Weekend Recap

Whew!
This past Friday and Saturday at Rick's were a blast. Between my coughing and Chris' bleeding, we were like a lost episode of ER. Either way, a good time was had by all.

First off, we'd like to thank Sex Knuckle for opening for us. They got a chance to debut some of their original material, which I thought was really cool.

It was pretty fun playing with these guys. It's somewhat known that Dave and I are from the same home town. Sex Knuckle guitarist Chris Ellingson is also from there, and singer Samantha Bennefeld is from a ways down the road. So both nights wound up being a bit of a central North Dakota old home week.


We had the opportunity to debut a couple of new tracks, Beyond and Inversion. They both went over well. Beyond will stay as-is. Inversion suffers the fate of many tunes that I've written, where a lyric idea gets about half done and then runs completely out of steam. So, "Inversion" gets a new name to match the new chorus.

The playing itself went well. I was nursing my way through the tail end of a cold, but all in all it was a good time.

So, from here we get ready for our next show, which is October 20th at the Nestor Tavern in Fargo with Chaos in Question. That'll be a fun one as well, and we haven't played the Nestor in a long time. Keep your ears open for new tunes - looking at a couple that we haven't done before for that show. We're also looking at getting a few basement demos done during our rehearsals, so if stuff comes out decent, we might just throw it out there for public consumption.
Later - Travis

Rick's - two full nights and new songs!

It's been a while since I did a blog update, but I wanted to address our upcoming show at Rick's Bar in Fargo.

The show at Rick's on Sept 21 and 22 are a bit of a milestone for us...not even a bit of a milestone, but a big milestone. This will be our first time since 2006 playing two one-hour sets (which is what we call a "full night"). This will be the first times since 2006 that our band name will be listed by whatever happens to be on the menu for the day.

So, for the occasion, we're introducing 2 new tunes; "Beyond" and "Inversion". Okay, "Beyond" was played at the Shoreham Block Party, but I'd imagine that most who were there won't be at Rick's. Either way, they're new to you and new to us.

It's nice not having the limitation of time, even though we have the 2 hours and JUST the 2 hours. Every show since we started playing again has involved deciding which songs not to play, so it'll be fun to have some of this stuff hit the light of day again.

We're also really excited to have Sex Knuckle doing a special opening set for us. They've been doing really well in the area, and certainly have no need to be doing openers, but they're doing it for us and I think that's pretty cool. They hit the stage at 9:30.

So, come on out to Rick's! It'll be a good time, I promise.