We had a great time last night playing the Gross Domestic Product festival. Saw a lot of great bands, met a lot of great people. Thanks to all the people who came out!
Before our set I noticed we had some old mailing list signup sheets left lying around in our merch cases that I’d yet to add people from. We’re so organized. So welcome new folks, hope it didn’t take us too long to get back to you.
Best new discoveries of the night for us personally were probably Druids — it was cool to see some heavy stuff at this event, I’d been looking forward to checking them out after having listened to a bit of them on their MySpace, but live they were a whole other intense experience — and Canby, a new project by Envy Corps drummer Scott Yoshimura. It took me a while to connect where I’d seen him before, but later on I caught a bit of him talking with Dan about what an interesting experience it had been for him as a drummer switching gears into guitar and songwriting. It made sense, because I thought his songs and guitar playing had some really interesting rhythmic things going on in them. Christopher The Conquered rocked out, as expected. In fact there were a heck of a lot of good acts in the show, I had a difficult time keeping track of them all.
At the end of our set I tried to plug our upcoming gig at Vaudeville Mews this Thursday (April 1) but Dan got it confused with another show that got cancelled or changed somehow and said we weren’t playing it. So just to clarify, we are playing at the Mews on Thursday, 10pm, with a really cool band fro Lincoln Pharmacy Spirits, and Gabe Cordova who you may remember from our CD release show. And we’re working like mad booking more shows and working on our next couple albums – we’ll be in Iowa City on April 9 and 10 recording. See you soon.
