Eric Colville: News

Here's the youtube link to the new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjNNMIxQVLo


To purchase a download of the song, please click below:

"End of War" took a 2nd Overall Prize in the 2009 USA Songwriting Contest. See http://www.songwriting.net/winners/ for the official contest announcement of winners.

Eric was selected to perform with some of the best songwriters in the music industry. Headlining artists include AMY RAY ("Joking," "Kid Fears," "Shame On You) and EMILY SALIERS ("Closer To Fine," "Galileo," "Least Complicated") of the Indigo Girls, JEFFREY STEELE ("When the Lights Go Down" - Faith Hill; "What Hurts the Most", "These Days" - Rascal Flatts; "The Cowboy in Me" - Tim Mc Graw); SHAWN MULLINS ("Lullaby", "Beautiful Wreck"); RODNEY CROWELL ("After All Of This Time", Produced "Seven Year Ache" for Rosanne Cash); GARY LOURIS of the Jayhawks ("Blue", "Save It For A Rainy Day", "Everybody Knows" - Dixie Chicks); SAM BUSH ("Circles Around Me", New Grass Revival founder); CHELY WRIGHT ("Shut Up and Drive, "Single White Female") and many, many more. The festival is in the Seaside, FL area, January 15 - 17, 2010.

For more info:

http://www.culturalartsassociation.com/30asongwritersfestival

Songwars has awarded "End of War" as winner of the Open Category. The contest is judged by an all-star cast of musicians and songwriters including Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues and Denny Laine of Wings.

http://www.songwars.net/Winners.html

"X-Ray Glasses makes the Top 10 on Philadelphia's WEXP radio. Check out the link at: http://wexpradio.com/archives/623

"Remember to Forget" was a finalist for the 5th Annual IAMA.

http://www.inacoustic.com/winners.html

You can see the band play "12-Step Program" live on FOX by clicking this link:

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/entertainment/Eric_Colville_Performs_on_FOX25

Our new CD, "X-Ray Glasses" is now available on iTunes at the following link:

www.itunes.com/ericcolvilleband/x-rayglasses
Also, it is available on the subscription services of Rhapsody and Napster.

We've been selected to perform at this year's MEANY Festival which takes place in New York City, October 8-18. This year's event will be an exciting one and will rock the best venues in NYC in the fall of 2008. M.E.A.N.Y. FEST showcased bands in 20 venues last year including Joe's Pub, Luna Lounge, The Knitting Factory, Arlene's Grocery, Lit, Mo Pitkens, Club Midway, and many more! Finalists also appear on Rockin Clubs' (Time Warner cable) which airs in almost half a million NY households. Many of the talented finalists and special guests who performed have since moved on to national tours and record deals.

"Doer's Lament" has been selected to air on the PIXY-103 Homegrown Show. Homegrown is hosted by Rock Babe Suzanne Tonaire and has been recognized for Excellence in Broadcasting by the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association. The show airs on Sunday nights from 8pm-10pm and can also be heard at http://pixy103.com.

"Afraid to Dance" is to be featured on Johnny Delgado Is Dead, Created by John Leekley, the Emmy award winning writer/executive producer of Spawn.

"Doer's Lament" received a first place in the novelty song category and both "1000 Miles" and "12 Step Program" qualified as finalists.

"Doer's Lament" and "Remember to Forget" have been added to the Local MusiCafe - to check it out, go to http://www.mvyradio.com/local_musicafe/.

About mvyradio
mvyradio is a 24-year heritage Adult Alternative station, known for its groundbreaking efforts on acts like Dave Matthews, Susan Tedeschi, David Gray and Joss Stone.

"Remember to Forget" was awarded the broadjam.com love song of the month award for May 2007.

"1000 Miles" and "Doer's Lament" both scored an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Billboard Songwriting Contest.

The song "Afraid to Dance" has been put into the regular rotation on KZRC (FM 92.5). If you live in the Houston area you can request the song by calling (979) 323-7771.

"35 & Thinking" was selected as a runner-up for Round 2 of the 2006 Singer Songwriter Awards. The song was one of only 50 selected from several thousand entries. Also, "Doer's Lament" received an Honourable Mention in this contest. For a listing of the winners, go to http://www.wearelistening.org/winners2006r2.php

We just got word that "Picture Us Together" has received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 USA Songwriting Contest. The entries were selected by a committee of music industry judges including record label publishers, producers from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner, etc. In addition to receiving $300.00 in merchandise from the sponsors of the contest, "Picture Us Together" will receive radio airplay. If you want to listen to the song, please click on the "Music" link (left) on this site. To see a list of the winners of this year's contest, go to http://www.songwriting.net/winners.html.

The new Eric Colville CD, called "5 Day Weekend," is wrapping up and is almost ready to be printed. If you buy it now, you'll be supporting independent music by helping me pay for the printing/artwork, etc. You'll also be getting it before anyone else and for $2 less than it will cost after release this fall - so buy five!

(For all of you who have been clamoring for X-Ray Glasses/ 1000 Miles - YES - they're on there.)

To order, send a check or money order payable to Eric Colville to the following address:

Eric Colville
PO Box 162
Ipswich, MA 01938

Price is $10.00 per CD, shipping included.
(Please include your email address for order confirmation.)


Thank You!!

Check out "1000 Miles" and "Change for the Better" They are both being played on the Homegrown Show which can be heard on PIXY 103 FM every Sunday evening between 8 and 10 pm.

If you live In Southeast New England and you'd like to hear a song, call Toll Free 1.800.445.7499 and make a request.

Below is a message I received from Paul, DJ for the Midnight Special Blues Radio - please check out his show at:

http://www.ms-blues.com/
Hi Eric,

You've captured wonderfully the Beatle spirit, and you had a chance of not having a TV in that time. The "result" is a genuine and self aware "white cell" (acc.to Eric J. Pepin) - knowing what it is here for and doing exactly that (well, all you have to do is act naturally! ;-). Thank you and welcome! We're not too many here to meet.

Peace and Love!

Paul
bonda@ms-blues.com
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Midnight Special Blues Radio
WEBSITE: http://www.ms-blues.com/

Guess I'm gonna have to start watching the soaps - get all wrapped up in some wicked plot and finding some evil charater to hate - or love. Why? Because All My Children has used yet another one of my songs: "Remember to Forget". Hopefully it wasn't being used in a scene where someone found out they had Alzheimer's.

We've created an audio slide show to help out the animal rescue shelter in Texas where we adopted our family dog. The place is called Straydog and it's next to a town called Gun Barrel City (really). Anyway, Straydog is under great strain right now after receiving dogs displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and then being forced to temporarily evacuate because of Rita. Please consider helping Straydog by sending a donation or adopting a dog. And whatever you do, be sure to check out the slide show and pass the word! Click below to see the show:

Straydog Tribute
(Songs available on iTunes)

I'm back at Possum Hall working with Mac on a new song called "Wind on a Wire" (Ice-Skating for the already initiated). We're basically doing an all acoustic arrangement with a few sonic colors to add to its mesmerizing effect.

Yep - just found out that All My Children has used "Back to Bed" in one of their episodes. They've used "Afraid to Dance" several times now so I guess this means that someone's getting along better. I'll have to watch it sometime.