Upon returning to Houston, the duo recruited Coleman and Robinson; Burbank came aboard shortly thereafter. Bandella quickly found steady work at Cafe Blonde, a Seabrook nightspot with more atmosphere than elbow room.
Hadfield describes Bandella’s repertoire as “world acoustic” music: a genial, decade-spanning blend of pop, folk, rockabilly, and torch songs. The band indulges in “a few” numbers about space, and one or two originals; Hadfield co-wrote “Is Somebody Singing?” with Ed Robertson of fellow Canadians the Barenaked Ladies. Coleman has performed with the Chieftains and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, the latter as part of an ISS/Earth duet.
“When I was outside during one of my spacewalks in the darkness, we went through the Northern lights,” recalls Hadfield. “To have the aurora of the world rippling around you and pouring past it — it’s green and red, mostly, like you're surfing on the world's aurora. To be able to share both the ideas and the imagery of that while we're playing music about it makes it a performance like no other.
“If you want to know what it's like to sing and record and play in space, here's what you do,” he says. “Put your guitar next to the wall and then stand on your head, leaning on the wall. Stand on your head, leaning on the wall, and maybe stand on your head for three hours. And then while you're upside down, pick up your guitar and play and sing. That's what it feels like up there; it’s just crazy different.
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