October 15th - Half Light @ The High Dive
Upcoming gig alert – we have confirmed we will be returning to the lovely High Dive on Saturday October 15th for another matinee show. We will be sharing this Happy Hour show with The Buckets. Show starts @ 6pm – with our set. It’s a Saturday, not a school night, and 6 pm should be pretty manageable, so you really don’t have too many valid excuses for not coming on down. See you there!
Ummmm…. looks like we haven’t really been all that active for a while on the blog front. So, what’s new? Well, we forgot to make any mention of the July 29th show @ the High Dive. The Swearengens opened the matinee show with an awesome set, & a good time was had by all (especially @ the after party).
Thus ends the summer with 6 band members having rather busy schedules. We’re refining some new material & still waiting to release that second album. And no one seemed to get tagged by an UARS satellite debris which is a good thing.
Striking fear in all the cave dwellers in the northwest. Some members of HL opted for even more sun in Hawaii… some hid in their basements… some retreated to remote cabins in NE Oregon. And then it was summer.
As per the norm – it’s fully gray in Seattle… but why would we have it any other way?
We have shipped off all new tracks to SpaceJunk studios for the mixing process. If all goes smoothly, we should be hearing mixes by ~ mid July.
It’s is looking very, very realistic that we’ll be done with all tracking/overdubbing/etc for the new album this week. We’ll then bundle up a few DVDs of files & ship them down to our friend TimEbandit to start work on mixing it. Twelve songs tracked… we’re aiming at putting 10-12 on this release. This one’s been a while in the making – we’re going to be really happy to hear the final product & get it out there for people to check out.
The show went quite well – the venue is very nice. Unfortunately, this weekend also had “Noise For the Needy” benefit shows happening which drew in quite a few folks for a good cause to other venues. Thanks to everyone who made it down! And now on to finalizing our album tracks to ship off to Tim in Oz for some mixing….
We’ll be playing with Uncle DooDad & The Jones Family Fortune on Saturday June 12th @ The Mix in Georgetown. 6006 12th Ave South Seattle.
The Mix - June 12th
The lineup will be:
Half Light @ 9 pm, followed by Graystar & Goldie Wilson.
$6 at the door.
Our heartfelt thanks to Michael Fortes for taking the time to visit us & to do a Parlour to Parlour episode on us! We had a blast hanging out in the morning shooting for the episode, as well as a ridiculous amount of fun later that evening at the Hive Mind Halloween Party (c’mon guys, it was TOO successful for you to REALLY call it quits with no more of these). A grand time was had by one & all.
In other news, we have solidified a date at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard for Wednesday, January 13th with our friends in Osaka Explosion. We’ve been hammering & smashing up a few new song ideas as we get ready to track the second half of songs for our new album (trust us, we’ve tossed around a Meeeylion creative working titles over rehearsals, although all have been quite silly so far). We’re to a point we know what we’re going to work with song-wise – now we just have to get them recorded. We’re most assuredly hoping that minus any little unexpected bumps/quirks/catastrophes, we’ll be sending off a Batch O’ Songs for mixing/production by the end of May& get this thing out the door in the second half of 2010.