Brave Saint Saturn

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Brave Saint Saturn
Origin	Fort Collins, Colorado
Country	United States
Years active	1995 – Present
Labels	Five Minute Walk, Tooth & Nail Records
Members	Dennis Culp Keith Hoerig Reese Roper Andrew Verdecchio

Brave Saint Saturn is a Christian rock band formed in Denver, Colorado. The band is a side-project of former members of Five Iron Frenzy, that Reese Roper started. The band calls their music style "astro-rock." The band also coined and encourages the use of "BS2" as a short nickname for the band.

1 Background
2 3rd Album
3 Members
4 Discography
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Background

Before the band was signed, they were called Astronaut. As a result "Astronaut Versions" of several early BS2 songs exist. The "Astronaut Version" of "Two-Twenty-Nine" is available on the compilation Manna 2 Go (fifty280 records). An otherwise unreleased Astronaut song, "Albatross," is also available on Green Manna (fifty280 records).

Brave Saint Saturn is generally more serious than the light-hearted FIF. As the former leader of FIF, Roper found FIF too straightforward fun for expressing feelings of loneliness and abandonment. BS2 is the platform for the more depressed and sad lyrics which Roper has written. He wants to show people they are not the only ones with feelings like these, and that there is hope in following Jesus. BS2 often uses the vastness of "space" as a metaphor for loneliness. With this in mind, the band uses NASA-recordings and electronic samples on their first two albums.

[edit] 3rd Album

Their third album has been believed to be cancelled but this 2006 article of an interview with Reese Roper may shed some light on that.

Reese also stated in his "Frequently Asked Questions" section of his personal MySpace Account at http://www.myspace.com/fiveironsucks that "IS there still going to be a new Brave Saint Saturn album? - Yes. It is still in the works, but not with the backing of any record labels. Dennis and I are slowly making it happen and we want it to be the best ever, so we are taking our time. Please be patient."

On April 3, Roper said in a post on the Five Iron Frenzy message board "Dennis and I are trying to finish writing it by mailing hard-drives back and forth between Denver and New Jersey. Our goal is to finish it by this summer, but we are busy right now, so we'll see..."