Press Kittens, Part 1

This will probably be another relatively short post- I'm feeling a need to run (or rather) drive as far as I can away from everything. Wherever I run out of gas I'll just live there from now on...until I miss my bed and then I'll come home. In the meantime, Gin Circus update!

I'm slowly getting the press kit together. I'm allowing myself to be slow because our demo isn't even fully mixed yet. We actually still have two more songs to record. But once that's done I need to have the rest of the press kit set to go. It will all work out, I'm sure. A friend of ours, Bob Ulrich, has agreed to take photos of us for the kit, which is exciting since I love his photography. Here's two he took of Alex not too long ago:



I've also been in arrangements with the new editor of Words and Images (the literary journal I used to work for) for us to play the Words and Images fall party. There's poetry and short story readings and then some bands play. It should be good and, assuming it is at Space Gallery again, it would fulfill one of my venue goals (leaving one left in Portland: Empire Dine and Dance). I've seen quite a few concerts that inspired me at Space so to actually be on that stage myself would be awesome. Instead of just sitting on the edge of it like i normally do, of course.

Another important development is that my goal of finding a place for my cousin's band to play in Maine was finally realized yesterday. Meg, the awesome Dooryard-ian woman who booked us for our first show on my assurances that we could rock hard despite our acoustic samplings. The Dooryard itself is awesome, an arts community in a big old house that has artists and musicians and graffitti all over the walls- I'd love to live there, although the paint fumes would probably kill me. Here's their little section of the web: http://www.myspace.com/dooryard108
Anyway, Meg booked the new gig at Slainte, which will be interesting because it's four bands in a very narrow space. August 22 was the only time the band (Take One Car, if you were curious) was in Maine since they had gigs on either side of that date so I'm just thankful a venue worked out. We're also playing with Dead Man's Clothes (a local band), and Stereofidelics (who I've not seen but are aparently from North Carolina). It will be awesome and there will no doubt be some blogging afterward.

I wish people read this blog so that I could reply to comments and have something more ot write about. But right now, I'm ADD-ing out of my skull and need to get out of the house.

wiedersehen!



-Aubin