In addition to playing at the Black Cat and Fort Reno, Spencer was also interviewed for Breakthrough Radio last recently. You can listen to the DJ Rachelandthecity’s show here. He does a good job, particularly with the difficult task of explaining Aaron’s lyrics. So head on over and give a listen.
Photo by Darren Higgins.
On behalf of the boys, I’d like to thank people for the incredible tuesday night support. People brought friends, friends brought friends, it was great. Now we don’t have to cut ties with you forever. I’m sure the club was happy with the result, and I can tell you that The Dig really appreciated the number of people in the audience for them. It was a really good showing.
As I said on-stage last night, the Black Cat constitutes a mark of progress for us. The fact that it was the backstage is really inconsequential; the fact is that we are now on their radar, and in this town that’s all you can really ask. I’ve dreamed many, many times of playing in that club, going backstage and having an actual dressing room. The Black Cat is on a totally different plane than the other non-9:30 clubs in this town in terms of professionalism, and for a band that acts very professional at every club we play that means a lot. They give you a room, they stock your fridge full of water, soda, and more beer of your choice than you can drink. They honor contracts; hell, they LOOK at contracts, which no-one else does. They treat you the way you want to be treated; not like stars, but like someone coming to do a job and make some money for your club. Most clubs treat you like interns rather than as partners, and it really should be more like the latter.
The hope for us is that we can now move to a better night or the mainstage. I don’t think we’re being naiive when I say that’s an absolute possibility (definitely maybe). We were encouraged that there were some actual fans out last night; people that weren’t our friends but like our band. Hopefully that will spread.
We’ve been really happy over the last few months about how far we’ve come, and we owe it to our very loyal friends who have stuck with us, spent their money and supported us while we work to get better as a band. All of the whooping and yelling after songs helps the non-friends in the room feel a good vibe, and that gets them interested in what we’re doing. Maybe the progress isn’t as evident to you as it is to us, but any sort of progress is really encouraging. The fact is that I’ve been in other bands for much longer periods of time that never made that sort of progress, so we’re encouraged by recent events.
Another week, another exciting first for The City Veins. Tonight we pop our Black Cat cherry! I’m pretty excited. Black Cat is somewhere we’ve all wanted to play forever, since before we were the Brotherhood of Veins, and to have this opportunity is pretty freakin awesome. In fact, playing the Black Cat was one of the only goals we had when we started this here band.
We need your help though - the more people we can bring out tonight, the better chance we have at getting one of those coveted weekend, mainstage spots in the future (which is our main goal).
So, IF:
AND
THEN
It will rock. A lot. I guarantee.
(PS - Sorry to get all so promotional but, in the words of De La Soul, stakes is high).
Lost amidst all of the hoopla surrounding the 3g iPhone and the iPhone 2.0 software was probably the most important iTunes related development: You can now download our new EP from iTunes. Also, because we refuse to confirm to a U.S. centric worldview, you can also find us on iTunes Australia/N.Z., iTunes Canada, iTunes UK/European Union, and iTunes Japan.
If you feel like you need a higher quality mp3, and I think you do, or you want to use all of those Pepsi points you have been saving up, you can head over to Amazon and download it there. I have been told that we are also on Rhapsody, but I can’t verify that right now. You can also find us on Lala, Napster, something called Groupietunes that I can’t seem to load, and eventually eMusic.
That certainly seems like a lot of options. I don’t want to steer you towards any particular online retailer or the other. My suggestion is that you download our EP from every store and then compare the relative sound qualities to a hard copy of our album. That sounds like a fun way to spend an afternoon.
Also, those who live in the Greater DC area should come out to see us tomorrow night at the Black Cat.
Our Ft. Reno experience was amazing. I’m sure we’ll write about it in greater detail later, but right now it’s 1:10 AM. I have to work tomorrow, but I’m feeling so pumped up still that I can’t sleep.
Tonight Ian MacKaye and Ted Leo were in the audience and we played one of our best shows yet. They were really cool and complimentary to us as well. Maybe they were just being nice, I don’t care - I can die in peace.
