Spinnerette biography
Spinnerette is an alternative rock, indie rock solo project of Australian musician Brody Dalle. For this project she has collaborated with Tony Bevilacqua (former member of The Distillers), Jack Irons (What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Walk The Moon, Eleven, and Pearl Jam) and Alain Johannes (What Is This?, Walk The Moon, Eleven, Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures). Dalle announced the emergence of the project in March 2007.
History
Spinnerette was signed to Sire Records before Dalle negotiated out of the record contract. Initially she released one demo song on her website called "Case of the Swirls". She is now signed to Anthem Records. In early January 2008, a 'mash-up' of material Dalle had been working on appeared on the official Spinnerette website and official MySpace page. A full album was released on June 17, 2009.
On August 8, 2008 a blog was posted on Spinnerette's MySpace announcing that fans can now hear the first song from the upcoming album via the official website. The song is called "Valium Knights". More recently, Brody played a live version of "Driving Song" with Queens Of The Stone Age as a backing band for the Natasha Shneider benefit concert. Lyrics for the song have been posted on Spinnerette's MySpace page.
Through the newsletter sent out to mailing list subscribers in October 2008, and later on the web site it was announced that Spinnerette was to perform several dates throughout October with the following lineup:
- Brody Dalle on vocals and guitar
- Tony Bevilacqua on guitar
- Bryan Tulao on 'more guitar'
- Nicole Fiorentino on 'badass bass' and
- Dave Hidalgo Jr. on drums
Dalle stated in an interview that there would be a different line-up when she tours the album. "Spinnerette isn't a band, it's me and whichever musicians I want to work with at the time." Although from this statement she later said that she was meaning that the touring band isn't a band. Not the Studio band.
The current lineup is unknown, as there is no mention of Alain Johannes or Jack Irons, supposedly considered bandmates, in recent interviews.
Spinnerette released a digital EP Ghetto Love, via their official website on December 11, 2008. It features four songs: "Ghetto Love", "Valium Knights", "Distorting a Code", "Bury My Heart" and a video of "Ghetto Love" directed by Liam Lynch.
Two of these tracks, "Valium Knights" and "Ghetto Love", have been featured at Marc Jacobs' 2009/2010 Fall ready-to-wear fashion show.
Brody posted a reply on her Twitter that the video for "Baptized By Fire" would start shooting on May 23, 2009.
On May 27, 2009, the following was posted on the band's website: "We are stoked to announce that we'll be joining the Leeds & Reading Festival line-up this year. Spinnerette are playing 28 August at Leeds and 29 August at Reading, on the same day as our friends the Arctic Monkeys and Eagles of Death Metal." They toured through 2009, with support coming from bands such as Little Fish, Band of Skulls and Fun Loving Criminals among others.
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