A week ago tonight we played at the Mews. It was cool as always to see North Of Grand again and we brought back the old classic “Eyelets In The Rabbits’-Feet” just for Ketelsen.

Story Of The Sea is a delightful new discovery for us. They were simply great. Came down from Minneapolis and I hope we see them again. I had a minor panic when I opened the bass guitar case I had brought back behind the stage and leaned up against my cabinet only to find it was not my bass at all. I worried it had gotten mixed up with some bro-core band from the early show. But turns out it was the guy from SOTS’s back-up and mine was quickly located nearby. Said guy from SOTS seemed really fascinated with my P-bass, and surprised at my answer when he asked me what year it is (’66), which got him talking about basses in general. It’s a nice bass (both of his looked nice too); I bought it from Kevin Jass of The Mittens a few years ago and consider it one of my all-time lucky scores. But I’m not much for gear talk.

I put a mailing list signup thing over on your left there. I think a lot of bands really under-use their email list because they think they have to reserve it for the Big Official-like Announcements. They should probably just be more friendly about it and just write to people to say hi. Anyway, we hardly ever write to ours either, but maybe if we got some more sign-ups that would change. In fact, you should go over there and sign up right now.

We’re planning to work on songs for the next couple albums, play more shows, and all that kind of stuff bands do. We’ll be back at the Mews on March 7 for an early show with Ely Falls and Fortnight.