St. Patrick's Songfight - Los Angeles - March 19th

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:13 pm

Rabid Garfunkel (performing as Primitive Screwheads) is interested in a multi-day sort of thing. Rough travel plans follow:

Tuesday: Drive from Portland to Fresno to get live rehearsal time with the other half of PS
Thursday or Friday: PS drives to SoCal to find a place to sleep and rehearse with another unannounced member of group (still trying to decide who's playing what instrument so we can figure out what spot needs to be filled, heh)
Saturday: Horrify the SF community with our performance

The scheduling's all pretty loose, so there's plenty of air in it for adjustments like a rehearsal/hanging out day at some den of iniquity in Sunny Babylon.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:08 pm

abecedarian wrote: If you're suggesting a two day event, I'm open for that, but I'd need a show of hands to see if there's enough interest to pull that off...

I don't mean two days of the show or anything, but certainly hanging and rehearsals the day/night before would be sweet.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:07 pm

Friday practice is definitely easy and doable and Friday hanging out is definitely a moral imperative. We'll arrange that as things get closer.

I look forward to welcoming everyone to our little ocean's garbled vomit on the shore!

prayformojo · Post by **prayformojo** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:56 am

I'm always down to hang out if the schedule permits (unfortunately, post production is a demanding mistress.) As far as the show goes, a one night deal is really the only feasable thing. Trying to get an audience to show up for 2 nights of completely unheard of bands is not an easy thing, though I think we should be able to muster a decent group of spirited (and hopefully somewhat intoxicated) to enjoy the tunes on Saturday. I'm goign to try and arrange my schedule to be off both Friday and Saturday, though that will depend on what I'm working on at that point (which is currently unknown).

Hey JB, I know some joints that make killer Kommies out here. Just thought I'd throw that into the mix.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:13 pm

<a href="http://www.abcdarian.com/events.html" target=_blank> My events page </a> is up and running.

I will soon be creating a web page for this particular event and starting in on a poster and a press release and getting around to the local radio stations who might have an interest in helping us with some publicitiy.

The last time we had an LA concert wasn't there someone who had a radio show and was thinking about setting up an interview? Maybe we could do that this go 'round?

Ideas are welcome.

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:51 am

Great page. Thanks for the plug.

Ken

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:06 am

abecedarian wrote:<a href="http://www.abcdarian.com/events.html" target=_blank> My events page </a> is up and running.

That's awesome. Perhaps there can be a link from songfight.org, etc.?

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:36 am

Thanks!

roymond wrote:Perhaps there can be a link from songfight.org, etc.?

Yeah I think the issue is that this has to be a 'fan' page. The problem is editorial content. Who decides that Ken and Sam get written spots and only a certain 10 people get songs posted on the event page? I do. That doesn't quite live up to the official egalitarian community we have here.

Unfortunately we currently don't have an efficient way to publicize events or talk about past events with outsiders very easily.

So my contribution right now is just to maintain this fan page and whoever wants to link to it for publicity purposes or add an event is free to contact me with a web page or poster for that event and I'll happily make a space for it.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:32 pm

Wow, thanks for the writeup, Sean!

stateshirt · Post by **stateshirt** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:31 pm

I'm late to the party.

Yay, another Songfight LA. NEATO!

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:11 pm

confirmed band entry updated below

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:58 pm

A quick breakdown of the show so far:

5 hours / 12 acts = 25 minutes / 1 act = (5-10 minutes setup/teardown, 15-20 minutes set) / 1 act.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:49 pm

Yeah that does sound a little fast doesn't it...

Only three groups are confirmed, and my guess is that a couple groups will drop out or will play short sets. I can always make the show an hour or two longer too if we need to as well.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:36 pm

Primitive Screwheads will be there, even if it winds up being only me making with the guy & guitar action with a pair of cymbals strapped to my knees for a rhythm section, heh. Rough figurings of the playlist make for about ten minutes of music (3 semi-definite songs including a slot for the Optional Challenge title/4th song [there will be one, right?] and another five for the f-ing around onstage.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:27 am

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:40 am

Rabid Garfunkel wrote: the Optional Challenge title/4th song [there will be one, right?]

These shows usually do not have any sort of "fight" aspect to them. They are really showcases for bands involved in songfight. Feel free to play songfight and non-songfight material in your set.

There's no reason why we couldn't have a live debut songfight type song if people were interested though.

Ken

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:37 pm

Alright everyone, I'm getting things in gear now. I've finished the web based stuff and I'm about to start in on other media - referring them to the web based stuff as I go.

I've already mentioned my <a href="http://www.abcdarian.com/events.html" target =_blank>Event's Page</a>, but I've recently finished the skeleton for the <a href="http://www.abcdarian.com/sfla.html" target =_blank>LA songfight events page</a>.

As bands confirm I will add or subtract them from the ledger of indecision and add their names to the ledger of attendance

prayformojo · Post by **prayformojo** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:51 pm

Nice work Sean. Looks great!

I really need to get my preperation in gear for this shin-diggity-dig. I'm assumin' that Sam is a go since Loyalty Day has a fancy lil' star next to their name. Do we have the Blue on board for this?

Post by **Lunkhead** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:34 am

I intend to be there, barring unforeseen events.

prayformojo · Post by **prayformojo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:55 pm

Lunkhead wrote:I intend to be there, barring unforeseen events.

Aw-frikkin-some!

Post by jb » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:18 pm

Ok got my ticket, I'll be there. I get in Thursday afternoon, leave late Monday night.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:46 pm

Cool. Trés cool.