The Fetal Pig & Going To Grandma’s reunion was awesome! So awesome that we’re going to do some more shows, and are likely to do bit of recording too. Jeff plans to make Facebook fan pages for both bands, so if you have any photos from the show, get in touch.
Fetal Pig is going to play with Mahogany Frog at the Mews on August 31; Why Make Clocks played with them at Big V’s in St. Paul some months back and they blew us away, so don’t miss it. And we have a bunch of Why Make Clocks shows coming up soon too. Rather than laboriously list them here, I’ll just mention that a couple of them are in Omaha and Marshalltown, one of them is with Retribution Gospel Choir, which involves Alan Sparhawk of Low, so thats awesome… and you should go to the shows page to get that all sorted out and stick all those on your calendar.
Saturday’s show was great despite the lack of Will Tarbox. We tend to end up playing a lot more stuff from Midwestern Film when we strip it down and acoustic and/or drumless. Andrew Weathers Ensemble made some gorgeous ambient sounds, Stubborn Tiny Lights played epic mostly instrumental rock compositions, and Autumn Project hit us with their trademark wall of sound. We got to hang out with Austin and Jeff and Jim.
This week we have the Fetal Pig and Going To Grandma’s reunion at Vaudeville Mews on Friday night! That’s going to be awesome! And before that, I (Chuck) am doing a solo show for my new project Distant Trains on Wednesday night with The Bassturd, S.E.R.F., and Todd On Acid, also at Vaudeville Mews. Both shows get going sometime around 9 or 9:30 I think. Between the two I’m a bass maniac this week.
Also really excited for our show with Electric Leaves and Map Of The Woods on August 3. I really love Map Of The Woods, super good guys making an epically droning psychedelic blues noise. That’s also at The Mews. And just in case you start to thinking we never leave town, August 6 has us going to Omaha to play with Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship at Barley Street. They’ll be returning the favor by coming to Des Moines later in the month.
Just popping in quick to mention out upcoming July 16 show at Vaudeville Mews with The Autumn Project, Stubborn Tiny Lights Vs. Clustering Darkness Forever OK?, and Andrew Weathers. You may already be coming to the realization of what a cool lineup of epic post-rock and songwritery sounds. For our part, since Will will be unavailable due to a wedding, Dan and I are going to kick it low-key, a bit like we did at Mars Cafe. Maybe some gentle drum-machine patterns thrown in, if I can get some put together. We’re a pretty versatile outfit I guess. Anyway it’s the late show next Friday, and we’d love to hang with you there.
