I posted about this a while ago, but I recently been seeing a few more articles on them so I’ve decided to revisit the phenomenon that is iBand. The trio are actually from Austria and decided to form the band based on a hunch and a whim, which I have decided to call a “whunch”. Like most people with an iPhone, they imported them as soon as they were released in the US and in their case, they have been tinkering around with them ever since.The three musicians – Seb, Roger and Marina - have gone form a YouTube flavour of the day to being interviewed on TV and releasing a single. What next for these iphone-lovers on the bleeding edge of music? "We're not looking to make money off of our services," said Marina. Although not yet signed-up to a record label, the band writing a number of songs and plans some public performances that according to Seb "will not be conventional concerts.”
MyTake – Will we ever really see an act pawned by YouTube last the test of time? We’ve had people such as MC Lars that have had a fair bit of success and more recently Tay Zonday and his Chocolate Rain who, let’s face it, has been the butt of too many a joke. Will iBand last? Probably not, but what they have done is show the rest of the world what’s possible and maybe even set the tone of the next generation of musicians. After all, do you reckon the first bloke to pick up the guitar would have been any good next to Hendrix?
