Check out a replay of my #BandingTogether 2024 live set TODAY at 1:05 pm ET and 8 pm ET ⬇️

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If you missed my live set on Saturday during BlowUpRadio.com's #BandingTogether benefit for the Spondylitis Association of America, you have FOUR more chances to catch it: Tues, Oct. 22 at 1:05 pm ET & 8 pm ET; and Wed, Oct. 23 at 2 am ET & 8 am ET. Listen, donate and learn more ➡︀ blowupradio.com

If you missed my live set on Saturday during @BlowUpRadio's #BandingTogether benefit for the Spondylitis Association of America, you have FOUR more chances to catch it: Tues., Oct. 22 at 1:05 pm ET & 8 pm ET; and Wed., Oct. 23 at 2 am ET & 8 am ET.

Listen, donate and learn more ➡️ https://blowupradio.com 

And while we're at it, here is the song that I originally intended to contribute to the @BlowUpRadio #BandingTogether 2024 compilation, "Eventually (Love is the Answer)." I meant to fix this one up and re-record the vocals and submit, but I was on my techno-industrial kick and went with "Don't Lose the Groove" instead. This version of "Eventually" was originally recorded in 2012 and it's pretty close to how it first sounded when I wrote it around 1989.
https://on.soundcloud.com/67pNbhymvRpd3atk9

Here is my set list from today’s BlowUpRadio.com Banding Together performance:

1. “Precious Jewel” – piano version of song that will be on my long-delayed power-pop EP
2. “Eventually” – one of my earliest songs from late 1988/89; a reworked version will appear on the power-pop EP
3. “Time Takes Over” – the first complete song I ever wrote back in October 1988, it is based on something said during a breakup of two former coworkers at a Pizza Hut in New Jersey.
4. “Expectations” (Lo Moon cover) – Decided to try my hand at performing this piano-focused take on a track from Lo Moon’s second album, A Modern Life.
5. “Beyond Forever” – a track from my Open Your Eyes EP released in early June 2024.

https://ferociousdesigns.com/2024/10/19/banding-together-2024-set-list-ferocious-designs/

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@BlowUpRadio's 2024 Banding Together For The Spondylitis Association Of America begins today at 12:30 p.m. EST and runs through Sunday.

My set is this afternoon at 4:45 p.m. EST.

Tune in and support a great cause!

#livemusic #webathon #BandingTogether #music

blowupradio.com/spondy.html

This weekend, Friday, October 18, through Sunday, October 20, tune in to BlowUpRadio.com for Banding Together 2024, benefiting the Spondylitis Association of America.

The benefit features a weekend of live music from over 30 artists, including a stripped-down set from Brian Kelley of Ferocious Designs on Saturday (10/19) at 4 p.m. ET. With a minimum $10 donation, listeners can get an exclusive compilation download that includes the Ferocious Designs track “Don’t Lose the Groove (feat. Christian Beach).”

https://youtu.be/lgWOvXL-AzA

“The song is something I actually started writing during a high school health class in the late 1980s,” said Kelley. “I remember scribbling some of the original lyrics in a notebook.

“When Christian Beach and I were in our synth-based rap outfit, TMC + The New Generation, with Asbury Park rapper Tariq Mohammed, we wrote an industrial song in 1990 that I thought was a perfect fit for those old lyrics,” added Kelley. “I believe it was going to make its live debut at the Green Parrot in Neptune, N.J., in August 1990, but the Parrot closed forever just a few days before the show.”

But “Don’t Lose the Groove” wasn’t originally going to be the song Kelley submitted for the compilation.

“I actually planned on fixing up an old demo of a ballad I also wrote back in the 80s called ‘Evenutally (Love is the Answer),'” said Kelley. “But then I found a version of ‘Don’t Lose the Groove’ I recorded about 14 years ago — and I have been on a nostalgic industrial kick lately — so I decided to go with that one instead.”

While Mohammed was not available to record vocals in time for this latest version of “Don’t Lose the Groove,” Beach was able to provide backing vocals in the choruses and some synth loops.

“I was hoping to get the whole band back together for this, but it didn’t quite work out this time,” said Kelley. “Maybe we’ll revisit it down the road.”

Visit BlowUpRadio.com for the full Banding Together 2024 performance schedule, details about the companion compilation download and the link to donate to the Spondylitis Association of America.

https://ferociousdesigns.com/2024/10/16/ferocious-designs-to-take-part-in-banding-together-2024-on-blowupradio-com-oct-18-20/

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Been workshopping my set for this year's @BlowUpRadio #BandingTogether Benefit for the Spondylitis Association of America. I'm not really one to perform covers, but we're allowed to do 1 or 2 so I'm working on figuring out a stripped-down version of a Lo Moon song from their second album. I also plan on playing the first complete song I ever wrote back in 1988.

Just happened to notice a few plays on @radiofreefedi today, in addition to a replay of my stripped-down live set from #BandingTogether 2022 on @BlowUpRadio this morning. Thanks to those stations for the support!

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Whoa! Was not expecting that Rush cover during Sean Faust’s 2018 #BandingTogether set