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Big Sky, Long Drives (The Dance Continues)

UntitledAfter a 14 hour drive from Rapid City to Boise we did some serious restorative crashing at band headquarters for Sun Blood Stories, who are the sweetest people ever. The Rapid City show the night before was at a fabulous DIY space called the Llama Pen, apparently a reference to the band that practices there and, for better or worse, having nothing to do with actual Llama. It was totally our kind of space. Can’t wait to come back and see “The Cave” (TBC)! We made a couple of pals at the world famous Wall Drug on the way. (See Below) UntitledUntitledThe next night, we were back at the Crux in Boise. Great crowd and some really cool art on the walls! Also some great improvements to the sound system.
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Next Stop: Salt Lake City. We reunited with a sweet fella named Rick who we played a show with in Norwich, England in 2009. He is Mathematician in Salt Lake City now. Go figure. In fact it was a night for reunions. Sharing the bill with us was Alexis Gideon, who was played a show with in Brooklyn in 2008. By the way I don’t remember any of these years specifically. I’m just asking Nan.

UntitledUntitledThe final reunion wasn’t really a reunion but it was a connection. A French Connection if you will. There was a couple traveling with Alexis who were from Bordeaux. They were also making a film. Of course they knew Martial from Total Heaven and were familiar with some of the venues where we had played there. Anyway, Rick was nice enough to let us crash at his apartment, which had a wonder view of SLC. This is Nan basking in the glow the morning after. UntitledClick here for more tour pics.

The Dance Continues

A little quick bit of business: We’ve had a show cancellation on our up and coming European tour for Saturday November 16th. If anyone can help us out with a show between Darmstadt, Germany and Belgium for this date please drop us a line.

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St. Clair Broiler, St. Paul, MN

Tour Report: So far so good! After great shows in Omaha and Minneapolis (Thanks to Lot Walks and Demolition Means Progress) we have just engaged in Stage 2 of project Dances With Wolves Tour or what we like to call the Jeffrey Lewis connection. After witnessing another stellar night of Jeffrey opening for Quasi at First Ave. in Minneapolis, we’ve hit the ground running and are kicking back in Sioux Falls, SD the night before our first show together tonight at the Llama Pen, in Rapid City.
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Not much debauchery to report. Had a lovely walk along the Mississippi River in St. Paul. It was a lot of fun to see Quasi again at the end of this leg of their tour having seen them a couple of weeks previously in KC. Last night’s show was much looser, ending with Sam toppling over his keyboard for the final encore and humping the keys into submission. We’ve had especially good cat luck with Puppy in Omaha and Roxy in St. Paul.

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Dancing With Wolves 2013: Omaha, NE

Today we hit the road and head North to Omaha, NE for our Midwest US Dances With Wolves Tour.  It’s getting a little chilly but, hopefully, we’ll stay warm by dancing with the wolves. I also packed a pair of Long Johns just in case. We re looking forward to making some new friends and celebrating a new release by Lot Walks. And just to get your Friday started right, here’s a picture of a small sculpture of a dog wearing a bow tie.dogtie