The One Where They're All In A Rock Band (PG)

[labellementeuse]

Title: The One Where They're All In A Rock Band
Author: Tui
Rating: PG
Summary: Does what it says on the tin.
Disclaimer: Not only do Nita, Kit, Dairine and Mela not belong to me, band!AUs don't either.
Note: This fic was brought to you by me reading too many cracked out band!AUs and deciding that this fandom really, really needed one. It's not

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[katarik]

MY HEART, THIS STORY IS IT. I JUST. EEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Call-me-Mike Pallas! JOHNNY AND THE SENIORS. MOTHERBOARD. All those nice little cameos, *plus* they're all recognizable. I can see this Nita, I can see this Kit, Dairine and her fifty books are perfectly her, and Carmela laughing them all along to stardom. YES.

Also, man, I desperately want Strange Journeys. I also really want Lie Whole, and you did a great job with the media portions. *grabby hands at Myriad*

AND AND AND. The collaboration between Roshaun and Dairine, which will be on her next solo album! And then *more* rumors.

In summary, I love this story and I am still obsessive over the Lone One. Even a human version. *facepalms*

[labellementeuse]

Probably the worst thing about writing this is that I, too, REALLY want to own some of these albums. (All of them, basically.) And I'm thrilled, too, that you think they're all recognisable - I wanted so much to make this as true as possible to canon, because AUs are at their best when you can see the people you love doing something different in exactly the way they *would* do, and I wanted to achieve at least some of that.

the Roshaun/Dairine collaboration will SO be on her next solo album - which will be more of a series of Dairine's collaborations with other musicians. And it'll be called "Alien Mall-Crawling Fiasco."

I APPROVE OF THIS OBSESSION. It probably does, too.

[katarik]

... I want the Dairine and Carmela song like *breathing*.

One day I really will write up reviews for Lone One's albums. (And my shippy, shippy self will add in a snippet of Nita reading the reviews and getting to "Ananda" and going a little red, because she does know who that's dedicated to.)

[bad_mushroom]

This pretty much made my night.

Which is impressive, because it's the week before exams and I am so swamped that I am procrastinating EPICALLY.

[labellementeuse]

Thanks :) I'm always happy to make exam procrastination easier!

um - I mean - Tsk, tsk, you should be studying. *frowny face*

[reticent_lass]

OH POWERS YES THIS ROCKS.

I love the "Reconfiguration" song shout-out, and its hit status--did you know that I actually found the original poem that piece had to have been based off of in an old library school library book of Irish poetry? I like DD's version better, but it was still gorgeous and squeeful to read. Wish I could pick it up again... but I find myself consumed by AU-band speculations. Do they have a band mascot? A dog, perhaps? A parrot? A pig? Does Dairine have a whole flock of music-related computer programs named after everything under the sun that she laughingly calls her kids? Do they ever get close to a black kid with autism named Darryl? ARGH. THE INSPIRATION. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED.

...call-me-Mike Pallas, the music teacher

I C WAT U DID THAR. *reduced to lolcat by glee*

[labellementeuse]

:D Thank you!!

Reconfiguration had to be a hit. I mean, it was universal. :P Ooh, which poem do you mean, though?

Hmm, speculation. I don't know if they have a mascot! Ponch is definitely around, at least for awhile; I'm not sure about Peach, since we have Mike. Hm. Because this is a world without wizardry, Chao would have to appear in another way, I think - I kind of want to make him the gossip columnist. He's everywhere, and knows everything about everyone! Well, I think it's hilarious, anyway. ;) Dairine absolutely has those music programmes! GIGO was her very first, written while she was still in high school - he does little more than layer one or two sounds over each other, but he'll always be special to her. Darryl is actually one of the few characters I'm really not sure how to fit in.

I can't lie: call-me-Mike is maybe my favourite cameo.

[vensre]

I can safely say that Darryl is their number one fan. :D

Great job with the story! I was very entertained.

[labellementeuse]

:D Thank you so much!

[tsukara]

......wow, that. is. fantastic. Amazing. Well done, all around. I love the clippings-plus-life style, the voice, the different members. ♥

And, curse you, now I want to try and write some of those songs...

[labellementeuse]

Thank you so much! :)

Dooo eeet. [I would be pretty happy if everyone wrote in this AU forever, tbh.]

[tsukara]

Ughhhh, it doesn't help that I'm a filker writing an opaquely vague YW anyways. :|

[reticent_lass]

SECONDED.

[bakazaru7]

....You own my soul now. I've just been pounced by about several hundred plot bunnies, none of which I can act on right now on account of being separated from over half my collection of DD novels.

Please, please, please play more with this AU. It makes me want to play with AU to. Or like, sing the songs. or something

[labellementeuse]

\o/ I feel successful every time I manage to acquire an extra soul! Thank you! :D