Blink 182, Foo Fighters, Moby audition to be in The Postal Service?
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Comedy website Funny or Die have posted a spoof tape of auditions to be in The Postal Service, to celebrate the 10th anniversary release of Give Up.
The '2002' video shows a host of musicians auditioning in front of one half of the band, Jimmy Tamborello, and a Subpop label representative - played by Tom Daly.
The auditionees include Blink-182's Tom Delonge, Moby, Nate Mendel of Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters, former Guns N Roses member Duff McKagan, Aimee Mann, Weird Al and more.
Moby manages to steal the show with his rage-filled audition, which involves the star tearing his own shirt off and knocking over the table that both Tamborello and Daly are seated at.
The clip finishes with the actual other half of The Postal Service, Ben Gibbard, auditioning - and making it into the band.
Watch the video below:
The band recently debuted a previously unreleased song, titled 'A Tattered Line Of String', which is their first 'new' material in ten years.
The track is taken from the tenth anniversary deluxe edition of Give Up, which will also include a new song called 'Turn Around'. Both songs feature Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley.
Other bonus tracks on the record will include a previously unreleased live recording, and every other official recording the band has ever released - as well as cover versions of Postal Service classics by The Shins and Iron & Wine.
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