Craziness

…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

Feeling invigorated

Hey all, just a quick post to let you all know what we’ve been up to… We are currently gearing up for our trip to Austin, TX for SXSW with SpokesBUZZ, getting lights ready and finalizing what new songs we’re going to add to the set, etc. Once we get back, we’ve hit Denver for a nice cozy gig at Leela Cafe, then home to Road 34 with Denver band The Foot. Then of course, FoCoMx is going to tear April apart. Busy busy busy.

On the new music note, I should mention that we are getting very ready to start tracking some new songs. I wouldn’t say we’ve got enough for an album yet, and we’re not really looking to do the EP thing and press another record, but the initial reaction to a lot of these tracks has been giving me very warm fuzzy feelings. It feels like it’s the right time to dust off the recording gear and get tracking. Maybe they’ll just be demos or maybe we’ll release them as a few singles at a time. Post P is winning by running its own race, so be ready for some creative new releases. We’ve been very fortunate these last few months (SCENE magazine cover January AND March!!) and we’ve got some great friends and fans that have been helping us along, but I feel more invigorated by this band and these new songs than I have since we started.

This is our year.

See you soon,

Nick

We’re Watching You…

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…

Keeping Current

Wow. Just… Wow.

What a month. I’m still recovering from the amazing times we’ve had over the last few weeks. From the debut of our new light show (special thanks to Aubrey, our lighting vixen!), the SpokesBUZZ compilation release, and the sudden rush of inspiration we’ve had for new songs, it’s probably about time to stop and catch our breath.

I mean, we’re not going to stop, but it is a nice thought. Yep, got a show January 7th at Road 34 in town with our good friends from Denver, In The Whale. They’re making the rounds across northern CO to move some copies of their new record. We’re teaming up with Take To The Oars (whom I’m sure you remember from OUR cd release party) and are very ready to rock ourselves into oblivion. Oh, yes, there will be new songs from us. Actually quite a few if I have my way. What better time to try out new material? Don’t miss it.

While we’re on the subject of new stuff, please take a second to check out our NEW PHOTOS that we’ve added to the site, as well as some killer NEW VIDEOS. OK only a few of the videos are “new,” but they’re finally in one convenient place. You’re welcome. (Yes, the new song is on there.)

Last but not least, thank you thank you thank you thank you to the SpokesBUZZ crew (Dani, Julie, Nic, Dan, all the interns, stage crew, and volunteers – you know who you are) who made the compilation release the amazing event that it was. That night will live with me for a long time. Amazing fans, amazing bands, amazing friends. It’s what this is all about.

See you soon,

Rocking, Rocking, Rocking…

…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

Looking for some free downloads of the “The New Normal,” our first full length record?

You and everybody else…

Please click here: BOOM!!

If you’re looking for an awesome video interview by local photographer and Angry Martian Blogger, Kell Baldwin, please click HERE Did I forget to mention all the live videos he posted from our release party last weekend?? Be sure to check it out!

“…Infinitely more interesting than most modern alternative groups.”

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

Things Are Looking Bright

Hello beautiful people,

I figured it was way past time to get you all back up to speed on what we’ve got going on. We keep running into friends asking us what we’ve been up to since we’ve been back in town. And that leads me to tell them about our big news…

We are now a part of Fort Collins’ own badass promotion engine / development company: SpokesBUZZ! Oh, check them out on facebook too: Spokesbuzz Facebook

We want to thank Dani and Julie as well as all of the volunteers involved for making the organization such an exciting thing to be a part of. We will be playing a couple shows under the SpokesBUZZ banner next month starting with the Grant Farms Anniversary Fest in Cheyenne, Wyoming. We are also proud to be asked to be the headlining band for Loveland’s very first Dnalevol (Loveland spelled backwards) Festival. Please come out and say hello. We haven’t seen you in awhile, and, well… We miss you. Details are on our events page.

Oh yeah…. We’ve also got a bunch of copies of this new album lying around… I guess we should probably put together some kind of cd release show. Maybe with fellow SpokesBUZZ band, Common Anomaly or something?

We’ll be in touch.

You’re in the Jungle Baby

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.


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

On the verge…

Hey there peoples,

I know it’s been awhile, but we’ve been finishing our first full-length album, (which we recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered ourselves), getting the artwork ready for said album, finalizing all the dates on our June tour, buying a new van (that runs on waste vegetable oil!), and finding a trailer to tow behind this new van on the aforementioned tour. Yeah, somehow a blog post didn’t occur to me until now.

So here we are, not three weeks away from our tour launch party at Road 34 with Ghost in the Machine! This party will take place on Saturday May 28th and is going to be a pretty big bash so I would try not to miss it. For those of you that don’t know, Ghost in the Machine is the brain child of local producer Kris Smith and features himself on drums, Brain and Shane from local Dub-hop favorites Peace Officer, Joel Decatur (who you know as our awesome photographer) as our fearless frontman and myself, Nick, playing guitar and backup vocals. It’s been a fun little project that has been catching steam faster than any of us would have thought… Ghost plays at 10:00 and Post P will commence the rocking at 11:00. We hope to see you there!

Please go to our “events” page up top and check out the dates we’ve got listed for our tour to the east coast and back. If you’re going to be in any of those areas or if you’ve got family, friends, etc, please spread the word! We’re adding new dates often at this point to so keep checking back, we don’t always post our shows until they’re confirmed.

The other thing that I’ll ask of you true believers is to let us know if you know of or work at any places that are looking for ways to get rid of their waste vegetable oil. We’ve already got a couple very kind local business owners who have agreed to let us steal their grease, but we’re trying to stockpile as much as possible for when we head out on the road. The more we take with us the less we’ll have to find and filter on the go. It’s good for the environment and it helps us stay out on the Road!

Thanks, see you on May 28th!

Nick

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