Tour Day 2: A Whole Lotta States

Hello from Chapel Hill, NORTH Carolina. We are hanging out in LOCAL 506. "What's Local 506, you hipster!?!" you ask. Well, Local 506 is the venue that we are playing at tonight. We are the only ones here right now, aside from the other bands and the staff who are all nice, but hopefully in a couple hours we won't be the only people here. We will be with real life North Carolinans, and we will all be yelling and dancing and and singing and hugging and demanding justice and having a nice time. You should be here!

Yesterday we set sail from Brooklyn, driving through Staten Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, before finally arriving in the nation's capital where, according to their state motto, they live taxed lives but don't represent, or something along those lines.

The Black Cat is a great venue. The people were nice. Electric Owls opened up and Andy's voice turned eardrums into clumps of butter. The man can sing. Easy on the eyes, too! He is actually doing a soundcheck right now here in Chapel Hill, so he is the soundtrack to me writing a blog entry about him. He is riding in the van with us the whole tour. He is a good man.

Drink Up Buttercup are a fun, clangy, high-energy, snotty, slippy, slappy group from Philadelphia, PA. They are exciting to watch and luckily we are playing with them again in a few weeks in Brooklyn. Here is a picture of them. They aren't even playing music in this picture, this is just the way that they communicate with one another:


We played and the people there were nice. It was my first show as the bassist for Bishop Allen, and I can say that I enjoy being in this band. I had a girl afterwards come up and tell me that she could tell it was my first show, and that i seemed nervous but not visibly so. What does that mean? I don't care! She was nice!

It was Justin's birthday, we had shots and moist cake. Everybody agrees, the cake was moist.

I bumped into my old friend Riley in a bar, and it was very strange. After the show we decided to make some headroom on today's drive and drove to Fredricksburg, Virginia. Andy was very sleepy! I think the name of the county that we were in was Spotsylvania, which is obviously pretty cool. Virginia and North Carolina in the fall are as beautiful as you would think that they are.

Things to do in Virginia:
Enjoy the weather
Talk to friends
Have fun

Things you shouldn't do in Virginia:
Leave your cell phone in a hotel room in a Day's Inn.


Anyways, I'm having trouble uploading images, but will do more later. Doors are about to open!

sincerely,
keith



Things listened to (from Michael's IPod) so far in the van:
Sparks
T. Rex
Talking Heads
Fleetwood Mac
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Iggy Pop
And a Girl Groups Compilation that has like 120 songs. We didn't listen to