Til the End of the Road

So it's November 24th and that means the tour is over. It's hard to believe. It's one of those situations where 1 month ago seems simultaneously like 3 hours ago and 3 years ago. Really successful tour though. Fun was had. I assure you that fun was had.

We ended with shows in Cambridge and Swarthmore, and then two final shows at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and they were all really great and yet completely different from one another. I think the Saturday Brooklyn show might be one of the most fun shows that I have ever been a part of. The place was packed with people singing and dancing and it was just nice. Special thanks to my aunts, cousin and godmother for driving up for the show. It was a great night (as was last night! and the last 23 nights!)

Oh, also this weekend, we played a Kidrockers show, which is where you go and play with a couple other bands to an audience unlike one you've ever played to. How so? Well in order to get into the show, you must be a child or a parent with a child in-tow. So, it's a yooooooung front row. The kids were hilarious and adorable, although I felt bad as one child in the front was covering his ears for much of our set. There was a Q&A after our set and i'm pretty sure that one of the questions was "boring!". Another question was "wind". These were hard to answer but easy to listen to.

As promised before, a photo recap of the tour is coming very soon, but the main reason for me writing this today in my day of exhaustion rehabilitation is that I just wanted to take the time to thank some of the people that helped this tour be awesome.

Very very very big thanks to the An Horse crew, who are all wonderful to be around and it was great getting to play 8 shows with them. They are so good and have such charisma that it's hard to look away. Also, big thanks to The Republic Tigers for saving us with that miracle drive when our van broke down, as well as for playing 3 great shows with us. Drink Up Buttercup, One AM Radio, Savoir Adore, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are the bands we played with,(sorry if im leaving one out, and this doesn't include FFF Fest bands) and they all were so good, that it felt like a very blessed tour. Please check out any and all of these bands. They are all much better than Pocket Full of Pickles, a band that does not actually exist.*

I think it goes without saying, but you should also take the time to learn more about Electric Owls, who toured with us for the entire tour. Andy Herod is one of my favorite human beings, and I don't know what this tour would have been like without him. He's a good man. Hilarious. Talented. Fair and Balanced.

To the kind folks in Little Rock, Dallas, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Bloomington, and Cambridge, thank you for letting our band crash at your house.

To all the promoters, sound people, bartenders, lighting technicians, in-and-out burger employees, days inn front desk clerks, friends, family and acquaintances we met along the way, you are really something special.

And though it might seem like the obvious suck-up-to-the-fans thing to do, im gonna do it anyways and thank everybody that came to our shows. I'm being completely sincere and serious when I say that it was a beautiful tour and to see people come to the shows and put a bunch of energy into it and encourage us and all that other supportive mumbo-jumbo that you did, it was really one of the greater things that i've been a part of. Thanks.

Deep back!
Keith

*I was just informed by Andy that Pocket Full of Pickles IS a real band, and in fact he went and saw them barefoot at one point in his life. I'm sorry for this inaccuracy