*pause for breath* May 14th, 2006
My new band, Tryst, had our first show last night!
Okay, so my drummer, Brian, and I only know a few songs so far, and yeah, so the show was sort of…at my house. (Line I forgot to use: “We’re so indie, we barely even exist.”) But still! First show! The Jigsaw Gentlemen, Chris Corbell, and Douglas Shepherd played as well, and in case four bands and a keg and a half didn’t put it completely over the top as house parties go, we even had a couple of belly dancers. All of the performers were great. I couldn’t have asked for a friendlier or more talented group of people to help us make the party a success. And our set was well-received, too. Thanks to all of you who made it out! I can’t wait for our next show!
I wanted to put up a song today, but I need to pause for breath — I spent the day cleaning up our living room, which looked like, uh, like a rock show happened in it last night. So instead of a song, here’s a different kind of art — the beautiful flyer illustration that Indigo Kelleigh made for the show. We’re all out of the first run of flyers (naturally — they’re all up on telephone poles around town, no doubt being flyered over with something else as we speak), but if any of you are interested, it’s no trouble for me to make some more and give you one. Let me know.
At 6:48 am on May 28th, 2006, Shoebox Full of Tapes » #16: Practice wrote:
[…] Tryst is so new, we don’t have a website yet. Hell, we’re so new, we’re not even on MySpace. (If you don’t know what that is, consider yourself lucky.) And we’ve played exactly one show, which may or may not have been attended by anyone who was not actually a member of one of the other bands who played. But now, this week, in a startling confirmation of rumors that we actually exist, we’re podcasting a song! It’s just a live demo, and a pretty bad recording at that, but hey, you take your SM58 and your borrowed drum kit and GarageBand running on your already-outdated PowerBook and you make what you can of it, right? And it is my great honor and privilege this week to introduce Brian, my friend and co-conspirator, not to mention the only drummer in Portland who shows up on time and sober… […]