Goodbye Residency-Goodbye Blogspot...for now

Thank you all who shared the final night of our residency with us...we had an amazing month

-new chasing kings blog will be located at chasingkings.tumblr.com

-blogger-you are cool but you don't let me be keen with my mobile

-maybe i'll be better at this blogging stuff

Final Show Of November Residency

Tonight's THE Night

Special Guests

 

Francisco The Man 9

Woolen 10

Toy Bombs 12

It has been an amazing month...thank you so much to all of you that have joined us and seen the amazing bands we were fortunate enough to have play. 

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10"-Just Our Luck/Maybe It's The Distance 

will be available digitally soon!!

You can pre-order it this evening at the show (due to a number of unfortunate reasons-we do not have the 500 copies of the vinyl that we promised and were promised-it sucks really really badly-we worked incredibly hard on all this and spent a lot of time making everything the way we wanted-we have the jackets and some test pressings so you can scope it out at the show if you care to.)

here are some photos from the journey

 

Residency-Night 2

We are joined by three more lovely lovely bands this windy-dark-perfect-excellent-radical-totally gnarly November evening in Los Angeles and we cant wait. If you still have not decided what your Monday night plans are...may we highly suggest that you hang out for all of the bands tonight beginning with

White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere at 9

!!!!!

Moses Campbell at 10

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and The Americans at 12

click above to see facebook video

found this on some magical Social Network

Hope to see you tonight, we have been in the studio for the last 4 days and are about to finish 2 songs that we will be releasing at the end of the residency-We can not wait-BUNDLE UP!!!!!

Hey-#1

Thank you all who joined us on the first night of our residency on Monday. We were thrilled to be joined by three amazing bands filled with great people in Eyes Lips Eyes, Pacific Hurt and Judson and Mary . We carry on with the fun next week in the meantime here is a nice little youtube ditty from the show.

We begin a four day recording endeavour tomorrow in Glassell Park-we will be releasing the songs on the last night of our residency-photos videos to come.

-Matt

Rabbit, Rabbit, Residency

I write from the van somewhere in the middle of the dessert about 3 hours away from Los Angeles

November Residency

I write from the one and only Excalibur Hotel here in Las Vegas where we found the cheapest room in town! We can't wait for our residency to begin on Monday-in the meantime we are off to spend Halloween weekend in Utah.

The Best I Ever Had

Bootleg

We are thrilled to be returning to The Bootleg Theater tomorrow night in Historic Filipino Town. This will be our first show in town since our wonderful experience at The Hammer Museum in late July and we could not be more excited about the line-up.

Starting things off will be our friends The Smiles at 8: 30

followed by Line and Circle at 9:15

Norton Wisdom will be joining us for our set at 10:00

flying in from Washington D.C. will be U.S. Royalty at 11:00

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The Bootleg is located at

2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057-2208

Coffee at home altitude tastes better. Thank you to all you wonderful people at Blue Jay Jazz for making last night wonderful. We had a great time. Weather!!!

This is A Blog Post episode 2

It has been quite a while since a blog post and the truth is, I have been telling myself to sit down in front of this screen and work on just doing it, but then....as it always goes I get distracted and forget and by the morning the whole vicious cycle of non-blogging continues.

We have been up to a bit more than this blog would suggest-but what is most important is what is happening this week. It still seems to not feel real and in watching last weeks Hammer Show it is unbelievable that we are a part of what we have considered a summer tradition for the last couple of years.

If you plan on coming I would like to suggest that you show up early around 7 or so and stake out a spot in line, parking is very very crazy.

The show is completely free and we have been working very hard with the help of our closest artistic and amazing friend on a slew of new merchandise-some that is free and some that will hopefully help get us started on our newest endeavour of getting into the studio. We can't wait to be in the confines of the Hammer Courtyard in only a few days.

We will be playing at 8 PM and our good friend Norton Wisdom will be joining us on his canvas

Voxhaul Broadcast will be playing directly after us at 9 PM

click here for more info

and listen to KCRW all week and for the rest of your life

while reading Buzzbands

For those of you that care to check this at any frequency---sorry I suck at this blog stuff

Standing about ten feet from the stage at hotel cafe awaiting dr dog...woh. I need to post soon i will.

Pencils Suck

Lots of unfamiliar people-Lakers: Nick and Mike say "sweet"...Drew and Matt say"O.K."-Drew's UMB hooded sweatshirt is keeping me warm right now on a semi-beautiful Venice night. We watched most of the game and got some vocal tracks recorded on a few new songs.

Spaceland was an amazing treat- it was quite nerve racking to finally play one of our favorite places to see bands but it was great to meet so many of you who were kind enough to show up early and give us a listen. Thank you Buzzbands, Vanaprasta and Spaceland for an amazing night-I realized today that my I.D. is still at the bar as part of a rental agreement for a pen need to head back soon.

Tomorrow-Graduation Party!!!!!!!

Spaceland

We will be performing this evening at Spaceland in Silverlake. It has been an incredibly busy but amazing week...we are honored to be playing and can't wait to make our first journey.

Crazy crazy spaceland

that was a party

Wow...last night was something else, Bar Pink/San Diego-you are a fantastic place and it was a pleasure seeing so many familiar faces in a town we had yet to play. We will return shortly and it was a treat to get back to our familiar set and play some songs that we have neglected in the past week.

Maren and Crew--that was fun

Tonight we finish out what has been a truly amazing run of shows and are thrilled to be doing it in a place that we have grown to love in the past 6 months...

here is our set list from last night

Bar Pink, San Diego-6/12/10

Empathy

This Town

The Current State Of Our Future

Who Are We To No

San Diego

Luck

Dark Sunglasses

Maybe It's The Distance

Static,

Thank you all so much for staying out late on a Thursday after your Los Angeles Lakers lost last night, we were so honored to be playing with such great musicians...and that is no bullshit

-Francisco The Man you are one of the greatest three piece bands I have ever seen-Gamble House-you made things that are supposed to be incredibly difficult look effortless- you are both amazing bands and it was a pleasure sharing the stage with you-

I also really wish all of you could have heard the sweet sounds of DJ Golden Sugar Bear as he was spinning some of the best songs of all time in perfect order and made the night--you are awesome kind sir!

Today has been a nice breather-I think last night was the first time we all actually slept in a bed in the last few days. Thank you so much to those of you that let us crash at your places along the way in the great Northwest you provided us with great times and comfort that we will never forget and we are back at it tomorrow night in San Diego...

Getting back to the E.P. as well

Oh yea. Golden Sugar Bear!!!!! Cant describe excitement levels in the van this gentelman has been a one of a kind friend for a long time now, cant wait to hear

This Is A Blog Post!!!

(San Francisco)

I write from sunny Market street here in San Francisco after playing Milk last night. We were treated to some amazing music from all the locals and everyone treated us incredibly well. We can't wait to be back in town soon and could not be happier with the way these shows have been going...it has been an honor to be a part of this Rumble Tour and stopping where it originated was a pleasure.

(Portland)

Everything about Portland was a treat.....

Holocene, Portland,--thank you for being one of the best music venues in the country-thank you for being overly helpful-your enthusiasm about music and your city was beyond refreshing

Priory--one of the most unique and eclectic sets we've heard in a long time---after the first song the set just got better and better and leaving to fill up my water glass mid-set felt blasphemous--to meet four/5 of the coolest people in the world is always fun as well-thank you for being such kind people-we really appreciate it

Blood Beach--how do you do what you do?--you are fucking awesome

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The last three nights of our west coast adventure have been incredible, it brought to light how foolish we were for neglecting the Northwest, we can't wait to return---we have been so fortunate--Thank You!!!

Heading to pick up our gear now--then a quick run to Amoeba across the street--I am terrible at this blogging stuff but We can't wait to be back home tonight at one of the best venues ever created--with bands we are really excited to hear and be playing with!!!!

Portland tomorrow!!

I am limited to 160 so i apologize for the many posts...we are so thrilled to be done with our first show of the rumble tour...thank you seattle you rule!!