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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Rains = Pours

Hey everyone, come out to the Money in Rock Hill Saturday. We just got tapped to do a fill in. Come early, I think we go on at 8:30pm. I am not sure about the other bands yet but I do know we are playing with Rita's Gift. They are also coming down to N Augusta 8/8 to play the Highlander. RAWK!

Thursday, July 3, 2008

6/27 recap of The Highlander show

The Highlander
133 Georgia Ave
N Augusta, South Carolina 29841
Description w/ ANGWISH!

Wow that Angwish puts on a heck of a rock show. Since we were playing on all their gear we all piled in Maria's Yaris with the guitars. Super nice place. We got there early. I recommend the "Scotch Eggs." Angwish laid the groundwork with a hot first set. We played our thing. This was our longest set to day (17 songs). People seemed to genuinely be into it. Then Angwish played a dessert set. Aaaaand since they are going to GREECE (the one in Europe, not Athens GA or Paris Texas) in August there was an opening for us to come back to the Highlander 08/08/08! See you there!

6/21 recap of the K & C show

Keg & Cue
2135 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203
Description:DETAILS w/ ANALOG DAZE

First of our residency gigs at the Keg & Cue. What a super place?!
Analog Daze treated us to some of their new songs. It rained like a @#$^@#$& and I had to partially unassemble my amplifier to get the wet out. Anyway, suffice to say I got a new amp. Hoo boy. Sorry, no pics. Vince was feeling a little sicked out with the allergies.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Long Story Short

Hey, sorry we've been all kinds of busy either practicing, writing new stuff or playing shows. Here's a brief recap of things gone on.
So yeah, we broke down between the record store show (below) in Raleigh and the Juggling Gypsy. A tire blew apart somewhere in or near Duplin County. We ended up trying to find a gas station where I could change it and basically rode the treadless tire about five miles to scenic Calypso, NC. Changing a tire when it is 100 deg F outside is annoying. Add to that the lug nuts being about 120 deg and RUSTED on the studs. So really annoying. Anyway we called the JG and they were super nice. The Gentle Suit were playing on our equipment. Well, with the exception of my Twin Reverb amplifier which took a powder at School Kids Records. ANNOYED? YES I WAS. So we chugged down to Wilmington hoping the other dry-rotted tire didn't follow suit. It did not.

We played a really fun set following The Gentle Suit. (I wished they had played a little longer because they are all kinds of awesome.) Erlers let me use his amplifier head/cabinet. Wow, Tiny Terror. What a great amp?!

So things went pretty well despite the insane heat, tire problems. We did get to spend 3 HOURS at Wal-Mart (I know! But there were the only place we could find open on a Sunday that had our gi-normous truck tires). Thanks Wal-Nutz. I normally have a long rant about stuff like this but, no one really wants to read that. :D

I guess they were pretty happy with our performance as we will be back at the Juggling Gypsy with ANGWISH on 8/30. See you there.