great show at kung fu necktie for r5 productions with our friends like a fox & ava luna.

slow down
spotlight
rotten life
subbacultcha (pixies)
good intentions
breed (nirvana)
starting now
humpty
afternoon is better
butterfly
stock

the record release show for for what it’s worse was one of our best shows ever and an amazing night all around. we had great friends (and great bands) faux slang, knife show & the creeping weeds open and we spent the majority of their sets having people come up to us to tell us how amazing they all are. (we already knew that, that’s why we booked them).  dj extraordinaire jersey dan  from choice tasters & y-not radio kept the music going before, after and between the bands.  as for us, we played an hour and a half mix of songs from the new record, old favorites from our past records and some brand new future-hits. we closed the set with a late 70’s/early 80’s arena rock trilogy sandwiched between the first and last songs off our first record 21. that was going to be it but the crowd demanded more, shouting out song titles that eventually evolved into a chant of “gbv, gbv, gbv…..” so we obliged with two guided by voices covers. definitely one of the most fun sets we’ve ever played.

good intentions
st. nick
you never seem to mind
lifeboat
finders
me & sweet j
deep end
geometric mean
everything pales
afternoon is better
shattered leaves
starting now
the greater depression
nutso
infinite space
butterfly
stock
humpty
weekend politics
become
highway to hell (ac/dc)
misty mountain hop (led zeppelin)
under pressure (queen & david bowie)
love oven

encore:
buzzards & dreadful crows (guided by voices)
motor away (guided by voices)

the guys from “bands in the backyard” also have photos posted on their flickr page here.

also, our friend lauree drove all the way up from arlington, va for the show and she has some pictures posted here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150941645910118.763944.509435117&type=3

this was a philly f/m festival showcase celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the book our band could be your life. the festival invited a bunch of philly bands to chose a band that had been written about in the book and cover three of their songs. we were the first band to respond and chose mission of burma. when it came time for our set the show was running ahead of schedule so we took the opportunity to play two extra songs by two of our favorite bands also featured in the book:

academy fight song (mission of burma)
that’s how i escaped my certain fate (mission of burma)
that’s when i reach for my revolver (mission of burma)
back from somewhere (husker du)
left of the dial (replacements)

the other bands on the bill were:

house bat as sonic youth
metroplex as fugazi
ghosts in the valley as the minutemen
faux slang as husker du
howling fantods as mudhoney
yeah clementines as the replacements
the successful failures as beat happening
the silence kit as minor threat
golden bloom as dinosaur jr.

our band could be your life: “provides a chapter-style, documentary-like, behind-the-scenes history of a dozen or so bands that truly defined what it meant to be an indie or punk band during the 1980′s, with stories and facts that shed such a new light on each of the featured bands that I feel like a dope for thinking I knew anything about them before reading the book.” baby got books

it was a beautiful day to spend outside playing to a large crowd full of friends and family. we even included a brand new song “infinite space”.

butterfly
you never seem to mind
shattered leaves
starting now
infinite space
geometric mean
slow down
stock
path
hey bulldog (beatles)

a rare acoustic set opening for kepi ghoulie (groovie ghoulies) and tommy stinson (replacements, bash & pop, perfect, soul asylum, guns n’ roses).

lost in the translation
you never seem to mind
the greater depression
good intentions
starting now
california
final chapter
bufferless
back from somewhere (husker du)
stock
butterfly

we headlined one of the free outdoor stages for the philadlephia f/m festival. girard avenue was closed for four blocks and was a sea of people,  vendors and three music stages. we had a great set until it was cut a little short when a  building across the street caught fire. they had to open up girard and everyone had to move out of the way to let the fire trucks come down. we played our last song to fire trucks driving right in front of the stage with their sirens and lights blaring.

humpty
you never seem to mind
starting now
butterfly
stock
(an evening in) pamplona
finders
afternoon is better
shattered leaves

playing the main stage at the troc with sketch comedy group the minor prophets.

st. nick
finders
pure circumstance
where is my mind? (pixies)
weekend politics
chelsea
become
good intentions
you never seem to mind
butterfly
deep end
stock
deferent
starting now
lifeboat
me and sweet j
slide song
geometric mean
monsters of rock
a salty salute (guided by voices)
love oven