Club 90 04/17

We had a great weekend, playing at Club 90, Friday and Saturday. We were excited to play some new tunes from our 80's setlist. Aaron's baby was due on April 28th, and we were worried that he's have to rush to the hospital mid-show, so we had Curtis, a session drummer learn all the songs and be our backup. Fortunately, Aaron was a became a proud dad a week early, and he was able to perform.

Friday, was the night of the Jazz playoff game against the Clippers, The Jazz were up 3-2, and almost won the game. The venue was a little bit empty, and a lot of the patrons were busy watching the game, opposed to hitting the dance floor. While there were no special events on Saturday, the place was packed with happy dancing people. It was a blast.


We had some great pictures as always, thanks to Aaron's mom, our dedicated and talented photographer.

Saturday night was our 30th show together, and our 14th show with Mark. It's exciting to see how far our band has come, and all to see where we're going. We have a jam packed summer to be excited for, the long anticipated album release, music video creations, and lots of shows. Our next show is at Cliff House, and we'd love to see you there!
Good luck to the Jazz tonight.

What's on the horizon for 2017? (Album release update)

Here's some of the projects that you can expect in 2017:
- Album Release: Spring/Summer
- Music Video Release: Summer
- Expanding our cover song setlist to reach 65+ songs.
- We've been talking to a local SLC venue about hosting a themed night on a monthly basis.

We thank you for your continued support! We've been working on this album forever! We've laid down all the tracks, and now the studio is finishing the mixing and mastering, and we'll be ready to release soon! They're not even finished yet, and they still give me shivers they are so awesome! Good things take a long time to cultivate.

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Interview at Elm Studios

We had the opportunity to be interviewed by Elm Studios, as part of the Utah Music Festival! They had a really cool studio and all of the studio crew were very down to earth and awesome people. This interview will be part of City Weekly's social media, and you can expect it in the future! We were very grateful to be part of such an awesome event, and we're grateful to festival and the studio that we were interviewed.

Had a great interview at Elm Studios! We talked about our upcoming album, our participation in the #utahmusicfestival, and our opinion about the Salt Lake Music scene. You'll be able to see our full interview in City Weekly sometime soon! #slc #utah #rock #music #saltlakecity

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Utah Music Fest

The Utah Music Festival is a 4 day festival that included 54 bands, across 8 different venues, and we were very fortunate and honored to be apart of it! It was cool because you could either pay a small entrance fee of $6 to get into any show you want, or pay $20 to go to as many of the shows you wanted on any of the nights.
They also held free workshops for all of the participating bands, that covered topics such as: creating super fans, creating music videos, how to get your band to the next level, etc... Aaron went, and he said that they were super insightful, and has yet to share all of the juicy information.

There were a lot of awesome bands who participated. We played at Club 90, and we got to share the stage with the talented JANA and the Rebels.

The crowd was awesome, lively, and sure knew how to dance! We were encouraged to play an original for the Utah Music Fest, even though Club 90 usually wants you to play covers. We played "Breaking Free", one of our most upbeat songs, and we saw why covers were better at this venue. It cleared the dance floor like light scatters roaches.

We were excited to use our new banners, and they turned out really good! They look amazing and were very easy to set up.

We appreciate all the organizers of the Utah Music Fest for putting it together and having us play! Let's do it again next year! #UtahMusicFest

New branding, new stage banners!

We previously created a banner, and designed and constructed a custom PVC Pipe frame to the banner. It was relatively inexpensive, but it was hard to setup/take down, which resulted in not bringing it to most performances.

I noticed a lot of bands have two vertical (or square) banners on the left and right sides of the stage. We purchased a couple of retractable banners. They're easy to set up, come with a stand and case, and they don't take up much room on stage. I was debating over various designs, but I decided that the simpler, the better. We'll be playing in dark venues with lots of colorful lights. Having a simple design with a white background will make it stand out more. The hope is that this adds to our stage presence, and helps us build our brand. I also created a simple cardboard cutout to promote people adding our band on social media.

Our first banner

Cool banners, but really busy, and hard to tell the name of the band.

Our new retractable vertical banner design

The cardboard cutout

We nailed our Club 90 audition! We are now part of the rotation!

We're pleased to announce that the owner of Club 90 liked our band, and we're going to be part of the rotation, playing a consecutive Friday and Saturday, every five weeks. (That means I get to eat their delcious burgers every 5 weeks! Yum!)

This is exciting, because a lot of bands audition, but few get chosen to play regularly. .

The owner said that we'll be a good fit there because, we have a good set list of cover songs, Allison has an amazing voice, the instruments sound really good, we have high energy, and because we are still young and attractive.

We're excited to playing here because it will give us an opportunity to build our following, develop our stage presence with large crowds, expand the number of covers we do, and to have fun.

Our next performance at Club 90, will be March 4, as part of the Utah Music Festival. We will be playing with Jana and the Rebels, a local sensation. We'd love to see you there! Details below:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1247530572021799/

Club 90 02/2016

Mark loves playing at this place, and he said that many bands are able to get an audition, but not many get a call back to be scheduled for a rotation. So tonight was our official audition. We played two 1 hour sets, and were compensated with delicious food. It was perfect because I was craving a hamburger. (I should mention that it was an amazing hamburger.)
There were more people than I thought for a Monday night; partially because Mark brought his entire office! Thanks to them for coming and kudos for Mark. A other of our friends came to support us.
We had a lot of fun, and just played like it was a normal show. Big shout out to Allison who sang, even though she's sick and it was affecting her voice. Shout out to Aaron who brought all of his PA system, as well as his drum kit, and who didn't miss a beat.
The owner said that she loved our stage presence, our sound, our song selection, and she said that she liked that we were all young. She gave us an offer to hire us as regular band! We nailed it. It was a lot of fun and we are excited.

Probably my favorite live shot of me

Aaron playing rock solid

Nate stunning the crowd with his guitar skills

Having a band with an awesome singer is essential, I'm so glad that we found Allison

Mark keeping the rhythm tight; just don't ever call his bass a guitar...