nyc

we just got back from nyc. here's how it went down, just the facts:

on monday, june 29 we left athens and headed to chapel hill, nc to play the Nightlight Club. chapel hill is a very very cool little town that reminds me a lot of my beloved athens, ga. The Winter Sounds played a great upbeat set right before us and then The Pneurotics rocked a fun one right after us. the crowd was great and the Nightlight is the jam.

on tuesday, june 30 we drove like mad to get to our brooklyn show at Trash Bar. we made it with time to spare, despite traffic. some driving notes: the worst traffic in the entire united states is in washington d.c. there are way too many tolls in delaware. new jersey is gross once you get close to nyc and you can't pump your own gas (what the hell is that?). anyhow, the city welcomes us as one of it's own. we play a loud fun set to a good crowd and then stay up till about 6 a.m. welcome to new york!

on wednesday, july 1 we take the train from our friend's place in manhattan to prospect park in brooklyn, where our pals Kuroma are playing a show at the bandshell with MGMT. we get off the train and walk for 2 1/2 hours around the park looking for the amphitheatre. turns out it was about 10 minutes from the train station. but the walk was beautiful and that park is really nice. waterfalls and forests in the middle of brooklyn. the show is incredible and about 10 or 15,000 people show up. back in manhattan after the show we get on top of our friend's building and look around the lower east side of the city. gorgeous.

thursday, july 2 was our last day in the city, so we had to go see times square, radio city music hall, the empire state building, bryant park, and the nyc public library. after all that junk, we played a show at Piano's in manhattan with Kuroma and Acrylics. the bill was unbelievably good for this show and the crowd jammed into the bar to see it. really good music. that's about all you can say. then we drove home.

nyc by the numbers:

-total cost of parking our van: $179.48

-slices of pizza eaten: oh god

-number of times someone projectile vomited out of our van

  and onto the brooklyn sidewalk: 1

-miles walked: too damn many

-miles driven: 1,678.11 (give or take a few steps)

-times i stepped in dog crap on clinton street: 1

-times we accidently drove across the williamsburg bridge: 1

thanks to all of our friends who let us crash at their places on this trip (you know who you are). it was fun and it looks like we will be going back in august. i'll take pictures next time. see ya then. 

i spend a lot of time with my amp. here's a video for fender.com, created by the legendary J.J. Bower. it's a day in Athens, GA with friends from Dead Confederate and Kuroma. the song is Not the Only One from our recently completed album. more on that later. that is all.

fire destroys The Georgia Theatre (Saturday's ATHFEST show moved to The Morton Theatre)

well, this sucks.

as you probably know by now, fire destroyed the legendary Georgia Theatre yesterday. i'd like to say that the Theatre was more than an Athens venue, it was an institution around here with a storied past dating back to the 19th century. it's importance to this city and the role it played in music history can not be overstated.

unfortunately, it was also our next destination (we were scheduled to play there one week from today for Athfest). our hearts go out to Wilmot, Scott and the rest of the crew there that always treated us so well. personally, i guess i'm just glad that we got to get in there and play the place a couple of weeks ago (5.29.09) before it was destroyed. they were just as professional and good to us then as they have ever been, and the show sounded great. have a listen to a very good recording of that show from Southern Shelter. view the photo gallery of our last Georgia Theatre show on Deadly Designs.

as for our Athfest show, it looks like it is going to be moved right down Washington St. to The Morton Theatre. the Morton is also the site of the Flagpole Music Awards ceremony that kicks off Athfest every year on Thursday night. we are very happy to be attending the ceremony as nominees for the Upstart of the Year award (thanks if you voted for us!) and we are still looking forward to Athfest.

despite this huge loss for Athens music, we would love to see you at the Morton Saturday night.

here's the lineup:

Saturday, June 27

What's Our Name - 9:30 PM

Gift Horse - 10:00 PM

Kuroma - 10:45 PM

Velveteen Pink - 12:00 AM

Immuzikation - 1:00 AM

R.I.P. Georgia Theatre and thanks for everything. you will be missed. thankfully no one was hurt and the place is insured. LET THE REBUILDING BEGIN.

tonight @ Star Bar (Atlanta, GA) with Kuroma & Ponderosa

POP DEATH SQUAD PROUDLY PRESENTS:  BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE FIVE POINTS

with Gift Horse, Kuroma, and Ponderosa. 

It's free and it is @ The Star Bar in (you guessed it) Little Five.

See ya...

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