Flickerstick
Flickerstick was an American, Denton, Texas-based rock band, who gained national attention after winning VH1's talent/reality show Bands on the Run.
Band history
Band formation and early years
Flickerstick was formed in Denton, Texas by high school friends Brandin Lea (lead singer, guitarist) and Cory Kreig (guitarist, keyboardist). The two, who were guitarists in another local band, decided to put a band together and picked some friends to join them, including Brandin's brother, Fletcher (bassist). The band started doing local gigs.
They graduated to larger clubs in Dallas, adding Dallas-based drummer Dominic Weir, and started headlining shows. The band put together $10,000 and self-financed their first album titled Welcoming Home the Astronauts. The album sold well in the Dallas area and at shows, and the band received local airplay. It was then that Billboard picked the band to be on a CD sampler of Best Unsigned Bands in the Country.
VH1's Bands on the Run
During this time, VH1 invited them to audition for the Bands on the Run television show, after initial interest in them for a show about bands that include relatives. After auditioning among over 2,000 bands, Flickerstick was chosen to be one of the four in the series. The winner was to be the band that made the most money, with a "battle of the bands" before each elimination of the lowest-earning band, with the winner (chosen by audience vote) protected from elimination. Flickerstick won the first two "battle of the bands" to avoid elimination, and was lagging in sales by $3,000.00 in the final episode, when it was announced that Guitar Center was offering a purse of $5,000.00 for the winner of the final "battle." Flickerstick won that final "battle" and the grand prize for the series.
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ALBUMS
- Live From Atlanta: Two Nights at Sound Tree Studios released: 2007
- Tarantula released: 2004
- Causing a Catastrophe - Live released: 2002
- Welcoming Home the Astronauts released: 2001
- 2004-04-21: Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH, USA released:
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Causing a Catastrophe - Live
by: FlickerstickConversations bleak
Ripping me through your heart
While you disagree
You focus on the ones
You lay beside and watch them come undone
I can never let you get away
Cause I'm telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
Telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
Cause you can try, oh you try to figure out
Those places you've been before
You know they always get to you when you're in doubt
You're trying to change the world but all you find is yourself left out
and bleeding in the streets where there's no one left to
Accept what you can do, see
I can never let you get away
Cause I'm telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
Telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
And you try so hard just incase
But you always let you down
But it's so behind those things you say
Say it's just a game
Don't you know I'm telling all of the world
That I'm going to make it on my own
Cause it's all that you are
All that you were
To everyone, to everything
Don't you agree
I'm down on my knees
Everywhere you disagree
Telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
Telling all of the world
I'm gonna make it on my own
You gotta say
And it's just gonna be me
Cause I gotta get it right
And it's gonna be just one more time
Cause i'm tellin all the world that it's gonna be
It's right it's right
Cause it's got to be
And you know i'm gonna sell it all
And you're gonna come along with me
Cause i'm tellin all the world
Telling all the world
Don't you gonna get it one more day
And it's gonna just be
Oh it's me