We've returned home after 5 days out and 3 days of shows, and I'm already to go out again for another week and half. This past Thursday we hit the road early and drove to NYC to watch our good friends Harvard play with Glassjaw. That was an experience in itself, mostly because it was a SECRET Glassjaw show. Besides, it's always fun to have time off in New York just to explore whenever you can. Didn't get to do too much that day, but we stayed with our Ol' Buddy Ross from Enjoy the Ride Records. Always nice enough to help us out.
The next night, the 10th, we were to play in Manhattan at Arlene's Grocery. It went pretty well minus the mix up with equipment, and getting it all suck in a room the size of my kitchen, crammed with people drinking and schmoozing. We ended up leaving a lot of it in the room because, as always in New York, you're going to have a hell of a time finding a place to park, (try it with a van and a trailer, I dare you). We played with All Grown Up, who I really enjoyed, they reminded me of Polar Bear Club. Oh, and we saw Jessica Alba and Moby that night, would have been more notable if I had gotten then to come watch us...but I didn't.
The next day we had off, and we just got to walk around, and Colin and I were stranded somehow...again, and we walked around Manhattan and Brooklyn until 8am that morning, and ended up waking up a friend of mine just to sleep on her floor for about 2 hours. (It's ok though, I got my doughnuts.) We then headed to Brooklyn for our show at The Charleston. After walking the the rain for two hours, and the left over doughnuts I bought for other people were ruined, we grabbed some food at this place, Bliss. GO THERE. Super nice lady (Don't know if I ever got her real name, so I'll call her "super nice lady ) made us all delicious vegan food. She knew we weren't from around there, only because we "said thank you like 80 times already". I ended up getting a free cup of tea, and she gave us all a free muffin.
The show was a fun one. This place is supposedly an awesome underground (literally, it's the basement of a bar) punk venue, which if you know me, you know I'm totally into. We ended up playing for the other bands. Lady Cops killed it. Although we only got to see there acoustic performance, we all fell in love. The harmonies of this band were fantastic, and the guitars complemented each other so well. Also, Hotel of the Laughing Tree played, and they were great too.
After staying up all night again to drive to DC, we got some real sleep at another Ross' house from Solar Power Sun Destroyer. He was nice enough to let us stay there even though we had never met. We woke up, went to get Falafel, and hung out at a bar across he street from the venue. We opened to show that night at the Velvet Lounge. We played with The Lights Resolve, and NASA Wives. NASA Wives was really great, even though he was a solo act, and, because Harvard and the other local ended up dropping the show, ended up headlining.
After another Falafel stop, we drove home.
I lost a dear friend and co-worker while gone. David Siekkinen passed away on the 9th after a short battle with cancer. Philip and Terrence both knew him as well. All three shows were dedicated to him. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. He will be greatly missed.
Also to Monica (Lee's wife), we hope you are feeling better.
As always, thanks so much to everyone who has ever helped us out, given us a place to stay, or pushed drunks out of the way to help get equipment out of a bar and into the van.
We'll be seeing NC and SC in the next few days!
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