Cancellations suck
It’s official both this weekends shows are cancelled. Roseburg had a problem where the venue backed out and Bend had some mixup where the supposed date wasn’t actually confirmed by the promoter. Either way it’s pretty lame. We’ve got a makeup date for Roseburg in late March and hopefully someone will help us find some another show in Bend as it’s been waaaaay to long.
Show Journal 2006-01-18
Tonight’s show was in a clothing store. Amazingly this is not the first time we’ve played in a clothing store. Last time was about 10 years ago. Strange how many things have changed and how many haven’t over the course of a decade. Despite the bragging rights of saying we’ve played in not one, but two clothing stores, tonight did have a lot of firsts. Tonight was the first time I ate a fast food pita. Tonight was definitely the first time any of us were accosted by a homeless man offering to sell Duracell’s (not just batteries, but Duracell’s). Tonight was the first time we didn’t see the uber-nerds discussing science fiction at Pioneer Villa. Tonight was the first and last night Dustin will jump the van off a BMX jump. Anyway, the show was very small and very DIY which is always refreshing to see. The down side was that it took forever. Granted, part of that was due to our late PA arrival, but 4 bands in 5 hours makes it hard to keep the energy flowing. Despite the long breaks there were still people there at the end of the night that weren’t afraid to dance and that’s made it fun. Thanks to Ugly Litter for booking the show and to the Android staff for having us. Also, congrats to Susan!
Podcasting
Mo’ podcasts for the new year. Check out this new one featuring all kinds of bands we like called Sak-Cast Radio. They are looking for new music so if you have a band get on it!
Show Journal 2006-01-07
Salem? Are you ready to rock? The answer is hell yes. Salem is ready and very willing to rock. It’s possible this show has made it into my top 10 best shows list. When we pulled up we saw a somewhat empty and very well lit coffee shop that did not look ready for a show. Our last all ages show in Salem (way back in 1998) was also in a well lit restaurant in the downtown area so we expected the worst. They said we could load in downstairs and once we saw the cramped, dark and already warm basement we knew we’d be just fine. The Hornswogglers were up first and oddly enough we had met two of the members of their band before. The bass player had broken his arm at a show in McMinnville and the guitar player had seen up in Spokane once. Small world sometimes. They sounded pretty solid and we were impressed. Sister Ray was second. They weren’t really my thing so I won’t say anything. They seemed nice enough and the Beatles cover was pretty good. Kill The Kids ended up using our gear because they had a bunch of stuff ripped off the night before in San Francisco. While we were loading amps down the stairs we heard a guy talking to a group of girls headed out the door. Here’s the conversation as best as I can recall. “Where are you going?” “We’re leaving now” “You don’t want to see 800 Octane?” “No, we don’t like death metal.” Death Metal? How did they know we were playing all Morbid Angel covers tonight? Anyway, Kill The Kids tore it up. Their hometown fans are insane and go absolutely nuts. Very refreshing to see such a response for such a deserving bunch of guys. They can seriously rock and we’re looking forward to playing with them again in Bend. Our set was pretty damn good. We had one crummy moment where the PA cut out so we had no vocals at all. While waiting for them to fix it a couple people asked for ‘Day Of The Dead’ and said they’d sing along. So we played it and they did. Sometimes I don’t think we deserve the people that like our band because to play a song with no vocals and still have people go nuts is beyond cool. Big thanks to Kill The Kids, Andy, The Sip, Ritchie Von Dead and everyone else who stayed late.
Lose some, win some
Seems that The Briefs show for Jan 6th has been cancelled due to a problem with the venue. We’re hoping TJ and the folks at Suckerpunch Recods will have it resceduled sometime soon. Good news is we have a ton of other local shows coming up.
Show Journal 2005-12-16
Always loud and always rowdy, Astoria shows always rock. We actually left on time tonight but got stuck in traffic and basically idled from downtown PDX all the way past Vancouver. That means we missed both Absence Of Grace and Buck 90. Apologies to both of those bands for missing your sets. We did get to see Accidental Gun Death and they were in rare form tonight. Between the inability of their gear to contain the rock and their physical encounters with the crowd I’m sure they have a bunch of new fans now. Our set felt pretty solid and everyone up front seemed to dig it. Dave still has all his teeth so that’s a plus. On the van ride home we run over a chicken carcass and learned that Justin’s burps smell like cheese, despite not eating any for days. Thanks to Chris for setting up another smoothly running show and thanks to the other bands.
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We’ve got lots of upcoming shows after the holidays. Also, we finally have re-prints of our Spine shirt in all sizes … including Smalls and Mediums!
Show Journal 2005-12-08
When did the Ash Street become the most consistent bar in town to play? Always people, always rowdy, always fun. Accidental Gun Death opened the show and was terribly amusing as well as terribly rocking. The singer Jamie tends to move around a lot. Standing near the front of the stage I was worried that he would fall off in the piles of drums and equipment. I asked myself “how would I react if someone fell off the stage and nearly killed themselves?” Would I help? Would I have to call 911? About two minutes into their set I learned the answer to this question is stand motionless and just smile. Jamie did land on his feet but took about half of Scratch’s drums out with them. Too funny. Scratch was pretty cool but primarily because they covered DFL and for some reason DFL amuses me. Plus who knew Jed had a band? We played six new songs tonight. Despite Dave’s claims that “we might fuck this up” they all went off without a hitch and we were relieved. My Goldfish Ned played last and it was a little bittersweet because it was their last show and 11th anniversary. I couldn’t help but wonder what our last show would be like. When will it be? Where will it be? Who will show up? We’ll be pushing 12 years real soon so it was cool to see another band that started about the same time we did and was right here in the exact same place at the same show. (Stranger still is that two of AGD’s members have been playing over 10 years as well.) Very, very solid set by the Ned tonight and I kind of wished we had gotten to play with them more often. Turns out they will still be making music, just under a different name and different songs so maybe that’ll happen. Thanks to Heather and the Ash Street. Apologies to Dustin for the speeding ticket and parking ticket.
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Seems one of the members of Portland’s own musical tribute heroes ‘The Misfats’ has featured us in his podcast which can be found here. Let’s hope it does not suck.
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Wow, thank you to everyone we met in North Bend. I think you just made our month.
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