The Nightmare Before Christmas @ the Hollywood Bowl 10-28-23
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Danny Elfman Brings the Nightmare Before Christmas Back to the Hollywood Bowl for 30th Anniversary Concert to Film Experience
Danny Elfman one of the most known composers of our time. Besides being a composer, but a musician in a band Oingo Boingo in the 1980s, to later doing acting work, aside from music being his main focus. He would compose countless films, teaming up with Tim Burton in a majority of them. One in fact, being highly popular over the year's, since releasing back in 1993, this being "The Nightmare Before Christmas". He sang for character Jack Skellington, whilst Chris Saradon did the voice work for the same character. As such, Danny Elfman would later take this character, and costars on an array of shows some taking place at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, CA. After these shows were such a success, he would back away and say countless times that they would not occur ever again.
But demand was demeaned and more shows would span over the next few years. The 30th anniversary of the film would commence in 2023, and so would not one but three shows at the Hollywood Bowl, all three being completely sold out! Having attended the Saturday night performance, to a packed house, it was all smiles from ear to ear, with those big, small, old and young dressed up in the various characters, if not dressed up altogether it being a Halloween weekend after all.
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The doors would open at 6PM with the show starting off after 8PM, fans drove and or rode to the venue, filed inside, grabbing food, drinks, merchandise, snapping photos, to settling down in their seats. Once the show began a little after 8PM, lights dimmed and the orchestration began, playing to a short cartoon film and then performing into the “Overture”, with the film being played soon after. Once the title began and the opening number “This Is Halloween”, begun, some actors walked onto the stage to sing their parts of said number, the movie playing out, as each different song was played by said actor in question. Danny Elfman did his parts in the various Jack Skellington songs, “Jack’s Lament”, “Whats This?”, “Poor Jack”, to name off a few. With the character Sally having her song be sung by a different actress than the one normally voicing her. This stand in did do a good job at taking over for this one night performance though, sounding just like Sally in minor voice work and singing of course. “Oogie Boogie’s Song” sung by Ken Page the man behind Oogie Boogie himself would come out in all green attire, singing his part, which all enjoyed! “Kidnap the Sandy Claws” featured Danny Elfman, and a replacement for Paul Reubens character Lock, whom RIP had his stand in do a good job regardless. While the rest of the film had finished off, having this night be quite mellow yet scary good.
All in all though, Danny Elfman and company, whose had some originals, some in passing, and some new comers as well, they brought their worth to the stage, and within this performance of concert to film, it being a staple to the Hollywood Bowl for sometime now, and perhaps many more years to follow perhaps.
RAVEN BLACK Revels in Brutal Metal Cover of iconic NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Opening "This is Halloween"!
LA based Theatrical Metal Band RAVEN BLACK has taken the opening theme of the 1993 TIM BURTON cult classic THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, "This is Halloween," and created a new #1 Allhallows Eve playlist favorite! With a darkly playful lyric video directed by killDevil Films, RAVEN BLACK infuses the DANNY ELFMAN composed anthem with crunchy guitars and explosive, exuberant vocals from the diminutive front-woman.
“Being our favorite all time HALLOWEEN Movie, created by Tim Burton, it was natural for us to want to cover this song. We both love everything Tim Burton and Disney so doing this cover has been an amazing honor! It was extremely fun to sing all the different parts together and give it our Raven Black carnival metal twist. “ - RAVEN BLACK & MUPPET
Check out the track HERE.
Maks_SF and D'EVIL K!D Release Cover Song of "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" from The Nightmare Before Christmas
The super prolific Maks Simchenko is capable of doing anything, whether it's making hard hitting "rhythmic trancecore" under then name Entropy Zero, or dark experimental stuff as Untitled Project Of Maks_SF, or shimmering Synthwave using the alias Volunteer Of Eternity, there is no denying, Maks is a master when it comes to producing music.
The range of his productions can go from the lightest, softest most chilled out styles, to the most intense, hard hitting, heart pounding heavy rhythmic tracks you can imagine.
On this new track he's working under the moniker of Entropy Zero and spreading some Christmas cheer for his cover of "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" originally performed by Danny Elfman and made famous in Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" movie.
But this is no simple cover, the perfectly twisted and demented vocals of D'EVIL K!D amp up the original vocals and help transform this into something completely epic!
Maks has infused his power and turned a simple sing a long number into a roaring heavy anthem that will be fun for the whole family this holiday season!
Check it right here: https://soundcloud.com/maks_sf/entropy-zero-x-devil-kd-kidnap-the-sandy-claws.
10 Second Songs' Anthony Vincent Takes on Halloween with "12 Songs in the Style of The Nightmare Before Christmas"
10 Second Songs' mastermind Anthony Vincent has taken a deliciously spooky turn with his newest video, "12 Songs in the Style of The Nightmare Before Christmas." Taking on not only a broad range of songs--from Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell on You" to Rob Zombie's "Dragula"--and creating individual pieces from the 'voices' of specific Nightmare Before Christmas characters, Vincent has taken on some of the most iconic Halloween party favorites and brilliantly filtered them with iconic Danny Elfman orchestration.
"This was my first attempt at tackling an orchestral sound for an entire piece/video, and it was a challenge, a lot of fun and something I'm interested in exploring more as I go. But in this case, I had a lot of fun because I love Halloween and anything Danny Elfman/Tim Burton. " - Anthony Vincent
Check out the video right over HERE.