Mainstream Rock Tracks
1i1C-7L710 EiZN AG.F SITES + SOUNDS (Continued front page 80) Ten it comes time to pen songs, Nine Days' ed laughing. I realized that as much as she aggra- times you can spend months fine -tuning a song. I vocalist /guitarist John Hampson follows vates me, I absolutely love her when she smiles. will never say that I crafted this pop gem. What and Nokia Ventures among its finan- the adage "Write what you know," because, "I came up with a chorus to a song, and when I really happened was, I don't know where it came cial backers, is hoping to put its serv- he says, "when you're done with a song, it's the only started singing it, it was bouncing around in my from, but everything was about a true feeling." ice to work in everything from Inter- way you feel personally like you did it right." This honesty also permeates the group's debut net music appliances and online radio Hampson's personal attachment to Nine Days' don't know where 550 Music /Epic album, "The Madding Crowd," a to Internet retailers and Web portals. it came from, but single "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)," No. 17 on everythinT, was reference to Thomas Hardy's book "Far From The It already has its own streaming this issue's Modern Rock Tracks chart, stemmed about a true Madding Crowd." Hampson says, "I read it when service known as RadioMongo, from a pre -show realization about his girlfriend. feeling' I was about 20, a time in my life that I was look- which will be featured in the free- He says, "I was playing a gig and got there -John Hampson, Nine Days ing for something important.
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