I spent the last two days emptying my room in Austin of all her things. On Saturday I will be traveling to New York for a month, and a stranger will inhabit my room at our house (and share a bathroom with Marshall Galactic). When I return to Austin, we'll be moving to a new place down the road. So long, old house.
I left Austin yesterday morning. My drive to Fort Worth had a tinge of symbolism. Out with the old, in with the new. We got to Central Market for load-in at 4:30 PM as requested by the booking agency. No one else was there. The sound guy, Dre, laughed at our punctuality.
Central Market is a boutique grocery store with a community element. Their "beer & burger" concert series is heavily attended and, by most estimations, more desirable than a gig at a rock club. For this gig, we were joined by two excellent DFW area bands, Odis & Goodwin. They both rocked the house and cooked up an excellent atmosphere for us to rock. So we rocked.
Strangely enough, I often feel better about our performance at "weird" venues than at big clubs. Something about having to play in bizarre locations - I concentrate a little more. There were kids playing on the jungle gym just a few feet behind the stage.
Our setlist:
We Are The Frontier Brothers
Get Up Go
Take It For Love
Kickstand Woman
Magazine Soul
Everyones A Neutron Bomb
Space Punk Starlet
Girl is an Unsolved Mystery (Groovy Ghoulies)
Robot Song
Robot Song Outro
Dream Collector
The show was a rousing success. The old and the young came together in the glorious name of rock. Shit, I don't know what I'm trying to say here. It was a lot of fun and ended in a raucous and possibly dangerous water-fight on stage.
No more shows until August. :(
Brett
2008-06-27
2008-06-23
P R E S S R O U N D U P
From TheChickenFishSpeaks.Com (I...Know...) comes this fancy blurb:
The first thing I noticed when listening to this release was the vocals. Two singers came to mind: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and Robert Smith of The Cure. The vocalist has a warped quality to his singing that works well with the bit spacey alternative rock sound of the band. This is most evident on the terrific song "Technicalelectronicsupersonicrobot (T.E.S.S.)". The music and subject matter (being in love with a robot) are Flaming Lips all the way, but the aching passion as the vocalist sings "Why don't you love me anymore" is pure Robert Smith. Yet another great release that will go into my permanent collection.
-- Mite Mutant (2008)
Very nice Mite Mutant - thank you for the kind words.
Here is a little gem from WFAA.COM and The Dallas Morning News, courtesy of Mike Daniel:
Like any self-serving indie act, the Frontier Brothers are trying to fill a niche. Which one they're targeting is about as clear as Major Tom's path back to Earth after ground control lost contact with him (according to David Bowie, anyway). Formed in Fort Worth but now based in Austin, the trio scored recent appearances on MTV and in Spin for wearing skin-hugging silver, red and greenish-gold spandex body suits at South by Southwest in March. Giggly claims that the band's from outer space notwithstanding, its sound is a maudlin mishmash of British glam pop, chicken-fried piano melodies and punky sideshow brass that brings to mind what a child raised by Brian Wilson, Liza Minnelli and Syd Barrett might conjure up. Is it edgy? About as much as a plastic dinner knife. Is it entertaining? Greatly; so much so that the BBC and USA Today have noticed, and Fort Worth Weekly has nominated it as best new artist even though the act isn't around there much anymore. Now that's far out.
A little complementary, a little not so much. Edgy as a plastic dinner knife? I don't think you listened to the album, Mike. We'll talk afterword.
Brett
The first thing I noticed when listening to this release was the vocals. Two singers came to mind: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and Robert Smith of The Cure. The vocalist has a warped quality to his singing that works well with the bit spacey alternative rock sound of the band. This is most evident on the terrific song "Technicalelectronicsupersonicrobot (T.E.S.S.)". The music and subject matter (being in love with a robot) are Flaming Lips all the way, but the aching passion as the vocalist sings "Why don't you love me anymore" is pure Robert Smith. Yet another great release that will go into my permanent collection.
-- Mite Mutant (2008)
Very nice Mite Mutant - thank you for the kind words.
Here is a little gem from WFAA.COM and The Dallas Morning News, courtesy of Mike Daniel:
Like any self-serving indie act, the Frontier Brothers are trying to fill a niche. Which one they're targeting is about as clear as Major Tom's path back to Earth after ground control lost contact with him (according to David Bowie, anyway). Formed in Fort Worth but now based in Austin, the trio scored recent appearances on MTV and in Spin for wearing skin-hugging silver, red and greenish-gold spandex body suits at South by Southwest in March. Giggly claims that the band's from outer space notwithstanding, its sound is a maudlin mishmash of British glam pop, chicken-fried piano melodies and punky sideshow brass that brings to mind what a child raised by Brian Wilson, Liza Minnelli and Syd Barrett might conjure up. Is it edgy? About as much as a plastic dinner knife. Is it entertaining? Greatly; so much so that the BBC and USA Today have noticed, and Fort Worth Weekly has nominated it as best new artist even though the act isn't around there much anymore. Now that's far out.
A little complementary, a little not so much. Edgy as a plastic dinner knife? I don't think you listened to the album, Mike. We'll talk afterword.
Brett
2008-06-19
This Week in The Life of a Band (#2)
- Got back from Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN. Metallica and My Morning Jacket destroyed me.
- Played a new cover at our Beauty Bar show. Some groovy ghoulies.
- We're doing San Marcos today. The Triple Crown is a dive bar by any definition. The employees are so nice, however, that we keep coming back.
- Preliminary work has begun on The Frontier Brothers TV Show. More information to come.
- Played a new cover at our Beauty Bar show. Some groovy ghoulies.
- We're doing San Marcos today. The Triple Crown is a dive bar by any definition. The employees are so nice, however, that we keep coming back.
- Preliminary work has begun on The Frontier Brothers TV Show. More information to come.
2008-06-17
June 20th @ Lola's
I get it.I am aware. Yes, I UNDERSTAND that you go to the video arcade every Friday. What is it that you find so seductive about the games gallery? Is it the ticket prizes? The blue-now-black carpet emblazoned with little pizza emblems (and smelling of pizza)? The cash machine that eats your money?
Lets get one thing straight here. I don't actually care. I don't actually care why you go to the video arcade every friday night. I don't actually care because this coming Friday night you will be at our show. A real life rock show with instruments and everything, moron. No games.
If you're over 17 and under 65, come rock with us at Lola's Saloon in Fort Worth. I'm not talking about bowling with your stupid aunt. I'm talking about kickass rock. The food of the gods.
Lets get one thing straight here. I don't actually care. I don't actually care why you go to the video arcade every friday night. I don't actually care because this coming Friday night you will be at our show. A real life rock show with instruments and everything, moron. No games.
If you're over 17 and under 65, come rock with us at Lola's Saloon in Fort Worth. I'm not talking about bowling with your stupid aunt. I'm talking about kickass rock. The food of the gods.
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