Next Live

Cosa: Concerto di musica indie pop

Dove: Diagonal Loft-Club

In che città? Forlì
Quando?24 Aprile 2011

E' Pasqua? No, è il giorno prima
Con chi? Stars in Coma dalla Svezia e tanti altri amici

Parallel Floors

It was a real pleasure playing at Magazzino Parallelo after the place guest our rehearsals for such a long peridod. It was even better getting to know Nothing Meets All, an exquisite bunch of musicians and well mannered human beings.

Magazzino Parallelo is a strange place, looking very close to Top Cat head quaters rather than a venue, but not so few people find themselves so comfortable in there that you can find people just hanging around quite any time of the day. It was suddenly raining when I came to the place for the soundcheck, and I found those guys relaxed and chatting under something we could easily roughly call a gazebo, making me quite confuse rather they were from the band or not.

It happen... most of them they were! Soundcheck O'Clock for us.

Mike Leffe (Oh, yes. He changed his name again) was busy setting the sound for another side project he had to play in after our show, so Alessandro, N.M.A. drummer, was so kind to play drums with me in order to adjust the right amount of noise of it all.

I planned to do a new track called "ONE" alone. Since I didn't ever play that one live, I asked Alessandro if he minded trying that one, so I would have had a chance to check if all the chords were right. Well. Alessandro never heard that song before, but the result was SO good that I asked if he would have agreed to join me on the stage to do that number.

Time passed really quickly from 07:00 PM to 10:00 PM. So quickly that I was wondering what Porlock was doin' in there when he arrived. He was in to watch the show, of course!

They say... we did great! The sound of the guitar was excellent, or at least how I like it, and was so deep that these two men managed somehow to sound like a band.

Playing alone with Mike gave me the chance to improvise a little bit more, and "Bye Bye Love" cover seems to have improved a lot! (now I've got only to learn the lyrics properly!). With Alessandro on stage we went even further on what we have tried during the evening. The jam seemed not to have an end, evolving in and out and always fading into something new. It was really cool! Hope we'll play with that band again.

• Some pics of the show
• Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me
• February
• Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers Cover)
• ONE / Satellite Of Love (Lou Reed cover) / A Song for EMI
• February (Backstage with Porlock)

I Magazines Paralleli

Ciao tutti amici gatti. Dopo anni che il Magazzino Parallelo ci ha adottato prendendosi cura di noi come mici randagi quasi ogni settimana per più di due anni, è un grande onore che vi annunciamo il prossimo live. Proprio Sabato prossimo, presso di loro!

Sabato 29 Maggio Ore 22.00

Saremo io e Mic ad aprire per gli amici Nothing Meets All (che nome LOSTiano!) e speriamo di vedere tanti amici che cominciavano a chiederci se fossimo stati divorati da qualche pacman energizzato. Mic proseguirà la serata al Notturno esibendosi con Fiore.

See ya there! Miao! :)

Zeznatic Beach

Playing at Travolta (NRG) was A REAL pleasure. I don't know if I can talk for the others as well, but as for me it was the first time I felt we were treated like real VIP! The (very hudge and cool) venue had nothing to do with the usual garages slash dark clubs slash small rooms where me myself as spectator too use to see my beloved indie artistist and bands, but it was like... being Bono playing at Zoo in Dublin 1993, I suppose. Or something like that. Great guys at the serivce, expensive tecs and equipements (also DJs did tested EACH of the eight amps coming down from the disco ceiling, clearing the sounds with a wash of white noise and testing their frequencies limits seeing at which point glasses could break), a reserved table with dozen of bottles of beer served by waiters with compliments by the landlord, people having to wait for us to begin OUTSIDE the venue with this kind of insane idea of having the audience to come in with us already playing (we opened with "Girls From Ronta", a shame for very brilliant versions of "The Smiths & The Cure" and "Do Mean It's A Mess" that didn't made it to the show). In a word: we were happy, and you could have seen it in the aftershow with Tinies and their closest girls and friends dancing like fools! The only regret not having had the time to check if my guitar was in tune (it was not). Big stuff, cool youngters, we were just fish in an aquarium, still closest fans hadn't too much difficulties to see we were the same indie jerks of always :)

Rock on Tinies!

Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010 Pics

Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Go Ego Go (Lacrosse Cover)
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Beachvolley Fields Forever
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Silver Star
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Needful Things
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Scrambled Eggs

Complimentary Us

It was nice playing on Giodì. Why? The place was reeeeeally nice, and all our best and supportive friends where there too! :)

"Needful Things" never went so good, and our first live execution of "Valentine Disco Night" was a blast! I was not too sure 'bout my rushed first presentation for "TOP", but Porlock (he was in the audience with our first drummer Joe Pistocchi) seems to have liked it a lot, along with "Silver Star", another track that is getting better all the time! (Just quoting Beeedols!)

We began a little bit late, so the landlord asked us to rush our way to the finale. I asked to the audience if they prefered "February" or "Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me". Guess what? They went for the latter! "February" is possibly our second most popular track, and I was really proud seing this new song getting more and more popular each time we play it. Good! :)

> Here's some pictures of the show
> Needful Things (video)
> Go Ego Go (Lacrosse) (video)
> Valentine Disco Night (vide)

Enchantment Under The Cesuola

Possibly best performance ever, just me and Mic Leffe Tiny Tide was sliced in a garage duo, just for one night, and since far to obvious comparsions with other bands started to pop up few days from the concert we decided to mock our own name on "The White Tides". I was so electrified by that idea that I decided to start the show with Chuck, my dark 80's Gretsch. It was a good show indeed, with a lot of covers and friends crowding possibly the most dangerous bar in Cesena, starting to play at 00.00 a.m. Being only a a drum and a guitar gave us space to a lot of ideas and solo moments, starting from the blues intro with harmonica and a psychedelic post-rock aftershow with double drummers and a shoegazian Zonda being pointed as a Michale J Fox on acid at the end of his rock performance on Back To The Future's Enchantment Under The Sea.

Well. Beside that last moment of the show (that lasted quite 20 minutes so far) (there's a bit took from Matt Share) the whole show was filmed by Luca. Thank you Luca!

Tiny Tide - Blues Jam

Tiny Tide - Intro - Kitty Jesus - Yoshimi Battles Against The Pink Robot Pt.1 (Flaming Lips Cover)

Tiny Tide - The Smiths & The Cure

Tiny Tide - S♥L

Tiny Tide - AAA

Tiny Tide - Song 2 (Blur Cover)

Tiny Tide - Beachvolley Fields Forever

Tiny Tide - Do Mean It's A Mess (+Mic Leffe Solo)

Tiny Tide - Girls from Ronta
Tiny Tide - Road to Fairies

Tiny Tide - Yuriko Has Come To Town

Tiny Tide - Tiny Trains

Tiny Tide - February - The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen cover)

Tiny Tide - Bye Bye Love (Everly Bros Cover) - Sleeping in your hands (Elisa cover)

Tiny Tide -Encore#1: Mask Me Mask Me Mask Me

Tiny Tide - Encore#2: A Song for EMI

Tiny Tide - Prog Jam

Here's some pics :L

The White Tides

"They say there’s a certain kind of rum that you’ll have the chance to taste only in the worst bars in Caracas. Still Caracas is the Latin America’s most expensive City. Strange, isn, it? As strange as Mark Zonda and Mic Leffe playing in a small Italian town after midnight in a small place nearby a river..."

The review follows here on SleepWalKing Magazine...

Let's rock the Cesuola

Il prossimo appuntamento dal vivo saraà... sarà... domenica prossima!
Domenica 6 Dicembre al Giodì di Cesena (sembra verso le 20.00)
See ya there!

http://www.lastfm.it/event/1317030+Tiny+Tide+at+Giodì+on+6+December+2009

News From the Heavenly Loom

Tiny Tide, dal vivo
Sabato 28 Novembre
A MEZZANOTTE
Bar Notturno (Ponte Nuovo Cesena)

"Una volta convintosi che non c'era alcun elemento dannoso palese, cominciava a elargire consigli e a correggere il feuilleton"

Tidin'Up Il Bar Notturno

Next Live:

13 nov 2009	La Vigna (Cesena)
28 nov 2009	Bar Notturno (Cesena)

Tiny, Band in the Vigna

"Stavolta però la faccenda va diversamente. E proprio a causa dei sogni ad occhi aperti"

Prossimo live... 13 Novembre @ Vigna (Porta Santi, Cesena)

Be there!

Intifada nights

"It was promoted as a secret gig, still eventually many people were able to find the place despite all the enigmas. Halfway between Aladdin Sane, Elvis Costello and MGMT, Mark Zonda and Tiny Tide came back with a tight and not so horror rocky show on the stage of Intifada, sharing with the audience the old classics from a debut album that keeps its distances from seeing the light of its debut and the tracks of Tiny Tide last EP: “The Wildheart EP”.

The band kept spending the last month on practicing the new opening part of the show, with a brilliant instrumental introduction in a bright “Credence Clearwater Revival” style, changing in “Kitty Jesus” and “The Psychopath At The Club” with no pauses at all." ...

Last night we played @ Intifada.

Here's a report from SleepWalKing Magazine. Check it out :)

Narrative Between Gigs

From SleepWalKing Magazine....

This is Mark Zonda reporting on his band, dears. Two very close gigs, but I swear that Tiny Tide will disappear beyond sun umbrellas and sand dunes of not so far Adriatic Coast beaches (don’t you trust me? You’re probably right). It was more than a simple showcase. This time we had an extensive 1 hour show (and we even cut off songs) opening a new sweet place in Cesena called “Ex-Macello” (any city in Italy has got one).

I was really glad the crowd enjoyed the show, even if we didn’t practiced the old stuff since a lot (we were buisy setting up the new songs) and I misteriously lost my voice on “The Smiths And The Cure”… to have it back right in minutes for “Road to fairies“. Unexplicable! I was also glad we had the chance to finally debut on stage with Osamushi (each instrument of mine has a name), my new Alesis Micron Synth. We played with him for “Scrambled Eggs“,“Joanie don’t you worrie” and “S♥L“ (though maybe the latter wasn’t enough good as it deserved to be, withoud Dendrix on acoustic guitar it lost the feeling…). I’ll leave you with some moments of the show. Enjoy it and see you at some sunny beach.

Tiny Tide - “The Psychopath At The Club” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Ginger Genie” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Tiny Trains” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Scrambled Eggs” (Clip)
Tiny Tide - “Joanie don’t u worrie” (Clip)

Dis Moi Que Tu Ne Pleures Pas

Grazie a Adriano Zoppolato per le foto.

Perchè un po' di nuvoloni ci sono stati proprio in cima al terrazzo del Diagonal, dove stavamo per suonare. Come chi? Mark Zonda e i Tiny Tide, anzi, per l'occasione GC e i Tiny Tide. Le prime ad arrivare sono state proprio "le segreatarie", più deliziose che qualsiasi ragioniera, più intelligenti di qualsiasi velina, rimediate da Dendrix a San Giovanni sono state veramente scaltrissime e hanno portato da subito una sferzosa dose di allegria (ragazzi, se avete a cuore le vendite, investite su delle psicologhe, non su contabili. Qualcuno al governo l'ha capito). Poi è stata la volta dello scontro tra fotografi nello sfondo steam-punk del locale, dove è stato improvvisato un set fotografico post-atomico degno di uno dei tanti Godzilla Vs Gamera. Poi amici, fan, avventori, Robbie che ci ha aiutato ad attaccare palloncini e i manifestini elettorali con Moz, Robert Smith e Mark Zonda in stile Obama e Lorenzo, che si era autoconvinto di credere per disperazione che fosse il mio compleanno. Chiaramente ultimo è arrivato Mic Starr!



Airpop DJSet sublimi. Mic lo abbiamo sistemato su un rialzo, come il suo e-mulo beatlesiano. Il suono era talmente buono che sound-check e tecnici non servivano neanche, tanto il mio nuovo mixer simula qualsiasi ambiente di risonanza, se giravo una manopola il terrazzo del Diago diventava un grotta. C'è il sole anche se fa sera. Meno male. Addirittura un caro amico DJ di Bologna. Anzi, mi sa che non avete capito: BO*LO*GNA! Si può partire.

"Salve. Siamo i Tiny Tide. Qualcuno penserà che è la mia festa di compleanno. E invece è la festa di compleanno del nostro nuovo EP. Si chiama The WildHeart, è pieno di tastiere e cose strane. Oggi ve lo presentiamo in chiave rock."

Stappiamo un Berlucchi, portato dall'amico fotografo Tomaselli. E parte "The Smiths & The Cure". Dicono che abbia avuto molta più presa che la versione in studio. In realtà mi è partito il volume della chitarra a mille e la cosa mi aveva un po' destabilizzato. I brani dopo sono andati meglio :)



A risentirla da fuori (l'unica canzone di cui ho visto una registrazione) "I Would Say" è venuta molto "Conor Oberst". Alle spalle l'ultimo inconveniente tecnico. Non si sentiva il violino di Manuel.

Piccolo tributo a Jako, morto proprio il giorno in cui presentavamo l'EP, introdotto da una battuta su un'altro psicopatico rimodellato dalle plastiche che non ha fortunatamente colto nessuno sugli assoli "Beat It" di Dendrix. Parte "Man in The Mirror", pausa, "Yuriko has come to town". Non so a chi dei vecchi fedeli che a casa hanno una copia di "Feel the Blank" abbia emozionato risentire dal vivo un brano del 1998 mai eseguito dal vivo (non avevo neppure una band). Per quanto mi riguarda è un piacere suonarla, e con il tocco di Manuel e i ragazzi ha perfino assunto delle connotazioni molto Blur. Mic ha tirato fuori una parte di batteria incredibile per l'inciso di questo pezzo. Ma se l'è dimenticata, quindi la sentirete la prossima volta (mercoledì all'Ex-Macello, tipo). Tutto rego sui classiconi, "February" e "Tiny Trains", mentre mi sono divertito molto nella mia pantomima Bowiniana su "Needful Things", dato che non suonavo la chitarra e avevo le mani libere. A mio avviso questa nuova versione fa molto versione beat di "Alice Cooper".


Finalone con "Road to Fairies" (con la coda strumentale suonata in arpeggio da sdraiato mentre Dendrix sfavillava note degne di Prince in Purple Rain) e l'apprezzatissima "Do Mean It's A Mess" (chi ancora penserà che sia sano di mente dopo un'introduzione che parlava di appostamenti sotto il parcheggio del Diagonal e bombe atomiche?), con un piccolo tributo ai Cardigans.

Che dovesse scattare il bis non era una sorpresa: la gente ci aveva già minacciato di morte da settimane nel caso non avessimo fatto "Girls from Ronta". Quello che non mi aspettavo era l'incredibile risposta che ha avuto il brano, come non mai. E' bastato l'attacco di chitarra perchè la gente cominciasse a battere le mani. Mi sono scatenato. Ho intinto le mani nella coca cola ai miei piedi tirandomi tutti i capelli all'indietro e liberandomi degli occhiali, che considerando i salti che ho fatto attorno al microfono è un miracolo che siano scampati illesi. Interminabile. Ogni volta che finiva la riattaccavamo con qualche variazione. Mi sono divertito molto!


Quello che non mi aspettavo è che la gente... chiedesse un altro bis! Cavo della chitarra ormai irrimediabilmente aggomitolato con quello del microfono, microfono pericolosamente in bilico sull'asta, ho rinunciato allo strumento dopo pochi accordi per lasciare suonare "The Psychopath At The Club" i Tiny. Senza occhiali, bagnato, con i cavi scombinati, non ho minimamente preso in considerazione chi mi chiedeva di suonare un'altra canzone!

La festa è proseguita grazie alla meravigliosa disponibilità dei ragazzi del Diagonal e la buona musica degli AirPop, che hanno alternato un indie-pop da antologia a originali e cover di Smiths e Cure. Superlativi, da fare una compilation! Ci hanno fatto rimanere fino a tarda serata, mentre scarabocchiavo cazzate d'autore su fogli strappati di un vecchio RollingStone. Porlock, che è più pazzo di me, ha addirittura cominciato a collezionarli. Speriamo che siano solo i primi di una lunga serie. Ma anche no.

Infine, visto che come avrete capito questo post manca completamente di oggettività, vi lascio con la trascrizione di alcuni SMS che mi sono giunti sul telefonino

"Ti cadono gli occhiali! E' ora di passare alle lenti a contatto"

"Do Mean It's A Mess è quasi Style Council. Dovresti tirare fuori la tua voce alla Paul Weller"

"Nel finale di Ronta potresti mordere le corde della chitarra di Denrdix come Bowie faceva con Ronson"
"Con quel bottiglione di Berlucchi sembrava avessi vinto il Gran Premio"

When You're Wild

Cut+Pasting the article from SleepWalking Magazine...

(Picture by courtesy of Adriano Zoppolato)

That’s it. It’s me reporting on our show. Tiny Tide having a party for “The WildHeart EP” launch at Diagonal. A release party as it was meant to be in the past. Cool friends, theme music, a lot of baloons, poster on the walls, nice food for everyone, wine and beer walking on a big terrace. I didn’e even wanted to play, but a friend of mine (Robbie from AirPop Djset duo) insisted so much that Tiny Tide had a little semi-acoustic presentation of the tracks from the EP in the middle of the event. A pure uninformal showcase.

The theme of the night was “The Smiths OR The Cure? Tiny Tide”, and AirPop found some marvellous covers from both worlds that deliced the guests along with other indie-brit-and-sweden pop pearls. “Tiny Tide” live show was no more than “The WIldHeart EP” played live in an unique energic way, in a compitely revised way instead of all the electronic stuff of their latest work. The band had the misfortune to present their EP the day The King of Pop died, so they payed a little tribute to Michael playing a bit of “Man in the mirror” before starting with the new “Yuriko has come to town”, already heard on Mark Zonda debut “Feel the blank” and now brought to new life in a very Blurrish version. As a singer of the band I didn’t expect people handclapping on our encore (“Girls from Ronta“)… still not even being called for a second one! (“The Psychopath At The Club“). Not being able of being objective I’ll leave the last words to the messaged I recieved on my cellphone:

“Your new glasses are sleeping off! It’s time for lens..”

“Do Mean It’s A Mess it’s almost Style Council. Bring out Paul Weller’s voice!”

“At the end of Ronta you should tooth-tear Dendrix guitar’s strings just like Bowie used to do with Ronson…”

“… That Berlucchi bottle made you look like you just won the Grand Prix!”

T-Roll

What a nice little gig. It's easy to say that after the storm has gone! First thing I heard once I put all the instruments down to La Vigna pavement was that oh-they-had-forgotten but there was a jazz trio playing during the same night. Is there any Monthy Python fan watching this blog? When something absurd is already happening you gotta get ready for something even creazier. Nobody's expecting the Spanish Inquisition. We were already struggling with thented ampli and things struggling to fit all the equipments of the two band in the small (quotation finger mode on) stage when this crazy bongo-guy came along with the hudge percussions I've ever got in touch with.

"I had it", I told Dendrix. And I started to plug-off Chuck, Osamushi, the microphone and all the effects. "I'll only sing with the naked voice and my acoustic guitar", as I ended to plug both into the bass-ambli of the jazz trio after their performance.

Mic seemed quite serene. "Mic, in case you didn't noticed it, we took off quite everything from the stage!". You had the point once again, Dendrix!

But - surprise surprise - everything was fine! We had a great show and people really liked the performance! A lot of friends came along to see us, and we all were very excited by the gig, as we tried to pull our best out from that night, letting all our energy and soul flew out from each song!

Mic had a little problem with his drumset, and I started to pay "Do Mean It's A mess", that the band never heard before. Guess Dendrix didn't knew if I was jocking or if I was really intentioned to carry on the song till the end. But I did, and Manuel was so genious to following me with his bass. Bravo Manuel!

They even asked for two encores! We went for "S♥L" and a "The Psychopath At The Club" reprise, while I felt happy to leave my guitar behind to run up and down the stage up to where the mic cable allowed me to go.

At the end of the show we all run to a Brit-Pop party in a nearby venue. The jazz-trio drummer came nearby to express is enthusiasm for the show.

- Your band is great! Who writes the song?
- Me...
- Unbelievable! They're great!
- Thanks
- Your band recalls me a lot another great band... the.... the...

And I was thinking: "Tell it! Tell it! David Bowie? T-Rex? Suede!?"

- FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!

The Mother? Well... guest it's a lot better than Tokyo Hotel, I suppose!

Here's some pics of the night.

And here's some videos...

Tiny Tide - February
Tiny Tide - Go Ego Go (Lacrosse Cover)
Tiny Tide - Ginger Genie

(Thanks to Sonia for the shooting)

Double Meow!

Sabato 24 Gennaio 2009

TINY TIDE LIVE '09 @ Madamadorè(Forlì)
Data anullata

Tide Tide Tide

Compagni, Amici, Contadini. Noi - i Tiny Tide - suoneremo il 12 Dicembre al Sinatra Cafè di Cesena. Tutte le .info > qui < style="font-weight: bold;"> Tiny Tide - 12 Dicembre - Sintara Cafè - Cesena.

Alright? :)

Skull's Out!

Tiny Tide
19 Novembre
Diagonal Forli'
Siamo molto felici
Prove andate benone
Money Will Tear Us Apart
Maancheno

Birds Of Love

L'invito e' semplice e diretto: il concerto dei Tiny Tide e dei parigini Ladybird per festeggiare la pubblicazione di "Girls from Ronta" e "Seagulls" sulla compilation internazionale "Pop Nation Vol.3" edita da Bon Vivant Records.

L'idea e' nata quasi spontaneamente, visto l'entusiasmo di tutte le band che hanno partecipato al progetto in seguito alla pubblicazione. Ed Ettore del Lego è stato cosi' gentile da ospitare le due band per la serata (ma un po' meno a non metterci nella locandina)

I Ladybird hanno imbastito una espatriata oltralpe per l'occasione per partecipare esclusivamente a questa serata. Non sono riusciti a trovare altre date. Un peccato. Chiunque fosse disponibili ad ospitarli nel loro locale l'ultima settimana di ottobre si senta libero di contattarli scrivendomi qui :)