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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Tour 2008 to Austin TX

July 9th
Dayton Dirt Collective
Dayton OH
We got up at 6am and I drove for 12 hours , I had driven so long that after 10 hours i felt dizzy and had to stop the car for an hourWhen we finally got to the show the place was awesomeWe played a great show to a great crowed some kid called me a genius (never hurts the ego )
We stayed with a really nice girl named Nicole

July 10th
Swing State
Lake Villa IL
We got up at drove another 8 hours to Lake villa IL by then I was starting to feel physically sick
The show was to a bunch of emo kids and we all thought we sucked but when I talked to people they really liked us

July 11th
The day old Basement
Macomb IL
We drove another 8 hours since we where stuck in Traffic in chicago to Macomb
when we finally got there The show was awesome !
Apparently Macomb is a college town with nothing around it so its a huge party place and what we where playing was a party /diy show
Our set was awesome and we sold a bunch a stuff just hanging out at the party after was way fun

July 12th
Gay dudes Mansion
Blooming IN
We drove another tough 6 hours and this was threw heavy Rain Fall the whole way lighting bolts you could see where close
When we got there though Rob was real nice his band mouth breather was awesome and it may have been one of the best shows of the whole tour
Every one was dancing and the basement was packed, Bloomington IN is a cool college town too

July 13th
Day off

July 14th
Day off

July 15th
The WAy out Club
St Louis Missouri
This show was alright some people there told us they had heard us on myspace and liked us

July 16th
The Replay Lounge
Lawrence Kansas
We snuck into a public cool with water slides and had a great time !
The show was cool too

July 17th
The Stone Pony
Tulsa Oklahoma

WE played a crappy bar show but every one in the bar really liked us
Harry and Bo stayed in a punk squat that was so dirty i decided to sleep in the car

July 18th
the Carolton Arts plaza
CArrolton (outside Dallas and fortworth) TX

 considering we rocked pretty well a large space full of
Kids, after we hung at Pablo's the dude who booked us who is pretty awesome his in a good band called rockets to Ethiopia


July 19th
The Bright House
Lubbobk TX

we played an outside Yard Sail and we rocked it ,  Had a cool political conversation with one of the people who lived in the house
Every one who lived there was really cool really fun good show worth going out of the way

July 20th
Momos
Austin TX
This place sucked but the dude Dave who worked there and we stayed with was awesome

July 21st
Scoot Inn
Austin

Went to this awesome huge Spring and went swimming with Dave
Dave almost hooked us up with an awesome show to some punks in a record shop but instead we just played the shitty show at the scoot, I feel like next time we go to Austin though we laid some good ground work for then

July 22
Art-mophere
Layette Louisiana

the crowed wasn't punk or indie so I was nervous if they would like us
but all my stereo types where squashed when they where really into us
Some one called me mic jagger (funny !)


July 23rd
No show

July 24th
Spillage House for wayward Youth
Athens GA

This house space was awesome !
We spent the day in Atlana GA
Which is a pretty cool city its 5 points district was cool but expensive
The people at the actual show where really awesome too
We had a lot of fun hanging out with them it was one of those perfect days
we also kicked ass when we played the band had really come together !


July 25th
Ramkins
Richmond VA

We thought no one would be at this show so we where happily surprised to see a really good crowd !
we had bizarre experience outside when a guy came up to us and said
want to join the nazi party
to which i said
why
and he said
cuz its cool
to which I said
no thanks I like democracy
to which he said
alright
want to buy a knife
(he pulled out a huge knife)
I said no thanks
and then he said no problem
any way the show was really good and i think we blew people away !

July 26th
Fight Club
Washington DC

This party was really cool a pool skate ramps and stuff and we played with our friends in Aaron Maine and buffalo Eskimo the guy timon in Seth and the swan set us up
I thought we played completely terrible i thought we sucked but then
6 people I kid you not told me how much they liked us
so we couldn't of been that bad !

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Tour To LA 2007 Tour-spiel

..StartFragment --> June 21st - pittsberg pa
- howlers cafe-
no one liked us here

June 22-sandusky Ohio
- the under ground-
We went to the underground were we played the year before. They loved us like they did the year before we loved playing there

June 23rd South bend Indiana
. this crazy guy outside the show talked about how every car in the parking lot had there tired slashed, we thought it was a threat.
it was scary, we played the show and some people liked us some didn't get us

we drove a town over and played a second show this day. It went alright every one seemed to like us.

June 24th -Morris Illinois
-xo underground-
this place was part art gallery part tea shirt place part venue
we played to a real small crowd but they all really liked us

June 25th – Iowa city- Iowa
Xoelopede Zine library
Iowa city is beautiful its like heaven every girl there is beautiful. Me and will were aw struck we had never seen so many beautiful girls in one place apparently in on the road kerouc says the same thing ! The guy who booked us was named Lewis he was so awesome he said to us "me and my grandma my dad and me would be sitting around smoking a joint, I would be arguing anarchy my grandma socialism and my dad aliens (his dad believed aliens controlled the us government0
We played a good show here to maybe only 15 kids though, but so what !

June 26th –Lawrence- Kansas
Replay lounge
We got here I threw up we played a show and got paid the best we did all tour then we were off it was a good show too every one liked us in the top ten from the tour we high tails it to Denver that night

June 28th - Denver- Colorado
3 kings tavern
Boulder is a nice town. We played to one of my favorite audiences and it was one person. I wish I could go back to boulder right now. Some one heckled me for the first and last time I offered to make out with him he didn't take me up on it . the guy working there loved the minute men we talked about it for awhile.

July 30th Reno Nevada
Under ground lounge
We played a show here to absolutely no one worst show so far.

July 1st – Yuba Ca-
Heavy daze cds
We got to Yuba and found a park to sleep in exhausted from sleeping the van. we ended up skate boarding at a free skate park there and going swimming in the pool the place was like paradise. The people who owned heavy daze were real cool and we played the parking lot outside the place to like 80 people it was one of our best shows we sold a lot of albums !

July 3rd - San Francisco Ca
-El richens-
We played a show with a great surf band and a cool twee popey band and the band that booked us was cool. Every one really dug our music it was a good show. Because ! Every one here really liked us

July 5th Long beach Ca- x gallery-
We played an Art gallery here it was alright

July 6th California -Ventura
We played two shows today they both sucked
Ventura Ca sucks so dose were ever our other show was i forget

July 7th San Pedro Ca
This was the best show of our whole tour. We played at a coffee shop and before we played found a guy at a gas station who drummed for mike watt of the minute men ! in another one of his bands the missing men he came to the show and brought all his friends and they all really liked us. Every one in san perdo new mike watt or George Hurley it was an amazing place ! The dude liked us so much they invited us to play a bigger show at this party it was great we sold a lot albums and had a great time san perdo was every thing we thought it would be ! we love you san Pedro

July 10th Albercuqie New Mexico
hung out with a real cool dude, the show sucked though

July 11th Odessa Texas - Einstein's
We got lost some were in the middle of Nowhere in Texas. We saw two road runners ! we finally got to the show as it was ending were we played to a ton a kids who liked us and bought stuff good show !

July 12. Amarillo Texas -EDC house-
We played a a punk squat here nice dudes

July 13th Fort Worth Texas – 1919 hemphsile
A real cool dude Named Pablo booked us here, he was a gi fan from my space. His band was sweet and this was a real fun cool show in a real cool venue. The town of fort worth is so much like white plains !

July 14th Houston TX – super happy fun land-
This place was really awesome the dudes who run it were really cool. All the other bands we played with here were realy good.We played a great show and  After most of the bands slept over it was like tour sleep over camp !


July 16th - New Orleans – Louisiana – st rochs tavern -
Burbon street is LAME
Also we played here kind of sucked

July 17th Chattanooga Tennessee
The show we played here was really cool the girl we stayed with melody had a name after a kind of music. She was cool so was the show !


June 18th Van breaks down i don't wanna talk about it

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Sunday, July 02, 2006

Tour Storys Tour to Chicago 2006
Current mood: satisfied
Category: penis ish Travel and Places

hey we went on a 7 day tour from the 16 to the 22 of june of the mid west we met a lot of wonderful people and did a lot of wonder ful things.We want to hear from the people we met and played to along the way here is a littie tour blog

 june 16th --akron ohio --orange street ---- drove 7 hours almost din't play the show played kinda lame emoish looking place but they liked our music stayed at a hotel that smelled like poop

june 17th-- Pittsberg PA----Grafeild art works--- I want to move to pittsberg people there are arty but not dicks and its like willamsberg if it wasn't gentrfyed and people where friendly. Garfeild art works was a good show.The guy who owns the place was asome  guy who brought the term industrial goth to pittsburg  great venue great city

june 18---Sandusky OH---The underground--- Jägermeister Jägermeister Jägermeister, we snuck into the pittsburg zoo  for free this day, then fled from a show in ken(hope the venue owener is dowin ok and bar tender),then ended in sandusky where people are asome and they realy liked our music and there jagermeister underground great venue

june 19th ----kalmazoo michagan--- never go here its fuckin lame

june 20th ---Howl michagan--howl opra house--- this people where asome and this place was asome a real life punk communie right out of that 80s movie subrbia with flea i will miss these kids they rocked it was like peter pan there but in a great way.i still miss they place and there kitties i hope we stop by again there one day the show as good too

june 21st --Chicago IL-- the beat kitchen-- the guy cris was cool got some records at rekless records show well its a city

june 22 ---Wonder lake IL----EWL house--- my banter on stage with a drunk dude is why i love my life and this band geat venue every one liked us in a dudes bassment drove 14 hours directley after it

 

weif your from nyc come see us the 5th at the knitty factory we need shows the 21 and 23rd in philly or va or delware or marryland,we still need a record lable,we still have copies of our album left 20 and tons of shirts contact me if you want any thing. ok thats all

 

Gi dave

 

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

albums in stores ! and now C.T.

as of right now our albums are avalible in hippy towns !

in newpaltz ny there avalible @

Jacks Rhythmes
54 main street
New paltz N.Y. 12561

in vermont

Pure pop
115 south winooski ave
Burlington VT

Downtown Discs
198 college street
Burlington vermont

Trash american style

12 Mill Plain Rd,

Danbury, CT 06811 USA

 

 

if you want an album sent to you inbox me or read the blog below for details

 

albums also avalible at

 http://www.myspace.com/cheap_as_punk  

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