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Mysterious rumours are circulating that Move Like Seamus may be recording; if it's true, we'll be in the studio more than we'll be gigging, during the next few months. This would all be part of some nefarious plan to have a hectic spring gig schedule, and then to try and take over the world (which is the same thing we do every night).
We're also experimenting with two different formats: (1) the full band, which you've all come to know and love, and (2) with something we're calling the "Move Like Seamus String Trio." The "trio" is a stripped- down version - violin, cello, and guitar (Drew, Kristen, and Geoff) - and offers a more "exposed" variation on a theme.
Hope you like it!
drew, geoff, nick, kristen, & mark
Geoff Godfrey: vocal and guitar.
Mark Lortz: vocal and drums.
Nick Marini: vocal and guitar.
Kristen Turner: vocal and cello.
Drew Vervan: vocal, violin, and guitar.
And now, a few words about the band ...
Geoff Godfrey, also known as the "mighty yerfdog," first began to sing and play guitar in the summer of 2015, after having an inspiring "coffee" in Amsterdam. Soon after, he was able to perfect time travel, and returned to 2008. He remembered that one of his favourite local bands, Move Like Seamus, needed a guitarist that year, so he arrived just in time.
Mark Lortz, who also answers to the name of "death-metal madman," or simply, "madman" for short, drinks hefeweizen like liquid candy, using a beerstein hewn from the living rock. When he was a child, his parents initially refused to buy him a set of drums, until he fashioned his own using their heirloom china. On nights with a full moon, Mark likes to stand over boiling caldrons, tossing in bits of this and that (extract of malt, pellet of hop, and so on), laughing nefariously, and mutterring to himself, "by the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes ..."
Nick Marini has been temporarily released from cupboard duty with the Jesuits, and charged with "mingling with the real people." Despite this task, he has volunteered to use his blistering, crunchy guitar skills to further the Move Like Seamus mission (that is, play celtic rock and drink smithwick's). Prior to joining Move Like Seamus, Nick was a foreman with a crew of New Jersey dock workers, including one named "Mario" who would often ask, "yo, uh, Nick-boss, you want I should break his legs or somethin'?"
Kristen Turner is enduring self-imposed exile from her native land, but Move Like Seamus has the great fortune to have her in the band - playing cello, no less. Prior to this gig, she was the lead pitcher for the National Softball Team of the People's Republic of China. She had to leave under cover of night when the government sponsors began to think she might not actually be Chinese.
Drew Vervan has his own, fabricated biography elsewhere on this website; however, the truth is he's actually Chinese, but he's hiding from the National Softball Team of China, because they think he stole their practice bats. This is true. He melted them down to make cables for his music gear, of which there are at least five types: electric, speaker, microphone, patch, and instrument. Those who use these cables must take great care, particularly when coiling them at the end of the night.