Couple more shows down. Dubuque treated us well yet again. The venues we’ve played there are these nice places. There’s some chatter that the Silver Dollar Cantina, where we played, is going under new ownership and no one is sure if they’ll still do live music. Kind of a bummer. Map Of The Woods was awesome, and we had fun hanging out with them and others at Melanie’s afterwards, where we slept, and were treated to breakfast and friendly conversation on Sunday. I’m thinking we should do Dubuque again any time we can.
Big V’s in St. Paul on Sunday, what can I say about that… well, we played well, the sound man was great, and Mahogany Frog, a band from Winnipeg in the headlining spot (Demoiselle dropped off I guess), were amazing, and super nice cats. I’d better leave it at that, so as to stick to the positive stuff.
We might hook up a show in Waterloo/Cedar Falls yet, but apart from that, we’re probably done with road gigs for a couple months. We’ve got a couple great shows at the Mews planned (most notably the one with The Meat Puppets on November 8!) and plan on doing some writing, recording, and scheming.
Kinda short-notice, but when we were in Dubuque last weekend we got asked to come to town again to play at Silver Dollar Cantina this coming Saturday! So come on out and check us out, along with Daylight Savings Account and Map Of The Woods.
And the following night (Sunday) we’ll be at Big V’s in St. Paul with Demoiselle, Los Demas, and Jacob Green.
Another fun show played. The Busted Lift, perhaps Dubuque itself, may well be one of the hippest spots in the state. If you haven’t been there, it’s the limestone-walled basement of a fancyish restaurant called, and located at, 180 Main. Feels like you’re hanging out in some ancient pub in Europe somewhere. Or maybe Ireland, given the abundance of Ireland paraphernalia among the decor. A sizable crowd, a nice kid named Josiah and his acoustic guitar opening the show, and an awesome two-piece headliner with scrappy, broke-down new-wavey sounds out of Chicago called Post Honeymoon. Then over to Aaron’s place (he plays in Old Panther and books The Busted Lift) afterwards, where we hung out into the early morning ragin’ full-on, playing records and drinking beers, before finally crashing. Following some mellow late-morning conversation about music-making, Dan and I drove to Iowa City to catch the Gojira show at The Picador and so I could go see a man about some web-development work. Thanks to all the above-mentioned.
Still massively psyched about the Meat Puppets show. Will also be coming up to Big V’s in St. Paul this weekend. Winter is time for Midwest bands to chill out, write and record, because travel gets treacherous.
I feel like a bit of a douche for the fact that it took me a solid 24 hours to get around to posting this, but after a long period of will-it-or-won’t-it-happen it’s been confirmed that we, along with Squidboy, will be opening for the Meat Puppets at Vaudeville Mews here in Des Moines, on Sunday, November 8. Doors are at 7pm, tickets are $13 in advance (here’s an iowatix.com link)/$15 at-the-door. HELL YEAH!
Meanwhile, we’ll also be playing at The Busted Lift in Dubuque this Friday, and Big V’s in St. Paul on Sunday the 18th. Check the shows page for more details.
