Looking For Gold: August 2008

MAKE ME

MATH, ANYONE?

F YEAH TOUR

SAT AUG 30
LOS ANGELES
@ ECHOPLEX 1154 Glendale Blvd
FUCK YEAH FEST
ALL AGES NOON $16
NO AGE
NEGATIVE APPROACH
WEEN
FUCKED UP
MATT AND KIM

SUN AUG 31
BERKELEY
@ 924 GILMAN St
ALL AGES 8PM $5
FUCKED UP
TRASH TALK
THE STRANGE BOYS
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
MURDER PRACTICE

MON SEPT 1
SAN FRANCISCO
@ THE HEMLOCK 1131 Polk St
21+ 9PM $10
FUCKED UP
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
THE STRANGE BOYS

THUR SEPT 4
OLYMPIA
@ THE MIDNIGHT SUN
ALL AGES 8PM $8
FUCKED UP
SEX VID
STRANGE BOYS
CRYSTAL ANTLERS

FRI SEPT 5
SEATTLE
@ THE VERA PROJECT Corner of Warren and Republican
ALL AGES 7.30PM $10
FUCKED UP
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
STRANGE BOYS
Tickets

SAT SEPT 6
PORTLAND
@ SATYRICON 125 NW 6th Ave.
ALL AGES 7PM $10
FUCKED UP
SEX VID
PAST LIVES
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
STRANGE BOYS
STREET PLANT

SUN SEPT 7
VANCOUVER
@ RICHARDS ON RICHARDS 1036 Richards St.
19+ 8PM $13
FUCKED UP
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
STRANGE BOYS

One other thing - last week we did the Guest Editor feature for paperthinwalls where we highlighted some of our fav bands of today - $100, Blank Dogs and our new friends Betty and the Werewolves. Check it out here. CHECK THEM OUT.

CHAIR TIPPING

GET READY

New Press Shots

When you are in a band as popular as Vampire Weekend or Fucked Up, you need to be doing lots of press shots in glamorous places all over the world. Last weekend we went up to northern Holland to take a few shots at Walabi World, Europes leading amusement park:

We think they turned out pretty well.

CROOKED HEAD

CROOKED HEAD

Living like a stone in a river, all alone
Peaceful at the bottom, while the rest fight not to drown
Sitting while the current of the stream passes me by
Forget about the fighting and the flow as I empty my mind
Living like a fossil, still from the torrent of time
In a broken world, still a stone at the end of the line
My trajectory is so true
They float away and I don't move

Crooked Head

Pulling at the end of a rope, waiting for a sign
Swimming through the flood, so afraid because there is so little time
Always running, always searching always making it a race
So detached like a leaf never fixed to life in place
Getting lost in the shuffle makes you feel so small
Fight against the swell just to throw yourself against the wall
They're all dogs, fighting over the bone
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna leave it alone

Crooked Head

MEGA SECRET SHOW

For anyone who lives in London - we're ALSO playing this show tonight, after the clockwork show:

AUG 26
MADAME JoJos
10 Brewer Street
W1F 0SE
5pounds
FUCKED UP (around 1am)
RARA RIOT
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
THE MOLOTOVS

BREAKING NEWS

SHOWS

AUG 26 LONDON
The Sazerac: (Formally Clockwork) (In Angel)
96-98 Pentonville Rd
10PM Set Time

TICKETS

OCT TOUR

HEY WE ARE GOING ON TOUR

I already talked about the shows in a few weeks on the west coast.

We are going on another tour right after our record comes out, in the USA:

Sat-Oct-11 Montreal, QC La Sala Rosa
Oct-12 Boston, MA Great Scott (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-13 Danbury, CT Heirloom Arts Theatre (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-15 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (with VIVIAN GIRLS, MIND ERASER)
Oct-16 Brooklyn, NY Market Hotel (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-17 Baltimore, MD Sonar (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-18 Philadelphia, PA The Barbary (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-19 Washington, DC Rock And Roll Hotel (with VIVIAN GIRLS)
Oct-20 Columbus, OH Skully's (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)
Oct-21 St Louis, MO The Bluebird (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)
Oct-22 Iowa City, IA The Picador (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)
Oct-23 Chicago, IL Reggie's Rock Club (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)
Oct-24 Pontiac, MI The Pike Room (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)
Oct-25 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place (with PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT)

Also please post comments HERE.

CASSETTE TAPES

You ever see that movie Cocoon? Here is an unreleased scene where all the old people go to see a punk rock band.

TCOCL

CON-CERN

A few months ago we did a session for CBC Radion 3, and it just went online. You can find that right here. It was the first time we ever played Crooked Head together as a band (and I suppose the first time for anyone to hear it unless you've heard it at a show), and also illustrates the short-lived renaissance of the song "Toronto FC". Not sure if you are able to download this set from the site, but if you can figure out how, be sure to let me know.