Post Paradise

…is what is upon us. I can feel it. Crazy times ahead. Things are moving forward at an incredible pace, we appreciate all of you that are hanging on for the ride. Trust us, it’s about to get better. Our shows have been getting bigger, we’re making more and more friends, new songs are running rampant. Hell, we may even have a new van soon(!)

Please stay tuned, I promise that I will try to keep this blog updated more often but we’ve just had too much going on and I can’t find a way to put it all into words. Sometimes it’s best to tell you in person after a show…

As always, check out the events page for updates on where we’ll be in the next couple months. Come July, we’ll have some big announcements, hopefully even some new recordings, etc, etc.

We’ll see you soon.

Nick

A friend of ours mentioned that every time he walked by a SCENE magazine stand he felt like we were watching him… Yeah, that’s us on the cover this month. If you haven’t grabbed a copy, please do so, they’re free and damn we felt sexy during that photoshoot! A big thanks to Micheal, Molly and Emily from SCENE for the opportunity and for the great article! Also, a huge shout out to Joel Decatur for the photo. It feels gooooooood.

Just a quick post this time around, January has already been a VERY good month for us, it feels like a lot of our hard work is beginning to pay off. We’ve announced a couple shows in the next few months to warm us up before we head out to SXSW with SpokesBUZZ so take a look at the “events” tab here on the site. While you’re hanging around the site, we’ve added a few fan vids to the video page. One might even be a new song…

Oh, and eventually we’ll get Amy’s blog up and running so she can share her tour diaries from last summer’s doomed outing. It’s very entertaining. We’re almost ready to laugh about it ourselves. Almost.

One more thing, we really want to thank everyone who has been supporting us for the last 3 years or even just for the last 3 weeks – you make it possible for us to do what we love. Every show that you attend , every record you listen to, every new local band that you tell your friends about, it’s all a part of what makes this Northern Colorado scene awesome.

We’ll see you soon, and remember, we’re watching you…

…is what we’ll be doing this coming Thursday at Hodi’s Halfnote. But before I get too deep into talking about that show let me give a formal thank you to all who came out for September’s CD release party! We had an absolutely amazing time and never expected (even though we hoped) that so many people would come out to say hello! That reminds me, BandCamp lets us give away more downloads of that live set every month so by now we’ve got another batch that we can give out. Just go here and check it out if you haven’t already: Hodi’s Halfnote Live Set, Sept. 30th, 2011.

Oh yeah, and you can also go ahead and read the review that Scene Magazine gave The New Normal here.

Like we said, the rocking doesn’t stop there. This Thursday, November 10th, we’ll be rocking out with California band KrashKarma, as well as locals FusterCluck and Autumn Burn. This is an all ages show and if you want a couple bucks off of the door price, print this flier out and bring it the night of the show! There are some rumors that we may be debuting out new light show for this one, so it might be a good idea to check it out…

We’ve got the SpokesBUZZ compilation coming up soon as well so make sure to mark Wednesday, December 7th on your calendars. As if you haven’t already

Nick

At least that’s what Denver’s Marquee magazine had to say about the addition of cello to our signature sound after awarding our first full length album, “The New Normal,” with 4 out of 5 stars…

That’s right, the new album is out for review all over the place, it’s finally been pushed out of the nest and into the world to see what it can do. They say you shouldn’t read your own reviews but I can never help it, I’m always interested in how our music affects other people. So far, the initial rumblings are that this could be a very big album for us. Certainly our biggest to date. So why should our cd release celebration be any less?

If you’re reading this, you’re probably hearing about it before it’s been posted on Facebook or anywhere else. Consider this your first formal invitation to the Post Paradise CD Release Party on September 30th at Hodi’s Halfnote in Fort Collins. We have teamed up with a few other rock bands of the highest caliber to bring you the rocking-est show even we could imagine.

Starting off the night will be Denver’s own TAKE TO THE OARS, followed by our very good friends, fellow SpokesBUZZ members and dance rock aficionados COMMON ANOMALY, then as if that wasn’t enough, you will be treated to the triumphant return to Fort Collins of VICES I ADMIRE! Then, you know, us. This town has been aching for a good rock show and we feel inclined to deliver.

If all of that isn’t enough to get you in the door, I should let you know that we’ll be recording our entire set and making it available for download by you, the show attendees, courtesy of friend and local sound man extraordinaire Dan Butcher. So what you do is come to the show, go to our merch booth and sign up to get a code with which you will be able to download our entire set, mixed and ready, BY 6PM THE FOLLOWING DAY. Pretty cool, huh? Definitely a good reason to come out and say hello…

You’ll be hearing from us,

Nick

I write to you today from a house in Kansas City, or well maybe it’s not Kansas City actually. It could be Kansas or it could be Missouri since apparently Kansas City is divided by both states in the middle? Eh, we’re on tour and kind of stranded. Them’s the breaks. I figured since we’ve received a bunch of questions about what’s going on with us on the road, I might as well make an official post to dispel the rumors…

We decided to dump some money into our van to make sure we’d make it all the way across the US for our first tour in honor of the release of our record “The New Normal.” Well, we still had problems. 4 different mechanics (since I’m all kinds of paranoid about these sorts of problems) signed off on our van as good to go over the course of about a month.

Still, a fuel line that we’d had replaced not two weeks ago decided to fail just outside of Goodland, Kansas. We had it replaced again. Then as we were leaving from Lawrence, KS, the gas pedal failed and we have been forced to leave our van behind due to the large cost of repairs.

So to answer some of your questions, no, the veggie oil system had nothing to do with our troubles. No, we’re not canceling the tour. We are forced to cancel about a week’s worth of shows, which is extremely disappointing, but we’re still flying out to the east coast to finish out the last leg of the tour with a borrowed van and gear. Craig, Erik and Nicole (who runs our merch) have already flown out to MA to get it all set up, while Phil, Amy and I remain in Kansas (I guess…?) to deal with getting the gear back home tomorrow before we fly out to meet them.

Yeah, it’s been rough. We’ve all gone through the stages of grief. We’ve camped. We’ve walked for miles. We’ve played more putt-putt golf than I’d care to admit. We’ve made friends with a whoooooole lot of repair mechanics. We have videos of just about all of this and it’s pretty damn funny. You’ll see them.

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But, we are not done here. This is what we do. This is what we will continue to do. We are in the trenches. We play shows, we travel in vans, and vans break down. We are on tour, and we’re gonna sell some cd’s dammit. We will spread our music as far as we can as many times as we can. If you’re reading this, wish us luck, we’ll see you soon.

Nick