http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/2009/12/feature-crush-cd-on-songs-23-songs-of.html

What they say:
One sure-fire combination that makes Christmas music is a major key and some nice straight jingle bells. Halston even goes further with the addition of synthesized pizzicato strings and some vocal ding-dong!s to give their own jaunty and upbeat take on Christmas in Boston.

Hey Gang!

The boys in Halston had such fun putting together LAST year's Xmas song ("We're Doing Christmas") that they've gone and done it again. For your festive season, Carlos and Dando offer up "I'm Down With Christmas!"

Here's a linkie to download: https://www.yousendit.com/download/MVNjZHlnUzhEbUtGa1E9PQ

Thrill to the sound of Ding-Dongs!

-P.Fiddlesticks

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Good times with the magnificent Lady S of California - a wonderful time was had by all - witness the drama in trying to reach zee Ashley - between song, bongo&harmonica&vocals&guitar playing! - more Halston songs over the course of two hours then you need - POETRY - joshing around. Over and IN, P.Fiddlesticks

Halston Halston Halston.

Been far too long since we've met here, so introductions and informations ARE in order.

Me, I'm P.Fiddlesticks. Chauffeur, manager, secretary and wet nurse to the boys in Halston. Dando & Carlos have been very understanding about the time I'm currently serving at Her Majesty's Pleasure. I should be a free man just in time to catch their giggery on the 31st, so...wish me luck, kids!

Two things I'd like to chat witcha about today. Peace & Love? War & Peace? Lenin & Stalin?
Nope.

NEW MUSIC
Though they haven't put up much new music lately; until they started preparing for their upcoming show in August, Dando & Carlos were recording twice/week at Halston Central in Brighten Center.
They've taken quite a shining to the Honcho & The Virg podcast, and have thus far provided their theme song AND "Happy Shitday!", a lovely, string-drenched minor-key ballad to commemorate Twood's b-day. Google 'Honcho and the Virg" and thank us later.
Other new songs nearly completed include "Victory"(high drama, with reverb!), "Baby Blue"(hey-ho tradition), "New Jack Swing Track" (Halston at the Notting Hill Carnival!), "Rewire", a couple of fantastic trippy instrumentals, and...what will likely be their next single, the MJ/continental/balearic berserker... "It's Time"!

SHOW(S)
So...In August, Halston were offered a show by another musician they greatly respect...to take place on Halloween night. As you may or may not know, there are only two people in Halston (Dando&Carlos). How could they play this show without a full-band? How could they say 'no'?!?!     They didn't.

So...to find bandmates...  
It all started with new bassist, Flats Halston. A good friend of Carlos and bassist in local stars The Sun Lee Sunbeam; she offered her services on bass AND found a drummer for them: Evan Halston! As if that wasn't enough, it was at a Sun Lee Sunbeam show at the end of this summer that Dando and Carlos met Genie Halston: the best Saxsmith a band could hope for!
A good friend of Dando's, Michael Halston, has also joined up, playing guitar. Carlos, who can be a really picky jerk about playing with other guitarists, can't believe how great Michael sounds. He only drinks fancy beer...and has taken to mastering Revolutionary Way music as part of his contribution to the show. A hero.

So...the show. Lifestyle are headlining, and that's reason enough to be there. If you want to see Halston, show up around 8:45 or so. I've seen some rehearsal footage, and they really DO have some fantastic surprises (and interesting costumes) for ye! Set list is looking like "SINE", "Gurl Grope", "Terry Jive", "November 25", "From Here To Here" and "Crocodiles". A few of the songs have gone through some big changes, fiends...you need to hear this. See you there?

Bedtime for Bonzo,
P.Fiddlesticks

The fiends feel the heat closing in, feel Halston out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over their spoon and dropper (and knife, fork, bottle & a cork...THAT is the way we s.p.e.l.l. New York) they threw away at Halston Central, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch the Gold Line Train...Young, good looking, crew-cut Radcliffe characters hold the door back for Halston. We are evidently her idea of characters. You know the type: comes on with bartenders and cabdrivers, talking about right hooks and the Red Sox, Dr. Everything-Will-B-Alright, calls the doorman at The Harvard Club by his last name...when he's acknowledged at all. A real asshole. And right on time this narcotics dick in a white trench coat (imagine tailing somebody in a white trench coat) hit the platform. Halston hear the way he would say it holding their shirt collars, right hand on his piece: "I think you dropped something, fellas.".




We did. A neu song. "Cutting". The FINAL mix. .starts it before end might It  It's middle is above it...it's ending a new beginning. Cut-up trash, sci-fi lullaby, aggression.

But...the subway is moving...

Chop chop,
P.Fiddlesticks

PS: The Halstons always love to hear whatcha think, fiends...let's hear ye.
PPS: More new songs on the way soon.
PPS: Recommend any good restaurants in Lisbon?

I was on vacation...with a bunch of people...in the French countryside. Fantastic hotel/apartment...people coming and going. Some drama about one of the people who was supposedly on the way...something negative was a-happening.
went to bed, but was awoken by gnashing sound. at the foot of my "bed" (which was on the top floor of the apatrment...looks like a mountain top...open air) was a critter with big fangs and human-esque eyes eating away at a skunk. "shit"...how do I get around this thing and get downstairs?!?!
manage to get by it. meet up with co-travelers downstairs, at which point, somebody alerts me to the fact that my face has been painted in my sleep. look in mirror...WOW...it is. Time to go wash it off. Where IS the bathroom? Who are all these NEW people wandering around the apartment? We're leaving tomorrow...where is all my stuff? Who is that in my bed?

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

-turns off alarm-


Was there peyote in my wine last night?

Awake,
P.Fiddlesticks

Oh, Halston.
You are lucky in so many ways.


Never has your house burned down.
Never have you been beaten senseless onstage by suburban TOUGHS.
Never have you dropped your last centimo in a babbling brook, only to have it swallowed by a poisonous frog.
Never have your fingers left your hands (nor your toes, your feet).
Never have you run out of bullets at an inopportune moment.

and
&
and

Never have your myspace fiends failed to make ye smile.


Oh, Halston.
You are lucky in so many ways.

A man out of time,
Count Flexeril IV

There's A Riot Goin' On

Thriller may be his biggest-selling album, and Off The Wall his best,
but the record I return to, time and time again, is HIStory. At times
grandiose...paranoid.....vengeful...violent... self-pitying and frustated, HIStory is one last furious act of Jackson's will. A final chance to try to get his side of HIStory out before his image was forever tainted in the eyes of the public.

If every city had a music fanatic as tireless and talented as Liv Hauck, the world would be magical place fiends.

http://rocknrollboston.com/2009/06/24/boston-mix-tape/

May we be so bold as to ask you to comment 'SINE's inclusion in her new 'Boston Mix Tape'?
Oh, and while you're there... go read about and listen to the other banditos on her bloggery!
Can't survive on Halston! alone, don'tcha know.

Halston! and a lil LL Cool J, maaaaybe...but not Halston! alone. heh

I Wish It Would Rain,
P.Fiddlesticks

As you're all aware, the right to vote is one of our most important freedoms.
Vote for Dando & Carlos Halston in the BOSTON section here today...

http://www.bestmusicpoll.com

...and feel good about your self for a lifetime!

You have to write us in (I'd suggest new act, song and Dando Halston for male vocalist)...can vote as many times as you want...and you can even enter a fake email if you'd like. :P

Everly Grateful...and borrowing Carlos Halston's emailery,
P.Fiddlesticks

PS: As always, if you want mp3s of any of our songs, just let me know!