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5 Things You Never Cared to Know About Champagne Champagne

Arts & Culture   February 2, 2010 at 1:53 pm Jonathan Cunningham

As plenty of folks might already know, MTV has recently taken a shine to certain local bands as evidenced by their upcoming $5 Cover: Seattle series due to air this spring on the Web.

A local film crew headed by director Lynn Shelton featured 13 bands based in Seattle and naturally, the charismatic boys of Champagne Champagne were included.

At the time of the filming back in August, Champagne Champagne was all over the place and Shelton was smart to include them in the storyline. Other local faves like the Maldives, Thee Emergency, and THEESatisfaction were filmed as well. Shelton recently showed parts of 5 Cover: Seattle at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last week.

When Champagne Champagne went to New York for the CMJ  music festival in October, they swung by the MTV offices and shot this plug/commercial for  $5 Cover: Seattle where you can learn some random, yet endearing facts about them.

I’m curious if anybody can name the instrument that Mark Gajadhar (sitting on the right) is playing during the group’s freestyle session.




  • http://www.lastnightsmixtape.com/ tang

    The melodica.

  • http://www.lastnightsmixtape.com tang

    The melodica.

  • Junio

    It sort of looked like the keytar to me. Champagne needs to hurry up and drop some new material.

  • Junio

    It sort of looked like the keytar to me. Champagne needs to hurry up and drop some new material.

  • Maldivian

    Why Maldives using our country name ???

  • Maldivian

    Why Maldives using our country name ???

  • Jen

    tang for the win. Hey Marseilles also uses a melodica from time to time.

  • Jen

    tang for the win. Hey Marseilles also uses a melodica from time to time.