Thanks to everyone who came out to Thee Parkside last night.  We had a great time playing, and we’d like to thank everyone at the club, as well as Cannons and Clouds, The Wandas, and Ketman for sharing the night with us.  We have one more show coming up, and it’s next weekend (Saturday the 14th) at the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen.  It’s their Second Saturday celebration, and we’ll be playing with super-bros, Dame Satan.  Two Sheds, also-bros, were scheduled to play, but they will be unable due to a family emergency.  We wish them the best and look forward to playing with them again in the future.  That’s about it for now.  Take care, everyone.

Coming up this week and next, we have two shows, one in San Francisco and one in Sacramento.  We’re playing Saturday, November 7th at Thee Parkside in San Francisco with our friends from Boston, Ketman, as well as the Wandas (another Boston band), and Cannons and Clouds (SF).  The following Saturday, the 14th, we’ll be at the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen with Two Sheds and Dame Satan, and that show is already going off.  Come out and say hi.  We’ll be taking time after these shows to focus on writing, so who knows when you’ll be able to catch us again?

Maybe never.

The fall tour was great.  It’s been too long since the shows happened to post in-depth recaps of each one, but they were really awesome, for the most part.  We’d like to sincerely thank all of our family, friends (old and new), and everyone who came out to the shows.  Thank you to everyone who put us up and put up with us.  Thank you to the great bands with whom we had the pleasure of playing, including Appomattox, Finn Riggins, Jared Grabb, Telegraph Canyon, Swim Party, Red Leaves, Acorns, Towers of Hanoi, Averkiou, Tom Slaughter, Mussels, Aminal, The Honored Guest, Jabberjosh, Sleeping in Gethsemane, El Toro del Muerte, Butter, and Plough Jogger.  Thank you to everyone who took videos and pictures of us playing, and to everyone who bought a shirt or an album to support us.  Thank you to the beaches of the southeast for giving us relief from the sweltering temperatures and humidity.  Thank you to Kuma’s Corner in Chicago, Ray’s the Steaks in Arlington, and Coyote Bluff in Amarillo for making great burgers.  No thanks to illness, broken equipment, and canceled shows.

We could not have done what we did, and had these experiences, without everyone mentioned above.  While the tone may be light, the sentiment is sincere.  Thank you all very much for making our fall tour excellent and for keeping us going.  See you back on the road soon.

For now, we’re playing The Fest in Gainesville, FL this weekend.  We’ll be at Flaco’s on Friday night, playing a free acoustic set.  That place has great Cuban food and coffee, so come hang out and see a bunch of bands play all sensitive-like.  Saturday, we’re playing electric at the Atlantic.  It’s going to rule.  For a full list of who is playing and where, go here.

We have some local shows coming up, too, and I’ll write about those when we get back.  Take it easy.

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Thanks to the guys over at PunkNews.org for posting about our tour, and thanks to this guy for leaving the best comment ever.  Muckymuck hath spoken.

We drove out to Anaheim after the show and stayed with Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, who are almost all in the throes of various debilitating illnesses.  We managed to get out with our lives intact and our stomachs full of breakfast burritos.  Thanks to them for putting us up, and best wishes for speedy recoveries.  We love them.

Friday found us in San Diego, where we spent the pre-show hours at Shannon’s new place.  She’s pretty much the best hostess ever.  She let us work out in her building’s mini-gym, fed us, and let us play Wii.  We headed over to the Kensington Club for our show, which was organized by Rosie and San Diego: Dialed In.  Rosie’s great, and so is her site.  She’s doing for San Diego what the Bay Bridged does for San Francisco.  Once again, we had a great time playing, and we’d like to thank everyone who came out and watched us play.  We packed up and drove out of town after the show, cruising through the night to make it back to San Francisco in time for our happy-hour show at the Hemlock (discussed in the previous post).

Sunday, we played the second Rock Make Street Festival, and it was awesome.  Huge thanks to go Lynne and Brian from Tartufi, Ben and Christian from the Bay Bridged, and WhizBang fabrics for organizing the event.  Some of the Bay Area’s best local companies and vendors rubbed elbows with 15 bands, including Tartufi, Two Sheds, Geographer, and Silian Rail.  The event ran wonderfully thanks to the hard work and dedication of the organizers and the volunteers, and we are honored to have had a part in it again this year.  Look for the festival to return again next year, undoubtedly bigger and better.

And now it’s Monday, and I’m sitting here, updating our site and heat-setting t-shirts.  We were supposed to play in Sacramento tonight, but whoever played there on Friday night trashed the place, so they’ve decided to cancel all of their shows from now until forever.  Awesome.  Thanks, whatever-band-you-are.

Tomorrow, we’re in Portland, at the Doug Fir.  If you’re in town, come on out and say hi.  The rest of the dates for the tour will be posted on the site and on our MySpace page.  Check them out.  We’ll check in again soon.

We celebrated the release with an acoustic show at the Hemlock on Saturday.  We were joined by the always-awesome and sometimes-traffic-delayed Appomattox, who will be playing a number of dates with us on this tour.  Thank you to everyone who came to the show and sang along with us.  The EPs will be available with us on tour and through the Ghost Mansion Records store.  If you’re curious, the whole thing is streaming on our acoustic MySpace page.

Guys?

We were in Hyde Street Studios last night, laying down some epic acoustic tracks with the venerable Scott McDowell.  That guys is awesome.  If I had a sister, I would totally be cool with him dating her.  It ended up being quite a late night, but it was completely worth it.  We recorded “Queen Esther” (a very old Low Red Land song that we recently brought out of retirement), “Abraham,” “The Beast,” and “Longing.”  The latter three tracks all tell pieces of the same story, and will be appearing (in electric form) on a new album that we hope to have done by the end of the year.  We tracked each song live, and then added live key accompaniment.  The songs turned out great, and we’re excited to release them.  I will be printing art for them, something smaller than a poster but bigger than a…small thing, and we will be making the songs available digitally to everyone who purchases the accompanying art.  We figure it’s better than just giving someone a CD that they’ll probably just rip on to their computer and then lose anyway.  Plus, with any luck, the print will look sweet on your wall.  We will have this new acoustic EP ready for our fall tour, and we’ll be celebrating its release at the Hemlock on August 22nd with a special happy hour show.  We’ll be joined by our friends from Brooklyn, Appomattox.  In fact, we’ll be joined on the whole western leg of the tour by those dudes, and in the east, so why don’t we get to that now?

We’ll be hitting the road again from August 19th to October 10th (-ish), and we’ll be playing the whole country.  Many of the dates are currently available on our MySpace page.  We’ll be starting off in southern California and working our way north, up through the Northwest, inland through the less-North-less-West, east through the Midwest, into New England and down the East Coast, west through the South, and back up through southern California (or something like that).  We are very excited to be touring again, playing shows with and for our friends, and road-testing some new material.  We are especially psyched to have the Appomattox boys with us, because they’re awesome people who play awesome music.  As more dates are confirmed, they will be posted, and I’ll soon post the itinerary on this site.  Be on the lookout.  For now, there are a few local shows you should mark on your calendars.  The first is the aforementioned happy hour show at the Hemlock, and the second is the 2nd Annual Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday, August 23rd.  Details:

Saturday, August 22nd
The Hemlock
6:00 p.m. (or so), 21+
Low Red Land (playing acoustic, celebrating the release of Acoustic EP II) and Appomattox (playing electric)

Sunday, August 23rd
Treat Street between 17th Street and 18th Street
Rock Make Street Festival
11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., all ages
Tartufi, Low Red Land, and 10 other local bands (plus over 60 local artists and vendors)

That’s right: two Low Red Land shows, one acoustic and one electric, back-to-back.  One isn’t free (the Hemlock), and one is (but a donation is strongly encouraged), but they’re both different, and they’ll both be great. 

That’s about all we have for now.  We’ll be on the road in a little over a month.  We hope to see you out at a show.  Take it easy.