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  Ivy (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivy is a New York City band comprised of a trio of musicians, Adam Schlesinger, Dominique Durand and Andy Chase.
Ivy gained even wider recognition in 2003/2004 for their song "Worry About You" which has been used as the theme song of the Stephen King series Kingdom Hospital and in the pilot episode of the television mini-series The 4400.
Ivy produced the score for the movie Shallow Hal (2001) and their song "Edge of the Ocean" was used in the movie.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivy_(band)   (1533 words)

  
 Operation Ivy (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Ivy was an influential ska punk band that originated from the East Bay of San Francisco.
Their name was derived from the Operation Ivy series of nuclear tests; the name was one of many previously abandoned by another Gilman band, Isocracy.
The band broke up the same month, and their last official show was on May 28, 1989, also Green Day's first as Green Day at Gilman, at what was supposed to have been their release party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy_(band)   (786 words)

  
 Brown Band - Ivy Bands Agreement
In order to facilitate communication among the bands, each band will send out to all other bands a list of their newly elected or appointed officers and their phone numbers and e-mail addresses as soon after their elections or appointments as possible, and again when any information on the initial list changes.
Each band will inform other bands of intentions to attend University events (sporting or otherwise) at least three weeks in advance during the football season (but preferably at the beginning of the school year) and as soon as scheduled for all other events.
The visiting bands will be responsible for procuring those seats, but the host bands will make sure that their ticket offices are expecting these bands.
www.brown.edu /Students/Brown_Band/ivyagreement.shtml   (805 words)

  
 4barsrest.com | articles | The great Gracie Cole - My Story
Ivy was forced to cancel television appearances after the Stoll Theatre Corporation told her she would be banned from all theatres if the band appeared on TV.
Ivy could be a tough boss one minute, but the next moment she was quite capable of letting her hair down and being one of the girls.
Ivy really was a legend in her lifetime and will always be remembered as the foremost all-girl bandleader.
www.4barsrest.com /articles/2005/art464.asp   (2026 words)

  
 IVY | bio
The members of the critically acclaimed New York trio IVY have been refining their distinctive brand of evocative, bittersweet pop for nearly a decade.
IVY —- Parisian-born singer Dominique Durand, Andy Chase and Adam Schlesinger —- began life as a stripped-down indie band, with a unpolished, jangly sound offset by Durand’s intimate, and (especially in the early days) heavily accented vocals.
When not working with IVY, all three members have kept quite busy — Schlesinger is also in the band Fountains Of Wayne and produces and writes for various other projects; Chase released a solo album in 2003 under the moniker Brookville and also produces.
www.thebandivy.com /bio   (524 words)

  
 The Band
Buddy, an original member of Ivy, the bassist and primary lead vocalist for many years, is now one of the band’s five featured lead vocalists.
Part of the band's original rythm section, Richie helped to make Ivy that band that it is today, and is partly the reason we are still around.
The band was known as I V, but that was seemingly confusing to some who introduced the band as "Roman Numeral 4", among other interpretations, so the name became Ivy.
www.ivymusic.com /Bio.htm   (1479 words)

  
 Ivy - An interview with Americas best band
The only way this band would be interviewed was live or by phone, and since the former could not be made possible I had to opt for the latter.
What follows is my talk with 2/3 of the band, singer Dominique Durand and her fellow band mate and husband Andy Chase.
Even eight years ago we were one of the first bands to be licensed for commercials, and even though it was a Volkswagen commercial we got flak for it, but now fans don't think twice seeing their favorite bands on a commercial, it's cool for them.
www.indiespinzone.com /bands/ivy.html   (8084 words)

  
 Operation Ivy Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However, from 1987-1989, the band produced a variety of LPs and such on the Lookout label.
This is a band that continues to have a profound effect on the music world today, nearly every ska band owes something to them as do some bigger name bands like Sublime and Green Day.
What is more, the spirit of the punk rock revolution in Berkley during those years is still present in the band's lyrics, and music.
www.punkbands.com /lyrics/bands/opivy/bio.htm   (209 words)

  
 MaARTe ka ba?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Then Ivy (who has been singing since she was a child, and playing guitar for the past 6 years) focused on a professional singing career, but by the summer of 2001 changed her mind.
She decided to form a band with the aid of Alex (who has 8 years of guitar playing experience).
Ivy is the PMS-ing one who writes all of the lyrics and most but not ALL of the core riffs and vocal melodies.
www.maarte.org /articles/article.php?article=bandAikoStar.html   (957 words)

  
 Ivy League Homepage; Keywords: Ivy League; Nobody's Fool; Woolly Bear Festival; Fifties Music; Sixties Music;   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Their first practice session (which was taped) can only be described as "magic", as the 4 musicians realized that they were creating a band the like of which hadn't been seen in the area.
Ivy League disbanded in early 1996, not due to any problems within the band, but because the needs of everyday life and family required the attention of the members.
His contribution to Ivy League was immeasurable, and without him it's hard to consider re-grouping the band.
users.zoominternet.net /~nobodysfool/ivyleeg.html   (1145 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guestroom: Music: Ivy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ivy's decision to stick entirely to covers on their fifth album probably has much to do with the pregnancy of chanteuse Dominique Durand.
But despite the fact that the band members didn't write a single note, they have made the 10 songs collected here their own, giving offbeat classics from sources as disparate as brainy punsters Papas Fritas, Serge Gainsbourg, and Kate Bush Ivy's own sophisticated, moody spin.
Ivy do such a good job interpreting other people's songs that you'd think they were the band's own if you didn't know otherwise.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006IZOD?v=glance   (1427 words)

  
 Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy was an innovative and great punk/ska band.
Operation Ivy was together for two years, from 1987- 1989.
During the band's short duration, they released many seven inches and comps, and even a full length album, Energy.
www.angelfire.com /ri/opivy52889/opiv.html   (174 words)

  
 Ivy: Long Distance - PopMatters Music Review
The band's first record, Realistic, was largely a skillful homage to synthpop as performed by a guitar band and mixed by alternaproducer du jour Andy Wallace.
On the one hand, Ivy must be a collaborative effort because it's doubtful that someone as talented as Schlesinger doesn't lend a hand in the studio.
On the other hand, a band as focused as Ivy needs a driving force because only the bizarro passion of a lone visionary could account for such devotion to a particular sound.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/i/ivy-long.shtml   (677 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/ivysreach
There is no happy ending when it comes to a member leaving the band and no matter how hard you try to spare everyone's feelings, someone always ends up getting the short end of the deal.
Drew will also continue playing drums in the band keeping us tighter and together than ever before and Matt will continue to play bass and...that's pretty much it but that's okay because he's a pretty hott guy.
My band (roanoke) is one of four up for the running of the KCMO Taste Of Chaos Show.
www.myspace.com /ivysreach   (985 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Long Distance: Music: Ivy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The sole nonoriginal, the Blow Monkeys' 1986 single "Digging Your Scene," demonstrates Ivy's ability to render a late-summer dayscape replete with slowly pushed merry-go-round and intimation of oncoming loss, all with a wink.
Long Distance finds Ivy continuing to move away from its beginning as straightforward guitar band, exploring in greater depth the types of slinky rhythms and sounds that were hinted at on 1997's Apartment Life.
I also saw the band twice today, one was a wonderful accoustic performance in Cambridge MA, and the other one was their brilliant and much loved concert in Somerville MA (my hands still hurt from clapping he he).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LMX1?v=glance   (1648 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Operation Ivy - The Band
Operation Ivy were a band that existed for roughly two years in the mid-eighties.
Jesse Michaels was frontman and vocalist for Operation Ivy and was also the one responsible for the cover and t-shirt art for all of the bands cud's and apparel.
Operation Ivy were formed in March 1987 in the East Bay part of California specifically centred around the Gilman Street club/punk collective in Berkeley.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3868662   (599 words)

  
 purevolume™ | ivy'sREACH
Just to give everyone a heads up about whats going on with the band in the recent months....the remaining members of ivysreach (matt and ryan) have been working on a new project, Duke Valentine, that we are really excited for.
The one thing we, matt and ryan, are upset about from this situation is that we are not playing shows and writing music with our friends.
We have been working on new music recently and we have so many ideas for the new band that we are so excited to start finishing up those ideas and recording them.
www.purevolume.com /ivysreach   (344 words)

  
 Homepage for Ivy Bensons All Girl Band
This site is in continuing development - now into it's Fourth year - we are collecting information connected with this Band to provide an accurate entertaining record of those Dance Band days - we hope you may be able to help, by supplying some interesting details, however small.
The Ivy Benson All Girls Band spanned a period of some 40 years, from 1939,
This band, in its various guises, was a UK one-off lasting over 40 years and having in excess of 250 girls playing in it; it was a unique entertainment phenomenon and we hope you enjoy this website and the record of its history.
www.ivybenson-online.com   (143 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/willivyband
Will Ivy music is a combination of all his influences, performed with relative intensity and abandon.
Will Ivy played his first gig in his hometown in Kansas when he was 15.
Will's new trio Will Ivy Band is upbeat original rock with many influences including 60s honky tonk, British Invasion, Memphis soul and 50s rock'n roll and r&b pioneers.
www.myspace.com /willivyband   (383 words)

  
 Punknews.org | Operation Ivy Reunion?
UNITY is at an all-time low in the punk movement, and the vision and passion that Op Ivy brought to the scene is all but gone.
If there ever could be a band to ressurrect what it means to be a punk in the name of UNITY, Operation Ivy would be the one to do it.
The band members are on good terms, but the possibility of a reunion has never been suggested, because both Jesse and Tim are busy with other projects.
www.punknews.org /article.php?sid=1004   (1641 words)

  
 Ivy Leaves Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This photoengraved design was adopted from a drawing in an old book about Art-Deco designs.
The band is approximately 11mm wide and 1.5mm in thickness.
In sterling silver (shown) this ring sells for $65.00*, in 14K gold the price is $395.00 for a size 7 band.
www.metalsmiths.com /ivyring.html   (77 words)

  
 Unity-an Operation Ivy page
Operation Ivy was most likely the best Skacore Band (as well as the first) to ever come out of the East bay.
There sound was so different from any of the other bands before or after them that they changed the way most people thought about Punk or Ska at the time.
These were most likely all factors in why Operation Ivy got as big as they were.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Studio/4234/opiv.html   (308 words)

  
 IVY - the band -- Welcome to the Realm of IVY
This site is all about the band IVY, the bandmates, possible gig info, contacts, whatever.
we've only been a band for about 3 weeks and we havnt had much practice and wont get it.
hey guys, thought you might like to know the band mates myspace profiles, so if you're on there you could add us or whatever...
www.freewebs.com /ivytheband   (103 words)

  
 Hectic
They are known as a pre-rancid band but in my mind Rancid is a post-Operation Ivy band.
The members of Operation Ivy were in many bands before and after they were in Operation Ivy.
Before Operation Ivy they were in Basic Radio but they broke up because of a nasty note from the second guitarist.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palms/1992/main.html   (606 words)

  
 Lookout Records - Operation Ivy
I knew he'd played in a band called Basic Radio, and I knew that he was bummed that they'd broken up.
Then I went away for three months, and when I got back the first thing I heard was that there was this great new band at Gilman called Operation Ivy and that they were playing that night.
Anchored by the seemingly effortless, but never less than excellent drumming of Dave Mello, Operation Ivy came and went with the fleeting incandescence of a comet that will remain emblazoned forever on the consciousness of anyone who ever had the privilege of witnessing them in their glory.
www.lookoutrecords.com /bands/band.php3?bnd_id=40   (212 words)

  
 Ivy Benson - Her All Girls Band - Audio CD, Compact Discs At Earfloss.com
It Can't Be Wrong - Performed by: Ivy Benson and Her All Girls Band - Composed by: Gannon and Steiner
By The River Of The Roses - Performed by: Ivy Benson and Her All Girls Band - Composed by: Burke and Symes
Lover - Performed by: Ivy Benson and Her All Girls Band - Composed by: Rodgers and Hart
www.earfloss.com /8911116.html   (656 words)

  
 Item #8911116FK - Ivy Benson - Her All Girls Band - Audio CD
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www.superdupermusic.com /cd/8911116.html   (679 words)

  
 Brown Band - Ivy Bands
ur website used to have a nice touchy-feely quote here about the comradery between the Ivy Bands here; well, whether or not that is the case (and it is more often than not), we've decided to share some of our gut feelings about our lesser-ivy band-brethren below, along with links to their lesser-ivy band-brethren websites.
The real question about the Penn band is, with a name like that, do you think they're trying to compensate for something?
Yale is in New Haven....In case you've changed your mind, here's a link back to the Brown Band homepage.
www.brown.edu /Students/Brown_Band/ivy.shtml   (162 words)

  
 The University of Pennsylvania Band
The 2006 4th of July High School Honor Band
The Penn Band Does Dallas : At the 2006 Men's NCAA Tournament
The Penn Band raises $467 for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society of Greater Philadelphia
dolphin.upenn.edu /~pennband   (62 words)

  
 MTV - Music - Artist - Ivy
The New York-based pop group Ivy came together in 1994 when multi-instrumentalist Andy Chase placed an ad in the Village Voice in an attempt to start a band.
Ironically enough, Durand was a massive music fan and adored the sounds of the Smiths, the Pastels, and House of Love.
She'd never sung before, but Chase and Schlesinger encouraged her to sing on the demo for...
www.mtv.com /music/artist/ivy/artist.jhtml   (199 words)

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