Sky Pilots

Summer is officially here, and like always, Sky Pilots will be hitting the outdoor festival circuit pretty hard. Shows in the woods, tunes on the beach, and late-night desert jams, complete with bonfires, stupid costumes, and peyote.

Of course these are utter lies. We don’t have a single festival date lined up, and we’re not that into the outdoors in the first place. For Christ’s sake, Pat doesn’t even recycle. But we do have a full summer of shows at your favorite San Francisco bars and clubs (all safely indoors), plus some out-of-towners (equally well guarded against the elements, we hope).

First up is the Hemlock Tavern with The Drogues and Painted Bird. The week following, we’ll blaze through Sacramento to play with Swims, and destroy the boardwalk in Santa Cruz the very next night. The next week will find us on stage with Shotgun Monday, from Minneapolis, and Turn Me On Dead Man, from right here in San Francisco. Finally, on August 26, this whole “summer” thing will begin drawing to a close with a night of rock at Balazo Gallery with friends Birds and Batteries, Low Red Land, and Tartufi. Show details.

If you looked back at your years on this planet and tried to pinpoint some of your worst decisions of all time, I’m sure that skipping out on Sky Pilots shows would be somewhere at the top of the list. Up there with experimenting with pipe bombs, getting grounded from The Prom with your foreign exchange student date, and playing chicken with locomotives. Thankfully you didn’t blow yourself up or get yourself flattened. Sadly, the foreign exchange student is back in Latvia. Or Hamburg. Or Caracas. Or wherever.

Now you can finally set your life back on course with some summertime Sky Pilots action. Start on July 20 at the Hemlock with local killers The Drogues. Follow up two weeks later across town at the Hotel Utah Saloon with Minneapolis’s own Shotgun Monday, featuring ex-members of Kill Sadie and Calvin Krime. Complete your journey on a hot Saturday night in the Mission on August 26, when we will play with our pals Low Red Land. All the dates and locations are right here.

We’ll be tanned and ready. BE THERE!!!