Saudi Arabia's First All-Girl rock band, The Accolade...

[npincus]

...they're looking for a (female) drummer... anyone?

The band's MySpace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=428696521

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html?_r=1&hp

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom.

But the members of Saudi Arabia’s first all-girl rock band, the Accolade, are clearly not afraid of taboos.

The band’s first single, “Pinocchio,” has become an underground hit here, with hundreds of young Saudis downloading the song from the group’s Web site. Now, the pioneering foursome, all of them college students, want to start playing regular gigs — inside private compounds, of course — and recording an album.

“In Saudi, yes, it’s a challenge,” said the group’s lead singer, Lamia, who has piercings on her left eyebrow and beneath her bottom lip. (Like other band members, she gave only her first name.) “Maybe we’re crazy. But we wanted to do something different.”

In a country where women are not allowed to drive and rarely appear in public without their faces covered, the band is very different. The prospect of female rockers clutching guitars and belting out angry lyrics about a failed relationship — the theme of “Pinocchio” — would once have been unimaginable here.

[iamahaingttta]

1. Cool!

I just "asked" them to be my band's Myspace friend...

[npincus]

2. excellent!

And your band's MySpace page/web site link? :)

[iamahaingttta]

3. We're actually a "music collective."

http://www.myspace.com/brooklyninstrumentmuseum

[npincus]

4. I'm listening to it now...

I like it very much. What is your instrument? My friend lives in Greenpoint, Bklyn.

[iamahaingttta]

5. My instrument?

Whatever happens to be in my hands at the moment!
Mostly, I play the Bumba-Stick, the Strohviol and the Stylophone.
Although I also play the Marxolin, the Theremin and the Solovox.
And just about anything else...

I live just a few blocks from Greenpoint!

[darkism]

6. Oh good, you guys are actually talking about the music over here.

The other thread is just another argument over women's rights in the Middle East; not one single post about the band.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4524851&mesg_id=4524851

[iamahaingttta]

7. Yeah, unfortunately...

...the song they have on Myspace is not very good, at least to my ears.
But I'm pretty picky about what I like, so it doesn't really matter what I think about them.
I'm already a huge fan, and I'm totally rooting for them.
Their Myspace hits are through the roof today, and that's what really counts.
People befriending people from around the world is how we get out of this mess that we're in.
Particularly with young people.
Their prejudices haven't solidified yet, and if youngsters can "hang out" with other youngsters from all over the planet, even if it's only online, they come to realize that they have more in common than not.

[ForrestGump]

8. I pray that this is one group of musicians that won't get

stoned.

[iamahaingttta]

9. That's awesome...

That certainly wouldn't be the case with my "band"!!!