Monday, March 23, 2009

A little clarity

So we've had two incredible shows in the past couple of days. People really seem to like the new material, and the band. But we've run into some confusion about who we are and what we're doing. A few points:

~The songs we've been playing are NOT from our upcoming full-length. Those songs, though more or less done, are under wraps since the album is a concept album and playing bits of it at a time might not make sense. We will be releasing our live show songs (studio-recorded) as an EP sometime in May. The only overlap between the EP and LP might be "Dragons," the love song we play live. That song has two versions; no one has heard the "real" version yet, but the one we play live is very cool too.

~The band doesn't have a name. We've talked about that, and it's not out of the question, but we're going to let that happen organically, if it happens. Big Cats! (MPC and bass) produces all the songs, and the band brings them to life. Mike (guitar/bass) and Mike (drums) are in Dragons Power Up, a great local band, and Eric (keys and saxophone) does a lot of stuff with other acts and is also a talented engineer/recording technician.

~When we release our EP and our LP, the music will be entirely produced by Big Cats!. We'll have some live instruments here and there as supplementary elements, but the live band thing, for the most part, is for the live shows only.

~Here's the setlist from our last two shows:

1. Bring Out Your Dead (remix)
2. Ink/Old English Letters
3. Hero (transition into interlude)
4. Dragons
5. 1 10 20 200
6. One of These Mornings (remix)

Big thanks to everyone who came out and showed love at the Hyder Ali release party on Friday, and the Tribe release party on Sunday. Our next show is at the 7th St. Entry on Friday the 27th at 4pm (!) w/ Cecil Otter of Doomtree and Battle Royale.

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