Studio time confirmed!
Finally after 3 years of drummer changes, great shows, awful shows, a canceled tour and even childbirth we’re getting serious about making our 5th full length album. Studio time has been booked for April and May of 2008 at Egg Studios in Seattle. Why are we going to Egg again? Becuase we loved the last two albums and something seemed really appealing about making it a trilogy. With mastering and production we’re looking at a late summer release. Anyway, happy holidays to everyone!
Last weekend of shows for the year
Tonight a show in Richland and tomorrow the Ash Street. Two of our favorite places to play all in one weekend. Ray’s should be rad because it’s Ray’s and Ray’s is always good. The Ash Street will be cool because it’s a reunion show for The Secludes which is one of our favorite Portland bands ever. We play first at that one so please show up early. In the meantime this has been amusing us, as well as this.
No thanks to giving thanks
For those who don’t over eat this week or just want to escape family activities we’ll be playing a post-Thanksgiving show in Longview this Friday. It’s to support the Scene Not Herd ‘zine, but it can also be considered your excuse to drink your holiday blues away in a seedy bar filled with loud music.
All your gnome are belong to us
We saw this story on the news yesterday and it fills our hearts with pride. Read it here.
So long Astoria, or rather so long to Astoria.
Sorry to anyone who ventured out to see us in Astoria show last night. The whole trip was doomed from the get go. The van crapped out in the morning so we tried to improvise by cramming gear into two cars. When you combine that with Dave’s delayed plane flight, Friday afternoon traffic and the worst GPS routing ever we wound up screwing ourselves badly. By the end of the night we were in 4 cars, all 4 of us driving alone and all of us dreadfully late. Justin and I were already an hour late when we made it to Clatskinie and when we found out Dave and Dustin were each anywhere from 1-2 hours behind us we just threw in the towel. Best case senario we would have kept everyone waiting for an hour, worst case they would have shut down the show without us ever getting to play. We chose to cut our losses and spare each of us (in 4 cars) the additional 2 hours there and back for a show we might or might not get to play. Easily the worst trip ever. Serious apologies to Level 2, Krush Klamath (especially since you were supposed to borrow our gear!!!), Piercing Truth and anyone who came out to see us. We hope to reschedule for Nov/Dec and are trying to figure out the logistics of a van relacement as this thing has cost us two shows this year. -Eric
A rad new poster that’s actually old
We were recently directed to these rad posters custom made for our 2005 show with The Misfits. All hail the Invisible Creature!
Walk Among Us, or Them actually
Portland Zombie Walk 2007. Dress up like a zombie, roam the streets and have some tasty, tasty brains. Find out more here. It sounds like pretty much the coolest thing ever.
All your tube are belong to us
Here’s an interesting video we stumbled across on YouTube. Juggling? Check. Unicycling? Check. Devil Sticks? Check. Completely kick ass? Check!
Show Listing
Portland’s own 800 Octane is darker than your average punk band. Inspired by the Misfits and b-movies, this band is eminiscent of AFI around the release of Black Sails in the Sunset, It’s definitely working that Halloween theme but not quite overplaying it. Let’s hope it stays that way, because the world does not need another Davey Havoc. (Willemette Week / PR)
No, we aren’t dead… Blogger just sucks.
Running your own web site really sucks sometime. About two months ago we deleted most of our web site and switched it to a Google Blogger account since it was much easier to update. Over the last few weeks we started getting e-mails here and there saying that our web site wasn’t working and just went to the Google homepage. We couldn’t seem to duplicate the problem from any computer, but if people can’t see the site that’s no good. After going through the pains of moving everything to blogger, here we are moving it all back. Damn the internet sucks sometimes.
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