Bongiorno blog readers!

This week has been filled with new album goodness for us. We launched our Kickstarter campaign to begin taking pre-orders for Exile. We’re ever nearer to the final mixes. We’ve met with Matt Jatkola who will be producing the artwork for the album. We’re very excited to have some outside help on this. It’s a first for us and I’m sure we’ll be pleased with the results. I’d love to tell you some of the ideas, but… you know… just hang on a minute!

This past Wednesday we had a show at the Space in Hamden, CT. It’s an all ages music and arts venue. It’s decked out pretty cool with lots of different pieces and props throughout the room. This was my favorite… does anyone know what this piece of a ship is called?

It was a bit of a different gig for us. You don’t get a chance to play the non-club show too often. There were about 6 other bands on the bill and we were somewhere in the middle. The kids were absolutely great, getting up with us to dance and joining on egg shakers for our campfire moment with The Last Time. If you’re unfamiliar with the egg shaker campfire bit you can click to the middle of this video and see what I mean. We’ve been playing three of the new tunes and since we’ve already announced their names from the stage I can tell you they’re called Exile In The Night, Darkest Days (some of you at the shows might know it as the love, love, love song) and Broken Hearts. They went down very well and my fear that they might be too out of place in our set was unfounded. I am looking forward to playing more new songs. Oh here’s when I snuck up on Charles at the gig while he was sitting on one of their comfy arm chairs.

The following day we had a little movie screening. Charles, Annie and Chris (who’s shot some of our previous music videos) came over to watch Michaelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up. It’s a crazy movie from ’66 about a photographer who shoots this couple in the park, but when he blows up the photos realizes he’s witnessed a murder. Of course, that has nothing to do with the movie which is just trying to capture that time in London really. There’s a cool scene with the Yardbirds where you can see a ridiculously young Jimmy Paige and Jeff Beck. It was also Antonioni’s first English speaking film. That man could use a camera. There are some interesting shots in there. About six bottles of wine later… hilarity ensued.

Hilarity... ensuing.

Ah, what a life. After our meetings yesterday, I started painting and drawing. I had a blank record sleeve lying around and decided I’d pretty it up.

Henry and I had been joking back and forth about a cartoon we’d love to make called the Animal Beats. You’ve got Jack Keroucat, William Burrows etc. I came up with Allen Gingsbird.

Allen Gingsbird wrote his most famous poem 'Squawk' while binging on pistachios.

Well, I’ll bring this to a close. In a few hours we may or may not be heading to Patriot Place for another show. It’s an outdoors thing this one and it looks like it might rain. We’ll have to wait and see.

Cheers,

Jen

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