http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=233571649999527&pending

We’re going to be playing an acoustic set at a block party on August 2nd. I’ll post more details this weekend. The show will be at Evanston Ave N. between 90th and 92th Street. We’ll be playing outside and start sometime after 7:45pm and play until we’ve finished!

The High Dive (@highdive) is a killer venue in the heart of Fremont and Old Bottle Black (@oldbottleblack) is going to be playing a show there on August 24th with Crown Hill Invention! Stay tuned for more information. (shh – there’s also rumors of a little block party we might be rocking out… )

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j.k of obb

On Saturday April 23rd Old Bottle Black and Landlord’s Daughter will be converging on Cafe Racer for a night of music and art, and an early celebration of May Day. They will be joined by cartoonists Kaia Chessen and Carl Nelson, who will be engaging in daring feats of stunt drawing throughout the evening’s performances. Grab your honey and your dancing shoes and come out to enjoy a free and festive evening of violins, guitars, harmony, and possibly a May pole or distress call or two.

The details-

Cafe Racer
5828 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 206- 523- JAVA

Saturday April 23rd
drawing starts at 8 PM, music at 9 PM
Landlord’s Daughter
Old Bottle Black

If you can’t make our show at Slim’s Last Chance on May 7th, you’ve got another chance to catch us two weeks prior at Cafe Racer – a killer little venue just south of Ravenna in the U-District.

We’re going to play with Landlord’s Daughter – check them out Facebook, I’m sure you’ll dig them.

See you there!

Yes, we’re playing at Seattle’s slice of Texas: Slim’s Last Chance with a killer band called Guns of Nevada. Check them out on MySpace. They’ve got a great southern rock sound.

We’ve been looking forward to playing this bar for some time. They’ve got killer chili, beer, booze and a great staff. Best of all, they have a flat bed truck as the stage for the music in the back patio. Rock on!

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there. Click here to sign up for the event on Facebook

I am copying and pasting some of this from the GiveMeMyXXX.com website to help spread the word. Pass this along!

http://www.givememyxxx.com/

XXX includes ALL southern artists that have fallen between the cracks of COUNTRY and ROCK. WHERE DID ‘XXX’ COME FROM? From the old-time moonshine jugs of course.

WHAT IS XXX?

It is a true shame that there are such rigid GENRE definitions in popular music today! You’ve got POP, ROCK, COUNTRY, R&B, AAA and HIP HOP. This may be fine for most musicians, but there is a very unfair gap in music the way it is. ROCK music is split into two formats MODERN ROCK and ACTIVE ROCK, both of which do not accept SOUTHERN or COUNTRY-LEANING music at all. Then there’s COUNTRY. COUNTRY is a market controlled by NASHVILLE’S inner-workings. Video outlets such as CMT and GAC have created ‘back of the bus’ programming like “Wide Open Country” and “Edge of Country” to relieve the pressure created by the growing movement of outsiders in the field, but it’s not a fair representation of the broad scope of these underdogs. Radio stations have created late-night and weekend specialty programming to play these artists as well, but again, this is just placating these tremendous artists. These artists are multiplying in number year by year and this brings us to our cause:

WE WANT OUR OWN GENRE! WE WANT OUR XXX! SIGN THE PETITION TODAY! MAKE THE CHANGE!

Tip your bottles back and toast your respective deities (or lack there-of). Old Bottle Black has plans to record an album later this winter. Look out for shows in ’11!

This was our first show back out in a venue since April 30, and we decided it might be fun to play at the Vic again. Turned out to be a great night. Stephen Nielson opened the show with a set of his new tunes and a few of his older tunes as well. I was happy to hear the St. Petersburg tune tossed in there with a little dedication to yours truly. (I told him just before the set that it is where I grew up.)

We, Old Bottle Black, took the second slot. We had a few technical issues with the sound. I guess the audio guy couldn’t figure out whether it was my mic or the banjo mic that was feeding back, so he kept raising and lowering my vocals to the point where I was screaming just to be heard. Geoff and I were really clicking, I think, cuz we were falling into step the entire way… even after I decided it was a good idea to jump atop a monitor – only to come tumbling down immediately after. Didn’t miss a note though! I jumped right up and got back in it. Adam’s battery was spot on and Steve Yasukawa’s pluckin’, harpin’ and pickin’ were tits. All in all, we had a pretty darned good come-back, all things considering.

Then came We Say Bang! Man, that was humbling. When we first saw them, they opened for us at the very same venue. I can only say that in the last 8 months, they’ve just grown in skill by leaps and bounds. Amazing. They were truly excellent. It was an honor to play with these bad ass rock and rollers.

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j.k