10/22/03: Gargantua Soul was announced the winners of the Ernie Boch Emerging Artist Competition at the 2003 Nemo Music Showcase and Conference.
10/05/03: Gargantua Soul was recently awarded 3 Billboard Music Award nominations for all 3 of their submitted songs. The tracks were "Calling My America," "No Oasis," and "Drive."
12/18/02: Gargantua Soul was chosen as the winner of The Hard Rock Cafe's "Rock the Rockies" Battle of the Bands Competition to open for Papa Roach and Midtown on January 25, 2003 in Steamboat, Colorado. After winning two consecutive Battle of the Bands competitions (see below) at The Hard Rock Cafe in New York City, and between 10 other major cities across the country, 136 bands in total, Gargantua Soul was selected from a panel of industry judges including: Jacoby Shaddix (lead singer of Papa Roach), the entire Midtown posse, Norman Schoenfeld (VP Programming Much Music USA), Larry Weintraub (CEO Fanscape), Kevin Weaver (Senior VP Lava Records), Ron Burman (VP A&R Roadrunner Records) and Jade McQueen (A&R Dreamworks) as the winner.
The band's single, No Oasis from their first full-length cd The First, The Last, The Tribe, was voted #1 in the Best Artist category at The Songwriters Network an internet radio program at www.cyberstationusa.com which broadcasts live every Saturday from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm and boasts over 100,000 fans and growing. "The Best of the Best" songs are compiled semi-annually, based on listeners' votes. This time, in a unique turn of events, No Oasis tied for first place with a surprising write-in candidate another Gargantua Soul song, S.O.S. Both songs can be heard on last summer's debut, full-length cd release The First. The Last. The Tribe.
G-SOUL's song "Drive" was awarded 4th place out of 40,000 entries in the 1st annual JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING CONTEST in the Rock category!
G-SOUL was voted #1 Hard Rock Act in the New Haven Advocate's Music Reader's Poll, two years running.
G-SOUL's song "No Oasis" was voted #1 in the Best Artist category at The Songwriters Network-an internet radio program at www.cyberstationusa.com which boasts over 100,000 fans and growing. Also, G-Soul's song "Drive" was voted #4 by listeners on
Radioboston.com's Top 5!


G-SOUL's single Rat Pack will be featured in an episode of the up-and-coming season of The FX Network's, The Shield.
MTV used G-SOUL's song "Electrified" as theme music for the 3rd episode
of their new wrestling show Tough Enough.


G-SOUL recieves a 4 page full color feature in the internationally distributed "Tattoo Savage" magazine in the Sept. 2002 issue!
G-SOUL was featured for the 2nd time with a full page photo and a live show review in the nationally distributed Metal Edge magazine in their Oct. 2001 issue!
G-SOUL recieves the cover and a feature story in "Unsung Hero", the mid-atlantic music magazine in Jan. 2002.
G-SOUL on the cover and featured in "Boston Soundcheck" magazine, the Boston, MA. source of news and entertainment in March 2001.
G-SOUL was featured as "CT.'s most popular band" in the very posh Conneticut Magazine in April 2002.
As well as numerous features, reviews, interviews in: Metal Hammer, A.P., New England Performer, Music Revue, Yale news, Intermixx Webzine, Music's Bottom Line, Rock City News, Section 3, New Haven & Hartford Advocate, New Haven Register, CT Post, and almost every local rag and newspaper out there!


Thanks to the promotion of two of the best radio marketing teams in the country, (Howard Rosen Promotions and Concrete Radio Marketing), G-SOUL charted in the top 15 of weekly spins in Album Network, FMQB & CMJ through college and commercial stations across the country!
Due to an overwhelming response from fans, G-SOUL's song "Drive" and "Calling My America" was added to regular rotation and is still being
played on Connecticut's leading commercial rock station (and continual supporter) THE ROCK WCCC 106.9 FM., as well adds and consistent spins on other commercial radio stations like: WAAF (MA.), WJZJ (MI.), WMMS (OH.), WGIR (NH.), WJBX (FL.),
Most of the other detailed radio information and spins can be found on the G-SOUL Radio one sheet called "A Radio Guide to the Soul".


G-SOUL tours as part of a package throughout the Midwest for 9 sold out shows with Mushroom Head, etc. in Feb. of 2004
G-SOUL played the emerging artists' stage at Woodstock '99, commanding attention from MTV, VH1, Much Music, newspapers, & magazines across the country -- lead singer Kris Keyes even made the cover of the Washington
Post!
G-SOUL was invited to perform at the 'Air-X' Games in Puerto Rico.
G-SOUL was invited to perform at the 2002 'X' Games in Philadelphia, PA.
G-SOUL opened for RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the New Haven Coliseum in their hometown of New Haven, CT.
G-SOUL was added to the "Rock Free or Die II" show in NH. in July of 2002 with heavy hitters Sevendust & way more!
G-SOUL tours the entire Mid-West as part of a package including The Union Underground, Soil, and Pete in 2001.

OTHER NATIONAL ACTS PERFORMED OR TOURED WITH:
Staind, Rage Against the Machine, Union Underground, Soil, Godsmack, Buck Cherry, Taproot, Monster Magnet, Skrape, Drowning Pool, Kittie, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Brains, 2 Skinny J's, Nonpoint, Murphy's Law, Revelle, Machine Head, Candiria, Orgy, Mystical, Wu Tang Clan, Goldfinger, Pete, 6 Gig, Fuel, Filter, Mushroomhead, Hatebreed, Sevendust, Earshot, Must, Headstrong, Dope, Twisted Method, and more....


DRP Records Inc.'s Gimme the Medicine 2 featuring Gargantua Soul's Void II (2003)
Versailles Records' American Hair Bands Vol. 1 featuring Gargantua Soul's rendition of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil (2003)
Rye Airfield's Noise V.1 featuring Gargantua Soul's Wolfvision (2001)
Mojo Music Studio Presents: Proof featuring Gargantua Soul's Rat Pack (2002)
Feoh Records' Sounds From the Trenches featuring Gargantua Soul's Isabella Madonna (2002)


G-SOUL was featured in a VH-1 Original Movie entitled "At Any Cost" with Gene Simmons of KISS. In the film, the band performs their song "Drive" and portrays a hot unsigned band called the "Strange Divas."
G-SOUL's "Drive" video was featured on the music /sports-related show "X-Trax" in September 2001 on ESPN.
G-SOUL appeared in a global music feature with live show footage on the show "X-Today" on ESPN in July of 2002.
G-SOUL appeared live on the USA Network's national music show Farmclub.com.
G-SOUL had a brief spotlight on E! Television on the Howard Stern Show.
G-SOUL's drummer OPUS appeared on the dating reality show "Shipmates" on UPN where he shamlessly promoted his band every chance he had!
G-SOUL performed live on MEGAHERTZ TV in Washington DC. for Aprox. 250,000 viewers in the Mid-Atlantic area.


All G-SOUL recordings can be purchased at Transworld locations like, Strawberries, FYE, Coconuts, Best Buy and Record Express chains, most mom & pop record stores, and online at Amazon.com, Wonderdrugrecords.com, CDBaby.com, CDStreet.com, and through most of the major distributors such as Valley, Northeast Distro, Midwest Artist, CD 1 Stop, West Coast Digital Waves, and All Indie! If it is not on the shelf, make sure you ask for it by name and ORDER IT !

For more Info. on GARGANTUA SOUL :

Band E-mail: gargantuasoul@hotmail.com
Band Hotline: Tel.# 203-488-6829
Band Address: G-SOUL @ P.O. BOX 120505, East Haven, CT. 06512-0505 USA.
To book Gargantua Soul email Arm Entertainment at: G-Soul Booking