Update!!!
Let’s see… Saturday took us to the Jersey shore, about an hour or so south of NYC. The club was a solid rock dive with good sound and decent capacity. Unfortunately capacity wasn’t really an issue that night. Undaunted, we took the stage after midnight sometime and played our songs with seaside delight, and the brave handful in the audience seemed to like it. Big thanks to Jacko for the hospitality and Charles and his crew for making the journey. We ended up spending the night at a hotel that night. Slept like logs.
Sunday we continued south for Washington. Took longer than expected, probably becasue I drove much of the way and there was a horrible back-up getting into town. But the show itself was a blast. The Galaxy Hut was the perfect little venue for a Sunday night. Gracious staff, free beer all night for the bands, good sound. Apparently we haven’t scared any of our friends away since our DC show last week, as they all showed up and threw down their wages to hear our beer-noise offerings. Our stagemates that night, Roh Delikat from Boston, played adventurous, hypnotic pop songs — they were great. Check them out here.
Slept in again on Monday. After a fine chicken lunch, we started the relatively short drive to Harrisonburg. The show that night was at a coffee house with a long recreational hall attached to it. Probably could hold a few hundred people easy, but once again, they don’t call us “Capacity Testers.”
We played an early set to about 40 or so kids. The response was terrific. The songs were fast and tight, in part because all three of us had drunk only green tea. We raced through our set and had to turn down cries for more songs at the end. Athens’ Jet by Day followed us and kept the energy up with some blistering guitar rock. Lots of energy, super breakdowns and buildups. Up next was Hail Social from Philly. AWesome dark and dancey rock, rooted with precision drumming and bass lines. Last was The Firebird Band with their dramatic and pulsing electo/guitar sounds. A mighty bill by anyone’s standards I imagine.
That is all. Bill has a cold.