Don’t just see New Moon…Experience it!
TwilightMOMS.com, in conjunction with RLegacy Entertainment and The Mitch Hansen Band, presents…

The New Moon Experience

November 19th & 20th at the South Towne Expo Center

 Join us for two days of Twilight saga craziness, and live the New Moon Experience by visiting Forks, La Push, and Volterra…all under one roof in Salt Lake City!

Purchase your tickets at the South Towne Expo Center box office, which opens at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18. There are still three (3) midnight show theaters, plus event and concert tickets available!

We’ve been doing some Twilight-themed shows across the country and we are starting to get some real publicity. We were especially excited when Amanda Bell of the Examiner decided to interview me about the New Moon songs I have written as well as the upcoming Twi-Con event in Dallas.

Here’s the link to the Examiner article. Let me know what you think. And don’t forget to “Tweet” about it!

PS. If you haven’t already, make sure you follow me on Twitter: @mitchhansenband

Ok, so you know the actual story behind the lyrics of By You already, because you all have read New Moon. I wanted to tell you a little about how the song came about, though.

The first two Twilight-inspired songs that I wrote were Twilight Hour and Jacob Black. After completing Jacob Black I really wanted to write a song with a time signature of ¾ rather than 4/4, so I started toying with chord progressions.

Any Chevelle fans out there? Well, if you’ve heard of them before then you’re most certainly familiar with one of their bigger songs called The Red. It’s a very driven, melodic rock song with some really vast dynamic changes. So, if I had to pick a song that musically inspired By You then it would have to be that one. I wanted By You to feature some of the same major changes in dynamics throughout the song, too.

I actually had the chorus to the song written before I wrote everything else. The rest of the song kind of radiated outward from the line “And the chill of your touch, Never thought I’d miss the cold so much.” I always wanted it to be kind of a retrospective song, too. At the end of the song Bella is back in Edward’s arms looking back at everything she had been through leading up to that point.

Its an emotional song so I always wanted the chorus to a huge “wall of sound” that smacks the listener in the face. The word “chill” in the chorus is belted out on top of heavy distorted guitars to help listeners feel what Bella had been missing in her life. Even back on Twilight Hour I tried to convey that same emotion, but without the luxury of drums, electric guitars, and other production values.

Anyway, as a rocker at heart, By You is one of my favorite songs on the record. It was meant to speak to everyone who has ever had a hole in their chest. Whether or not the holes are filled the way you expect them to be or not, the void is always temporary in the end.

Mitch

I have a huge favor to ask of you guys!  We have an extremely lofty goal that we know we can accomplish, but we need your help!  We want to get our music onto the New Moon film soundtrack.  We think our songs By You and A World Without You would be perfect for New Moon.  So, if you want to help us out with this goal, here is what you need to do:

STEP ONE: Help get our myspace plays for those two songs up as high as possible!  I have set up a special myspace profile just for that purpose, so go there and let the player just keep playing those two songs over and over.

http://www.myspace.com/mhbfornewmoon

STEP TWO: Send the film’s music supervisor a myspace message about how you want to hear us on the soundtrack and why we would be an awesome fit!  Here is her myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/chopshopmusicsupervision

Tell them whatever you feel like telling them that might persuade them to give us a listen.  Be sure to include our myspace profiles in the message.  Here they are for your convenience:

http://www.myspace.com/mitchhansenband

http://www.myspace.com/mhbfornewmoon (this is the one with the New Moon-specific songs)

STEP THREE: If you don’t have a myspace account, send them an email:

info@chopshopmusic.com

Lets get the plays for the two songs up SUPER high and lets flood their inboxes with MHB soundtrack requests!  If you wanted to know, her name is Alexandra Patsavas and she has done the music for a number of TV shows Like Grey’s Anatomy, Chuck, and Gossip Girl, plus the music for the first Twilight Film.

So, I’m really throwing myself at your mercy here, fans!  We need your help!  Lets show them that we are for real!  Let me thank you in advance for any help!  You all ROCK!

Mitch