26 Sep – Eddie’s Attic (Atlanta)
w/ Mrs. Fun
30 Sep – Eddie’s Attic (Atlanta)
w/ Kitty Snyder, Blake Guthrie
One band show, one solo show, same club. Welcome back to playing shows, Paul.
So I took some time off, obviously. Partly due to being a little overexposed in town, mostly due to head space and trying to sort it all out. We haven’t rehearsed since late July, I think, and we got together once before the show Friday. But rehearsal went well and felt good, and we’ll be starting back up next week. The show went well, too, a little rusty but overall pretty tight. A nice sized crowd, not as big as would have been nice for a Friday, but with Mrs. Fun being an out of town band the crowd was mainly our draw. The crowd also included a long-time ex of mine as well as the first girl I ever kissed in my life. It was also Andrea from Daemon’s birthday so we played “Antmusic” for her.
Mrs. Fun are just that.
Tuesday was a solo show, a benefit for the Dekalb County Humane Society, a strange place to be for me having just had to put an 18 year old cat to sleep the week before and made the mistake of bringing it up during the show and started to choke myself up. But the show itself was good, a bigger crowd than Friday and they seemed to enjoy themselves. Kitty Snyder played with her band afterwards and I find that I am really a big fan of hers. Just in time for her to announce at the end of her show that she’s taking a year off from performing to write a novel.
Greg from chain poets came out and I got to talk to him for a bit, I haven’t seen him in a while. We talked about the need to do another outlandish cover song together soon. I talked to Todd, the owner for a bit after the show and he talked about having us in more often and was really very complimentary. I have seen a little complaining about the new ownership at Eddie’s but I would like to say that, while I appreciate that some of the changes he’s made might seem a bit jarring, he really cares about the place and is trying to keep it alive. I loved Eddie and supported him as well, but I hope everyone will give Todd the time to really put his ideas into motion.
There’s also a new soundman at the club, his name is Shalom. He just happens to have run sound for a lot of Jellyfish shows and was in charge of the box set that came out last year. His first night was the previous Tuesday running sound for the weaklazyliar show at Eddie’s and the sound was amazing (THEY were amazing, I might add. One of them, I can’t recall who, said they had finally decided they weren’t a ROCK band, and it showed, and I mean that in the sense that they really seemed to come into their own this show, playing who they were and just sounding damn incredible). He got the permanent job based on that show and happened to run sound for both of my shows and I loved how it sounded, and he seemed to really like my stuff, solo and with the band. Damn nice guy, too. How I lucked into having him running sound at a club I play regularly I don’t know, but it’s cool as hell.