nighty night

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Hump day.

We're halfway done with tour! Holy shit it's flying by. Here are some of my favorite snapshots from tour so far...

-Chris

1) Shaving a crucial lightning bolt into Marcus' scalp... and swimming in the Atlantic!

2) Having lively discussions in the van.

3) Getting drunk and sweaty as hell in Nashville with Diarrhea Planet.

4) Making friends in Richmond.

5) Sleeping in the clean, dark and air conditioned bliss of the Infinity Cat Records HQ in Nashville... and admiring Taylor Swift and Hanna Montana's gold records.

Monday, July 11, 2011

TOUR DATES

7/22 : Nashville TN @ The Parsonage
7/23 : Asheville NC @ Broadways
7/24 : Durham NC @ Motorco (early show 3p)
7/25 : Richmond VA @ Sprout
7/26 : Philadelphia PA @ House Show
7/27 : Brookyln NY @ Brooklyn Fireproof
7/29 : Boston/Allston MA @ Problemhouse
7/30 : New Brunswick NJ @ The Alamo
8/01 : Chicago IL @ Empty Bottle
8/04 : Carbondale IL @ Varsity Theater

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

New EP Release & Tour

We played in St. Louis this weekend, it was fun, our friend Brad Krischel took these pictures.

We are having an EP release show for the new EP on Thursday, June 30th at Hangar 9. Our friends in Rob Jacobs Ensemble, and PUJOL from Nashville, will be playing too. Here is a link to the event page. For now the EP will be released as a limited CD and a split cassette tape with Rob Jacobs & John McCowen. We have a bandcamp page now, where you can hear/down the new EP and the Belle 7".

We are also going to go on a tour, almost all of the shows are booked, here is the schedule!

7/19 - Carbondale w/ Useless Eaters

7/22 - Nashville

7/23 - Asheville

7/24 - Chapel Hill

7/25 - Richmond

7/26 - Philadelphia

7/27 - NYC

7/ 28 - NYC

7/29 - Boston

7/30 - New Brunswick

7/31 - Athens

8/1 - Chicago

8/2 - tba

8/3 - tba

8/4 - Carbondale

See you soon!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Recording

Is done.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Postcard from New Zealand

THANKS TED!!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Stuff

Today is my birthday. I'm sitting in my room listening to this old pressing of The Birth Of Cool by Miles Davis (just realized how funny that is..) that I got for really cheap on Record Store Day, and I feel pretty nice and want to tell you about some cool stuff we are doing.

We're playing two shows on Friday. They will both be pretty cool, you should come. We will have nice prints of this poster available, drawn by our friend Natalie Miller. Here is info on the first show and here is info on the second.

We've made some new recordings. They are almost ready for you to hear them. They are trapped in this box for now but you will hear them soon. Promise.

Mary, Chris, and Zach are going to see the Arcade Fire tonight. Marcus and I are going to stay home and play Dizzy Gillespie songs with our friend Kevin and maybe have a little party. See you on Friday, keep your fingers crossed it doesn't rain.

xoxo

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Friday @ Skihouse

We've just added a last minute show, this Friday at the Skihouse with our friends from Nashville JEFF The Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet, and our friends from across the street Staring Problem. We love playing at Skihouse it is where we practice, and we love all of those bands, and we love you so come out!

Oh yeah here are some pictures from that last show we played with Lost In The Trees at Hangar 9, it was really fun, we're playing at Hangar 9 again next week (Mar 4) see you there!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Saddle Up

It's been almost a year since we've messed around with this thing, and a lot of stuff has happened since then. Mary and Marcus graduated from school and got crazy jobs doing awesome things, Zeke built a cabin and is going back to school, Chris and David did a lot of weird stuff.. but we'll be checking in here more often, and if you really want to follow what's going on you can look at our facebook page because we update it more. We've got a whole bunch of new songs, and we've started working on a number of recordings and videos but we haven't finished them yet. We're going to play a lot of shows in the next few months, so you will see a lot of us again soon!

love,

nighty night

SHOWS:

1/28/11 @ Hangar 9 w/ Lost In The Trees - Cardondale IL

2/11/11 @ Glove Factory Surplus Gallery - Carbondale IL

3/04/11 @ Hangar 9 - Carbondale IL

3/11/11 @ Schlafly Taproom w/ Theodore - St. Louis MO

3/16/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/17/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/18/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/19/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

Friday, January 22, 2010

Days 14-18

Woahhh the last few days were crazy, so we didn't really get round to bloggin'.

Asheville was way beautiful and fun and we stayed in the amazing home of Kim from Pilgrim and Nathanael, where this little monster kept us up all night:

and I found a long lost relative.

Then we played the wild Temptation Club in Murfreesboro with some cool bands from Chicago/Louisville, and caught up with Megan in Nashville. After a stop at Waffle House, off to Bloomington it was, where a truckload of our friends showed up and things got crazy. We played a fun house show with Kentucky Nightmare and Simon drove his car into our van, I am still not sure if it was an accident or not.

Woke up early and hauled azz to Chicago, finally got there after a stop in scenic Gary IN and at that McDonalds in the middle of the toll road. Played in Record Breakers which was fun and ate hot dogs and my bass fell off in the last song. Then went to Sultan's Market mmmmm and played a fun loft show w/ Tin Tin Can, The Distractions and the lovely Black Fortys.

Then ended things like every tour should end, with a stop at Cozy Corner.

Don't get the Triple Decker Club Sandwich, it is too big to fit in your mouth.

Tour was rad. Being home is weird.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The End!

We're home! Last show of the tour tonight! Blog about the last few days soon!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

hijack

i had a conversation about nighty night recently with a group of people. we all came to the realization that knowing these people intimately or not, their music brings goosebumps and wet undies to all that hear. i was really surprised cause i just figured i was alone in this and probably felt so in awe of Mary that i wanted to shrink her and keep her in a music box that i would carry everywhere. so last night when they played in Bloomington the audience was equally as "moved" by their music...which is crazy cause not only were these people complete strangers, this music was new to their ears...and dey fuckin felt dat sheit.

(by rosie)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Clarification

Another record store? Hardly. We went to Static Age Records and Voltage Records (and if we're lucky we will go to Harvest Records tomorrow.. shhh..) and Zach and I got some sweet shit. Flower Travellin' Band, Ghana Soundz Vol. 2, and David Bowie / Hunky Dory for me.. Dock Boggs, Gal Costa, and a Camera Obscura record for Zeke. Good day. Marcus' Otis Redding search has gone on unfulfilled though.

In other news, I got possibly the sweetest Carhart ever today as well. Pic soon. I've been eying this boombox at static age pretty hard too..

Oh yeah, and the Bobo show tonight has been moved to Static Age Records, and the Murfreesboro show tomorrow has been moved from Scotty's to The TEMPTATION CLUB 8pm (2404 Halls Hill Pike). Also the house show in Bloomington is at Bar None (110 N Maple) w/ Kentucky Nightmare & Dust From 1000 years.

Thanks to Lauren and Patrick and Katie and Paisley and everyone in Knoxville, that was fun!

-d

Tennessee Take ONE

Hello out there! Knoxville is cool. Our show last night was fun. We played at this old house called the Birdhouse with two other bands. We met a lot of cool people. We got a little drunk. We stayed with a lawyers daughter named Kate. Chris as Zach slept on the floor head to head and we stayed up laughing til pretty late at night. Marcus said it was "like a 5th grade slumber party". We woke up and grocery shopped and chris gave a homeless man money while drinking a beer in the kroger parking lot. (chris was drinking the beer). THEN we drove to Asheville! We parked the van, went to

ANOTHER RECORD STORE,

then some people ate indian food. Our Asheville show got moved from the BoBo Gallery to Static Age Records down the street. We're drinking beer in a coffee shop now. The record store has a back room place for shows, w/ movie theater seats!

Marcus made this list that he taped up on the Babe Wall of shows we have already played, and shows we have yet to play. The second column is getting shorter. It's crazy that so much of tour is behind us. Its exciting that we're almost home. I don't wanna go to school Tuesday. My tummy hurts a little. I hope this show is fun- i think it will be. And this town is beautiful and fun. I've always wanted to visit. It's cool that we have gotten to visit so many cool cities and towns, and get right to the cool stuff right away. More later.

p.s. Zach and Chris actually slept next to each other like 7 or 8 nights in a row. Twins!