How are your shows/gigs going?

jess and i are playing on the 24th or 25th i think, at the pilot light with jackie 0 motherfucker

http://www.myspace.com/tenderhooks

all our shows are on there, we have 4 coming up in the next 3 weeks, come to one!

For me, breaking even IS a successful tour.

Our last show went ok - it was at Trash Bar in Wmsbg. It was one of those nights where we got dumped on with rain, so I think that made the turnout a little smaller than normal, but still not a bad crowd. New bass player pretty much nailed everything no problem. Lesser Birds of Paradise were great as always. Places (Amy Anelle) wasn't as good as I expected - I think maybe the sound was bad.

I Karaoked Roy Orbison (Crying) after the show. You guys should have heard me.

Doing a series of gigs has been great from the point-of-view of getting around the country, playing different kinds of venues and in front of new people. We're pretty confident in our ability to win over a strange crowd now. But...we're getting tired of some of the songs. Last week, in Brighton, the middle of the set had 3 mid-tempo songs in row, which was a mistake, and we sort of dragged our way through them unenthusisatically. This week we're going to stick to short and fast, apart from one song. We play better like this, and there's still enough variety in the set to grab the audience's interest.

We've already started work on the new stuff and it is a real step forward and quite a different sound. I will be playing guitar on most of this material rather than keybds. I can't wait to get some of these songs finished - hopefully we can get a couple in the set for Nov 18.

I suppose we should just line up a gig and use that as a deadline.

I had 3.5 gigs over the weekend -- one club gig + after set and two corporate type gigs. The club stuff was a blast, as was one of the private things (outdoor in a beer garden for a cystic fibrosis benefit), but the convention center gig was a little demoralizing (in the "getting treated like busboys" sense).

I just got some great news on that front btw. The festival that we played and recorded at during the summer wants to pay for the pressing of the cd, and take a couple thousand for promotional purposes!

my band is playing its last show on friday. i might be bummed later, but i'm kind of excited right now - we've got a good set list ready to go and most of our friends are coming and we're playing with good bands at a low-pressure venue, so the show should be fun

hopefully we're still going to record the last few songs we have sometime in december, though we won't have anywhere to practice for that and don't have firm plans to record anywhere yet

you guys should all come to the show. it's going to be uncomfortably loud and crowded.

aw. RIP. have an awesome show

where?

ronny's. it's shitty but no-hassle and near a lot of our friends.