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1 A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT I ■ March 1,2000 • the Seahawk Collapsis plays Otter’s by KRISTI SINGER Staff Writer On Saturday, Feb. 19, national-re- cording artists Collapsis came to Otter’s with opening act Feel Love Fury. Collapsis was signed to Cherry/Uni versal Records in November 1997. Their CD, Dirty Wake was released na tionally Feb. 15. Otter’s was the sec ond venue for their CD release party, after Fuzzy Ducks in Greensboro Feb. 18. The excitement began at School Kristi Singer/ The SeahAwk Kids Music with Collapsis and Feel Collapsis vocalist Mike Garrigan, Love Fury on location with Surf 107 along with Other band members signing autographs and giving away played at Otter’s last week. See Collapsis posters and cassettes. Scene for Garrigan’s interview. Tickets were being sold at School Kids before the show for $7 and at the grow as Collapsis played and moved to door for $9. the beat. “They [ticket sales] started out re- “If you’d like to step closer I’ll tell ally slow, but the later in the afternoon you a story. The story’s called “Dirty it got, the more it picked up. People Wake,” vocalist Mike Garrigan said, were buying three at a time,” School Garrigan and guitarist Ryan Pickett Kids employee Katherine Smith said. sang harmoniously together on “Dirty Collapsis is quickly gaining fame Wake.” Garrigan could deservingly be for their hit, “Automatic,” which can called a guitar genius, be heard on Surf 107 FM, and other NC Collapsis knows how to put on a stations in Asheville, Boone and tight performance. A combination of Wanchese as well as 100 stations na- Garrigan's emotional facial expres- tionwide. sions, bassist Chris Holloway, drummer “I like it. It’s catchy and fun to lis- Scott Carle, guitarist Ryan Pickett and ten to,” Smith said about the song. a flow of music from one song to the During the sound-check at Otter’s, next without any breaks was very im- Feel Love Fury heard a preview of pressive and kept the audience’s full at- I Collapsis. tention. “I haven’t really heard them besides The band played songs from Dirty the radio song. By their sound-check I Wake, including “Superhero,” can tell they’re very polished,” said “Radio Friendly Girlfriend,” “I.O.L.,” Stefan Hajek, vocalist and guitarist of and “Automatic.” Feel Love Fury. “Tell Me everything” had poetic lyr- Feel Love Fury took the stage and ics that will earn this song the position entranced the audience with their per- as their second single release. “Won- formance. Vocalist/guitarist Stefan derland,” their big ballad, will be their Hajek, percussionist Kevin Cullen, third single. bassist Darrell Allen and lead guitarist The audience requested an encore, Jesse Rains played songs from their al- which they catered to with two songs, bum, Source, which released in Sep- “Collapsis” and a cover of “Voices tember 1999. Carry.” Feel Love Fury began with This concert was a commendable “Lifestorm.” the first song from combination of two bands that are play- Source. They played “Leadbelly,” ing music for the right reasons, the ex- “Downfallen” and “It All Ends with pression of inner truth. You,” along with other songs from “I think they’re [Collapsis] a band Source, which all sounded as good they that’s serious about what they want to do on the CD. do. They’ve got goals in mind and My favorite song is “It All Ends with they’re working hard, doing everything You.” It’s an unforgettable song, one then can to get there. I can tell that by that touches my soul. their music and by talking to them. I The band ended their set with “Re- think we’ll be seeing and hearing more main.” a song Hajek said is “an impor- of them in the future,” DJ Renn from tant song. When you’re down and feel Surf 107 said, you can’t get out of a hole you mustn’t Collapsis will be back at Otter’s leave by your own hand, you must re- April 20. Check out Feel Love Fury at Collapsis began their show at mid- www.feellovefury.com and Collapsis at night with a loud, hypnotizing intro www.coIlapsis.com. that broke right into their first song, “Two Egrets.” The audience began to MEDIA LEADERS WANTFT) The Student Media Board has re-opened its search for the following positions in student media for 2000-2001: EDITOR ArUnn's GENERAL MANAGER WLOZ 89.1 FM These are paid positions for the academic year 2000-2001. Excellent experi ence for futures in management, publishing, broadcasting, marketing and leadership. Internships available for class credit. APPLICATION DEADLINE Tuesday, March 14 at 10 a.m. Applications available at Office of the Dean of Students (UU209) English Department office (MO 165) Art & Theatre Dept office (KE107) Univeristy Union Information Desk For more information, contact Bill DiNome Student Media Coordinator 962-7138 or e-mail: dinomew@uncwil.edu If you are a faculty member and have written a book we would be glad to carry it in our bookstore. Please contact Angela Welling at exL 3191 so that we may order it
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