June 23, 2009 |
We are having a great time on the road. Its a nice group of people to be in the tour van with. We have been making up our own words to the famous "Sounds of Music" songs. You can only imagine what we are making up! So far, our favorite city has been Edinborough..but it has been the only one we have been able to spend time in. It is refreshing to play to a completely new audience. Thank you to all of you so far that have helped us find housing. We are currently in Nottingham, staying with our friends in The Mysteries of Life. Nice to see a couple familiar faces in the audience last night. We will be happy to come home and play for our fans and friends in the midwest in July. Hope to see you all very soon! |
June 10, 2009 |
We are so happy to be in Europe right now. We played two shows last night in Dublin. The first show was at Whelan's supporting our good friend Carrie Rodriguez. It was a bit crazy as we didn't know anything about soundcheck etc, so we couldn't use drums. We played a funny set with percussion, acoustic guitar (sounding a bit distorted) and bass. Our friend Fran King joined us on bass so that was a treat. Carrie and the rest of her band, Javier and Hans were incredible as usual. Special thanks to Liam the sound man at Whelan's, "You're a star!" Then we played The Ruby Sessions at Doyle's. This was a blast. We learned that we can substitute the F word for Fek. Thats what they say in Ireland and its not even a cuss word. Isn't that great? Can't wait to come back to Dublin. Hopefully in the later fall. Maybe Halloween in Ireland? Special special thanks to the entire King family for having us. French toast casserole for breakfast, ravioli for dinner, playing with Eve and her stickers....nice to be able to spend time with you all! |
June 01, 2009 |
Im in LA right now seeing my brothers new little baby and Benjamin is holding down the fort in Brooklyn with little Ivan and our two great room mates Nadia and Sashamani. We are so excited to make the next record. Matt Hales (aka Aqualung) and I sat on the beach in Santa Monica and discussed some ideas. We're going to talk more on the phone this week...We have a whole bunch of new stuff and we are excited to start recording it in London. We will also be playing our new material for the people of Ireland, England, and Scotland. We are both over the moon about it. Still fine tuning some of the words and getting ideas for sounds etc, but I think you all will enjoy where this record is heading. Hope you are all well out there. Hope to see you across the pond, or back here in the US in July or August..... |
April 29, 2009 |
Hmm, trawling through the last of recent backed-up emails yielded very little in the way of new music to raise spirits here, but did lead indirectly to a Brooklyn based duo - KaiserCartel who were a pleasure to belatedly discover. Courtney Kaiser & Benjamin Cartel are the couple who make up the twosome (and the name, obviously) & between them use vocals, guitars, baby xylophone, drums & some keyboards to turn out a sound that puts plenty of four-piece bands to shame - and they can do it live too, by all accounts, and also to judge from the 'Live from Breakthru Radio EP', which was recorded live,as you might expect. Which maybe goes to show that it's what you do, and who you do it with, rather than how many instruments & players you can cram on a recording or stage - there's nothing wasted here, no needless noodling around - just enough to frame some tremendously moving songs & lovely two-part harmonies. Sweet as can be... & made for sharing with someone. http://howmarvellous.blogspot.com/2009/04/kaisercartel.html |
April 01, 2009 |
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/03/sxsw_the_best_o.php |
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