Bloggers! The Swell Season! The Hold Steady! Art Brut!

11/21/2007 – If I don’t catch up with everything that’s happened over the last week I never will, so here’s a quick recap.

Last Thursday night, Liz and I attended the monthly bloggers meet up at Ace’s Bar in lovely downtown Kirkwood. It was a fun time and it was great to meet some new folks in the group. (Photos)

After the meet-up we headed down to the Star Bar to catch Big Trouble In Little Five Points, a monthly show put on by Atlanta’s Pop Death Squad. It was packed beyond belief and we were lucky to get in. We caught The Lollygags, a two-piece electro-dance group from Athens and the Black Kids from Jacksonville, FL. We had a great time! (Photos)

Saturday night we caught The Swell Season and Martha Wainwright at the Variety Playhouse. The Swell Season, featuring Glen Hansard from the Irish band the Frames, and Czech singer/songwriter Marketa Irglova stared in the movie Once and provided the music as well. It was an amazing movie and their live set was incredible. They played almost everything from the movie in addition to some Frames’ songs, and even a great Pixies‘ song, Cactus. Glen told a great story about the last time the Frames were in Atlanta; they played the Echo Lounge and he hit his head on a nail sticking out of the ceiling. When he came too, Chris Martin from Coldplay was holding him in his arms. Funny. (Photos)

Sunday night was a fantastic show as well. The Hold Steady, Art Brut, and 1990s played the Variety playhouse, and we were back in attendance to rock out. The 1990s were loose and fun, with great feedback and lots of “ba ba ba” back up vocals. Next up, Art Brut were fantastic, energetic, engaging, and pretty much stole the show. The Hold Steady rocked it hard, and were every bit as good as the last time I saw them. The crowd bounced, swayed, and hung on every word. At the end of the show everyone at the front of the stage crawled up and joined the band for the last song. It was quite a moment and a fantastic way to end the weekend! (Photos)

OK, that’s it, that’s enough, I’m off to Florida for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Yum Yum Tree rocked the Star Bar last night!

11/09/2007 – Last night was… wow. Um, it was great. Srsly. All my gear broke before we even started, cables, input jacks… and once we started rocking the entire rig was destroyed by the second tune and I never mentally recovered. All that being said, nobody seemed to notice but me. I’m pro like that.

Last night was a really fun time, I got to catch up with lots of friends and ran into folks I hadn’t seen in ages. Rick Brantley played a great first set, The Yum Yum Tree went second and Bain Mattox closed out the night with some new tunes, well, new to me at least. It was full house and everyone had a great time! (More photos!)

Don’t forget my solo show at Kavarna tomorrow night. Music starts at 9pm, and I play at 10pm.

Comedy, nudity, costumes, photos!

10/22/2007 – Whew, the last few days have been a blast. Starting last Thursday, Liz and I went to the EARL to catch the the (Still) Born in the USA comedy tour, featuring one of our favorite artists here at Super Deluxe, Jonah Ray and others. It was a fun evening.

On Saturday we attended the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade. There were crazy costumes galore and we bumped into quite a few friends. (PHOTOS)

Later that night, after two years of being in Atlanta, I finally attended the word famous Clermont Lounge. It was at least ten time more fun and insane that I would have imagined. The strippers we’re terrible (awesome), the DJ was incredible, and I now have a profound dislike for peach cobbler. So much fun.

Friday and Sunday evenings The Yum Yum Tree got together to work on some new tunes and the prepare for our next show at the Star Bar with Bain Mattox & Shot from Guns and Rick Brantley on November 8th.

The Yum Yum Tree Rocked, Here’s the Details

10/02/2007 – Happy October everyone! Well, let me get you caught up on last weekends shows. The Yum Yum Tree had a very successful CD release show with Jupiter Watts and Orphins at the Star Bar on Friday night. We had lots of drinks, balloons, and tunes for the people. (Photos)

Saturday, we packed up and headed out to Columbia, SC for a show at a great club called the Art Bar. Playing with us that night we’re Atlanta locals The Drownout and Columbia favorites Hot Lava Monster. My friends Marcus and Megan drove down from Charlotte to see us play, and thanks to them we’ve got some photos of us rocking. All the bands we’re cool, and despite an overflowing toilet in the ladies room, we had a fun show, it was a late night by the time we headed out. (Photos)

Today marks the official release date of the new Yum Yum Tree CD on Two Sheds Records. Check it out and maybe even buy a copy.

And finally, there’s a couple of write-ups posted online at EvilSponge for the Mary O. Harrison (link) and The Yum Yum Tree (link) sets at the Other Sound Festival