Grey's Graze

Every time we have a show on a college campus it seems to be a significantly unique experience, this last weekend in Berkeley was certainly no exception. Seeing as how we are all on an indefinite hiatus from our academic studies, it always feels incredibly refreshing to be surrounded by people and friends who are so motivated by learning....and having a great time. I've been wanting to share this journey up north with the keyboard for the entire weekend and sitting here in bed after finally taking off my "72-hour socks" I feel the best way to represent the trip is through a good old fashioned itemized hour by hour list. Enjoy....

Thursday February 18

3:00 PM-decide to pack the van and hit the road-debate about traffic for about an hour

4:00-5:00-debate some more about which freeway to take-decide to head to the market and buy bread

5:00-5:45-somehow spend forty-five minutes at the market buying bread and meat

6:15-finally on the 405.....traffic sucks

8ish-start listening to the Beatles somewhere on the 5 freeway(arguably the straightest road man ever built)-Let It Be-Magical Mystery Tour-White Album-spend most of this time cutting out some new Neustadt bookmarks.....

9:45-tricked by a very bright sign advertising cheap gas....find out it was for diesel-Listen to "Yellow House".....twice

11:00-12:45-restlessness sets in-evangelical radio station turned off-smell of manure-strange silence in the van

1:00 AM or so-arrive in Berkeley-even in the middle of the night its beautiful

2ish-fall asleep on the floor of Sarah and Camilas room-they are awesome hosts

Friday February 19

10:00 AM-wake up to find out the show has been moved inside due to the rain that never rained

11:00-find cheap coffee and bagels-mmmmmm!

11:30-park the van and are greeted by incredibly friendly people offering to help us unload our gear-we feel very weird about this-they insist-they are very nice

Noon?-finish setting up on the floor in the new makeshift venue "Naia Lounge"-earliest show we have ever played-the small group of people there are one the nicest most respectful audiences-meet lots more friendly people

Setlist-2/19/10-Naia Lounge-Berkeley, CA

secret mirror

2:00 PM-lunch/rendezvous time at Cafe Mattina-very large and delicious salads-mmmmm

4:00PM-3:00 AM?-forties-friends-new friends-top dog-premature sleep-sleep

Saturday February 20

10:00-11:00 AM-watch our men's curling team take on sweden-curling rules

11:30?-treated to brunch-question why are our hosts so nice and hospitable????

2:00-3:00 PM-drew, nick and i get the oil changed in the van at "Oil Changers"-feels like a nice visit to the doctor

3:00-3:30 PM-go to a music store-play lots of old pianos-wish i had twelve thousand dollars to buy one

???-debate going to san francisco-decide to stay

7:00 PM-4:30 AM-van becomes makeshift taxi-"Pet Sounds"-sushi-friends-thumper-party-walking-winter feels crispy-realize that we have fallen in love with Berkeley-debate moving-sleep

Sunday February 21

11:00 AM-walk to top dog for a healthy breakfast

rest of day-somehow delay our departure until nearly four in the afternoon-drop our friend atticus off at stanford-listen to the new spoon record-talk about how brilliant the new spoon record is-resume travel on the 5 freeway-buy chips and sodas-might be the first time we all gave in to gas station fare-don't regret it-

Midnight-unload the van in Venice

........the dramatized version of our weekend, a really amazing couple of days spent with really great people that we thank very much for helping us with a very enjoyable show and certainly an enjoyable time.

Val in Tines

ZOMBIE PROM

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13 8:30 PM

THE ROXY

Links, Chasing Kings, Young The Giant & Saint Motel

If you plan on coming to the show it may be a good idea to click HERE to purchase tickets and save a couple of doll hairs.

Many thanks to Kat at KROQ for playing Empathy last week we really appreciate it.

1400

Over the course of the last week we have had the pleasure of playing two amazing shows with two of the most generous and talented bands around. Saturday night was spent in Provo, Utah on a seemingly perfectly chilled evening nearly a mile above sea-level. The locals were some of the friendliest music-lovers we had ever met and Corey at Club Velour had really put together an impressive and homey room(kinda reminded us of The Smell!!!). Sunday was spent waking early....1PM at the home of Andrew from Imagine Dragons to a most magnificent breakfast/lunch. As we hit the road we were encountered by some very intense snowfall....then watched the Super Bowl at the only truck stop in Utah that served chips and salsa, sitting on the floor surrounded by enthusiastic truckers and anti-freeze boxes. We finally crawled into bed here in Los Angeles on Monday morning as the sun was rising....Utah....Surreal.

Set List-2/6/10-Club Velour-Provo, Utah

The Current State Of Our Future

This Town

I Was Told

Sleep

We All Fall

Dark Sunglasses

Empathy

Maybe It's The Distance

Last night, Thursday marked our first trip to Lake Forest in support of Regrets and Brunettes in their month-long residency at The Gypsy Lounge. The evening was great and we had the pleasure of meeting both Arrows and The Monthlies who played amazing sets.

Below are some photos from the 1400 miles crossed.

Utah-Super Bowl Sunday-searching for television

Arizona/Utah border-The most beautiful rest stop

Mike-nuff said

this is our friend Alex-our weekend tour manager-also likes to read-he is working on a short story about the trip-i will post it as soon as it is done

early morning-Andrew and Brittany from Imagine Dragons

Andrew's mom made us literally the best homemade pancakes and syrup we have ever had

!!!!!!!

We will be heading to Provo, Utah this Saturday February 6 to play a show with our good friends Imagine Dragons. We have never had the pleasure of spending anytime in Utah and to celebrate we have put together a very unique set with a couple of new arrangements that we are thrilled to be playing.

The rain here in Los Angeles seems to never end on days like this....it reminds us of the other coast, very strange. This winter has certainly proven itself worthy.

More blog blog soon- including a very special burrito recipe from Mike.

Fursday

Hows Beach

I'm in Love and can't help it......thank you NPR. Thank you Beach House for re-recording one of my favorite songs. I await you in the Desert in April.

Happy Duesday

Sly and The Family Stone are playing Coachella.....this is the best news I've heard in a while

Also the cool kids over at the Deli Magazine have included us in their 2009 readers poll and are strongly urging us to urge you to vote HERE.

Rain like this:

Happy Chewsday

Happy Chewsday

The ever so cool Keyvon over at Indienation and Glodenbloggen sent this over from our show at 3 Clubs. Enjoy!!!!

And in case you have never spent any time in Los Angeles in mid-January, the weather is the strangest most unpredictable weirdness ever, it seems to be the one time of the year where the buildings do not look like they are floating in sepia tone, it makes it very difficult for natives to recognize pictures of the city.

Hello New Decade

It is indeed 2010, or is it twenty-ten, or wait is it maybe two-thousand and ten....in any case the "best of lists" are over, cookies, champagne, drunk uncles, down time seem like things of the past and to celebrate all things celebratory coming to an abrupt end, we will be playing a FREE 21+ show tonight (yes it is nearly 2 in the morning and I am ferociously blogging) at 3 Clubs with Aushua and Cat Party. Our friends at Futuresounds put the whole evening together and we are thrilled to be included.

As for other things Chasing Kings the folks over at Campus Circle gave us and the ever so cool Sea Wolf a nice live review in their latest publication. We had an amazing time at the show and everyone in Sea Wolf could not be any more friendly. Thank you to everyone who showed up early we really appreciated it.



Campus Circle Live Review

Roxy Photos: Courtney Coles

This one below is a special tribute to Mike Gold as he was not included in the photos from The Roxy. Not only a cool hat but the coolest looking merch-booth worker of all time.

Decent(ember)

I apologize for the delay between posts. We have forgotten about our wonderful magnificent little blog here and would like to fully return it to its glory. I would also like everyone to know that your comments can now be seen by the entire world with little effort.....so novel.

We will also be playing in support

of Imaad Wasif and Sea Wolf

this Thursday December 17

at The Roxy. See you soon.

Tell a Friend.

-Matt

So Far.....So Far

more to come

On The Road....

First of all "On The Road" is a great book.

Second....we are going on the road with Dean himself.

kind of.

but we are going on the road.

dates soon.

Night.

K

CHASI

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First Friday

Played First Friday last night in Venice. Great time....here are some lovely photographs.

Taken by Tessa Neustadt

See you.

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Blog=cool.

Shows

9.23.09 Knitting Factory ALL AGES 7:15p.

9.28.09 Sandpiper 21+ 11:00p.

10.7.09 Dipiazza's ALL AGES 9:00p.

Many more to come.

CK

YES!

So we are trying to put together a little tour coming up soon. We will have dates and places for you up in a bit. Check out our E.P. on itunes "The Current State of Our Future" and follow us at twitter.com/chasing_kings

Love,

Kings Chasing

Link to itunes

http://tinyurl.com/la3em5

Click it to get to the wonderful itunes.

Cuddles,

CK

"The Current State of Our Future" On itunes and @ Amoeba Hollywood

Get our E.P. "The Current State of Our Future" on itunes and in store at Amoeba Music Hollywood. Artwork by Norton Wisdom and Tessa Neustadt.

Follow us on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/chasing_kings

YES!

CK

Apt. Search and Foreign Born

Hey whoever is reading this, 

We've just been looking for apartments recently, trying to get out of Malibu and into Hollywood/silverlake area. Last night we saw a great show, Foreign Born. It was great to see the type of show that reminds us why we do this. Those guys were awesome and apparently there Grizzly Bears new favorite band?? You should check them out.

Keep listening, 

Mike

Chasing Kings

Two new songs on our myspace.

Check out our new songs on www.myspace.com/therealchasingkings     We put up Dark Sunglasses and An Empty Handshake.  

We have a show at The Silverlake Lounge Wed. June 10th.  Come if you can.  Norton Wisdom will be performing with us and also check out Mr. Gnome and VLA.  Will be a good time.  21+

Clouds is a dog.

Oh Twitter Oh Twitter why dont you go and twit a picture

Take that twitter

Pictures from the show at Versai............

and also a flyer for the show at the Silverlake Lounge on Wed June 12

June Gloom

Eat Sriracha