After a splend-tastic breakfast at Casa Nueva, we departed Athens in the best of spirits. With the help of one of them fancy GPS boxes (on loan courtesy of our lovely and talented and best put-up-with-us friend Sarah S.) we headed out on the road.
There is no sour mood that a healthy breakfast cannot reverse.Brian and I have been in touring bands in the past and we share ideas for doing it that seem… well, antiquated. Before this tour Brian came to me and said "This is going to be awesome, we're going to get a power inverter and plug in a 13-inch TV and a DVD player and watch movies!" And after talking about how cool that is going to be, we realized that you can watch movies on battery-powered laptops and this isn't 2002.
Speaking of this wave of new technology, I'm still a little amazed at the fact that we had one person driving and TWO people online, using the actual interweb, while driving the entire way up to Athens. Mobile internet is a fascinating achievement that I only discovered this past year. Thank you, Neal Armstrong, we couldn't have done it without you landing on the surface of that movie studio set in Arizona.
Scribbles! We love this place, good coffee and good people, great energy. We've had a run of shows lately (starting with our Artist-in-Residence stint at The Southgate House) that were in smaller, intimate venues, packed full of people. It's nice to get to play smaller places after a while of playing much bigger stages, it concentrates all the show's energy into one small energy-bomb. If we could harness it we could power a city; as it is it gets wasted all over the walls and ceiling of the place. Sometimes people in the room do that too.
One remarkable part of the evening was when I finally met my long-lost brother, Andy Ingram, who sang for the opening band, XL427. It's a little wierd because we had separate parents but he promised to say hi to Mom and Dad for me and I said the same.
Dylan from Set Fire Films
"Setlist from the evening" — 2009 The Seedy Seeds, Crayon and Newsprint.
Mike configures the beeps and boops.
Brian configures the bangs and the booms.
Mike's glasses took one for the team. They are currently healing well and we expect them to return to duty tonight. Donations can be made in their name at your local record store.
Fellow bearded traveler Cory joined us for the next leg of the evening's tour.
The show / shoot went pretty swimmingly and we can't wait to see the results. Thank you to Scribbles, Dylan and Set Fire Films, as well as everyone who helped out that evening. We piled everything back into the Bavanarama and headed to the next show of the night.
In Closing:
"Hey this might be a weird question, but what did Margaret's mom do with my pants?" —Brian
—Mike
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