Now we are in Baton Rouge and are listening to them and it rules. We also finally got to listen to the Follow That Bird! record we got.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Domino
Before we left New Orleans we stopped at Domino Sound and holy shit it was awesome. We had to wait in the van for an hour for it to open but it was worth it. Zach and I (David) freaked out and got some sweet records.
Now we are in Baton Rouge and are listening to them and it rules. We also finally got to listen to the Follow That Bird! record we got.
Now we are in Baton Rouge and are listening to them and it rules. We also finally got to listen to the Follow That Bird! record we got.
Day 7&8
After 7 shows straight, we've had the past two days off before we play 10 (possibly 11..) more shows straight. We've stayed in this swank hotel, la belle maison, in downtown New Orleans for the past two days courtesy of my grandpa (thank you!!) and we've have been relaxing hard. We explored New Orleans pretty well, and now we are hanging out with Sarah Jackson in Baton Rouge, drinking lots of coffee and watching Batman Returns. Pretty okay.
We drank too many margaritas at Juan's Flying Burrito..
Visited the St. Louis Cathedral..
And found lots of cool old stuff..
Most notably this portrait of Zach that we thought had been lost, but is actually residing in a GLBT bookstore just outside the French Quarter. Lookin good dude.
We drank too many margaritas at Juan's Flying Burrito..
Visited the St. Louis Cathedral..
And found lots of cool old stuff..
Most notably this portrait of Zach that we thought had been lost, but is actually residing in a GLBT bookstore just outside the French Quarter. Lookin good dude.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Day 6
Played at Circle Bar with some cool dudes, hung out with Lady Capricorn, lots of new friends and old friends, too many free pbr.
You can find me in the tub with a bottle full a bub..
You can find me in the tub with a bottle full a bub..
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Day 5
Okay okay okay. We've been partyin' instead of bloggin', wouldn't you? We played in Lafayette and to be honest we were expecting a let down (monday night, no local band, etc..) but shit got WILD. Thanks to Katie, Mitchell, Steve, Rat Cat Double Parakeet, the oil rig guy, and the Tennessee Williams girls for treating us right. Lafayette is cool. Also thanks to Jared who let us stay in his beautiful house and probably shouldn't have. He was awesome, and his mystery roommate may be a robot.
Then we drove through the swamps where it seems like everyone (but us of course) was totally drunk, and finally made it to New Orleans. We have all been practicing our Southern accents, and Zach has been coaching us.
Oh yeah, Marcus and I (David) went swimming. Outside. And it ruled.
Then we drove through the swamps where it seems like everyone (but us of course) was totally drunk, and finally made it to New Orleans. We have all been practicing our Southern accents, and Zach has been coaching us.
Oh yeah, Marcus and I (David) went swimming. Outside. And it ruled.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Tour Date Updates
Three new dates added.. we will now be playing at Kara's Sound House (1150 Park Bvld.) in Baton Rouge LA on Friday the 8th, at the Elbo Room in Columbia SC on Monday the 11th, and at Scotty's in Murfreesboro TN on Thurs the 14th. The shows have been going really well so far, thanks to everyone who has helped us out! We're off to Lafayette to eat some crawdads.
Messin' With Texas
Things got a little wild after the two shows.. Zach and Chris were messin' with Texas and Marcus had his first Falafel.
That's a gyro though, the falafel came later.
That's a gyro though, the falafel came later.
Day 4
Austin! We played two shows in Austin last night and it was rad. The first one was a Trailer Space records, it was a cool place and really fun show. Hung out with JJ and Lew and a guy from Alton IL and met lots of nice people.
We played with Follow That Bird! and they were awesome.
They are short so it is hard to see..
We also played with Magic Jewels who had a badass van.
Then we played at Hole In The Wall with Mary's cousin's band, Puff Puff and the Receivers. It was a lot of fun too, hung out with family and some new friends.
We played with Follow That Bird! and they were awesome.
They are short so it is hard to see..
We also played with Magic Jewels who had a badass van.
Then we played at Hole In The Wall with Mary's cousin's band, Puff Puff and the Receivers. It was a lot of fun too, hung out with family and some new friends.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Day 3
We're in Texas and it rules. It smells like fire and it sounds like we're in outer space. Drinkin' Lone Star n shit. We played at Rubber Gloves in Denton last night and it was fun, cool venue and lots of nice people.
Then we tried to drive to Austin after the show, but I had caught some intense stomach virus and we had to stop after about 45 min, and I puked in the lobby of a comfort inn. 36 fucked up hours later I am finally feeling like a human again, and cannot wait to eat something.
Yay Texas!
-David
Then we tried to drive to Austin after the show, but I had caught some intense stomach virus and we had to stop after about 45 min, and I puked in the lobby of a comfort inn. 36 fucked up hours later I am finally feeling like a human again, and cannot wait to eat something.
Yay Texas!
-David
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Day 1&2: Hot Springs
Hot Springs fucking rules. Seriously. Sooooo cool! Played at Maxine's, which turned out to be one of the nicest venues with the nicest/coolest staff we've ever played at. They gave us two free pizzas and some sweet beer, both of which we enjoyed in the VIP room while sipping bottles of free Mountain Valley Spring Water behind a velvet rope, safe from the presence of the "little people."
The owners, Kevin and Agnes, stood by the edge of the stage during both our and Bandit Sound's sets and was way into both of us. Kevin collects vinyl from touring bands that play Maxine's and puts them in a crate he plans to give his three year old son when he turns 12. So, little Konrad will be listening to "belle" in 2019... hope he likes it.
Also...
Hung out with Bill aka Billy Spunk of the Blue Meanies and slept on his floor, held our hands in the scalding hot spring water and learned the history of Hot Springs at an old bathhouse that's been converted into a museum.
All said and done one of the coolest little cities we've ever played.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Winter Tour
So it is official, our winter tour starts tomorrow.
Here are the dates:
Tell your friends! Gonna be SO FUN!
Here are the dates:
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Tell your friends! Gonna be SO FUN!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Flying South for the Winter!
So it's official. We're going on tour again in January!!! Got a few dates pretty nailed down, but working on a bunch more. Here's where we're looking...
Memphis, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Denton, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Gainesville, Savannah, Athens, Atlanta, Asheville, Chattanooga, Nashville
Trying to play 15 days straight. Gonna be crazy.
xoxo,
-nn
Memphis, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Denton, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Gainesville, Savannah, Athens, Atlanta, Asheville, Chattanooga, Nashville
Trying to play 15 days straight. Gonna be crazy.
xoxo,
-nn
Monday, August 3, 2009
In Pictures : The End
This is what the Tour Edition test pressing looked like, if you have one you are super cool! There are only 34!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Belated Tour Rap-Up
Even though we've been back for a month and a half, it seems like we aught to have some parting thoughts on the experience of our first tour... here are some of the highlights for me.
-chris!
It seemed more like a wine blind and wild road trip than a "tour" in the conventional sense of the word. The shows were fun and "successful" (whatever that's supposed to mean), but the trip was much more than a collection of shows.
In three weeks we played 11 shows in 10 cities, drove exactly 7,601 miles and managed to buy only three or four tanks of gas out of pocket... we only got into one fight.
We watched a man covered in streaky white face paint writhe screaming on the floor of a Best Western Barroom in Tuscon wearing nothing but a peculiar object strapped over his dangling genitalia. Then, we escaped from a tambourine playing woman's house for San Diego at 7:00am because a certain band mate (who shall remain nameless) woke remorseful next to an author with wild curly black hair and futuresque shaved sideburns.
We chanted like pseudo shamans in the middle of a drain pipe beneath California's Highway 1. We sat on a redwood tree trunk throne and climbed a rocky mountain river bed. On Pismo Beach we drank 9 bottles of wine and swam next to naked in the freezing Pacific while West Coast hillbillies drove by in dune buggies and ATVs.
We crept beneath underpasses and through wire clipped fences in Oakland and smoked joints on the sidewalk in San Fransisco. We watched seals play in the deadly undertow off the black sands of Shelter Cove and cooked corn and bratwursts on a ramshackle grill built of sticks and stones.
I screamed at friends and strangers on a residential street in Olympia, throwing beer in their eyes and calling them assholes... some of them didn't know why... I apologized. All was well.
We drank wine, slept in tents and watched the sunrise for more than 7,000 miles. People were good to us and we thank them for that. Since we've come back, two far flung friends have visited and we look forward to sharing more of them with the city and the people we love.
-chris!
It seemed more like a wine blind and wild road trip than a "tour" in the conventional sense of the word. The shows were fun and "successful" (whatever that's supposed to mean), but the trip was much more than a collection of shows.
In three weeks we played 11 shows in 10 cities, drove exactly 7,601 miles and managed to buy only three or four tanks of gas out of pocket... we only got into one fight.
We watched a man covered in streaky white face paint writhe screaming on the floor of a Best Western Barroom in Tuscon wearing nothing but a peculiar object strapped over his dangling genitalia. Then, we escaped from a tambourine playing woman's house for San Diego at 7:00am because a certain band mate (who shall remain nameless) woke remorseful next to an author with wild curly black hair and futuresque shaved sideburns.
We chanted like pseudo shamans in the middle of a drain pipe beneath California's Highway 1. We sat on a redwood tree trunk throne and climbed a rocky mountain river bed. On Pismo Beach we drank 9 bottles of wine and swam next to naked in the freezing Pacific while West Coast hillbillies drove by in dune buggies and ATVs.
We crept beneath underpasses and through wire clipped fences in Oakland and smoked joints on the sidewalk in San Fransisco. We watched seals play in the deadly undertow off the black sands of Shelter Cove and cooked corn and bratwursts on a ramshackle grill built of sticks and stones.
I screamed at friends and strangers on a residential street in Olympia, throwing beer in their eyes and calling them assholes... some of them didn't know why... I apologized. All was well.
We drank wine, slept in tents and watched the sunrise for more than 7,000 miles. People were good to us and we thank them for that. Since we've come back, two far flung friends have visited and we look forward to sharing more of them with the city and the people we love.
"belle" - Debut EP OUT NOW!!!
Hello lovelies,
Our debut 7" record, "belle", is finally ready for distribution! It's already out on Let's Pretend Records and will be available nation wide through Carrot Top Distribution's online catalog Saki on Tuesday, August 4. However you can purchase the record directly from us below.
Our debut 7" record, "belle", is finally ready for distribution! It's already out on Let's Pretend Records and will be available nation wide through Carrot Top Distribution's online catalog Saki on Tuesday, August 4. However you can purchase the record directly from us below.
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