How Far To Austin

Well, I guess summer hasn’t “technically” started, but that doesn’t mean I can’t run around in shorts and flippy flops and celebrate the fact that its at least warm enough that frostbite is no longer a threat.

But I digress . . . we had a blast at the House of Blues recently, big thanks to our pals in MATHIEN for having us out to support them – for those keeping track this was only our 4th show with Katie rockin’ the lead vocals, and it was spectacular - check out the youtubes, there is a video floating around of us tearing into “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin, alot of fun to watch (try just searching the band name I think that’ll lead you to it).

This weekend we kickoff the summer outdoor season with an awesome show, we’re headlining the WINE ON THE FOX (www.wineonthefox.com) in lovely Oswego, Illinois – the show is (of course) all ages, free, and we’ll be bringing along a whole truckload of grooves!  Our friends in JIN & TONIC will be starting things out with a late afternoon set, then we’ll take the stage at 6:30 to close out the night.  Arrive early, get a good spot, and see if you can guess what pair of sunglasses Colin will break out for this show (we’re fairly certain he has a trunk at home full of wacky shades).

New music coming soon, new video coming soon, until then, CHEERS!!!

-Bird

Yes indeed, the rumours are true (mostly because I started them) we are making our triumphant return to the House of Blues here in Chicago on Friday April 13th and could not possibly be more excited.  Seriously, we were tested just after making the announcement and our excitement as a group is literally off the charts.

So it’s quite simple really – we’re supporting local favorites and our good friends in MATHIEN, the show is open to everyone ages 17+, and tickets are $15 in advance, make sure to buy ahead of time as the price jumps up to $20 on the day of the show.  The rest of this bill is amazing, our olds friends in JASPER ACOUSTIC will open the night up, and also rockin’ the stage will be OUT FOR HOURS and ANIMATE OBJECTS.

You can get those tickets now at this link:

http://www.livenation.com/event/04004877BC044C66?brand=hob

We’re especially jazzed because this is only our 4th show with the refreshed lineup and there isn’t a better stage to to show off what we’ve been working on.  We’ve got a really amazing set planned, we’ll debut “New Orleans” and “Lovestruck Rush” which will both be released on Vinyl a little later this spring, and another new tune “Meddlin’ Mama” which has already become one of our favorites.  No plans to release it yet, so bring your nifty smart phones and record a version for your own enjoyment long after the show is over.  As always with a show this big, we’ll be offering our take on one or two classic songs and in honor of the occassion we’ve prepared a few selections to really blow your wigs back.  I don’t mean to suggest you lack hair and need a wig by any means, but if you do wear a wig, it will without a doubt be blown back.

So get your tickets, arrive early, we’ll play at 10:00 p.m. sharp but you don’t want to miss the entire lineup and of course plan on sticking around for headliner MATHIEN – his band just gets hotter and tighter and you’ll have to fight us for the best spots in the front row after our set is over!!!

-Bird

Well hello there!

You’re looking fabulous today dear reader, thanks for taking a minute to peruse our brand spanking new website . . . we’ve worked long, hard hours (with well timed union breaks) asking our designer when this thing would be ready . . . this frustrated him to no end and led to a protracted legal battle which we recently settled out of court over a lukewarm bottle of Dr. Pepper (glass bottle, yea, we’ve got connections) and a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos.   Turns out we missed his emails asking us minor details like “what do you want the site to look like”, he showed us how to check our “inbox” and as it turns out alot of people have been emailing lately and we didn’t even know it.  You could safely say we are not necessarily the most tech savvy band.

Soooo, where were we?  Oh yes, so welcome to our killer new website – I or one of my rock ‘n roll compadres will keep this blog updated “on the regular” (i heard a cool looking hipster say that ironically today, I don’t mean it ironically though, at least I don’t think) so that you, our cherished reader, will remain informed regarding our every movement.

Right now we are packing up to head to an amazing gem of a pub in Davenport, Iowa known affectionately (and also technically) as Kilkenny’s Irish Pub.  Katie and I head out there “on the regular” to play acoustic sets and always have a blast with owner Andy and his gang, they do a big, huge, gigantor outdoor tented festival for St. Patty’s day that draws out what feels like every fun-seeking soul in the quad cities area – and we work to satisfy their fun-seeking by bringing the entire band out for 2 sets of face melting rock and/or roll.  Good times guaranteed.

After that, we’re heading into Transient Studios once again with super-producer / mega-awesome-beard-cultivator Steve Gillis.  We’ll be laying down two new tracks, tentatively titled “New Orleans” and “Better Than That”.  I say tentatively because we often times change titles of songs for reasons that I don’t care to divulge here (thats for another post).  No, its not that dramatic, we’re just very much a “grass is always greener” sort of band when it comes to song titles, perhaps we’ll just call every song “Not Stairway” and call it a day.

After tracking the new tunes we’re getting back into the groove with spring/summer festivals that will see us rocking some big stages all over the midwest, check the tour dates page “on the regular” for updates, “like” us on facebook (you are also welcome to “like” us in real life too), and keep an eye out for a forthcoming new music video for the song TONIGHT from our last e.p.

Thats that,

XOXO

-Birdman-