Friday, January 30, 2009

Tour?


We made it home yesterday on fumes... from Athens. The January tour was incredibly hard. We encountered snow and dwindling club attendance everywhere. But we are still hopeful a lot of sound guys liked us and that is encouraging.

one tour highlight:
Johnny Hickman of the band Cracker came to our show in Athens and bought a CD and vinyl and was really complimentary of the band. He was a really down to earth nice dude.

We have a short run coming up in March and then a Midwest run coming up in april. Also i will be touring acoustic in February under the aka Spider + Octopus.

A new album is just about ready for studio work. Looks like a great year for touring and stuff. Thanks for coming to shows, listening to us or just reading the blog. Feel free to write us anytime.

-chad

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Wilmington NC


is the alter ego p-cola or vice versa.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

inauguration day!



The day finally has come that we oust the W's and their crooks. The future looks like it may arrive now.

We're in Cedar Falls today, we played a radio show yesterday. Today we will be fixing some stuff on the trailer and take the day off... Wednesday we'll be at Mohawk Place in Buffalo.

P-cola we'll be home soon...

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Minneapolis 1.17.09


We played and played and played. We're tight, we stink, we're hungry, we're tired. Touring is so surreal. We're in Minneapolis today, we played with the Get Rites and Josh Harty our north Mid-West label mates. We'll be playing again with them this evening in Madison.

Des Moines was probably the scariest moment on this whole trip. We were loading out in - degree weather and we almost froze to death. But on a side note we met the Colour Music in the parking lot in the snow they were blocking the drive way.

St Louis was a bust, we played at the strangest club called the way out club, they treated us really well. We also saw some old friends there...

Lovely Wichita treated us well as always, our friend Kali put us up for the evening, we hung out with her dogs and black kitty. We played Kirby's Beerstore under new management. New Management has done a great job only improving the place.

We're driving through snow looking forward to the radio show in Cedar Falls on Monday.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

COlddddd!!!!!




we played with jenny wood and her band last night at the springwater. very good show. we're on our way to st louis today its getting very cold. we're starting to climb into the brutal north winter. fortunately the band is starting to play well.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

ed wood band




12 days 12 shows. i was pretty run down when we arrived in asheville. we played a last minute show at the firestorm cafe. we played really well, i can hear the band hitting its stride. the people at the firestorm were really nice.

tonight we drive to johnson city, then nashville. its starting to get cold as well, which is pretty intimidating for florida boys.

Friday, January 9, 2009

the speakeasy 1.9.09

Birmingham was k... With that said i've learned a few new things about H. Faron Ainley:

- he have flaky toes
- he's a baller, not a folder
- he don't snore, apparently i do

We're on our way to Montgomery to the Head on the Door, should be great time, always has been
www.myspace.com/headonthedoorbar


Thursday, January 8, 2009

alabama music box 1.7.09





the alabama music box is the best sounding room in the southeast, competes easily with the bottletree in birmingham. we played a good show there last night, the people are wonderful. i met tim from the super nice bros (and he's very nice).

mobile is a strange town much like pensacola the streets are empty after 9p on weekdays. there are lots of strange building, and leaky pipes. lots of algae growing on alley walls. downtown is dimly lit, and a creepy. i like.

love liza was shot here...

in mobile.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Circle Bar 1.6.09


we played the circle bar last night. it was a great start for our tour. there were quite a few familiar faces.



i dreamt of sailing and water last night.

it rained from p-cola all the way to new orleans. we hit every pothole in between. quite nerve racking.

set list

mustard seed boat
one wheel cycle
the wrestling palm
dresden
asleep in winter sleeves
the rose chafer in the country wine
untitled song for a city
skin on skin

Monday, January 5, 2009

tomorrow we start our spring tour. as usual there are a million different things to be done from packing to promoting. i'm nervous as usual waiting for the tour to start. should be interesting though. we have twenty plus shows booked for january from p-cola to new york and back. the band will take february off and i'll do an acoustic tour with renee arozqueta and then back to the road with band in march out west. i will post stuff from the road, pics vids and some recordings. take care drop us a line.

-c

escapistexit@yahoo.com