Tour Wrap-Up

Well we've written a bunch of mini-entries since the official half-way post...but I'll try to make this the official wrap-up post!

Tour went as well as it could have. We really feel that our playing really fucking took off and we are stoked to play a local show or two in the tri-state area in the next month. All of our future news will be below.

Tour went amazingly well. For a HUGE variety of reasons, from putting us up to booking us to entertaining to hanging to just kicking ass, the following people we are extremely grateful towards:

Adam/everyone at Stolen Sleeves Collective, Amelia ABC No Rio, The Book Slave Brothers, Brian from Fucking Discovery Zone, Terrordome Crew in Philly, Diana and Astrid in Philly, The Salad Days FAM (especially Meredith and Annie) who without them both of our VA shows would have been suck city--you both rule, Appalucia crew in Charlotte and Snug Harbor, The Hangar crew in Greenville, SPINACH in Sarasota, House Cat and Dom in Atlanta GA, the entire Static Age Records fam in Asheville, and of course the LOTUS FUCKER crew and Kamikaze Dan for being our heroes/mentors/best friends ever/etc.etc.etc. I feel like more people need to be thanked so feel free to let me know if I forgot you and I'll edit in in post...or something.

Our next tour will be March 13-20th across VA, KY, TN, MO, IL, and OH. Exact dates are up on our myspace thingy. This tour will also be with our good buddies in Brick Mower, who rule, and are in our top friends, and you should check them out. We also have a summer tour going from about late May to late June, exact route and dates of that are being figured out in the next few weeks.

We have two local shows coming up:

Jan 28th @ Shea Stadium Brooklyn:

Mattress (remembered how to spell it because of advertising)

Weird Fantasy Band (ex-Hunchback, RSO, lots others)

Brick Mower (aforementioned)

us!

and one more?

then in New Brunswick Friday Feb 5th is the official Wound LP Release show.

Nimdok

Kicking Spit

The Squid

us

that's all I got in me. We are releasing a split 7" with Lotus Fucker later this year. But we are also working on songs we hope to spread across a bunch of releases of a tape and CD-R variety. Hopefully a split with Brick Mower, too. We're stoked on life right now, and thanks for reading!

-Silent Way

Two Days in D.C

The homestretch is upon us. Tonight and Tomorrow we'll be playing to our friends in Lotus Fucker; if that weren't reason enough to come out to Baltimore and DC, tomorrow celebrates Amanda's birthday--so we're expecting good times for all.

Long drives are done with. Things are looking better the closer we get to home.

--silent way

Homestead Calling

Spirits remain in flux as the tour is wrapping up. Long drives are starting to wear us down. Bad news from back home doesn't help. Low temperatures and sicknesses are starting to pile on the stress points of us all. To cap things off, we're probably playing the best sets we've ever played. Rob remains positive-- this helps.

--Marty

--Silent Way

Midway Report Card

As my hands freeze in Jacksonville, and the rest of the band sleeps, I'll give you an update. Tomorrow the forecast calls for fucking cold weather . But come Sunday, it looks like we'll have warmer weather and sunny skies the rest of tour.

Individuals (and there are a lot) who deserve to be thanked will get a big heaping thank you in the blog post we do after the full tour. But tour has been nothing short of awesome. Day after day has been spent with good friends and good people and a slightly less than empty stomach, so we're doing well. Adrian's catching up on his reading after a bottle of Black Velvet whiskey did a number on him and his immune system. Marty's fixing more shit than we're breaking thus far. Amanda and I are holding it down as well, unlike the other two who are sick.

I wish I could say there has been a single highlight that I could point out, but there hasn't. The bar shows have gone awesome, we've played awesome houses, learned two covers without practice, so all things considered, tour couldn't be going better.

We have a week left which includes another show with The Salad Days, and two with Lotus Fucker. These will be our last two with them for a while unfortunately, so they are not to be missed. The 14th at WMUC studios in College Park MD, the 15th (Amanda's Birthday show) at Ruintown in Baltimore.

The next post will include shit about March tour, Summer tour, what we're releasing this year, a huge list of thank yous and other shit. See ya in a week. check out here to see what we've still to hit up on tour.

I'm cold and could either ramble on more or stop. I'll choose the latter.

ps. jan 15th at MY house in New Brunswick (the only one of us with one) is general interest, slaw, mattress, and brick mower. don't fuck up and not go.