Dear friends, the show at Milk was a great time. Thank you all for braving the rain and the upper Haight to be with us.
So we got there at 3pm like the promoter told us to, and nobody was there. We stood in the rain with our cars double-parked until about 3:15 when the bar owner finally showed up and let us in. We loaded in and hung out for a bit. Remember, this was supposed to start at 4. The bartender told us the promoter seldom shows up before 4, and I said we show up on time because we’re professional like that. Then, the bartender gets a call from the promoter saying one of the bands flaked at the last minute (Tree House City), and it would be just us and The Thralls, he wouldn’t be there until 4:45 or so, and the show wouldn’t start until 5. Nice, considering all our friends showed up at 4 when the show was supposed to start. So the show started at 5:15 or so, sans promoter (he showed up at about 5:30).
The upshot of this is twofold: first, we got to go on first, and because the Thralls told all their friends to show up at 7, we played almost everything we know, and were on stage for an hour and a half. Second, because the promoter didn’t show up until midway through our set, none of our fans paid the cover charge (I wouldn’t have if I was them either). The nice thing about that is that we still split the door, which was pretty much exclusively from Thralls fans.
We played Brake Lights, Get Up, Crane Wife III (reggae version), Hurt Me Out, Fences (reimagined version), Dance Hall, Walk on Me (frist time with an audience), Sand (reimagined version, even though I sang the verse instead of the chorus for a line), Crack on the Wall, Dear Mark, Lucky, ATL and Brandon, Decay, and Metro. It’s really the longest I’ve played without a break. People seemed into it though.
In other news, we’re still working on the album. We finished tracking earlier this week, and should have it ready for prime time within another few weeks. We’ll probably have it ready in time for our upcoming show at Kimo’s in late march. Stay tuned for more info on that!
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We played at Milk yesterday afternoon. Things went much more smoothly than it sounds like they did for you. The promoter showed up at around 3:45. It took a while to get the PA straight, but we ended up starting at 4:30 or so and had a great time.
No monitors, which was kind of a drag, and I’m not aure about the sound from the house PA, but the show was fun and everyone there seemed to have a good time.
Hey Ben, thanks for the comment. I agree that had certain things gone differently, it would’ve been more fun, but part of that was the rain which we can’t really control.
The other part was the flaky third band, which we also can’t control. All in all though, it was a cool venue.
Get in touch if you want to join forces for a gig sometime!