BEYONCE LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR ALL-FEMALE BAND
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Superstar Beyoncé Knowles has announced her search for an all-female band. The musicians chosen will become the artist’s touring ensemble in support of her second solo album, “B’Day,” slated for September release.
Auditions will be held before Beyoncé’s creative team and the superstar will make the final selections.
Musicians should be at least 18 years and older and prepared to play Beyoncé’s hit song, “Work It Out,” as performed on the “Beyoncé: Live At Wembley” DVD.
Positions to be filled include drums, keys, bass, guitar, horns (alto, tenor, sax, trumpet) and percussion.
In addition to having a “look,” musicians auditioning for Beyoncé’s touring ensemble must be able to play by ear (reading music is optional).
Musicians auditioning must be able to play one minute (minimum) solo.
Musicians must bring a headshot and resume to the audition.
Finalists chosen at local auditions must be available to fly to New York to perform a final audition for Beyoncé and her creative team the week of June 12 and must be available to begin working on the road by June 20.
AUDITION LOCATIONS:
New York/New Jersey Area:
SST
1806 Park Ave
Weehawken, NJ. 07086
201-864-5666
Southeast/Atlanta Area:
Crossover Entertainment Studios
1310 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd
Atlanta, GA. 30318
404-352-3716
Southern California/Los Angeles Area:
Center Staging
3407 Winona Ave.
Burbank, CA. 91504
818-559-4333
Midwest/Chicago Area:
Pressure Point Recording Studios
2239 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60616
312-842-8099
West/Houston Area:
VT2 Studios
2401 West Bellfort
Houston, TX 77054
713.877.1877








174 Comments
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1.
Diana
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Ha ha ha ha! Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!
2.
archuletachick
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3.
jewel13
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Her dad is gonna pimp them for the tour, and drop them before the engine on the tour bus gets cold!
4.
Gela
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Exactly!
Brian… You’re on your Toes…. Keep em coming!
5.
caff
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Her name is Foxy Cleopatra, and she’s a whole lot of woman.
6.
Gela
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
LMAO @ comment #2…
7.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
I thought she was looking for a some chics to make a girl group like “Making The Band”….
All former band members. Get out those old trumpets, flutes, and clarinates. Its your time to shine.
8.
lala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
oh shit another damn promotion for
1- beyonce cause shes haering too much about janet
2- why did they have to say ‘as heard on the beyonce: live in wembley’ dvd? cross promotion.
3- i doubt this will really ever surface as it is just something to base off the fervor of american idol kind of voting off thing. maybe it is pap knowle’s hit back @ simon cowell to see how many will turn out for beyonce.
im sure they will film it , and then air it and eventuall sell it on dvd.
smart fuckers.
9.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
**cyber-wave at Diana and Archuletachick**
this should be a “good” one…i’m expecting the STANS And Bey-bots any minute now…
*positions herself in bushes to await impending STAN attack*
10.
mika
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Exactly @ #3. Hey Archuleta and Diana!
11.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
*shaking head*
12.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
this should be interesting.
seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if this got turned into a reality show.
people go crazy over these auditions. I remember when destiny’s child had auditions for the “lose my breath” video across the country. some of my friends went up there and said it was ridumbulous!
13.
Diana
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Hi speakinmymind,
And you know this, MAAAAANNNN!
Well I dunno Speakinmymind, that Raz B post is an all time record. He might be the real queen!!!!!!
14.
Diana
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Hey Mika!
15.
BrightFuture
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
LOL Archuletachick
16.
AaliyahsBabyDaddy
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Great, more filler for the 99cent bin at Wal-Mart.
17.
asbury
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
I think it a great idea!(yeah I said it:)) How many times do female musicians get an opportunity to display their talent, NEVER. It’s so much harder for them to break into the industry then men.
Yeah they may be selling their souls to the devil but hey so did George Bush.
18.
Say What? :o
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Who cares? I mean damn i am a fan and all but it is waaay to many shows like this coming out. I am getting tired of it.Why does all these artist and stuff want their on group? I wish more original shows come out.
19.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
^^^^ Absury, your peers cant seem to grasp the concept of this being a positive endeavor on Beyonce’s part..
Hating females dont wanna hear about another megastar female trying to give females with a background in music a chance to shine… They feel much better tearing down Beyonce and waiting for stan ambushes…
20.
mika
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Hey Asbury!
21.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
seriously…how far r they gonna go? all mr. knowles thinks about is beyonce. even solange gets treated like a step-child.
not-4-nothin but wateve happened 2 da chicks from makin da band 3, da chick from the missy elliot show/contest and ness and the girl from makin da band 1?
22.
archuletachick
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
HEEEEEYYYYYYYYY:
speakinmymind, Mika, Asbury, Brightfuture, AaliyahsBabyDaddy
23.
Diana
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ Impossible06
I love me some B. I love how she is making paper in a lot of diff ways. Unlike others that are just using their Ass-ets!
24.
lala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
all that that girl from missy ellitos show won was a agood lickin from missy herself.
she doesn’t have star quality to make it.
25.
phillyLala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Can somebody tell me what “STANS” is? I know I’m ignorant, but thank you
26.
Diana
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Hi, to all my ‘loop old schoolers!
27.
AaliyahsBabyDaddy
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Oh snap, *waves to everyone in and on the loop, says good morning*
28.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
******Its Not A Singing Group******
She wants females to play the instruments for her SOLO TOUR!!!!!!!!!!
Why are yall so incompetent?
29.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
*”Heh” at Brian and Mika*
“ridumbulous” (loves it B!) how was the party last night?!? i fell asleep so i don’t know if y’all kept the music up loud or not?!? lol
@ #16 AaliyahsBabyDaddy…wut it be like?!?
and Brian, how do i make my words italics? is it putting the “” before and after the words I want in italics?
30.
aphatty
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Why don’t they just teach Kelly & Michelle how to play drums and guitar? They already have the “back up band” part down pat.
31.
phillyLala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
And whatever happened to that girl from the TLC show, “she’s the one”, or something like that. Was I the only one to see that?
32.
AaliyahsBabyDaddy
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Is Matthew Knowles Kelly’s dad, too?…or am i reachin with that one?
33.
momo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
This should be interesting and alot of drama. Beyonce gon have a cat fight every night on tour.
hey asbury
34.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
People who dont know how to use HTML shouldnt try to use it. your messing up the damn comments section
35.
AaliyahsBabyDaddy
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ speakinmymind
*in slow southern drawl* nuthin….just….chillin
36.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
the party was cool. I honestly didn’t even want to have it, but it was my friend’s birthday.
so I would have felt bad if I just told her to take it elsewhere.
anyways, I think people are making the assumption that this is going to be a show.
I don’t think so.
I think beyonce is trying to get females that are going to look really sassy to play instruments during her tour, because according to some reliable sources, the album has a lot of live instruments.
this is for a BAND. not a singing group.
get it together people, and read…
37.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ Impossible06,
do you need some Asbury Koresh/Jim Jones Kool-aid?!?
38.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
To put a word in italics and to end the italics and not make the rest of the post italics as well minus the quotation marks of course.
39.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
text here
minus the little asterics!
40.
asbury
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Hey ADB, speakinmymind, Diana, Rubi, Mika, archuletachick, momo,Impossible,lala,Brightfuture, Angel, Brian and of course I can’t forget about the one and only Caff!!!
Good afternoon guys.
41.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ #31 phillylala…she was only going to do one song with TLC. she wasn’t suppose to be permanent.
42.
shay
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
I guess I try out, just get close to Daddy Knowles, let him feel young when u with him and trust me you’re in there baby. Keep it Quiet though:-)
43.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
hmmm Ok, well I dont know hwat to tell you this site is HTML code sensitive.HEy Absury, how was the conference?
44.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
hey asbury.
anyways, seriously, this is the problem: some people are not reading the post. they just read the headline/slugline and a couple sentences in the article, never do they read the whole thing.
people just read what they want to and then comment from there. seriously.
if you’re not going to read the entire post (which ISN’T that long), how do you expect to hold an intelligent coversation or even just a post a comment (that’s not so intelligent) if you don’t even know what we’re talking about?
seriously… ridumbulous…
45.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
or not
46.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
thx Impossible06 (i almost typed Kimpossible…LMAO!)
i got it now!!
47.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
i had to read the post again and i just realized that wat kind of half-ass talent is she trying to get together. she’s not trying to get people who read music but can play by ear!!! wow.
48.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Brian, Do you promise to post Deja Vu as soon as you get it lol?
49.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
bloo, it’s HARD to play by ear.
there’s nothing half-assed about it. people who can play by ear really in-tuned with music. seriously, what are you talking about?
it’s hard to read music, etc. some people just learned how to play on their own. that’s a gift.
50.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Imposs, i think you made the whole comments section italics with whatever you did in your last post!!!
51.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Bloo lots of people are amazing musicians but they cant read sheet music.. HELLOOO!!!!!!
havent you seen or heard of DRUMLINE!
52.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ brian
but wouldn’t you want someone who could do both in order to start a band?
53.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
I didnt mean to… I was honestly trying to show you how to do it correcetly. Somewhere it went horribly wrong though.
Ange la we need an intervention!
54.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
but that’s not what you said. you said “half-ass” talent. and that’s not always the truth.
55.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
please stop trying to post comments in italics. whoever is doing it, and I have a pretty good idea of who is, because I’m having to edit ALL their comments, obviously does not know what they’re doing.
thank you.
56.
phillyLala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
#48 oh, ok
Hey, I know I’m not part of the “popular club” ya’ll got goin on in here, but damn, can somebody tell me what that STANS thing mean? I keep seeing people use it on here, i have no idea what it is!
57.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ brian
i guess i figured that i would learn how to read as well as play. ur right…i didn’t see it dat way.
*light bulb turned on over my head*
58.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Bri, it wasn’t me - honest. i only did it the one time when i was askin’ Impossible06 how to do it…my apologies if i was doing it inadvertently.
59.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
#56, listen to the song “stan” by eminem. it explains it there. you’ll get what they’re talking about.
60.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
speakinmymind, I know it wasn’t you.
I didn’t have to edit any of your comments.
61.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Stan = A overtly obsessed fan.
Inspired by the song “Stan” by Eminem, in which he sings/raps about a crazed fan that killed his girlfriend and went crazy all becuz of what he got from the Eminem music he heard.
62.
phillyLala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
thank you Brian!
63.
Impossible06
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
I think its Bloo, thats messing up the italics.
64.
speakinmymind
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ bloo…i heart you!!
@ phillyLala…there’s not a “popular” club, just bloggers who post regularly and we all agree, disagree and anywhere in between with each other.
anyhoo, STAN comes from Eminem’s song of the same name where he is talking about an obsessed/crazed fan…hope this clears it up for you.
65.
Brian
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
actually, impossible, it was YOUR comments I had to edit to make the italics go away on the whole comments board. I had to edit about 4 of them.
66.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
hold up…it’s not me
67.
sharonda
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!the female band phenomena really sucks
68.
bloo
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
@ speakinmymind….*big hug*
69.
lala
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
stan is an obssessed fan
70.
simplylin
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Yall got it poppin on here today! Bey doing her thang or lack there of. I guess we’ll have to see.
71.
GA Gurl
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Brian said:it’s hard to read music, etc. some people just learned how to play on their own. that’s a gift.
Like Nick Cannon’s character in Drum Line.
72.
backagain
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
she should just get all those hoes she kicked out the group to come back and play in a band
73.
NetworKing
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
Damn! This tread couldn’t of been up that long, and we’re already almost at 100? Beyonce know how to bring em!
74.
Mizz Ruby
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
asbury said:
Hey ADB, speakinmymind, Diana, Rubi, Mika, archuletachick, momo,Impossible,lala,Brightfuture, Angel, Brian and of course I can’t forget about the one and only Caff!!! Good afternoon guys.
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Hey Asbury and all the rest listed above!!
I second that emotion!!!! I’m sure Matthew is the brain behind the idea of a girl band but I like it. And I like that Beyonce’s promoting it. Remember the girls from Prince’s band and Shelia E? They were so cool to watch.
75.
NetworKing
Thursday, June 8, 2006 /
This might be a dumb question, or a neccissary one, but how do you get back to the main page of CL with all of the threads on it? I always have to push click back. It would be easier if there was like a “home page” not one that takes you to the “index page”
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