6 June – the Earl (Atlanta, GA)
w/ the Blue Velvets, Michelle Malone
7 June – Circle Sky Records (Atlanta, GA)
w/ Snow White Trash, the Indicators, What The?!, Silent Kids
The show at the Earl went well enough. It hadn’t occurred to me how long it had been since we played a full band show up until just before we started. So it felt good from that stand point. But I think overall we did a great show. Somewhere near the end I started spacing out, I was missing chords that I know without thinking, I think mainly because the cover (“Antmusic”) was next and I was busy worrying about it. We had just worked it up the night before and though I always loved it I no longer knew the words. So I had made a cheat sheet for the show of key phrases I seemed to stumble on. Unfortunately, I looked at it a split second too late and by then I was lost.
It SOUNDED good, though.
The crowd was a good size and I talked briefly with Patrick who books there. I have no idea if we came across well or if it will help the cause of getting booked there (Michelle asked us to do this show).
Saturday it was raining well before the show, which was outdoors. I didn’t think it would come off at all but just around noon it stopped and they were setting up. They’d added a tent as well. So, it started two hours late but did happen. The show was for a record store called Circle Sky Records, which is in Tucker. It’s very close to my neighborhood, too, so it was a sort of community show for me. The Indicators, who I did some backing vocals for about a year ago, played before us. They asked me up for one song but it wasn’t one I sang on so I ended up on stage briefly to do nothing and walk off. I came back up a couple of songs later for a song I did know. The crowd was sort of small but bigger than I had expected, really. Once we started it had become really hot, and though there was a breeze blowing it was blocked by the tent set up. Every time I would play with one leg forward it was in the sunlight and I would get the strangest sensation of an extremity being much hotter than the rest of me. Still, we did surprisingly well, again, and I got almost all of the words to “Antmusic” this time. David, who was in the Million Box for me was there so I had him up to do some backing vocals on “Overture,” and then Lyle brought up his band’s drummer to have him do backing vocals on “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (which was fairly impressive since he didn’t know what song we were doing until we started).
We received one noise complaint from a woman who drove up during the show. She complained to the police officer and to both of the stores putting on the show, to no avail. The odd thing was that she was holding a romance novel the entire time. Which is funny enough in its own right, but factor in that she DROVE all the way over with it, just to complain, and it becomes sort of bizarre.
I hung out afterwards and talked with the Indicators and Snow White Trash, who had opened the show.