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Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat
July 16, 2009 • 11:42 pm
Mule Magazine
This is a great magazine. You can find it at sweet places all over. Check it out.
June 30, 2009 • 1:07 pm
Moonstruck Cafe
A coffee shop that we also happened to play at, in Winthrop, MA.
June 11, 2009 • 1:38 pm
Gear Issues
So we were thinking about it, and we’ve had an amazing, nearly comical amount of gear issues on this tour, and they have gotten progressively worse with each night. I can only imagine what is going to happen when we get to Brooklyn. Here’s a brief rundown.
Day 1 - I arrive in Champaign, turn on my amp to practice with Ryan from GN&GM for the first time, and my reverb is making a piercing high pitched squeal. Sayonara, reverb. :(
Day 2 - Show in Bloomington, Pat’s motor for his vibraphone gets dented, the speed can no longer be controlled.
Day 3 - In Lexington, got a little paint on my guitar, and Ryan’s amp was used to play some beats and noise music. Not too bad, but a little scary.
Day 4 - In Arlington, we didn’t really have any issues, except for my amp was played at a crazy high volume, considering I rarely have to turn it past 2 or 3 max. Like Lexington, not too bad, but a little scary.
Day 5 - Charlottesville - no problems, yay!
Day 6 - At our show in Baltimore, the basement flooded. Nothing was harmed, though.
Day 7 - In Toms River, it was a wild basement show, and some folks I think didn’t realize that vibraphones are really expensive, and you shouldn’t bump into them while dancing and play them. Kinda scary.
Day 8 - Our show in Philadelphia was another crazy (more like insane) basement show. Ryan turned his amp on to play with me during my set like normal, and it turns out his amp just doesn’t work anymore. Not sure why. We’re trying to get it fixed, but it seems unlikely.
What will happen next? For the record, all of this stuff aside, we’re having an excellent first week of tour, and the shows have been amazing. We’ve attributed all of this bad gear luck to that fact alone.
June 6, 2009 • 11:16 am
Red Emma's
Hanging out here before our show at Charm City Art Space
June 3, 2009 • 4:37 pm
Para Coffee
Great little coffee shop in Charlottesville, VA.
June 3, 2009 • 3:54 pm
We're a band from Chicago who tries to make the pretty sad, and the sad interesting. This is our website, about coffee mugs, semis, and music.
