My Dear Disco is coming back to the Blind Pig! Our shows at the pig are incredibly special to us, and we can’t wait to play for Ann Arbor again!

 

This show is really exciting because we’ve invited the incredible band from detroit, The Hard Lessons, to split the bill with us — and we’re doing two nights!

 

Here’s the scoop:

 

Friday, Jan 9th + Sat, Jan 10th

$12 adv/$15 day of, 18 + Doors @ 9:30 (non-smoking)

 

Friday night will be hosted by The Hard Lessons, which means that we’ll play first, and the whole show (including our set) will be about getting deep into that high-energy detroit rock & roll rawness!

 

Saturday night will be hosted by us, which means we’ll play second, and the whole show will be throwing down a non-stop dance-thrash!

 

Each night will be unique and contain some special surprises. We can’t wait to share them with you . . . lets rock the joint!!

 

Advance tickets ARE available and are great way to save time, money, and ensure you can attend the show/s!   Just go to: http://www.blindpigmusic.com/ and click “buy tix” for the night you’d like to attend.

 

Happy ‘09!

 

the [record] button

 

Who: My Dear Disco wsg/the Mike Moran Band

Where: Traverse City Opera House

When: New Years Eve

Price: $15 advance/ $20 at the door

On New Years Eve, My Dear Disco is returning to Northern Michigan, this time to say thank you to their fans by throwing a massive blow-out party at the Traverse City Opera House!  This party boasts a free local wine/champagne toast at midnight!

 

We are working hard to transform the Opera House into a venue unlike any other in Michigan, so it should be a great spectacle in addition to a great time!  We are offering a bundled ticket package for sale in our store, so if you get that you not only get an advanced ticket held at the door for you, but you also get a HEAVILY discounted CD and T-Shirt with the ticket.  Think about it.  It makes sense.  Do it.  I know you are thinking about it, because I just said you should.  Yep.  Now take the mouse.  Mmm-hmm.  Move it to store.  And Click it.  Yep.  Buy the ticket bundle.  Ok good.  Now come to the show and get your goodies.

 

Luv,

The [play] Button

Day 7: NYC

Arrive at 3am from our philly drive . . . who wants to split the couch?
Theo: “There’s a bed downstairs, a loveseat in that room up front, umm, i think someone might have to sleep on the floor. ”

(Convenient that i have a pattern of having my best sleep on 3 couch cushions placed on the floor)
–  “hey i’ll take the floor.”

How the hell did it get so warm all of a sudden?  I woke up yesterday looking out the window at falling snow and blustering cold, and today I’m waking up to gentle rainfall and 50 degree weather.  And I am DOWN.
And hell yeah, i love bagels.  I think we all love bagels — thank you THEO!!
Internet is down, office time unlikely, how am i gonna rock today’s blog?  Well, no time to dwell, bob and i gotta go downtown to meet our lovely publicists at fanatic promotion.
There’s an amazing quality that NYC has that i recently noticed: in one underground, dirty, and crowded subway, you can be surrounded by beggars, buskers, teenagers,  grandmothers, and business men on their way to sign a multi-million dollar business merge — all at once.  There’s an unusual sense of equality down there.
Out of the subway, into the rainy streets of manhattan we go.  Lets run, its is coming down pretty hard.
Book it to the fanatic office: contained by yet another obscure doorway merely displaying an address.  I have a tendency to romanticize success - surely the people who spend all day making artists like the Chemical Brothers, Sigur Ros, and Sufjan Stevens famous must do so in a stainless steel office aboard a NASA test mars capital building.  The office was beautiful, but the lack of brain-detecting 3D CGI machines  reminds me that it’s not about the gear, you just gotta have a group of extremely knowledgeable and passionate people coming together to share a common goal.  Hell yeah!

“Hi hey hello! hey whats that? whats that? what’s that mean? what’s he doing?”

Ok, gotta go soundcheck now — rain_run_subway_rain_run pt 2.
The venue is the mercury lounge — they gotta big rep and we’ve all been excited about this gig for a while.
Little confusing to set up, the backstage is in the basement on the opposite side of the building, there’s no real good place to set up our merch display, and damn it’s such a pain dealing with the bus in manhattan.  We also have to get everything off the stage and put away within 15 minutes of the last beat, which, for a 7-piece electronic rock entourage, is a serious serious undertaking. Despite it all, the show went great, the crowd was awesome, the staff super helpful, and we got to see a lot of friends.  AND, we were awarded a $120 parking ticket from the city, despite the bus being on and a driver in the drivers seat.  Yee haw!
Next up: scatter MDD’s members to the four corners of the city for a couple hours,  reconvene at a bar called the Library, have a couple drinks,  more catching up with close friends, and catch the 1:20am subway back to long island.  Which means you gotta RUN!  It’s incredible how in shape dave schall is for someone who smokes and doesn’t regularly exercise.  Someone’s gotta start rocking some science on that human, there’s something profitable there.
Get back to the pad, hit a little 3am office time (ie, get the last blog up with a very spotty internet connection), and hit that hay at 4:30am.

A good tour — thank you east coast!

Quote of the tour comes from Bob, during our last pre-show huddle:

“I just want to tell you guys, several times this tour i’ve literally gotten goosebumps from all the love being musically transmitted from everyone on stage.”

see in you in february My Dear East Coast.

Love, [record]

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