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Here’s an interview with us on the Oregon Music Guide web site.
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Just got word that the bands (us and Everyday Victory) have been dropped from tonight’s show at the Barracuda. I guess the promoter was under the impression that there were two rooms for music in the club and there’s only one, not enough space, not enough time, etc. Oh well, maybe next time!
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We like surprises. Especially when that surprise is the news that we get to play the Warped Tour. A-freaking-men.
Album Review
It’s not really that important, but I just had a 5 minute conversation with Stacey about what color this single is. Stacey says
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We’re on a new compilation CD with several local bands including All Out, Countdown to Life, Idle Class, Pistol for a Paycheck, Sado Nation, Statch and the Rapes and SWIL. Check it out at accpunk.com.
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After my sentimental update yesterday I’d like to point out that last night we played for approximately a dozen people and after buying gas we came home with literally a $1 profit. Perhaps we haven’t come that far in 10 years.
Show Journal 2004-06-19
One night Richland, the next Seattle. One town we have a following, the other we definitely do not. Attendance wise the show tonight was totally weak. It was the 1year anniversary for Artsy-Noise, which is a NW based webzine and to celebrate they had back to back shows. Sadly both were sparsely attended as the headliners for each night bailed at the last minute. Speaking of bailing … as soon as the first band finished they packed up and then drove home without watching any of the other bands. When the second band finished, they packed up and drove home without watching a single song of the other bands as well. So on behalf us … fuck you both. (Note to any other bands/musicians reading this … unless you have a dire emergency you should watch at least some of the set of the other bands you play with. Seriously, even just one song, or having someone at least pretend like they care is always a good thing.) The band that did stick around was the Television Killers. Young, loud, fast and snotty would sum them up best. Judging from their song selection I hope they will consider that a compliment. Our set? 10 songs chosen by the Kelvis himself. We later determined 10 songs was almost exactly a one to one ratio with the people standing up. Thankfully Kevin, Robert, Al, Todd, Chris and the Artsy Noise folks did their best to remain enthusiastic and despite Jim’s efforts to dismantle the power grid, it was strangely enjoyable. There was supposed to be a headliner tonight but they decided not to play since “it would take too long to setup”. Nice. Thanks to Artsy Noise, Kevin and his posse, Fatburger, Beth’s and the crock pot. Also, Justin would like to invite anyone and everyone to “grab a slice”.
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Last night we played our 365th show and tonight’s show will actually be 10 years to the date of our very first show at a radio station in Boone, NC. Weird how the timing worked out. Weirder still is that never in a million years would I imagine we’d still be writing songs and playing shows after all this time. If you told Dave and myself back in 1994 that we’d have 4 albums, have played shows with huge bands all over the country, had fans that knew all of our lyrics I would have told you straight up that you were crazy. I remember when ‘Swank’ came out and I thought,
Show Journal 2004-06-18
I’ve stated that we love playing in Richland about a dozen times before but it still rings true. Toxie was the opener and we love Toxie because 1) they are named after the Toxic Avenger and 2) they cover ‘Kelvis’. They rocked it with a short, fast songs and a nice assortment of covers. Their drummer is crazy fast too. It’s kind of scary. Compact 56 was next and tore it up as they always do. The word on the streets is that they might be taking some time off to regroup and reorganize. Since that’s the case I’d like to take this small opportunity to say thanks to one of our favorite bands to play with and people to hang out with. Scary to think we’ve known them since the Animal Farm days. We played last and late and it ruled. I couldn’t believe how many people knew the words to all the new songs already. However in an effort to thwart the super fans knowledge of lyrics we threw everybody a curveball tonight. The past few times we’ve played in Richland someone suggested we play the song ‘Minnesota’ from Swank. We always politely refused, but as a surprise we practiced it for a few weeks and played it at this show for the first time since 1996. I hope they were in attendance because it probably won’t happen again! Good show. Thanks to the people that always make our trips there a blast … you know who you are!
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Is Richland ready to rock this weekend? I hope so because we’ve been practicing a song from ‘Swank’. Be prepared bitches!
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