check this out–After load in and soundcheck at Andy’s Bar in Denton last night, Sideshow Tragedy settled in at the bar to await set time, and I grabbed a Dallas Observer (the local alt weekly) to see if the paper wrote anything nice (or shitty) about us…as I perused the paper, my eyes passed over an ad for the Cavern, and there in big bold letters, it said:

friday June 19
THE SIDESHOW TRAGEDY

I called the club to see if it was a misprint; it wasn’t. I called our agent to see if they booked it and forgot; they didn’t. Hillwolf checked his computer phone to see if there was in existence another band called Sideshow Tragedy; there isn’t. We have no idea how this happened, and I was worried that somehow this was going to reflect negatively upon us, and then the Wolf said: “You know, we’re not scheduled to go on until 12:45, and we’ll be finished in Denton by 11:30…we could feasibly make it.” Eureka! I thought. This plan was crazy and awesome, so we did it: played in Denton, kissed everyone goodbye, loaded up Brenda (intrepid rocknroll mobile par excellence), and drove to Dallas. We rolled up to the Cavern at 12:15, tossed the gear on the stage, and played another set for an unsuspecting and totally surprised audience…thanks for the extra gig Cavern! Tonight we play at City Tavern in Dallas (this show was planned), should be a great time, more later folks…

Howdy kids,
Damn–80 or so shows so far this year, San francisco to NYC, Portland, Oregon to Atlanta, Georgia, all before the first day of Summer–The U.S. is enormous, and we’ve rocked proper across the whole damn thing–and we’re gonna do it again before the year’s up…Right now, Summer is upon us, and we’ll be visiting towns in and close to our native state that have been neglected as of late…last weekend’s shows in TXKNA and Tyler were a blast, and we’ll see you all again before August is up. This weekend we return to Denton and Dallas, before a nice big fat hour plus show at momo’s next weekend–can’t wait to see you guys~

Jun 19 8PM Andy’s Bar Denton, Texas
Jun 20 10PM City Tavern Dallas, Texas
Jun 27 Midnite Momo’s Austin, Texas

Always check the myspace page for most recent tour updates, lots more shows to be announced this Summer, towns we ain’t been to in a while, and the unveiling of some pretty sweet new merch is in the works, as well as some long overdue Bling being added to this here website…stay tuned folks, leave you with some photos from our last tour, see you on the road~

this is the street sign for the alley way that the Ferlinghetti quote from earlier in the post is in...it's on the ground, in between Cafe Vesuvio and City Lights Books.

For my money, the Pacific Coast north of Santa Barbara and South of Santa Cruz is the most beautiful part of the United States.

These are some pictures from the West Coast tour so far. Wish you were here.