Tonights Show in Seattle
Okay, I'm surprised, the show was really great!
Made a bunch of money, sold a bunch of stuff, played decently, met A LOT of really nice REALLY excited fans (holy crap, was it just me or are those some pretty people? But...this is seattle...I understand when Hollywood has pretty people, but Seattle? Well, they were!)
Biggest drawback: HOLY SHIT IT WAS GOD DAMN HOT!
No, we are not being pussies, this was "pass out on stage' hot. This was "gear overheated and shut down" hot. This was god damned hot as hades, hot.
This was: "Add a new cluase to your rider: we don't play if its over 110", hot.
We were playing...Change Cage I think, when the gear overheated, and slowed like we just pulled the second to last card from HAL9000:
"Daisy, Daisy...I weeeooorrrkk the channnnnge caaa...."
So me and Magdalene took turns holding a fan on the gear (honestly!). We started up another song, and made it through most of the set...but on our final song, The Wrong Side, it melted down again, "boomchicka, boomchicka, booOOM chugga, BOooo, oom, chew chew PLLTHTTHTHTH!" The audience screamed "YEAH!", "WOOO!!" and I yelled "WE ARE ABNEY PARK! GOOD NIGHT!" and ran from the stage! ;)
Afterward, there was much autographing of stuff, and much "Can we get a picture with you guys?" .
Fun stuff
Then we ended the night with a party of about 20 at a Persian Resturant (actually, the place I wrote Stigmata Martyr) that I love. Great food, and talented company: one of the fans we met is a cartoonist who does GORGEOS work. She spent the evenign drawing pictures of magdalene, and I think she's going to do an Abney Park comic book (I've always wanted this).
Anyway, loads of fun - just TOO DAMN HOT!!
Made a bunch of money, sold a bunch of stuff, played decently, met A LOT of really nice REALLY excited fans (holy crap, was it just me or are those some pretty people? But...this is seattle...I understand when Hollywood has pretty people, but Seattle? Well, they were!)
Biggest drawback: HOLY SHIT IT WAS GOD DAMN HOT!
No, we are not being pussies, this was "pass out on stage' hot. This was "gear overheated and shut down" hot. This was god damned hot as hades, hot.
This was: "Add a new cluase to your rider: we don't play if its over 110", hot.
We were playing...Change Cage I think, when the gear overheated, and slowed like we just pulled the second to last card from HAL9000:
"Daisy, Daisy...I weeeooorrrkk the channnnnge caaa...."
So me and Magdalene took turns holding a fan on the gear (honestly!). We started up another song, and made it through most of the set...but on our final song, The Wrong Side, it melted down again, "boomchicka, boomchicka, booOOM chugga, BOooo, oom, chew chew PLLTHTTHTHTH!" The audience screamed "YEAH!", "WOOO!!" and I yelled "WE ARE ABNEY PARK! GOOD NIGHT!" and ran from the stage! ;)
Afterward, there was much autographing of stuff, and much "Can we get a picture with you guys?" .
Fun stuff
Then we ended the night with a party of about 20 at a Persian Resturant (actually, the place I wrote Stigmata Martyr) that I love. Great food, and talented company: one of the fans we met is a cartoonist who does GORGEOS work. She spent the evenign drawing pictures of magdalene, and I think she's going to do an Abney Park comic book (I've always wanted this).
Anyway, loads of fun - just TOO DAMN HOT!!