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Rockstar : Supernova

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The Old Dark Navy's said:
Dilana is recording with help from Gilby AND No Doubt who coincidentally after looking for a replacement for Gwen Stefani.

Who else thinks that venture would be more successful than RSSN?

Did anyone else catch the video and story about Lukas ditching his girlfriend outside a club because he 'couldn't be seen with a girlfriend'?
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Didn't see that one.

Do you mean ND might be replacing Gwenny with Dilana? I could think of worse things, and yes, might be successful.
 
Roddy said:
Didn't see that one.

Do you mean ND might be replacing Gwenny with Dilana? I could think of worse things, and yes, might be successful.
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No, Gwen has left because of her solo career apparently.
 
the band name will be "supernova" then something after that.

Dilana had the best voice in the series but the answer is can her image/personality be marketable?, i think overall Toby and his band have the best chance out of all of them for success and smartly his band went to L.A to record there cd straight away.
 
Haha, gotta laugh. I've been an avid viewer of the entire series - just as I was Rockstar:INXS last year - but living in Europe has meant that we've been about a fortnight or so behind the entire season. Which has meant that I've had to follow this thread only up to the posts that are two weeks old for you guys. Needless to say, it wasn't worth me posting, as it would be two weeks until i saw any of your responses.

Storm was by far my favorite rocker. From that very first night when she opened with 'Pinball Wizard' it was obvious the bar was raised markedly from last season. And when she came out with a some sensational back-sassin' when put on the spot about going first up - something to the effect of "Hey, at least I get a clean mike", the girl had won me over. Apart from being a stunner, she was a consummate frontwoman. Her cover of Dramarama's "Anything, Anything" was my personal highlight of the season.

Toby was great. Maybe a bit too Barnesy for my liking as a performer - you know, it was basically a cover of Cold Chisel's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" he rolled out early on in the show. But what a cool customer ... served it up week after week, and did us all proud. Lesson number one for all foreigners - don't ever dare an Aussie bloke to nude up without first having the expectation of him actually doing it.

Magni was class. Wouldn't surprise me to see him pop as part of the House band for Season 3 ... those guys just loved him. Who didn't, I spose? Lovable guy. Bet his wife's a little happy he lost, though. You know, that rock'n'roll bus ....

Dilana was exceptional - she was the end product of what Jordis promised to be in Season 1 ... about 15 years down the track with a bucketload of experience. She'll get on, that girl. I wouldn't hesitate to pay to see her live.

Lukas. Like most here, I felt he was destined to win from pretty early on. Like JD last time around, he just seemed right for "our band INXS" the whole way through, despite getting many people offside. His precocious talent and slightly darker side just had to appeal to Tommy Lee. He won me over the night he pulled out "Creep". What a startling performance. Whatever you thought of him, he was right for that band, and I reckon if he was on any other 'talent' show, we'd all have been egging him on.

Some other great performances throughout were Patrice's rendition of Radiohead's "My Iron Lung" - one of the best five performances of the series. Unfortunately, that was about all she had. Ryan had some great moments, but was missing that ... dare I say it ... X factor. Phil did a pretty good version of one of favorite songs of all time Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" - how I wished it was Storm or Dilana who had drawn that baby!

Overall, this season would have produced about thirty really magical moments, whilst last season only had about ten.

Bring on Summer 2007. (Or Winter back in Oz)
 

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I read on the weekend that Supernova are touring Australia next year. Juke Kartel are going to be there support act. Would anyone go and see them? I wouldn't.

I also read that the house band, Magni and Storm have been dumped off the American tour as well due to financial reasons. Can't be going real well for Supernova if that is happening. Juke Kartel and The Panic Channel are now the support acts in the American tour.
 
BERT said:
I read on the weekend that Supernova are touring Australia next year. Juke Kartel are going to be there support act. Would anyone go and see them? I wouldn't.

I also read that the house band, Magni and Storm have been dumped off the American tour as well due to financial reasons. Can't be going real well for Supernova if that is happening. Juke Kartel and The Panic Channel are now the support acts in the American tour.
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i would see Juke Kartel on their own but not supporting Supernova.

i have heard 2 tracks, "It's all love" actually turned out decent but Lukas voice does not suit Be Yourself and 5 other Cliches at all.
 
crownie said:
i would see Juke Kartel on their own but not supporting Supernova.

i have heard 2 tracks, "It's all love" actually turned out decent but Lukas voice does not suit Be Yourself and 5 other Cliches at all.
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Nope, sorry, have to totally disagree with you on this one. I loved both series, and obviously have more of a connection with the INXS season, and wasn't a Lukas fan, but thought he was the exact choice...needed a bad boy to front them. His version of 5 cliches was much edgier than Toby's and I really think he voice suits their music more than anyone elses did. Just an opinion, and thats why music is so great, we all see it differently, and I dont believe that anyone is right or wrong, they are just opinions.
 
Looks like Juke Kartel’s on the move. Radio stations have been playing “Throw It Away”, and they also performed at a morning show.

Note: Toby's on Nova's morning team tomorrow.
 
I know Throw It Away was released on iTunes..
 
crownie said:
not a fan, they took out the great lead up to the chorus then ditched the guitar solo and i feel the vocals are over done :mad:
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I liked it, but I got sick of it because they played it every bloody second.
I heard him sing it on the Today Show this morning and it sounded crap :thumbsd:
 

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so any updates on what the band has called themselves and if the cd is still being released on the 21st?
 
a review from allmusic.com

"In retrospect, it should have been obvious that the prefab supergroup Rock Star Supernova — originally just "Supernova" before an older band of the same name won their injunction against the band, so their name became a clumsy compound of the name of their reality TV show and their chosen name — would choose wannabe goth superstar Lukas Rossi as their singer. Really, there was no other choice: as good as Storm Large looked naked and as powerful as Dilana was on-stage, there was no way that a group awkwardly led by a disinterested Tommy Lee would choose a female as a singer, and even if Toby Rand had the best original song, he was too much of a party-hearty frat-boy to fit in with the rest of the crew (plus, he was Australian and Lee had already gotten enough mileage out of his Crocodile Dundee impression which started to look a little tacky around the time of Steve Irwin's death, anyway). So, it was down to Rossi, the heavily made-up runt who carried the weight of the world on his shoulders as only a former Hooters line cook could, since he was perhaps the most modern rocker in the lineup. At the very least with his complicated hair and pancake mascara he could be mistaken as a Gerard Way wannabe, giving this group of fortysomething rock & rollers at least the façade of appealing to teenagers. But that's just a charade, really: despite a song called "The Dead Parade" — which just happens to arrive a few weeks after My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade — there's no modern rock here, but Rock Star Supernova hardly sounds like the heavy work of the drummer from L.A. sleaze-rock legends Mötley Crüe, Izzy Stradlin's replacement in Guns N' Roses, and the bassist for Metallica. Although Lee's drums thunder as Gilby Clarke eases out bloozy riffs while Jason Newsted pins the whole thing down, this doesn't sound at all like any of their previous music: it sounds like metal guys trying to sound like Cheap Trick covering T. Rex. Which means it sounds a bit like Tiny Music-era Stone Temple Pilots and a whole lot like Enuff Z'Nuff, except fronted by somebody who hasn't heard any of these bands, but has only seen their pictures, since he was too busy listening to all the great rock & rollers that have surfaced since Weiland.

Lukas Rossi might have the look but that's because he spent more time on his eyeliner than his voice, which is great for a television show and not toobad for the group since when the music is as mixed up and muddled as this, what's the difference who's singing? At no point does this band make sense. Lee, Newsted and Clarke all come from decidedly different backgrounds, whose only common ground is a fondness for '70s hard rock and metal — music from an age when rock stars not only wanted to have fun, but were expected to have fun for the rest of us, a fantasy that all three lived out until grunge crushed their dreams. Instead of having a singer who shared this vibe — which would have been Toby or Storm — they're now fronted by a guy raised in an era where rock was reduced to a vehicle expressing pain and angst, where fun never entered into the equation. When they're put together, they wind up making music that doesn't sound like either of their eras, and doesn't sound modern either. Their best possible hope for an audience is a group of aging Gen-Xers amused by the ridiculousness of it all — and fortunately, Rock Star Supernova delivers on that promise. The band does sound good, albeit in a studio-pro sense: with their producer Butch Walker, they've polished up their sound so much it never sounds heavy, but that doesn't detract from how Clarke throws out some pretty good hooks, or how Lee drums as powerfully as he ever has, or how Newsted puts more energy into this than the situation needs. At times it clicks, or at least the riffs do, and the band gamely smile their way through turning the Rock Star theme into a song called "Underdog," but even at its best, it sounds dated, as if it was a retro-minded project from 1992. And whatever meager charms they have are completely obscured by Rossi, who primps like he's a star already, affects a ludicrous spooky growl and often sounds overwhelmed by the backing vocals — which may make this bad, but it's gloriously bad, the kind of music that can only result when three talented musicians are contractually obligated to work with a wannabe singer who would be a laughing stock on a local level. In other words, it's pretty much exactly the album anybody who watched Rock Star Supernova hoped they would get."

**/*****
 
Be yourself (& 5 other cliches) is a great song IMO. Good to see 'Headspin' on the album.

'Its all love' is good but it doesn't do it for me and I am yet to hear the rest of the album so I can't comment
 
i downloaded the album.

"its all love", "social disgrace" and "it's on" are decent tunes.

the rest are pretty forgetable.
 

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Toby still making music but it seems he couldn't carry the momentum he gained after the series.

Also sounds like his band got a bit shafted after which was a shame to hear.

I remember reading that there was a lot of angst amongst the contestants off the camera as Lukas was the singer the band wanted even before it started.
 

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