Dead Can Dance Contest Winner

Earlier this week we held a contest for a pair of Dead Can Dance tickets (link). The winning essay surpassed all expectations and is reprinted verbatim below:

What is the name of your band? Who plays what instrument? What does the LP cover look like? What’s your album name and what are some of your song titles?

I want to form a band called “My Own Very Beautiful Death”.

I want to make up my own language and stage a suicide by beauty to the sounds of reverberated twelve string guitars, played by my childhood friend, Lonsdale Quirke-Addams.

The line-up would be:

ME — Lead tongues
Lonsdale Quirke-Addams — All guitars, mandolins, and bird calls
Ond — doumbek, seed-filled leafs, background tongues
James Gunn — Bass Guitar, electrified sand
Sunny Moonie — reverberated pirouettes on a plastic bulletin board, “sadness”

Our LP Cover is a b+w shot of all of us kissing each other passionately and pointing guns at our heads in front of a gargoyle. The album is called “The Golden Yak Ameliorates…”

SONGS SAMPLING:

The Last Great Free Polish Hilton
The Nine Wines of the Sailing Men
Tea With Steve
The Secret of Moon Milk
Dance of the Rondelet Upon the Balustrade