Hello and welcome to Nashville. We just got to the hotel after staying up late last night recording in Wilkesboro and alternating naps during our six hour trip,...just in time for a little FIFA. Real quick we wanted to post some pictures of the cd release show in Chapel Hill. More will be coming as well as a live stream clip from the Pourhouse ( we are just trying to organize some killer graphix by way of Dr. Matheny) so keep looking but for now here is a sample of what's to come. Enjoy!

We are all doing our best here to rest up after a weekend full of shows. After the celebrations on Thursday night we played an in-store at Schoolkids in Chapel Hill and then we finished off the weekend in Raleigh where we joined our friends the magnificent Patty Hurst Shifter at The Pourhouse. Thank you so much to everyone who came out to single and multiple shows throughout the weekend. It was quite a way to celebrate and we thank all of you for coming out and putting on your party hats. We will be posting pictures from all the shows in the next couple of days so keep your eyes out for back flips and pyrotechnics. They happened so quick……
Also squeezed into the weekend we managed to pick up the phone around 12:30 a.m and hear Thad on the other line requesting Skip and Timshel back over at Logan and Nick’s to write a Christmas song for the dB’s Holiday album due out this 2006 Christmas. This was Saturday? By some sort of miracle the song was finished by 3:30 (despite multiple breaks by every band member to listen to/read aloud Wesley Willis Lyrics) and recorded the next morning before Thad headed home to Nashville.
This week we are very excited to be heading to Alabama and back to Nashville for our second night at The Basement. We will definitely be pulling some rabbits out of some hats so rally the troops and head on out.
http://www.nashvillerage.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/RAGE0202/606220326.
Most exciting for us though we will be stopping mid trip in Wilkesboro to get some recording done for Songs For An Empty Room.

We wanted to write a quick hello to say thank you SO much to everyone who came out to help us celebrate this past weekend. We had such a good time and it was so much fun to see everyone out to celebrate with us. Thank you for making drives and putting on your party clothes, Ya’ll looked fiiiiine!

What is amazing about rock and roll bands is that they can do ridiculous things and blame them on "the crazy life", for example...labelling the shows that you are about to play in a few days with dates from a previous month. We DID play a smoking show with Seth Kauffman and The Real Mothers in Asheville this past weekend, during this very month of June that we are currently living in right now. So... sorry for the miscommunication. loco. Thanks so much to everybody who came out anyways (how did you know?!) and for all of you all let me say this..HOW ABOUT THE REAL MOTHERS?!! Our pants have been officially blown off everyone. The show was incredible with everything from multi-instrumentation to live romance novel reading to MAD maraca/bongo playing. thank YOU to Seth and his Mothers.
The main event as it stands right now is our high security secret plans and rehearsals for the cd release party. We can't even really talk about it. So of course we thought we'd blog about it. s-yyyyke.
See you Hot-lantians this weekend,

LAST SECOND SHOW CONFIRMATION!!!

Party People...
We confirmed a show at the Evening Muse in Charlotte for this Saturday (5/3). If you're around you better be there. We just got back from AMAZING shows in NYC and Nashville. Thanks so much to everyone who came out for those. Also this sunday 5/4 we are playing the Grey Eagle in Asheville. We're really looking forward to seeing all of you up there. This will be the maiden voyage for SS Roman Candle in Asheville...we're excited about it!!

xo,
-RC

Friday, June 02, 2006


Nashville to Chapel Hill

Before we forget we wanted to give a shout out to all of the new inhabitants at 6** Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn for letting us come in with our blow-up mattress brigade and sleep over after our show. We all suffered through that night of no air conditioning together, flat on our backs with mouths open, trying not to move. Ever-clever Nick outsmarted us all and moved to the roof.
Also, one detail that can NOT be left out of our NY trip is the amazing breakfast we had at The Maritime where Keegan keeps the peeps in check. If you are from the area you already know and if you are not, get in there for breakfast and get ready to have your face blown off. We had to be carried out on carts.
Last nights show in Nashville was totally Ry-CHUS. Thanks so much to all of our new friends that came out. We were so honored to share the bill with Miss Dawn Kinnard and Thadonius Punk. This was our first time hearing Dawn and she took our breath away..

Also, a big shout out to Anonymous Bandmember for farting in the van during a heavy rainstorm while he was in the very back seat and all of us were trapped in the rest of the seats, with the windows up.

And last but not least, at the request of that lady in the strappy platforms and velvet windsuit at the Sheetz in West Virginia, Nicks digits are on the way.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006


New York to Nashville

Hello from Nashville and thank you so much to everyone who came early and stayed late to watch us be Sparrows with Keegan and then again to play as Roman Candle late later. The shows were so much fun and we loved seeing everyone..props for support. If you missed the atomic 'splosion we will be up again in July for similar family antics and we hope you can get it together by then.
Nashville tonight for everybody so hopefully we will see you out there. Good talk.