The Song Fight Bulletin Board

rdurand wrote:Not to get ahead of ourselves here. But any idea how long of a set we should be planning for?

I figure it might different at different venues depending on teh number of performers.

Thanks.

It depends on the number of performaers and amount of time in the venue, but think about a 20 minute set.

Ken

i'm thinking about making the seattle one. if it's low volume, though, it's not worth bringing the kit. maybe i'll have myself and another acoustic guitar and some bongos and shakers. mmm.

i'll try and make it happen. your money wasted in seattle!!!

fluffy wrote:3 hours
9 bands

That looks full. Perhaps we'll just show up and commandeer the stage. See who can take it away from us.

Not really. Have fun.

If anyone needs percussion toys for the PDX or Seattle shows, I can throw some in the car. Fairly well kitted out in that respect, me.

rabid, could you be sure and grab a cowbell, a guiro, and a tambourine for me, please?

I am serious.

guiro & cowbell, no prob.

Gots no tambourine, though. (Not my favorite instrument--shut up, Albatross--and thus not in the collection o' toys.) Freudian Slip brought her own for Santa Cruz. Sorry.

Well, crap, I don't have a band. But I have the desire, and the will, and the time, to play the LA and Berkeley shows.

Without a band, though, it wouldn't be worth it to everyone else to take up the stage time.

So, consider me hereby offering to show up, and assist, and drink, and watch, and sing along (when appropriate), and if someone wanted a uke in there somewhere, well...who would I be to say no?

Besides, someone's got to help you big shots unload the van.

burstroc wrote:...it's not worth bringing the kit...

Octothorpe drum set will be on stage.

burstroc wrote:...bongos and shakers...

The more the merrier.

Worth noting, as has been noted above, Seattle is gonna be a full bill. Anyone who can gang up their set with someone else, please think about it.

Minty,

Sam the drummer from Zipline and myself (a guitarist/bass player) are around for such purposes as a frontman like you needing a rhythm section. I'm pretty sure you could get back-up, especially since I dig your music.

Glennny

Thank you for bringing that up, Glennny, and for the compliment. I'm PMing you about this now.

[for those coordinating: if this flies, that'll put me in LA/San Luis Obispo/Berkeley shows, doing a short set of 3-4 brief songs. do I have to stick to songfight entries, or can I play other stuff?]

some guys are pretty adamant that you should only play songs written for songfight. they are fascists. nevertheless i couldn't think of much weaker shit than going up there and playing three covers and a couple original not-songfight songs. that's not the point of the show. most of what you play should be your own, and most of your own material should be songfight. that's what i'd suggest.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Marcus Kellis. Fascist in training.

Just kidding. Good advice, Marcus, and well said.

Songfight covers (of other fighters' songs) should be acceptable, too, ja?

That would be swell, Rabid!

If you need a press release to promote the show, I put one here:

http://www.openpr.com/news/16687.html

Ken

Nice job on that release, Ken, it's really good.

nevertheless i couldn't think of much weaker shit than going up there and playing three covers and a couple original not-songfight songs.

Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated. I was considering three songfight originals and one non-songfight original, but an unrelated conversation with Glennny has me considering four songfight originals, one of which just needs some expansion (it's too short as-is.)

And yeah, playing covers of non-songfight stuff and no songfight stuff whatsoever would be weak indeed.

yeah looks good ken

San Francisco show is now go!

Tuesday March 27th.

Julie's Supper Club
1123 Folsom St.
San Francisco

http://juliessupperclub.com/

Between the club and the Hand Puppet's gear, we should be set up to
handle most acts, with the exception of keyboards. If someone is able
to provide suitable key/synths etc. we should have our bases covered.

Steve Hand Puppet

I've got a cheap keyboard (Korg X5) with decent piano/organ/string sounds that I could bring.

To portland and seattle I will bring:
two guitars (1 epiphone electric, one ibanez electro acoustic), one marshall amp, one digital piano, various pedals and toys, and if requested, a sidstation and/or a shitty electric violin.

Octothorpe Sockpuppet and I visited the Mr. Spot's Chai House open mic night last night, the future host of the Seattle leg of the tour.

If last night is any indication, that the place is going to be absolutely packed on a Friday. The seating is limited but cozy, they serve food and, well, chai. And you can buy incense if you need some. Or beer. And there's a cute redheaded waitress with a really well done henna tattoo on her left arm.

But the point is we're going to rock a packed house so tell people you know are coming to arrive fairly early (cute waitress said ~5pm otherwise you lose out).