September Ink competition!!

Announcing the September Ink competition!!!


This competition will run throughout the whole of September, and it only takes 3 easy steps to enter!!


STEP 1 : Head over to SA Rock Bands, create a fan profile, become a fan of Luna Atra and vote for us!!! You can vote every week, so keep that votes coming!!!


STEP 2 : Head over to Luna Atra's music page on Facebook and listen to our music. Choose your favorite song!!


STEP 3 : Go to Luna Atra's Facebook page and post 3 things on our wall. 1. Your SA Rock bands account name. 2. Your favorite song of Luna Atra. 3. A reason why you picked that specific song.


You can enter the competition weekly, winners will be chosen at the end of September!!!


!st prize : R350 tattoo voucher that you can use at El Mosquito tattoos. A Luna Atra cd signed by the band. And a Luna Atra t-shirt!!


Runners up will also get some rad prizes!!!!

Nightmare

A lifetime of sorrow

in a blink of an eye

Echoes through the valley of pain

It screams and it runs

As it claims countless lives

It crawls through your heart and in your veins

And again

I hear you scream tonight

But my friend

You can turn off the lights

We run and we hide

In a world that needs some light

We burn and we kill all through the night

There's only one way

That is set within your mind

Yet you need to prove yourself right

And again

I hear you scream tonight

But my friend

You can turn off the lights

And in your sleep

You'll die

Insights :

Music and lyrics : Niel Oliver

Again, this is the kind of song nobody really gets, until you explain it to them. But sometimes you need to make up your own meaning for a song. Sometimes you need to relate in your own way. So, I'm gonna leave it up to you to decide what this song is all about. By the way, if you haven't picked up that the name is only a metaphor, please go tell yourself that you don't know anything and that you've wasted a whole lot of money and time trying to educate yourself!! ;)

Niel

Come my way

Sitting all alone

Killing all my thoughts

I buried them alive

In you

You know I couldn't stay

By wishing it all away

What happened to some day

With you

'Cause I'm dying just a little tonight

While I'm flying so deep through the night

Still I'm watching as you turn away

And I'm screaming just a little tonight

While I'm dreaming as you close your eyes

Still I'm waiting for a miracle to come my way

I find myself again

Behind these concrete walls

The light is seeping through

Who knew

I've strayed, I am lost

I stumble and I fall

But still I'm holding on

To you

'Cause I'm dying just a little tonight

While I'm flying so deep through the night

Still I'm watching as you turn away

And I'm screaming just a little tonight

While I'm dreaming as you close your eyes

Still I'm waiting for a miracle to come my way

Insights :

Lyrics and music : Niel Oliver

This is a pretty straight forward song, the lyrics speak for themselves, so not much to explain or elaborate on, I guess. But as any band would have their ballads, this would be one of ours. Feel free to check out our Facebook page and listen to all our music, we'll be adding some new songs pretty soon, just need to get about recording them ;)

Keep rocking on!!

Niel

Disease

It's always difficult to open

Because it's so mind blowing

Yet so broken

Single file, I'm on a mission

There's no war outside our heads

So why are we losing?

Reality kicks in too late

We had it all for 3 months

Now that was great

A lesson learnt, the damage done

Now it's time to start

Blaming everyone

So, baby baby baby baby please

Once you were a princess

Now you're a disease

So, take your filthy mouth

And head back to the east

Go make your dollar bills

By giving someone treats

6 months have passed since

I heard your cry

You must be down in ashes

Ready to just die

So, now I'm thinking about you

I've been to hell and back

With what you put me through

So, baby baby baby baby please

Once you were a princess

Now you're a disease

So, take your filthy mouth

And head back to the east

Go make your dollar bills

By giving someone treats

Insights :

Music and lyrics : Niel Oliver & Deon Travis Joubert

Guitars and vocals : Niel Oliver

This song surely has a story to it, like every other song, but the funny thing is, if you would ask me or Travis how we wrote this, the simple answer would be :"We don't know!". This just happened. we sat in our band room one day and it just happened. We wrote this song out of miles and miles of endless emotion about girls. Shocker...... :)

It took us about 15 minutes to write and we didn't care about how it sounds or what anyone thinks about it, we just cared about writing it! This song still needs to be performed live, seeing that jamming it to friends doesn't really count as a live performance. We'll work it into our line for next weekend's gig.

Be sure to check out the Luna Atra Band Profile to listen to this song and some others as well.

Give us your feedback and tell us what you think!! Can't wait to hear fro myou guys!

Niel

Time passing by

Sitting, staring at the clock

That's ticking every second gone, lost

Time heals everything

Are words only comforting

It's only time passing by

In my mind

Thinking of memories that ran away

Today becomes a memory of yesterday

Time heals everything

Are words only comforting

It's only time passing by

In my mind

Insights:

This song was originally written by a good friend of mine, who gave it to me and I made some adjustments to it. The music on the other hand, is all my fault;)

This song is pretty straight forward, talking about time, which becomes a relevant matter, seeing that it's only time that passes by when you actually think about it and not doing anything with it.

At the end of the day, it would only be time that passes by in your head and not something that is believed to be the great healer of a broken heart.

Thus, "time heals everything are words only comforting".

Be sure to check out our Facebook page should you want to listen to the song. We uploaded two brand new songs yesterday as well, be  sure to check them out!!

This is me saying rock on!!

Niel

Luna Atra songwriter/lead guitarist/backing vocals/pianist

Voices

Alone in my darkest hour

Can you hear me calling your name?

Unknown to my deep desire

To be released from this world of pain

Can you hear me

As I cry

Will I ever

See the light

I dream of a restless place

A never ending story of my mistakes

It seems that this dream is true

Every tear I cry, I cry for you

All these voices

In my mind

Calling desperate to

Be alive

Oh, all I hear is voices

Oh, all I hear is voices

Oh, all I hear is voices

Insights :

Words and music : Niel Oliver

Featuring the vocal talents of Wian Oliver, and Niel Oliver diong the backing vocals and guitars.

This song has an interesting background to it. Each and every time I've played this song live at a gig, someone will come up to me afterwards and try to tell me what my own song is about.

One guy told us once that he can relate, because he hears voices in his head all the time. No offence, IDIOT!! But you didn't get it...

If you also had the idea this song is about some random guy who hears voices and then wants them to leave his head, please scroll back up and READ the song!! Or even better, LISTEN to it!!

Voices is about a guy dying. in his final moments he wishes to numb the pain he feels and silence the voices of bad memories running around in his head. He  refers to the tears he's crying for the loved, and lost, one in his life. As all human being are, he made mistakes. And it haunts him in his final hours.

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact us!

Yours truly...

Niel

Welcome to Luna Atra

This is the home of Luna Atra! Here we will be writing out everything we do, everyone we do and all the crazy ideas floating around in our heads!!


Be sure to check out our music and if you like to leave us your comments, you're welcome. Let us introduce ourselves!

Wian Oliver - Vocals and Rhythm guitar


Also known as "The Silver Bullet" for making an all time record of drinking Silver Bullets at his brother's birthday party.


And then, if you know him a little bit better, you'll be familiar with the other nickname he has, "Willie, die kamp pedofiel". But that's story for another time...


He plays on a black Ibanez RG series and loves Nightwish, Arch Enemy, Hinder, Nickelback and Breaking Benjamin.


"The rumours are true, I kick ass!"

Deon "Travis" Joubert - Bass Guitar


Loves to make love to his guitar in public, delivering eargams to the masses! He never stands still to play his bass, he will freak out and go nuts all over the stage!


Favorite bands include Blink 182, Chevelle, Korn, Blink 182, Rammstein, Avenged Sevenfold and Blink 182. He plays on a beautiful Cort bass 4 string and believes that no bassist needs to have 5 strings to express himself.


If you ever find him running around naked in your house, that would be his natural habitat. It must be mating season?


"Never take life too seriously, you'll never get out of life!" Write that down - Van Wilder

Niel Oliver - Lead Guitar and backing vocals


Surprisingly, he has no nickname, although some like to call him "the Legend", we still need to figure out why...


He plays on various guitars, including three Fender Stratocasters and his favorite, a PRS Mark Tremonti signature guitar.


Favorite bands include Pink FLoyd, Creed, Alter Bridge, Chevelle, The Mayfield Four and Led Zeppelin.


"Respect my autority!" - Eric Cartman








As you can see, we still don't have a permanent drummer, but we're giving it some thought. We ask for your patience with this matter, because the previous drummers didn't survive... (if you know what I mean)


So, remember the name, you'll be screaming it later!!