Monthly Archives: March 2010

Blue Giant April Residency

I’m typing this from a back storage closet in Iowa City. We’re playing tonight, but wanted to shoot you an update about April before time slipped by.
We’re excited to announce we’ll be playing a residency at Laurelthirst Pub in Portland. Every Wednesday in April we’ll be playing 2 hour sets (!!) during their happy hour [...]

Hotels, iPhones & the hunt for decent coffee.

Hey Folks,
We’re roughly 7/8ths done with this tour with The Fruit Bats. It’s been pretty epic. Night after night of amazing sets – can’t thank everyone enough for coming out to see us play, shaking hands, getting us sick.
It’s been something else.
Technically – this is the first Blue Giant tour ever & what a way [...]

Checkin’ in from Florida.

We’re nearing the halfway point of this tour. It’s going fantastic! Highlights so far – for me – are Chicago and Kentucky. They’ve all been killer, but these were standouts. Someone posted some pics from the Chicago show
…here.
So after tomorrow, we have two days off in Florida. I already fulfilled my boiled peanut fantasy. I [...]

Hello from somewhere.

So we’re knee deep in this thing. We’re already speaking our own language. At any point the phrases “cornbread stay put”, “hell strange” or “the devito clamp” are uttered, the whole place comes unglued.
The Fruit Bats are total sweethearts and crushers to boot. Making us bring our A game nightly. So far we all have [...]