we woke up thursday and headed up to seattle which was just a couple hours drive. curly got a hold of greg from the SS marie antoinette and he explained that malachi, the guy who booked us, has been out of the area for some time and he never booked any other acts to support us.
so we arrived at the venue and met up with greg to figure out a plan for the show. we decided that we'd make some myspace posts to rally some local bands and work up some show flyers to promote the best areas. we hit up kinko's and made four diferent small flyer handouts and a few 8 by 11s for posting and we set out for the best areas of the city.
we walked through this park area near the space needle and started talking to this crazy guy evan who had an acoustic guitar and was just kind of travelling around. he got all riled up throughout the course of our conversation and ran into this fountain and was running around with his guitar. Ej joined him for a littlewhile, ha
after several hours of doing that, we met up with ryans friend john who had put 'dont make up the rules' on a ukelele compilation. we hopped on a bus and went to a hardcore basement show at Camp Nowhere. curly and i picked up a 6 pack of local beers and just chilled outisde the space where we could hear perfectly clear.
we took the bus back and jake picked us up in the Hankey and we went over to hang out at greg's friend angela's house, who was nice enough to give us a place to stay. we drank some beers and shared some stories, and it turned out to be one of their friend bobby's birthday so it was cool to be around for the celebration.
we eventually helped greg move an 80s honda motorcycle from the bed of his pickup truck and realized that because it was sitting on its side some gas had spilled out so we made Ej stand back with his cigarette Ha.
the next day, we woke up and slowly made our way to Pioneer Square where Ej curly and i went on a tour of old underground seattle. it was pretty cool to see how the some levels of the city were buried. and it made sense because a few of the stores we went into had a downstairs that used to be the first floor because the city was raised up and the second floor was the one at street level.
at that point we had already gotten a hold of 5 other bands that were interested in playing the show which was impressive. however, we didn't have internet access at the time so we really had no indication of what kind of bands they were or how reliable they'd be to bring out people. but we (mostly curly) handled the line-up and it sounded like it could really happen
so we picked up some beers and waited for the night to unfold. we met up with Malenky Robot first who are on tour from New Zealand and who a few of us had met in i don't even know where but they were cool. more and more bands started showing up and we were starting to realize that the show might actually be successful.
one of the new members of the space, Sev, known as the Dead Seven performed first and it was a good way to open the show. a few of the other bands started playing and we realized that most of the people and bands there were hardcore but we've played for similar type of crowds before so i wasn't too worried bout it. definitely had some beers to get ready for it
and guess who showed up....ERIC! he walked into the room and i really didn't even know how to react he was so happy and slightly messed up ha. and Evan showed up too, which was awesome to have these people that we just randomly met going about our routine make an effort to come out to our show.
we opened with HTML because we thought it would be the most powerful way to make an impact on the crowd. and it worked to our benefit by the time we finished up it seemed clear that everyone was into the music and were actually watching us.
i poured every last ounce of energy into that set and it went over incredibly well. binns was crowd lifted around during sword it was a great time. we even got several shouts for an encore so we went into don't make up and i felt tired so after we cleared out all the gear i went out to the van to pass out for the night since i knew we had a huge drive to boise the next day and i offered to take the first shift.
curly met me out there and we watched from a distance as evan was getting rowdy and was kicking the gate to the SS which kinda sucked. they had to kick him out
so i passed out for a few hours and started the next morning with a kajunga or tujumbo or some kind of bagel from the starbucks and of course a venti coffee. we got on the road by 8 which was our plan so that was good.
i drove for a while and was feeling okay so i drove some more.
it was starting to get hot and i was started to hallucinate so i turned the wheel over to curly while we were stopped on the side of the highway for a bathroom break because there were no signs of civilization for miles, except for a "military area" but i was pretty sure no one wanted to go there.
i tried to feel sleepy but the heat was too intense and i couldn't sleep. i drifted off for a few minutes here and there but by the time we arrived in boise 10 hours later, i was pretty exhausted and soaked with heat. we loaded all our stuff into Neurolux and ryan ej and i headed up to the boise river to cool off.
the river was moving pretty quickly and it was quite chilly but it was nonetheless refreshing. beans and i tried to swim against the current but could barely stay in the same spot so i just stayed near the edge.
we went back to the neurolux and set up the stage and did our soundcheck and i grabbed some drink tickets and got a local beer called Stone, which was pretty good i guess. we played some songs for a relatively small crowd but still got positive feedback and sold a cd and a shirt and some buttons too i think.
i passed out fora while in the van while the others went out and hung out with boat who played after us then the decision was made to start driving to utah where we had a place to stay the next night. i was down to just find a nice spot next to the boise river to throw down a sleeping bag but i just claimed a window spot and started trying to fall asleep.
jake wired himself up on redbull and drove mostly the whole way to salt lake. we met up with old man clark who offered us a place to stay and now here we are in this amazing house with air conditioning, and i'm tired and have a huuuge bean bag to sleep on so i will fill in some details later but for now i'm relaxinprizactinlactinrelaxin
Sunday, July 15, 2007
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