Okay guys, I just did a bunch of updating to the gigs calendar because we’ve got a bunch of cool shows going on over the next few weeks. Our new friends from Omaha Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship are coming down to play Vaudeville Mews early this Saturday night, an all-ages show at 6pm that kicks off with The Chatty Cathys and The Seed Of Something, whom Will is filling in on drums for of late. Noah’s will be jetting up to Ames immediately after to play Ames Progressive, which I’ve seen bands try and do before but I still think it’s a daring move. All the same, we want to show them a good time, and the early time slot on a weekend is means you can even bring the kids.

Or if you’re a little more hard-core and don’t care about showing up to work all beat on Monday morning, Sunday night has us in a double birthday-bash show — celebrating birthdays of both our own Dan Hutchison and of Poison Control Center’s Patrick Tape Fleming, featuring one of the most killer lineups for fans of Ames/Des Moines music you could cram into one night. Besides us and PCC, there’s Christopher The Conquered, The Seed Of Something, and The Atudes.

Next Tuesday we pick up this Fetal Pig thing and run with it again for another early all-ages/working-stiff-friendly show at the Mews, this one with the wizards of Winnipeg, Mahogany Frog. Why Make Clocks played with these guys in St. Paul and they fucking killed. Don’t miss them, because who knows when they’ll make it back!

A trio of Friday Why Make Clocks shows starts at the Mews September 3rd with Mother Culture, Wrestling With Wolves, and Ryan Traster, followed by September 10 at DG’s Tap House in Ames with We Are Country Mice, Ames’ own Keepers Of The Carpet, and Love Songs For Lonely Monsters, then, for those who like their Clocks of the wind-up variety, ends with an acoustic show at Mars Cafe on September 17 with our Sleep On The Floor labelmates from Marshalltown, Crystal City. Or if you’re about Clocked out by that point, you could also hit the Mews that night for Blutiger Fluss. I think they open, so conceivably if you hurry you could catch their set and then rocket up to Mars. Crystal City, incidentally, also play at the Mews this Wednesday, and at Ames Progressive on October 1st.

And finally, the furthest-out show we have scheduled at this time is September 30 at Vaudeville Mews and it’s a very special one, headlined by Retribution Gospel Choir. If you haven’t come across RGC yet, I can tell you they include Alan Sparhawk, whom you’d know from Low, so you can figure on them being pretty great. I haven’t checked them out yet but Dan loves them. Wolves In The Attic are on that bill too, and it’s another early show.

So that’s all the Why Make Clocks news that’s fit to type at this time. Thanks, and see you at a show!