All over the place

Alplaus, Coxsackie, Cambridge...we're going to be all over the place this weekend. I'm okay with that, I only wish it wasn't so soggy out. Travel is fun, but not when it means driving long distances in crappy weather and hauling equiptment through the rain. All the same, it will be exciting. Three new venues in three days. Three new towns to play in even, although I'm not sure Alplaus entirely counts as it's technically a hamlet of Niskayuna...still we haven't played in Nisky before as far as I know.

Being the person of the two of us (Casey and Dave) that reports more in a train of thought manner than in a 'this is what has been happening in the land of Almost Awake recently' manner, I thought i'd let you know that Dave's bike was stolen from our backyard. Mine is now locked to stop that from happening to both, but it's still sad. He won that bike in a raffle! Some would say 'easy come easy go' but i would say 'come by good luck, go by bad luck'. Both our bikes were unlocked, but only daves was taken. Somehow it makes me feel guilty because i still have a bike. Luckily there are garage sales all over Cohoes this weekend and a flea market at Powers Park, so we may be able to find him a new one.

At that point we will have our earnings from Samuel's Coffeehouse...in Alplaus. That's our gig tonight. We've never even been there, but have heard very good things about it. I'm looking forward to it, hoping that people from both the Clifton Park and Schenectady areas come out for the show. It's yet to be seen if that will actually occur, but it is my hope. I like playing new venues when they are coffee shops more than new venues that are bars because I tend to go in more relaxed. I expect that even if we don't brind in listeners as a band, the people who are there will be receptive and respectful. It's not so much that way with bars. We generally get a good reception from individuals, but the envronment isn't nearly as cozy or welcoming to the un-initiated. A good mix is fun though. The thing I like about bars is that we don't have to censor our lyrics (all two words of profanity that we have) and We get to turn up and be loud. We also tend to dress up more for bars because it's important to catch people's eyes when they are in a loud environment with alcohol and lots of other stimuli.

On saturday we're playing Purple Cactus Cafe in Coxsackie, which I'm hoping will be a good mix of the coffee-shop relaxedness, the restauraunt respectfulness/fanciness and the bar volume/playing up our act-ness. It's a beautiful room. It looks like the kind of bar/restaurant that people who like coffee-shops would go to, and being one of those people, it's a place I'm glad we have the opportunity to play. As I've been saying in everything I write about it, the menu looks killer also.

Sunday we're playing the Cambridge farmers market, which will be our first farmers market that we've actually been invited to play at. It will also be the first one we play at that isn't troy and we didn't get kicked out of due to silly state employees not liking music. We'll see how it goes. I'm expecting a fun day, and it's a really nice drive up there.

Anyway, this is getting to be a long post, and i want to go brush my teeth because they feel yucky...so if you want more, go read dave's blog or something. It's on our myspace page.

*C*