The Runaway Five are Real!

Hot damn! That’s awesome!

That was great, love their sound. I just wish the quality was better, but that’s just me being nitpicky. 🙂 The fact that there’s footage is still cool.

A real-life video game music band is the kind of thing that makes kids wet their pants.

That’s a really nice jazzy bit they have going there in the video. Interesting interpretation of the original tune.

I love learning about bands which perform video game tunes, especially those consisting of real kids who’ve played and loved these games. Thanks much for this.

this. is. AWESOME! 😀

When he said Earthbound, the crowd went crazy! Now to figure out how I can see them live.

I definitely know a girl that used to play sax with these guys.
They’ve been to Calgary a few times; they’re AWESOME live.

Oh, they’re pretty decent. Too bad they don’t seem to have much range from Toronto; I’d love to book these dudes, but I’m a few hours away.

They’re also based Calgary/Edmonton or something, like there’s two groups of people but they’re part of the one main band.

I saw them at Video Games Live in Toronto; I’m actually present in that sound clip, but you can’t distinguish my yell because too many people were screaming. 😛 Had I known it was being recorded, I would have done a prolonged yell or something. You can check their site for upcoming appearances.

With the musical and video game-interested parts of my brain firmly fused together, I’ve always thought about doing something like this – I’m an amateur saxophone player and my preferred idiom is jazz, coincidentally. Having said that, I always raise an eyebrow when I hear about “jazz-influenced” or “jazz-interpreted” music; there are enough bastardizations of the music out there that some of these things devolve into crappy swing grooves and cheesy big band-ish arrangements.

So…with that somewhat elitist mindset, I lent an ear to their music and was pleasantly surprised. I love their interpretation of the Fourside theme – the swing works well and they swing hard. I would question the application of the same groove to the FFVII boss music, but that’s just me (the original 12/8 rhythm, I think, is great. It loses something as a plain jane 4/4).

But hey, I’m inspired now that I know that my fantasies of re-imagining video game music aren’t just manifestations of extreme nerdiness. You all may see a compilation of stuff within a year or two…

What the…

So they ARE real!

I just sent them an e-mail on their site, congratulating them on great work and requesting the making of a CD. I also said where I learned of them, just in case they wanted to know (it’s usually good to know where your publicity comes from). Great stuff, I think.

AWESOME!

Now if the DCMC could be real…

You know, it’d be pretty ironic if they didn’t try to remake a Runaway Five song.
And they probably didn’t.

I also noticed that in the intro they were called the “Runway Five.”

10/10

I’m trying to convince my band partners to name our band DC/MC or Runway Five.

Since we are trying to make video game’s music cover, guess i have to drop Runway Five. ;_; I’ll try DC/MC.

wow, i never thought that would happen… and Ilana i was tryin for runway five to, so i guess its a race for DC/MC. May the best…… umm drummer win! (I’s a drumma!)

Why were you all trying for “Runway Five”? That sounds like a modeling company haha. Why not the real deal “Runaway Five”?

AWESOME!!!

NEED TICKET NAO!!!!

they better have 6 members !

WHAT.

Oh man, a band named after the Runaway Five from Earthbound! This friggin slays!

SAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!

Wonder if they ever did the Mischievous Blues…?
That would make me feel…g..o..o..d…