Pittsburgh Show and our Manager's Wedding!

Here's the situation.

Panda crashed the Blaze. She's in the shop (all cold and lonely) and WE need to play a show in Pittsburgh. We also need to get back in time the very next morning to help celebrate our manager, Ryan, devoting his life to ONE woman! (Also happens to be the ONE woman who'd let him)

Just kidding Ryan! Yer a catch and Meredith knows it. But back to the point.

We have to drive 8 hours there, play a show, hang out with our dear friends, and then haul ass 8 hours BACK to the land of suits, open bar, and wedding band crashing. FUCK!!!!

Okay. Here's what we did. The kind Gentleman Rocker AARON ZIMMER loaned us his A-M-A-Z-I-N-G van for the trip. Her name is "Queen Anne's Revenge" and she's a force unto herself:

Zac was bar-backing at Don Pedro's in Greenpoint till 4am so Pat went down there to pick his filthy-shoe ass up at 4:30am. They both got to my house at 5am , we loaded everything into Queen Anne's Revenge, and then picked up K around 5:30am. Pat was still shaking from 17 cups of coffee and just blasted through the first 4 hours of driving.

I sat shotgun and we watched the sunrise together while holding hands ala Thelma and Louise (so romantic). K slept in the back but we were bored (no radio in this van) so Pat figured it'd be a good time to pull the 'ole Brake and Scream.

Eventually the caffeine wore off and Pat needed some shut eye....K 's behind the wheel...time to PUKE!

Things were moving along alright...I was pleased with my new fanny-pak....

..minding my own business....then a GIANT bee just slapped me in the face going 70 mph and landed on my shirt....that thing felt like a baseball to the head!

After I regained consciousness, I took some shots of a perfectly nice day....

Everything was rainbows and cotton candy...UNTIL we drove through this mountain...

How is it that THIS was waiting for us on the other side??

WTF?!?!

K did a good job handling "QAR" but this was one of the weirdest things...We went through a tunnel..not the Witch's Wardrobe (or maybe we did? But somehow I feel like Narnja wouldn't have 18 Wheelers)

We drove through the next tunnel and hoped for something better than all this rain...

But when we got to the other side...we saw THIS in the middle of the road!!!!!!!!!

STOP THE CAR!!!!

I'm just kidding guys. There actually WASN'T a Giant Baby Head mounted on the top of a Muscle Man's Body in the middle of the highway....but there was more shit weather. ugh

Some of you know that we love Pittsburgh, some of you don't, but let me just say, "We Love Pittsburgh." The inhabitants are of the kindest nature and there's a LOT of talent over there. We rolled into Scott Peterson's house about 2pm and he set us up with "napping stations." One of those was being occupied by his new baby boy, Wyatt...

Wyatt

If you remember, he was front row at our last show with Donora...we're honored to be his 2nd concert ever. I later woke him up screaming Johnny "Guitar" Watson licks at the top of my lungs...sorry Sarah! :(

Scott got us some beverages and we hung on the porch listening to the Meeting Of Important People record...(whom we were about to play with).

Scott

After a 2 hour nap we got to spend some time with Sarah, order some pizza, shower, and head over to Thunderbird for the show. We were real excited to play with Ben Hardt and Meeting Of Important People cuz they're friends and they sound great. MOIP have 2 songs that I couldn't stop listening to for a solid week so they were kind enough to let me sing and play tambourine...Listen to "I Know Every Street." www.myspace.com/MeetingOfImportantPeople

Totally sucks we didn't take any pics, but at least someone sent us this one...

The show was a lot of fun, but we had to skip our usual slumber party/brunch hang cuz our manager was getting married back in NYC! Time to say goodbye and get back in the van...

Zac had the first shift....he drove for 4 hours then passed the wheel to K. By the time I woke up it was daylight and my turn to drive....we all got home about noon. We had to be at the church on Park Ave by 5pm. We took a quick disco nap and put on our Sunday's best....

We were excited cuz Pat got a new suit and I found a '60s tux from New Orleans.

We were both kind of competing for the same date...

K's Daughter, Sola

Sola always selects her courtiers via Pinky. That's Pat's pinky....I guess he won??

C'MON!!!

whatever, wait till she finds out he eats Cheeze-Its in bed...gross. The ceremony was 50 parts Jewish , 40 parts Christian, and 10 parts BOOOOORING. (Dear Ryan, we're kidding. The ceremony was great and the Native Indian Poem was a hit)

The Cocktail Hour (open bar) was waiting so we hopped in the shuttle and drank top shelf with a view of Central Park...werd!!!

Within the first 20 minutes I had a drink spilled all over my leg. Ah.

We mingled, drank, and ate food that had sticks in them. We took our seats and let the lovely lady say grace....

I think it went something like this, "Pat, Pat, Pat....I love Pat. Pat. Amen."

I gave the English girl at our table my best British accent...looks like it wasn't too convincing.

Now's where shit got pretty hilarious...we got wasted, eventually kicked the wedding band off the stage, and used their instruments to serenade the newlyweds.

We love Meredith and Ryan very much so it was fun to hi-jack the band's stuff and play "I Would Die 4 U," of which, this particular version never stopped. We just kept playing until the wedding band mosied back up, but Zac was on drums and never stopped playing!

When he looked up he was surrounded by a wedding band playing Jon Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer." ha!

Eventually I snuck around the back and started playing with him....

At this point we had all been out and about for 40 hours so we went to the after party, but I passed out quickly, K went home, but Zac and Pat kept the candle burning for another few hours in the lobby bar....

...solid Saturday.

~D

Fancy Colors Show Tonight in NYC

Fancy Colors Show Tonight! FREE - Rockwood Music Hall - Pat, Zac, and Dave are Playing w/ Bob Parins first @ 9pm then Fancy Colors @ 10pm (184 Allen St.)

Holga Series from 2008

Here's some photos from 2008 that I finally got developed. Kellen Harrison was touring with us on bass (sorry Pat!). Taken on a Holga camera that Mocha got me. Click here for the full series!

K

Listening Parties

Hi!

So just to catch up, we had a show at Maxwell's in the promise land (NJ) and so many great people traversed the Hudson (and the parkway) to come hang out. We had a Super Radtastic time, but no pics to show for it :(

Then we had a Listening Party for the new album at The Delancey:

We love the rooftop, but we have to admit, the Delancey was prrrrrrrreeeeeeeetty ill-equipped for the occasion. The guy who BBQs didn't show up and they only had ONE speaker to play the record with. (wtf?) So all these beautiful people were hanging out, listening to ONE side of the album, and trying to stave off their hunger with a bag of Twizzlers our friend Mara brought.

Mara & Stefani

It's amazing that any of you are still on speaking terms with us, (above company excluded) but I must say it was really great to see you. We also met a lot of new friends that night and wound up at No Malice Palace for a private dance party, and apparently a severe ass spanking from Aaron Zimmer....

Meredith, Mandy, Carrie, & Amy

Paula, (duh), & Liz

so we STILL had fun despite the Delancey's short-comings.

So much so, in fact, we decided to do it again! This time at Piano's....

We had DJ Fleetweek come out and take care of the music and this time we had BOTH sides of the album playing! The engineers on the record Chris Ribando and Roy Hendricks came out so we got to have a few drinks and pat them on the back. It was Chris Olsen's birthday, but he and Zac had to split kinda early to play with Chappo, so Pat, K , and I were the only ones to receive this amazing gift from our friend Phoenix. She's a fire eater and she totally HAND-MADE us our very own "Flaming Arrow" in honor of our new single. The thing looks like the most stylish Native-American War Hero EVER decided to get down with some new weapons for the fall season. This pic doesn't do it justice. (Kinda looks like a giant S'More)

I was yelling at her to get in the pic so we wanted to take another one. Then we remembered Piano's had to shut down for one night last week due to a fire, sooooo we decided to leave it at that. (by the way, Phoenix ALSO gave me a pair of Drum Sticks that can light on fire. I'm totally gonna hospitalize myself)

Many thanks to all who came out and we'll see you again on the 25th. Music Hall of Williamsburgh!

~D

"Countdown" on the Season Premeire of ABC's GREEK

Our song "Countdown" will be played during the Season Premeire of GREEK this Monday, August 31st at 9pm!

RCRD LBL

Just got a WRITE UP on RCRD LBL

(and it's NOT a synth. That's K on strings!)

love,

J-1

Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

Here's us being featured on TimeoutNY.com for the Brooklyn Electronic Music Fest thing.

So this is the view that K misses out of when Dave dances to Prince!

Charlotte & Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA!

(yes, we're still catching up)

The Evening Muse (May 22)

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As most of you already know, we LOVE Charlotte, NC. Our friends, The Kosters, always put us up at The Rock 'N' Roll Hotel and this night was a special going away party for local celebrity JOHNNY!

We drove the 8 hours straight from NYC and celebrated with a beast of another nature....GRANT'S?!?!?

This was not the whiskey we all know and love, "Kentucky Gentlman" or "American Heritage".....by the time of show, this bizarre bottle of brown left K feeling confused and disoriented :(

...and no. That last adjective was NOT a racist joke. However, I feel like this next pic might be, PAT!

We had a lot of fun with our old friends and even met some new ones....

Pat liked this guy's shoes....Chek out his tatoo...the Circle of Fifths!

Wish we had more pics, but we ended up at Sanctuary and the rest of the night is a blur....i do remember Christen Pendleton coming out (always nice to see her), Johnny's long embraces, and some late night eggs & burritos at the R'n'R Hotel. Thanks Charlotte!

Jack Sprat's Cafe (May 23)

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We have like ZERO pics from Jack Sprat's but I can tell you we played with Delta Dawn, friends of our friend Courtney, and we had a great time meeting this guy who can't spell pride without O-H-I-O...

Special thanks to Nick Stroud for having us down.....see you soon

D