Hey Everybody,

Just a quick note to let you know that the venue for our upcoming Brooklyn show has changed from Public Assembly to Bar Matchless

Sorry for the confusion this may cause but it had to happen.  WERE STILL EXCITED TO SEE YOU THERE THOUGH!

See you soon.

MDD

We had a great time playing for such an amazing audience in Chi-town.  A very NICE time.

Here’s a NICE picture of the show:

This is an important moment in every person’s life: the first time they get their buttocks portrayed in an Original Butt Sketch.  Here’s ours:

In real life, trying not to show our immense stage fright:

Wanna know more about butt sketches?  Ummm, why not go to their website?

In the meantime, we’ve been climbing Alaska’s most daunting peaks:

And eating at the best restaurant we’ve ever visited.  This is the first Lao restaurant in Alaska, is entirely family owned and operated, and doesn’t do anything but blow your mind and palette in all directions.

With food this good, you gotta rock an after-glow group shot.

Ok, time to go back.

Many apologies for our cyber-absence, it sure is more difficult to update your website when you’re on the road!  Here’s a little recap, something to hopefully give you an idea of what we’ve been up to!  The picture above was taken in an all-too-normal backstage bathroom in Baltimore.   This show was part of a handful of gigs we did on the East Coast with our Chicago friends (and heros!) Baby Teeth.  They are phenomenal, and we had an amazing time touring with them.  You should listen to them!

We’ve been on the road since July 30th, where we played a couple shows in Chicago, made our way up to Empire Michigan for Dunegrass, down (and left) to Philly for our residency at World Cafe Live, which started a 2 1/2 week east coast jaunt.  Here’s some pics from our show at Union Hall in Brooklyn.  I love these for their 70’s low-budget indie film look.

Part of the east coast tour included taping an in-studio performance for Fox Network’s show “Fearless Music.”  The show airs to 45 million TV’s across America at midnight on Saturdays, and has featured some our big inspirations, including Imogen Heap, Shiny Toy Guns, and Hot Chip.  We can’t release images from the taping until the show airs, so keep your eyes out so we can let you know when it airs!  Check out more about the show here.

After our east coast adventure, we went to Alaska, our current location.  This is one of the most beautiful spots we’ve ever had the privilege of exploring.  Pictures really can’t do it justice, but here are a few anyway.  We’re playing almost every day in Anchorage, and are here till Sunday.  Then we fly back east to get ready for Moe.down!!

Thanks for tuning in, we’ll be back with more updates soon!

A toot on the ol’ magic flute, and boomjaja — we’re playing at two more festivals.  Dunegrass was one of our funnest gigs last summer.  Dunes and tunes, ees perfect.

Then of course, the legendary Moe.down.  This is all just so good for the good time team. 

Get it!

Thanks to everyone who came out last weekend!  We had an amazing time playing for you all.  Highlights include: riding the mechanical bull at the Wild Bull in Kalamazoo, seeing some fantastic bands at Salem High School rock it like there will be no donuts tomorrow, the backstage juice bar (thanks diana!), and seeing our incredible western michigan fans rage it front-stage with us for 90 minutes.  

 

Everyone gets a donut now.  

You have to check this out — we’re in the new Jurassic Park movie!

psyche.

But seriously, check out this amazing ad for the Kalamazoo Block Party we’re playing this saturday . . .

click this link:

http://www.downtownblockparty.com/

Yo-diddle hi-diddle hey.

I wanted to share a little reminiscence about a particularly inspiring gig we had two weeks ago in Chicago, IL at the Empty Bottle with the Baby Teeth and Post Honeymoon.

The music was great, the vibe was good. Lots of friendly faces, lots of new ones. Post honeymoon started the night off right and set the bar for the energy level of the evening, and we did our best not to let it drop. It was a crazy show for us too because Michelle completely lost her voice earlier in the week so she couldn’t sing on the gig, which created the need for Theo and Joey to step it up even more into spotlight.  Fortunately for us they are both just stellar and rose to the challenge completely.  It was very weird to perform without Michelle, but we are blessed with band full of great singers and talented musicians so we could handle the key changes and other necessary tweaking to make it work.

Baby Teeth headlined the night, and if you haven’t heard of them, you NEED to check them out.  Their set was absolutely righteous, and they are all just amazing musicians, and wonderful people.  This was our second show with them, and I am sure that there will be many more.

Here is a little review of the show from (http://wrestlingentropy.blogspot.com/):

Baby Teeth, Live at the Empty Bottle, with My Dear Disco
What the hell–springtime on a random Thursday: might as well go check out a Baby Teeth gig. They’re getting ready to release their next LP this summer, and they brought a shitload of new jams to the Bottle last week. It really made them step up their game a bit, too. They played with an almost nervous intensity I’ve rarely seen in them before–and it suited them well. Perhaps they were also encouraged by the shit-hot opening set from Ann Arbor’s My Dear Disco (between them and Nomo, what the FUCK is in the water up there?!). Imagine a version of Maroon 5 populated by a bunch of dorky yet adorable college-age dudes and a set of uilleann pipes, and you can kind of envision what they’re up to. Apparently they usually work with a female singer, too, but her voice was blown out, so she wasn’t on stage that night. I can’t even imagine how much more over-the-top awesome that would make the group, though. They had incredible energy and incredible musicianship. I’ll look forward to seeing them again soon.

Also, and honestly one of the best parts was meeting an amazing poet named Thax Douglas, who is apparently a bit of legend around Chicago.  He wrote an incredible poem for us before the show and we invited him to read it from the stage before we began our set.  Honestly, it is the most impressive and true thing that I have seen written about us, and it was written by a man who had not even seen us perform (he had heard our MySpace i believe and that’s all).  I feel compelled to share it with the world:

MY DEAR DISCO
enough

white-hot

searchlight-screams

pulled from the

gullets of

mourning doves

form a

laser-intense

circle poisoning

you with life,

dragging you

from your cool

luxury

tombstone.

-5/14/09  Burger King for Empty Bottle

Thanks Thax.  Love you man.

Peace and love,

[play]

Oh . . . oh my — it’s the festies again!  Yup, time to get out that tent and finally buy some new undies. 

Then take those crisp and clean nether garments and come celebrate the world with us this summer!  This is exactly where we will be:

May 22: Bella Madre (Geneva, MN)

May 24: Hookahville (Thornville, OH)

May 30: Beginning of Summer Block Party (Kalamazoo)

June 4: Wakarusa (Ozark, AR)

June 20: Kentucky Pride (Louisville, KY)

June 26: Top Of the Park (Ann Arbor, MI)

July 23: 10,000 Lakes Festival (Detroit Lakes, MN)

July 30: Party in the Park (Chicago, IL)

August 1: Northalsted Market Days (Chicago, IL)

August 7th: SummerSounds (Greensburg, PA) 

September 4th: YpsiTucky Jamboree (Ypsilanti, MI)

 

This is how excited we are about the festies.  Except our undies will be newer.

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