The Lonely Astronauts

The Lonely Astronauts

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Lonely Astronauts


Img_capt =
Background = group_or_band
Origin = Brooklyn, New York
Genre = Indie rock
Years_active = 2006-present
Label = Lonely Astronaut Records
Associated_acts = Joseph Arthur
URL = [http://www.josepharthur.com/ josepharthur.com]
[http://www.myspace.com/thelonelyastronauts Official MySpace page]
Current_members = Joseph Arthur
Kraig Jarret Johnson
Jennifer Turner
Sibyl Buck
Greg "G. Wiz" Wieczorek
Past_members =

The Lonely Astronauts is the band originally started as Joseph Arthur's touring band. Joseph and the band have recorded and released two studio albums together thus far, titled "Let's Just Be" (released in April 2007), and "Temporary People" (released in September 2008). The Lonely Astronauts are:

* Joseph Arthur - vocals, guitar
* Kraig Jarret Johnson - guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Jennifer "Jen" Turner - guitar, vocals
* Sibyl Buck - bass, vocals
* Greg "G. Wiz" Wieczorek - drums, vocals
* Rene Lopez - keyboards, drums, percussion, vocals (seldom)
* Angelbert Metoyer - on-stage paintings (seldom)

Kraig Jarret Johnson is a member of the band Golden Smog and was the guitarist for The Jayhawks and Run Westy Run. Jen Turner has played guitar for Natalie Merchant as well as in her own bands Furslide and Inner. Sibyl Buck is a French-born musician and former fashion model; also notorious for performing gymnastics. Greg "G. Wiz" Wieczorek has played drums for a number of artists, including The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins as well as his own side project Telescope. Rene Lopez is a solo musician and frequent Joseph Arthur collaborator (including playing drums on Joseph's "Vagabond Skies" EP and their side-project Holding the Void in 2003), but has not consistently appeared with the Astronauts on-stage. Angelbert Metoyer is a Houston, Texas-based artist who would paint on-stage (he also has not been with the band on all tour dates).

External links

The Lonely Astronauts can be found on MySpace:
* [http://www.myspace.com/thelonelyastronauts The Lonely Astronauts' page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/josepharthur Joseph Arthur's page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/goldensmog Kraig Jarret Johnson's Golden Smog page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/sibylbuck Sibyl Buck's page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/telescope1 Greg Wieczorek's Telescope page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/renelopez Rene Lopez's page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/angelbertmetoyer Angelbert Metoyer's page]


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