Luau news

APRIL 8, 2012

long time no post. we just banged one out in KEENE, NH the other night, before ultimately falling asleep sitting up at work the next day. played with some great bands, including DADS and INKY SKULLS and TIED TO A BEAR and way more. we found out when we got there that they switched us to playing last, but that happens to us, like... every time we play, so it didn't phase us. we mastered our domain, as usual, and then chewie punched it and we kicked it into hyperdrive, jamming on rock and roll fumes and the body odor of the few stragglers that hadn't made it out of the killbox before the first hammer fell. BOOM it was good to play with ourselves again after a month off. JOHN MCCARTHY is coming home next month and we are going to TRY and not fake the funk on a nasty BRAVO FUCKING BRAVO dunk at the NOW DENIAL 10yr ANNIVERSARY at What We Talk About on May 26 with (reunited bands for one night only:) BETE NOIRE, DANIEL STRIPED TIGER, L'ANTIETAM, the BIG BIG BUCKS, PRETTY FACES, and the living, breathing FURNACE and WINDOW LIQUOR and last but never least, the always impressive TBA!!! HOLY CANOLI this show is gonna kick ass like it's toes were (again) dipped in sweet steel sauce and ass is walking around the party, just DARING folks to go ahead and kick it. you know what i'm saying? go to http://www.youtube.com/user/gnarlyradical to watch videos from the Keene show. of bands. go to luau.bandcamp.com to listen to (if not entire records) songs from records of ours, like "HILL STREET BLUES" and "SPRING FEVER" and "SPLIT w/CHOKEUP" and then make your friends point their computer mobiles to our junk-covered-backwoods-redneck-ass-lawn-style-area of the internet. and hear us stuff.

half a year later....

AUGUST 26 @ O'Brien's we are having a record release show for our long-delayed 7" EP "Hill Street Blues." It's gonna be sick. Come see us play and buy this beautiful little record. Goddammit. We're not asking. Also! Bar Sinister is also releasing an EP this same night, so buy that shit, too. POW. BAM. anyway, if you want us to come to wherever you are, tell us and we will. O.K.

THIS SATURDAY

CHOKE UP, BRIDGE&TUNNEL, ONE WIN CHOICE and ourselves, LUAU. at the wacky kastle! WHOA!! this is gonna be sick. in other news, where the fuck is our goddamn seven inch?? in other other news, we recorded 25ish minutes of fucking RIGHTEOUS new jams with mr MIKE VERA at new alliance in cambridge last week. or the week before? i don't know, i can't keep track. if you want us to come play far away from boston, just fucking ask us. we want to be everywhere. basement parties. let's fucking do it. time to pony up, ladies and gentlefellows.

the return of MIKE VERA

so the HILL STREET BLUES 7" is taking forever, but it just took a big step in the right direction yesterday, so it'll be in our hands pretty soon. BEN HENRY will also have some, as well as various dudes in other bands around town that have asked us for some copies for tours and what not. if you live far away, soon enough you will be able to order the record, as well. probably from ben. in other news, MIKE VERA will return to boston for a week at the end of february to get us 7 more songs recorded for a release later this year. some of the ones we are recording are the ones you guys have all asked, "when are you recording that?" and the answer is in two weeks. we just have to destroy one more burrito place in keene, NH before we can sow that seed, but that show will be wildly fun, i assume, as shows in keene usually are. anyway, RONIN just came on, so i'm outta here.

Luau BURRITOUR 2011

hey. we have a couple shows in february. they are all (so far) at burrito joints around NH. burrito tour, right? BurriTour. it's been snowing a bunch and we can't wait till it's summer again and we can lay on the front "yard" and ben can heckle literally everyone that walks by.

the REAL "Hill Street Blues"

Go to the music section of this website and you will be linked to our BRAND NEW record entitled "Hill Street Blues," because we wrote these songs when Steev and I lived on Hill Street in Dover, NH. It's fucking awesome. Recorded by the masterful Mike Vera, mastered by the beautiful Nick Zampiello, artwork by the unbelievable John McCarthy and vinyl (soon to be) pressed by the incredible Ben Henry of What We Talk About When We Talk About Records. Check this shit out, because soon we will be playing it near your house and you will be there (hopefully) singing all the words that you know because you've been brushing up. Also: if you think I'm sexy and you want my body, come on, sugar, let me know. http://music.badnewshotel.com

Hill Street Blues

So the other night (Great Scott for the John McCarthy Memorial Show) was a blast. Best time I've had playing in quite some time, for real. And all those picklebacks we drank, jesus. It's four days later and my stomach is still sour. Let's do that again sometime really soon, guys! In other news, What We Talk About When We Talk About Records has been gracious enough to decide to press our first 7" entitled "Hill Street Blues." The man behind the iron mask is Benjamin Splain Henry, a golden god among mere mortal men, yet so modest and kind and blessed. John McCarthy is doing the artwork again, so expect everything to be in the illest of conditions when the shit hits the hand. Come see us play on December 19 at Great Scott (again) in Allston, MA with our friends (and dope bands) lunglust and Moons! To The Wolves is also playing, so it should be a pretty righteous time, if I do say so myself. Alright, alright! Nuff said.

Pumpkin Festival, Keene NH

Tomorrow is the 20th annual Pumpkin Festival in Keene, NH. There's music, pie eating contests, and, of course, thousands of jack-o-lanterns. Tens of thousands, actually. It's incredibly awesome. Later on in the evening, down the street at Teckneeks Skateshop, Luau will be playing a show with Black Norse. Pumpkins, pie, rock and roll, what more could you ask for?

"Bad News Hotel" available from Bandcamp.com

Just a quick update to let everyone who's been asking for a way to listen to our pathetically obsolete cassette tape on their fancy new millennium digital music machines, you now can. The entire "Bad News Hotel" cassette, including the live tracks, is now available from bandcamp.com, on any digital format you can think of, for the cost of a ride on the T. Or download the songs a la carte for less than a buck each. So next time someone wants you to ride the train to JP to go to a party, tell 'em to fuck off, and spend your fare on this instead. Or don't.

Rock and Roll Machine

We played in JP last night...for five minutes... apparently the Boston PD does not dig Luau. Earlier in the day we finished tracking three new songs at New Alliance in Cambridge with Mike Vera. Today we mixed them; we're very psyched on the results. Keep your ears peeled for songs available digitally and on self released vinyl as we get closer to cool weather and falling leaves. We've been having a blast playing a lot lately and would like to keep the ball rolling in September and October. Do get in touch if you have something cooking you'd like to get us involved in, particularly if its outside of Boston! And come rock out with some of favorite band buddies Sunday, August 22nd in Somerville at the Steven Tyler Memorial Pool. There isn't actually a pool there, but there is a very amazing portrait of Steven Tyler, and for one evening there will also be Luau, The Big Big Bucks, Four Eyes, and Colleen Green. Also, someone, for the love of god, please give Jake a job. All he does is sleep on the couch and whine about how hungry he is, and its getting really annoying. I'm starting to suspect he's been eating the cat food.