched Flesh! Get your Zombie on…
Hectic Films is filming their zombie movie Wretched Flesh this weekend. Are you going to be a zombie? I am! This is your one chance to be a zombie in a Hectic Films horror flick. So come out and get your zombie on… Hectic Films needs all the zombies they can get.

Watch the teaser test video for Wretched Flesh…



Here are all the details from Hectic Films:

“For those of you who don't know… We are making a Zombie Movie called Wretched Flesh. So far we have a lot of the community helping out with to make this local project awesome! We have local bands making songs The Silence Club (of course! We can't make any video without that awesome sound) OP Stylee, Isaac Rocha from Safe Sounds (The song he submitted is the one in the trailer, Awesome huh?) and Dirty Spanglish (their song is actually going to be called Wretched Flesh!!). We need more songs from local bands so if you are interested make a song about zombies! We have also had an extreme amount of help and support from Noveltown (Thanks Guys!). Even Padgett Productions who donated some time at our studio to train some zombies how to get crazy. We would just like to say thanks!

So with the help of some local filmmakers, MeatyDish Productions, Birdloaf, Vindictive Films, Poop Productions, Some guy Named Walter and Stupid Kid Productions, this should be an awesome flick. We will be meeting up at the Down Towner Inn on 13th and Chester on May 20th, 2007 at 2pm. If you wanna be a zombie show up! If you wanna help out show up. If you want to watch show up. If you would like to stop by and take pictures, give us money, feed us show up!!!! We want to make this the biggest no budget production that has ever been here in Bakersfield so come down!

If you want to be a zombie just show up in crappy clothes and the make-up artists will do the rest! We will have some clothes also to use for the shoot. All the make-up artists will be promoted on our site! So stop by and check that out in a few weeks! Along with the bands that make songs for the movie.

Oh yes keep in mind that there is going to be a private showing of the finished project for only those who were in it! So again if you are interested let us know!”

Labels: Bakersfield, filmmakers, Hectic Films, Horror films, Noveltown, Zombies

  posted by Matildakay at 1:31 PM 1 comments