Orson

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Background information
Origin	Hollywood, California, United States
Genre(s)	Rock Power pop Soft rock
Years active	2000–present
Label(s)	MCA Music, Inc./Mercury
Website	http://www.orsonband.com/
Members
Jason Pebworth Kevin Roentgen George Astasio Johnny Lonely Chris Cano

Orson is an American rock band from Hollywood, California who formed in 2000. The band mainly consists of:

Jason Pebworth - vocals
George Astasio - guitar
Kevin Roentgen - guitar. vocals
Johnny Lonely - bass
Chris Cano - drums

1 Formation and Name
2 Musical Sound
3 Trivia
4 Discography
- 4.1 Albums
- 4.2 Singles
5 External links

[edit] Formation and Name

Formed in 2000, the group took its name from Hollywood legend Orson Welles.

[edit] Musical Sound

When describing the sound of Orson, the band's vocalist Jason Pebworth said that they played "guitar rock" but that they had "that rump-shaking quality to our rhythm section." He also cites the influences for his music as being wide ranging, including Broadway music and Black Sabbath. Others included music he frequently heard while growing up in Texas, notably soft rock from the likes of Hall & Oates, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Memphis and Philly soul.

During his college years, Nirvana inspired Jason to think about being in a band of his own. Obsessions with Jeff Buckley's Grace and Radiohead's OK Computer followed. Now he states that "As a band, we're into Led Zeppelin, Flaming Lips, Beck, Björk." He also confesses to being an ELO fan.

[edit] Trivia

The first song that Orson released to the public, "No Tomorrow", was released as a free download on the music downloading software, iTunes. It was the most downloaded Single Of The Week since iTunes began.

Whilst in the U.K, Orson appeared on the Sky Sports show Soccer AM and as they were American and did not support a British football team they choose a team randomly out of a hat and they now support the cash strapped club Rotherham United. To help the club's finances, they played a gig in the town a couple of weeks later. American rock band The Bravery have previously drawn a club from the hat, Wolves.

Orson have performed as a band supporting Duran Duran at Earls Court in Duran Duran's Astronaut Tour, and Robbie Williams during his European leg of his Close Encounters Tour.

According to their MySpace profile, every member of the band share the exact same birthday - 04 July 1977.

Lead singer Jason Pebworth and rhythm guitarist George Astasio have collaborated with pop group Sugababes for their single Easy, which will be released in November 2006.

Lead singer Jason Pebworth was repeatedly mocked during an appearance on UK TV show, 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' by host Simon Amstell for wearing a hat to conceal his alleged baldness.

The band were also mocked on Never Mind the Buzzcocks for having the lowest selling British number one single, selling around 17,000 copies.

Nominated by Q Magazine for Best New Artist of 2006 along with Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys,Corinne Bailey Rae, and The Kooks.

They failed to get signed until British producer, entrepreneur and paedophile Jonathan King found No Tomorrow on their MySpace site and raved about it on his Tipsheet message board which sparked UK industry interest.