{"id":1211,"date":"2010-02-05T17:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-04-11T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T23:51:27","slug":"vicious-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/vicious-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicious Starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatleft\" title=\"Ashley Rae\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VS3a.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Rae\" width=\"172\" height=\"225\" \/>My daughter can sing.<\/p>\n<p>No, I mean she can <em class=\"b\">REALLY<\/em> sing.<\/p>\n<p>She performed in musicals in Jr. &amp; High School &#8211; but since getting married hasn&#8217;t had a lot of opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Justin, is very passionate about music &#8211; plays bass and has been in several bands.  He and Austin (along with other players who seem to come and go) are talented musicians who formed a band named <em class=\"b\">Vicious Starfish <\/em>a couple of years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 **They have recently renamed themselves <em class=\"b\">The Black Arrows<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last summer they were listening to their recordings and realized they <em class=\"b\">needed a new vocalist <\/em>if they were going to take their music to the next level &#8211; leaving Austin to focus on songwriting rather than singing.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley had done a little back up singing on some of their recordings in the past, so they asked her to audition&#8230;  and were blown away, of course. <em>(I&#8217;m her mother, I can brag) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">So Ashley Rae is the new frontwoman for The Black Arrows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" title=\"Justin, Ashley &amp; Austin - Vicious Starfish\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VS-LookingDown-bw-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Justin, Ashley &amp; Austin - Viscious Starfish\" \/>They&#8217;ve been rehearsing and in the studio for months &#8211; and finally have a couple of tracks for their new album ready to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>I think Austin is a very talented songwriter and I&#8217;m really enjoying their music.<\/p>\n<p>Their first gig with Ashley as vocalist will be April 23rd at Liquid Joe&#8217;s in Salt Lake City.  I wish I could be there!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"javascript:void(window.open('http:\/\/music.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&amp;sindex=1.0&amp;shuffle=true&amp;amix=false&amp;pmix=false&amp;plid=48793&amp;artid=6833872&amp;profid=211964643&amp;friendid=211964643&amp;sseed=70861&amp;ptype=3&amp;stime=0&amp;ap=1&amp;rpeat=false','resizable=0,scrollbars=0,width=300,height=200,top=250,left=250'))\">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a> to <em class=\"b\">HYPNOSIS<\/em> and <em class=\"b\">PANDEMONIUM<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>(A new window will open)<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen and follow Vicious Starfish (now The Black Arrows) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Black-Arrows\/112048732144404\" target=\"resource_window\">FaceBook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theblackarrowsmusic\" target=\"resource_window\">MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">So what do you think?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter can sing. No, I mean she can REALLY sing. She performed in musicals in Jr. &amp; High School &#8211; but since getting married hasn&#8217;t had a lot of opportunity to do so. Her husband, Justin, is very passionate about music &#8211; plays bass and has been in several bands. He and Austin (along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/vicious-starfish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vicious Starfish<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[118,119,43],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends","category-music-entertainment","tag-ashley","tag-band","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}