OSPREYS is an exploratory music project operated by michael w. hall
and tom bubul.
we are based in philadelphia, pennsylvania.
mike can be reached at cleanmike at gmail.
I can be reached at tom at dogchirp.
our myspace page is "two
basses."
currently
as of july 1st ospreys is on summer hiatus while I travel.
in the fall we will have a split tape with wilde stallions that mike haley is doing and a tape of jams likely from the june "total retardation" sessions that drew is doing.
songs from private idiot cd-r is still fresh in a clean cd-r edition of 30 with foldout inserts - holler if you're looking for that. mike still has I think six copies of his ocean drinker disc. someone may still have a copy of the bone tooth horn collage/cave songs cassette too.
shows we are playing
seeya in late september.
shows we have played
2005 (6)
august 25th @ the south philly athanaeum, Phila PA w/
Gored By Buffalo, Jesse Kudler. first show god. played tin songs and slow.
everyone was patient and cordial.
september 2xth @ lex's house, Phila PA. drunkest set. played covered in a sheet and mike with corpse paint (it was a goth party). melissa, skot and sean laughed. susy put her hand on her forehead and groaned.
october 27th @ Niagara, New York NY. this was video taped and will turn up some day.
october 28th @ Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY. we drank growlers.
october 29th @ Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY. mike dressed as sun ra for halloween and later, dressed so, got in a fight with a cop.
december 30th "news years eve forever" @ the manhattan room, Phila PA w/ Ramona Cordova, Drums Like Machine Guns, Jay Purdy, The Celebs. andrew joined us on bass clarinet and totally ruined our set, whoops.
2006 (26)
january 9th @ Ramon's, Phila PA w/ Wax and Wain, Andrew's Special Sitar Set, Ramon. mike played keyboards and bass and I told stories.
january 20th @ big pink, Phila PA w/ Dan Deacon, OCDJ, Unchained, Drums Like Machine Guns. Nate fucking killed it.
january 25th @ the tea bazaar, Charlottesville VA. everything got psychedelic afterward. in the morning I couldn't see mike even though he was sitting right in front of me. I got up and looked outside for him for twenty minutes.
january 26th @ the whig, Columbia NC. first show we both agree was good. first ever encore. powerful straight-up psych screamers and huge riffs.
january 28th @ john's church, Savannah GA w/ "Detroit Rock" Teddy, Patrick Parker's band. the dragon joined us and then a day later threatened teddy's life in the park. I was mightily gin drunk and acted a fool.
january 30th @ 231 s. laurel, Richmond VA w/ Human Skin, Phil. dark echo-ears basement show, played sludgiest and slowest. finished the rest of the gin while I rode a bike through the neighborhood.
march 27th @ big pink, Phila PA w/ Les Aus, Celebs, Me + My Panda Machine. Arnau played drums and I cut my hand and sprayed blood everywhere while we played. one of our top five shows, everything right and the raw hell boom-boom columbia sound completed in two Arnau minutes.
april 22nd @ 5600 overbrooke, Phila PA w/ Dogme 95. slow knees show. a dude spit on me at this.
april 26th @ garfield artworks, Pittsburgh PA w/ Tigersaw. five minute set. weird last minute show. jeremy and ed got us trashed and we woke up with stickers on our stuff that said "visualize rolled j's"
april 27th @ kenyon college, Gambier OH w/ Leo on the raps and Chris from Aryan/Asian on the hype and the drums. we drank a thirty pack and hung out in the PEEPS maze. played the sharp loud every light jams and chris played drums of death.
april 29th @ version fest, iron works, Chicago IL w/ This Is My Condition, Mudboy, Frankie Martin, Panicsville, two hundred others. hung out in a giant plastic thing most of the night. you had to be there. set was clipped and a little awkward. ran into max from 1026 and micah from vox and they hung out.
may 2nd @ the feminist stronghold, Minneapolis MN. brutal feedbacker screamer. one of our harshest, loudest sets, maybe fifteen minutes in a second floor living room. saw MISERY the night before in the bowling alley and rode a bike drinking beer all over town w/ carissa and black labels.
may 4th @ skylab gallery, Columbus OH w/ Sword Heaven, Lambsbread + Spencer Yeh, Major Stars, Bonedust. Aaron played drums with us. last show we played as ospreys version one, one of the most fun nights, everyone slayed. slept on a bare mattress and drank whiskey from the bottle, terror hangover drive back to philly the next morning, parked on the side of the road and slept for an hour halfway, saw a cop smash into an suv just outside of town.
june 11th @ haunted cream egg, Phila PA w/ a million bands. equipment check. rushed to get to this from something at vox and played very quietly.
june 16th @ khyber, Phila PA w/ Asobi Seksu, Warmer Milks, Howlin Rain. Blaine played drums with us. my dad bought everyone beer, warmer milks ruled it even though equipment was massively malfunctioning, howling rain vs ex-cocaine as best hippie band
june 21st @ southwest burrito, New Brunswick NJ w/ Diagram A, Human Adult Band. Blaine played drums with us again. Worst day, got to the show so late, dudes were all way friendly... mike way bummed, took a while, but eventually super-zoned despondance from amps holding hands.
july xth @ some south philly house (tom solo) w/ a million bands. first solo show, weird and goofy.
july 2xth @ thinisu, New Brunswick NJ w/ the Yets (pre-Vamp Belt show). Blaine again on drums. outside on knees in the dirt, bizarre fading sound, weird stereo panning between my amps... Yets dudes going "oh man, that one?" before every song. mike couldn't remember how our songs went so we had to go to a dude's house to listen to one of our cd-rs.
august 1xth @ big pink, Phila PA (tom solo) w/ The Furniture, a million bands. power set. sang the camp songs, meant to get home at 11, got home at 3. me and mincemeat davey left to buy tallboys because the show just wouldn't start.
september 22nd @ 43rd + pine, Phila PA (tom solo) w/ Mother, Towers, Mincemeat or Tenspeed. total equipment failure and not loud enough but awesome space. jon showed up to this to heckle but was two hours late.
september 26th @ mojo13, Wilmington DE w/ Empty Shapes, Count von Count. chris from empty shapes played drums, can't remember this at all except it was the first glass throats session, had no voice at work the next day
november 3rd @ hampshire college, Amherst MA w/ Cave of Time, Cats. Etienne played drums. dudes outside asked if I knew where they could get mushrooms. Cats didn't play long enough. etienne totally drowned us out.
november 5th @ oddfellows temple, Burlington VT w/ every Burington metal band. drank whiskey from coffee cups and everything went fine until it went straight to shit -- freezing cold, asleep on the dirtiest, shitties floor and kicked out at 5am... let ourselves into a stranger's joint and slept through his making breakfast and trying to wake us up to see what the deal was... metal drummer asked if we wanted fills and I told him to do whatever he wanted... night of instant karma, crazy...
november 6th @ langdon st cafe, Montpelier VT w/ local folk peeps ... cardboard kids watched us, cleared the room otherwise. old folkies heckled. sober slow set followed by explosive night at steph's manor, major high point.
november 7th @ forbes st manor, Worcester MA w/ Phonebook... jacob berendes, totally unstoppable force, best of the best. andrew packer = raddest host, thanks forbes... lilah bought me beer in exchange for zines. O setup was opposite one another, separated by standing folks... zoned out bass in my face, glass throats jams except not because contact mics all broke (too drunk), played solo for minutes after mike thought we were done, so heavy by the end.
november 10th @ vassar college, Poughkeepsie NY w/ OSPREYS big band feat. Ellen electric violin + Zach drums+ Christina vox. straight improv weird show at the end of tour... arpeggiating distorto guitar, violin that kept pushing me out of my own amp, drums slow and low, mike just going crazy with that jug... second ever encore, kids all sitting up and down the steps.
2007 (28)
january 3rd @ mojo13, wilmington DE w/ wether, pink desert, northern valentine ... jason and the argonauts on the bar video screens on repeat, p.d. dudes gently swaying, wether with that sick cutout part. O set 2/3 technical diffs (my fault, seduced by other dude's amp), 1/3 whirlwind version of GALLEONS crushing. no women in the bar.
january 19th @ kenyon college, Gambier OH w/ pontius pilot. grand total: eleven bottles of champagne, six rogue chocolate stout, one handle gin, two bottles white wine, one bottle red. played our longest ever set after jamming for three hours earlier in the afternoon, disappeared into the night. mike got everyone in trouble and ruined the party, I may have drank someone else's beer. first show with new guitar amp & best show to date?
january 21st @ frowny bear, Lexington KY w/ caves. ben and daryl were up until 9am the night before watching star wars. we rolled in starving and made pasta, watched the exorcist and went downstairs. caves set was a crusher, pure low destruction, rattled mike's camera off the bench. played our second shortest ever set, maybe six minutes, all mics and amps and guhh swells. went back upstairs after and bo from montpelier was in the air and everyone watched adult swim.
january 23rd @ desoto row, Savannah GA w/ celebs, rowan and hastings, coquette. reunion show between traveling philly crews - celebs covered it takes two, r&h played maybe six encores. we drank mimosas and played two, total maybe fifteen/twenty minutes, one was mics and guitar and cello, one the refined GALLEON sludge sound. left and listened to the beatles through an overdriven peavey.
january 24th @ the immaginarium, Columbia SC w/ jeff on the decks (best dude, everyone should visit him). dual smoke rising show, insanely complicated set-ups, I got paranoid about getting carbon monoxide poisoning. magical greyglass eye harmony on the first one, some glass throats echoes. second was narcotized GALLEONS on knees from the guts, slow and tired and then monstrously heavy. weird feedback issues as my amp continues to deterioriate.
january 25th @ broad street cafe, Durham NC w/ Ed Wilcox (temple of bon matin) / Zack Kouns duo. got there five hours early. ed sang a fifteen minute song with rhythmic application of effects and no other backup, zack stoody by and then destroyed the world with sax / feedback / chanting in the last five. murderous - email me if you want the recording. O set was similar to the previous night, mike's shit acted up, played bummer jams for maybe fifteen minutes
january 26th @
the tea bazaar, Charlottesville VA oh god, what happened here? drank a ton of tea and matthew got us weirded and simon babysat. we played two sets about two hours apart, first one two songs maybe twelve minutes - weird noodler to start, then the slowest darkest GALLEONS. second one at kurt's request, six minutes, brightest most beautiful diamond melter of collapsing bass and heartbreaking shriek. the dudes all rolled in at midnight and took off their shirts and gave us so much wine and port. finished all of the open beers when they left. best night, second best place on earth.
march 9th @ johnny brenda's, philadelphia w/ magik markers, satanized. a.c. cancelled. talked to jack rose about son of earth, drank fiercely, sang blurt songs from the floor. the first show with no riffs whatsoever, just blank red mud fields and shattering glass throats. my dad was at this and talked to blaine. markers set was an hour plus, huge long bummer jams wrestled from other worlds.
march 10th @ warehouse next door, washington dc w/ magik markers, harrius, facemat + verrastro. played this one on the floor after scott showed us what was what in the green room. slow screamers and musers, wacked out and in almost total darkness the whole time. harrius was chiara and jenny from metalux playing the baltimore witch songs, complete hypnotizers, magic as it can be. markers set was faster and more blown-out, straight radical psychedelia. many people asked mike about his heckingers shirt. I slowly drank a shot of whiskey. we made sandwiches at his gramma's at 3am.
march 11th @ black hand cafe, richmond va, w/ a kenneth yates duo action and the pinko communoids. listened to the harrius set on the drive down, complete summer breaking hard on the richmond rocks when we got there. bizarro fake storefront setup - menu said "coffee / americano / espresso" and the food menu featured "chicken ramen - $1 SOLD OUT." proprietor robert drank wine and hollared from the moment we got there. set was similar jams to dc but smokier than slow. tyler made us dinner and we went back to his place, listened to the GUN record, drank beer and watched a bootleg tape of saddam hussein jokes and footage.
april 17th @ the sugar tank, lancaster pa w/ the punkss, wether, manimal, wilde stallions. listened to vibracathedral arab chord chart on the way and arrived with destruction in our eyes and hands. all hippie styles represented at this show - big bread dread dudes, athanaeum style neons, black hoodie noise dudes. wilde stallions crew are among the best rural freaks - set was jerry garcia plays sonic youth harshers and right. they ended with a biz markie tape. I gave wether a slice of pizza and he held it together heavy. if you play or do a show with manimal tell them that they can only play for twenty minutes, or else be ready - these dudes will definitely stretch out and play for an hour - their three minute outro kept going back into the riff what felt like seven hundred times. dude from chicago with ripped pants kept flashing us and wrestled some dude while we set up - we played a neil young cover and dark mashing grinding low evil, 18 minutes. was great to catch the punks finally, killer short set, end of the night whatever vibes all around, everyone in the room completely outer-spaced. we got back to west philly at one, watched decasia and the first five minutes of running with scissors, then I went home and worked until 5am. "fuck it"
april 22nd @ new harmony restaurant, philly w/ tiny hawks.
mike had the flu but we played anyway. I drank a salty beer and made CD-Rs beforehand. video with overblown audio is on google video, so you tell me.
april 27th @ the rascal shack, brooklyn ny w/ a dude who showed up and played a synth demo super, super loud for about an hour. hippie hangout tour begins with extreme hex signs. listened to face down in shit, khanate, and earth live on the way in and everything that could possibly break or get screwed up broke or got screwed up. the show turned out to be an anarchy party, not a show with an anarchy party attached. we were supposed to see LB and the Arkestra but that got cancelled. nate was supposed to hang out but he was nowhere to be found, and probably for the better - party was a wacky scene. I told a dude who was drumming on mike's cello at 3am, "[if mike finds you doing that] he will fucking hammer you." I left all of my clothes in this house and had to wear raggy shorts for the rest of tour.
may 2nd @ strange maine, portland me w/ Uncle Woody Sullener & Kevin Davis, Prisma. played this after four days wandering in montpelier vt and upstate ny. went to the bar with matt, nemo, rachel, janane and drank delicious beers. mike bought a dolphy record after a weird story we heard in vermont, you can ask him about it if you want. brendan and his shop were awesome. my amp was blown.
may 4th @ vassar college observatory, poughkeepsie ny w/ pat's bands. outside in the stars + ellen on violin. heavy metal.
may 5th @ thinisu, new brunswick nj mixtape party w/ Dave Sutton. new brunswick dudes are still the friendliest. big trevor human adult told us we played a little too loud but that it was cool. we didn't recognize ryan with his sunglasses on. I had a wicked caffeine headache and a hangover from the three mimosas and two shots I had with breakfast. we gave away/traded all three copies of "the actualizer" here and played a dark drooler and a stretched, mellow version of man in canadian skies. my rearview mirror somehow melted off the inside of my windshield and turned on my hazards. I drank a margarita and we listened to sister on the drive home.
may 15th + 17th @ the flophouse, west philly 15th w/ caves, walter carson, dave smolen, thee-puck, drugdealer (tom + blaine), 17th w/ ed wilcox/adam reese/zack kouns traveling aktion, SweetNothing + BioCastle (solo and combined sets), ospreys, ocean drinker, me and my panda machine full band. This is on here as one show instead of two because the thing on the 15th wasn't really an ospreys show or either of us playing as such - Blaine said that as fake bands go, drugdealer didn't even get to a 3 out of 10 stars. She played broken drums and I played a keyboard and it was janky. Deepak did his thing and Susy asked why she never knew about it. Dave played brutal beats and seemed embarassed at how awesome his set was when he finished. Daryl's little box of pain swirled hard and Ben's Caves was 500x more brutal than before - awesome meditational church crusher swell. Then everyone watched TV carnage and made sandwiches. 17th ran later - dudes had trouble assembling and getting going. Mike's solo jam Ocean Drinker was killer, ospreys set harsh and plodding but my no-amp setup ran a little too wild for me. first show we managed to play with Jared after ages of talking. ed + zack + adam slayed and davey was appreciative of the show happening.
june 1st @ clint's house, Lancaster PA w/ wilde stallions. ws = absolute best no city crew, lancaster = best secret in pennsylvania. when we got back from new bruns last time we said "we are never going on hippie hangout tour again" and then here we were in lancaster three weeks later, after taking two days to swim and do jumps in the susquehanna. the party was rad - we got slices of pizza and watched stallions go from tape haze through pure riff wreckage. kyle plays drums now. we played a fifteen minute ospreys joint and then a combined set. next morning we went to breakfast with clint, ben and val and went straight back to the river to do more jumps.
june 2nd @ 5700 wilkins, Pittsburgh w/ plain lace, church clothes, noctuelles. in pittsburgh they don't know what it means when you say "wilin' out and bustin' guns." we drove here wet from the river and smelling like hell and bummed that we forgot to bring the metal records. jeremy remains our pgh guru. ant hung out. mike plain lace rode serious delay and right. we talked after and he recognized us from dc, told mike he thought our set was tighter and less like we were just vibing, which I thought was hilariously astute. we'll do a better job next time, dc. watched dazed and confused at chez hedges afterwards and ate at the eat n' park in the morning, where a baby screamed and her dad never lost his cool - he laughed and said "She's a singer, she'll be the next Mary J Blige."
june 11th @ the DAAC, Grand Rapids MI w/ ovoid, treebot. Sam and I traded records. Was Ovoid's first show and they played for four killer minutes. Most all-out pure energy no music firebreather Ospreys set in ages. Ellen played violin. We hung out under a bridge later that night and the fish were jumping. Mike went to Lake Mich while I worked.
june 12th @ Cafe Bourbon St, Columbus OH w/ tanks. Patrick Parker was at this! Goofy clowning around family band-style set while the Cleveland game was on TV. Green room with Matt Psychedelic Horseshit. Dropping guitars, crushing hands, rolling over curbs, dude hilariously squatting the land. They put the Paper Rad video on when the game was over, during which the TV crapped out with ten seconds to go. Tanks dudes played full set and hung out - dude wore his costume and everything.
june 13th @ The Leisure Room, Murfreesboro TN w/ bumblebeast. Ate a pizza and reduced a mountain to ash with this crew. Played an awesome set and listened to the NNF Blues Control side super loud while pounding fists in the air. Michael gave us discs of Zack playing on his radio show. Total zonker viber of a night - gave away a lot of zines / papers and walked around barefoot all over this joint. Wolfed the All Star in the morning with one eye on the sheriff and drove through Bonnaroo.
june 14th @ Frowny Bear, Lexington KY w/ Caboladies, Thad's solo bass riffer. Man do I wish we recorded these shits. Caboladies = soft sparkler summer dudes-style electronics, covered a million miles, huge control and all over. Played awesome "most everyone at the show is in a band and all of our shit is here and setup, soooo..." jams that we somehow didn't record, with Ben / Thad / Caboladies / us - awesome mud in the morning sun baker - one of the Cabos yelled "Don't stop playing" and asked if we were mad when they joined in. Earlier we got CD-Rs and beer from the riteaid and hollered at tweens from Ben's astrovan. Ate two veggie burgers and watched Papillon. I worked all fuckin morning the next day, bumming everyone out.
june 17th @ warehouse next door, DC w/ Warmer Milks,
Kohoutek, Barkitecture, Jason Simon. we talked to allen about hanging out with oi
polloi and to mikey milks about punk records. one whiskey drink and a kid at this
recognized purity and accuracy.
september xth @ the kppl, lancaster PA w/ Sunburned Hand
of the Man. wilde osprey was Tom, Clint and Ben. Steve Stallions was under some sequoias
and Mike was on poster sale. We played what I can only imagine must have been a rock
set, blue cheer covers and whatever - I was wine drunk even before Ben came at me
with six pounders. Had wild adventures in the kppl this night - Sunburned in five-formation
played two sets, one wild funk styles, one hair-down jamming. Had breakfast at the
korean cafe across the street and was on time for work.
october 21st @ the lake, lancaster PA w/ wilde stallions.
wacky times at the lake. We had nothing else to do this night so we drove out and
jammed one at this house party. A bunch of dogs ran in and ran all over stallions'
setup while they were playing. Loner ospreys set. We drove home listening to AM radio
static.
october 23rd @ the vacuum, philadelphia PA w/ Magik Markers,
Tall Furs. Disastrously unpromoted show. We played this as the infinite family
band, five piecer. Ryan Furs was the fiercest drummer of the season - he was reading
the BTO book before hand, which may have had something to do with it. Elisa couldn't
find whiskey, Pete couldn't find a light. I got a flat bike tire later in the night
riding back and forth between RH and fairmount.
december 30th @ big rock candy mountain, philadelphia PA w/
mincemeat or tenspeed, drums like machine guns, dick neff, mugu guymen, important
eagle. Mike's dog and Katrina's dog were straight wilin. Weird year-ender small
amps set with dumb equipment issues. I ate two odwalla bars and a burrito at this.
Jamie was there. Alabama crew were on some levels, but the winner was Davey dropping
a totally crucial sky cracker of a mincemeat set. 2007 = fuck it. 2008 = fuck it.
2008 (17)
january 25th @ muscle beach, allentown PA w/
dreaming, little ocean, natalie wiseblood, burak, grass canyon. what
is allentown's story?
there were all kinds of dicks drawn on the walls at this place. almost everyone
at this had that boss loop station, even audience members. natalie
covered billy joel. mike played from his small amp and couldn't hear himself.
dreaming was brian pink dessert's other band, featuring a cascading drum
stick move that I'm not explaining here. jared threatened to blow his amp.
jake complained in waffle house when the lady didn't bring him his bacon.
drew a little with grass canyon. listened to vh1 storytellers on the drive
home.
february 2nd @ circle of hope, philadelphia PA w/
a million bands. weird two piece bands fest that we played for some reason.
ate chinese with ben stallions, sold a disc to a young kid who was wowed
by our particular brand of pop punk. played like seven games of risk
at gray house afterward.
please don't put that hex on my shit = all days with mincemeat or
tenspeed
april 27th @ INC Philly, PIFAS w/ a billion bands. best show I've been to
in philly in ages. zradio team room-recorded it and have
it here, but that shit is a shadow. for my money best sets of the
night = #4 brenden serpents of wisdom metalizer mandolin riff freaks, #2
m ax noi mach classical shirtless AHHHHHH!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!, #1 BIG OCEAN =
jake + eliot + ben blazed out and went for BROKE, completely maximal psychedelic
overload universe inversion blah blah blazer. afterward I asked Jake "Jake
what the FUCK" and he said "I thought it would be funny to do an old
school noise set." it's also worth mentioning that natalie set a pa on fire
at this.
april 28th @ brian narwhallz's house, richmond VA w/ narwhallz, shams, leo
and travis's noise band. we needed to be
pizza pigging so we got a lot of dominos. it was sick. show = rainy monday
day, couple people showed up and it turned into a micro strobe rave. lots
of hang loose. when we were going to bed at 3am we all started laughing because
a dude across the street starting blasting the hendrix star spangled banner
super loud.
april 29th @ black cart, Charleston SC w/ gaybomb. the parking dude was like
"I will let you park for free if you buy me a beer" so we bought him a beer,
and then realized we were parked legally anyway. all night the dude kept
being like "you guys don't worry your car is fine" and laughing and sipping
his beer. completely weird bar show - PA music played over our set and davey's
(sound dude wouldn't let him use the pa), we drank beer that we snuck in,
a lot of people who had no idea who we were or why we were playing stayed
and bought records? not bad. andrew gaybomb's shit rules, top three sets
of tour. his dog rules too, top three dogs of tour.
april 30th @ oaf house, Tallahasse FL. w/ tron. we got there while some hesher
was all up in everyone's face at the house meeting. weird no-promo show.
we ate huge slices of pizza and I got the fear in me when I saw a scraggly
old dude sitting on the sidewalk of the main drag looking off into the distance
no-future style. tron are a rad black sabbath band; nobody gave a shit about
our styles, but it worked out - we ended up drinking beer and preparing for
the incredible hulk with jen and patrick at their place until 4am. patrick
went to sleep watching kill bill 2 after jamming the full parts and labor
discog at volume 10 with the windows all wide open, totally brazen and hilarious
and awesome. jen took us to the cyprus swamps/sinkholes in the morning to
swim and do jumps from a crazy zipline. we ate long john silver for lunch.
May 1st @ AC Temple, birmingham AL. w/ lance romance, hymen hologram, a pick-up
grunge band. lance and hh sets are both on youtube. totally amazing show
despite itself. bham lance + them natives = #1 crew in america.
May 2nd @ Chateau Noir, Stone Mtn GA w/ PONY BONES, MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED,
SUBLIMINATOR, CEDRO DANADO, AUTISTIC MOTHER, RE COM PAS, BABY GURL, SELF
INFLICT, BAGOMBO, RAJIO, HALLUCINATING FRUIT JAR DRINKERS. this night was
king retarded in the best. I ate ramen noodles and peanut butter all day.
best tour dog = kobe bryant. me and turner Them Natives played as Hallucinating
Fruit Jar dreez duo; Jason Them Natives joined in by reading arthur
magazine from inside the refrigerator during the set. really relentless goofy
styles all night. at one point a girl told me she was moving to philly to
work on fresh air and totally brainwarped I asked "what's fresh air."
May 3rd @ Chateau Noir, Stone Mtn GA. w/ CHINESE FRANKENSTEIN, PAX TITANIA,
NEW WAVE DYKE, MY LEFT UTERUS, UHOH! SPADES, CHANNELER, HYMEN HOLOGRAM,
ADRIEN BARBOBOTT, THEM NATIVES. more of the same muddy extreme nonsense.
chris pax's set ruled, smooth oakley glasses luxury oceanliner electronix.
milton got a burning flag draped over him during the drum circle at the end. we
ate breakfast at the farmer's market in the morning and I wondered how we
could go on.
May 4th @ house house, murfreesboro TN w/ bridgette diary of lisa franck.
May 5th @ frowny bear, lexington KY w/ S.M.E.L.L.
(eric cabos / robert b / trevor / ben caves / daryl walter carson), social
junk.
May 6th @ 213 green st., Morgantown WV w/
zack kouns.
May 7th @ comfort dome, Baltimore MD w/ door,
other dudes.
June 11th @ Brickbat Books, Philadelphia w/
Ignatz, Meg Baird. there was a giant sand pile in the street. lots of friends
came out. we jammed all day long and worked out the bugzapper/jug set
that we've been playing. chill bookstore styles, totally easy breazy rad
night, everyone did a good job. after drinking ten walt wits it's entirely
possible that we wound up going down to the train bridge afterward but I
can't remember.
June 19th @ Buckinghammer, Philadelphia w/ Mudboy,
DJ Jazzy Jexx, Suicide Magnets, Richie Morsberger, Brian Morsberger. I was
sort of supposed to set this show up, but didn't because I was moving, but
then we wound up playing it anyway? thanks wendy. jess gave me a zine, raphael
blasted zonk organ. allen, ben and tim came to this and so did melissa.
June 26th @ House show, Lancaster PA w/ Warmer
Milks, Clint. ben's going away show for his little stint with mikey and
sean = booze cruise. best part of the night was allen dropping a beer and
it exploding and spraying up in his face as he tried to pick it up.
June 28th @ Adventure Island, Philadelphia w/
Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Woods, Natalie Wiseblood, Serpents of Wisdom, Insect
Burial Ground.