Show Update!

It's been a while since Erik Blood and the band have played a show, but to make up for lost time we've got a few in store.

Saturday, October 3rd for Reverb Festival (The Sunset Tavern)
$8 adv./$10 day of gets you in to every show and venue. EBX is at 7:30 sharp

Friday, October 23rd (The Sunset Tavern) with The Redwood Plan and Rosyvelt
$8 10pm

Saturday, November 7th (Bob's Famous Java Jive, Tacoma WA) with The Nightgowns, The Little Penguins, and Lesvosurf
Not sure of the cost, but it starts at 9pm and I guarantee this one will be very interesting.

Wednesday, December 9th (Chop Suey) with Stripmall Architecture (another band TBD)
$7 and show is at 8pm SHARP! Yall better remember that Chop Suey starts it's weeknight shows very early (or as they say, on time.)

October is also the month that I venture off to LA and NYC to do some vacationing, but it's also the month that Iggy (Altspeak) and I begin the demoing of what will be his new album. He's shooting for international mega-stardom with this one. Go big or go home, I suppose.

Still at work on demos for my new one while also coming up with ideas for our upcoming shows. Covers, costumes, colorful language...it's all up for grabs.

xo

Work vs. Sun

Being a producer in the Pacific northwest, you have to sacrifice a lot of beautiful days to sit in a dark, smelly, windowless room staring at monitors and pushing buttons and moving faders and remembering to stand up and stretch. It's worth it when the music comes out good.


Today, final Black Daisy mixes were completed while the sun gave a new life to Seattle residents who suffered through last week's horror and a couple of nasty storms earlier this week. Next up, I will be hiding out in the studio to tweek the fuck out of the new Lights album. So close, by the way. KEXP apparently has some secret leaked mixes (I'm not even sure they have titles) that get played every once in a while. Like I said before, the mixes we did when we left the studio were great, but they will soon be spectacular.

This summer, I will be heading into the studio with Redwood Plan to make my contribution to their upcoming album. Not sure who else they're working with, but I'm sure it's going to be a fabulous record. Haven't set dates with Devices yet, but I'm hoping that happens sooner than later.

During all this, I will also be working on new Erik Blood material and a collaborative effort between me and Altspeak. Speaking of Altspeak, if you haven't downloaded "It's Up to You" yet (it's fucking free!!!) you better get your ass to www.altspeak.com and download it. That's one slept on record, my friends.

Tonight at Lo-Fi in Seattle, Andy Rourke from The Smiths is DJing after performances by Romance, Altspeak, Coulter, and Pedestre. That's quite a line-up and well worth the price of admission, whatever it is. I'll be there until I go celebrate a certain awesome-colored friend's birthday.

More to come...