TripleJ’s Hack program has a piece on local rockers TONK finding out one of their songs was on the excellent US sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”.
We’ve been big fans of TONK for some time, you can check them out on the unearthed website.
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Loved TONK at The Basement 🙂
Forgot to say – Congratulations to TONK!
ABC News has the story now too
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-15/how-fox-stole-our-song2c-aussie-band-tells/3892612
Not my kind of music, but they’re a good, tight, rocky band. I hope they do well!
phototext said :
HR Puffenstuff.
“If we’re going to allow simpsons as sitcom then family guy, and south park too?”
Knoath!
+ Daria.
To quote Wiki.
“a situation comedy has a storyline and ongoing characters in, essentially, a comedic drama. The situation is usually that of a family, workplace, or a group of friends through comedic sequences.”
God, how did I forget this!
WEEDS!
“Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Modern Family, 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie and arguably…The Simpsons.”
+ M.A.S.H, Frasier, Rosanne, South Park, Futurama, Malcom in the Middle, Everybody Hates Chris, Bewitched, Get Smart… yeah, those Americans, couldn’t write a sitcom to save their lives.
“The prosecution rests…(With the exception of the Simpsons which I believe don’t fit the sitcom bill.)”
Simpsons not sitcom! perhaps you need to look up the definition of sitcom.
If we’re going to allow simpsons as sitcom then family guy, and south park too?
neanderthalsis said :
lol @ philly, how can you not love a show that features Danny DeVito on acid. That show is pure genius.
gospeedygo said :
The prosecution rests…(With the exception of the Simpsons which I believe don’t fit the sitcom bill. )
Diggety said :
They’re even better live.
After listening to them I feel like I’ve just been fisted by a Russian tank!
Early contender for RA quote of the year.
There’s a couple of things I love about this story.
But the idea that a Fox producers, when they want to set the mood for a sleazy strip club, just can’t help themselves and reach for the driving rhythms of the belconnen rock pits, is just awesome.
neanderthalsis said :
Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Modern Family, 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie and arguably…The Simpsons.
Grocers apostrophe’s now? For shame!
The best way for Canberra bands to get national radio attention is to have their music burned by s***ty American television shows.
Never heard of this band until this, and glad I did. After listening to them I feel like I’ve just been fisted by a Russian tank! AWESOME.
And I’m sure TONK would agree that Steel Panther are a great conduit for their ripped music.
Having just been made aware of Tonk’s existance through this fine journal, I have just now bought their album “Sister Switchblade” through a popular music download service.
F*** How I met Your Mother – we had SBS’s now defunct ‘Costa’s Garden Odyssey’ play our track, literally note for note without permission…
neanderthalsis said :
+1
The words excellent, US and sitcom do not belong on the same sentence. Otherwise, good on Tonk!