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Ed note: We often publish C-U band's tour diaries when they head out on the road to represent us in the great wide open. The content here is just as it appeared when they send it to us. So, grammatical errors and offensive language may abound, but that's part of the fun. Day 1: Thursday, May 14 We decided kick off our ‘tour' by throwing a house show at our house in Urbana. Carl Hauck, Jonathon Childers, and Stan McConnell …
| Sunday, April 5, 2009 Well, Morgan and I have been back in C-U for almost a week now, but I think it's important to finish painting the tour picture for anyone who's been reading. However, since it is no longer spring break, this will have to be brief. So, I'm going to recap the final days of the tour in list form, with some photos inserted as necessary.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Yesterday was a long day. We slept Sunday night in a loft at the house of Kids Are Goats, and had brunch with him at a Mexican place in Murfreesboro called Carmen's. The food was surprisingly good. Morgan found it particularly delicious. We got breakfast plates, involving eggs, avocadoes, beans, and the like. I believe Morgan's dish (below) was called Huevos a la Mexicana.
Sunday, March 22, 2009 Today, I attempted to play a singing saw. It was quite my luck that there was one lying around the house; I've wanted to learn to play saw for a while now. Steven showed me the basic idea ("curve it into an S-shape"), and I gave it the old college try. I managed to get a few good sounds out of it.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 Last night, after completing an exam concerning the writings of George Berkeley and David Hume at the very last minute, I got in my car, and left Champaign to the tunes of "If I Were a Carpenter." Thus began my tour journey with Morgan Orion. I was to meet him in St. Louis. He had been touring for a week already, throughout the Midwest-St. Louis was something of a transition stop, between the Midwest tour and …
This is the first we have heard from So Long Forgotten, a Champaign-Urbana based rockers on a massive two-and-a-half month bad boy of a tour. _“Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But our friends back home live an existence under the weight and awareness of time; a place we are slowly escaping; a world growing fainter by the hour and the mile.”_ – Donald Miller July 17, …
July 12th – Day off in Portland, OR: We woke up in Portland at our friends Joni & Mary’s house after a late-night drive from Boise. We spent the day seeing why Portland is a haven of music, culture, progressive thinking, and, overall, good things. We went to The Doug Fir for a show, but only saw a SOLD OUT sign on the ticket window. Some friends of ours were going to be there; one, in fact, playing in the …
Saturday, July 5th: The Blue Fugue – Columbia, Mo: Day 1 of our 35 days out on the road. This tour will be 4 times longer than anything we’ve ever done. We’ll put 7,000 miles on the van, spend $2,000 on gas, and inflate our air mattresses just about every night. So, you start somewhere familiar, and Columbia is our 2nd home. We’ve played the Fugue 4 times before, so it’s a nice shoving off point. Columbia is what Champaign-Urbana …
With their recently released sophomore album, Some Racing, Some Stopping, in their hot little hands, local indie-pop darlings Headlights head home from Virginia, now halfway through a North American tour. Guitarist and vocalist Tristan Wraight reports from the road. February 23rd. 3rd Floor. Fredricksburg, VA. It's hard to leave the lap of luxury, but "them's the breaks":http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=17922. We are playing an all-ages place that sounds like it will be a lot of fun. We have a shortish drive through the …
With their recently released sophomore album, Some Racing, Some Stopping, in their hot little hands, local indie-pop darlings Headlights take to the half-pipes and highways on the first leg of their North American tour. Guitarist and vocalist Tristan Wraight reports from the road. February 16th. The Void Skate Shop. Lexington, KY. It’s impossible to leave for tour on time. No matter how well you plan, you are certain to forget at least two things that you really wanted to bring. …
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I will be at Danu this evening. And seeing as tomorrow - St. Pat’s - is my birthday, I will be celebrating with tons of green and fun!
Big Blue will actually be on 6-9, despite what is posted elsewhere. Then, hightail it over to Bentley’s!
Ahh - good point - I will plug them in the appropriate sections.
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Wow, great article. I wish you the best in your endeavors and hope you have a nice trip.
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I was all set to pounce on this, but it’s the truth. There used to be bands in town I was afraid of, like I’d have a heart attack during their set. There are still some great bands, but they’re pretty and dainty and low in cholesterol. …