Wednesday, April 1, 2009

hello old friend

so justin is giving me grief about updating this even though HE CAN UPDATE IT TOOO. actually all of the members of the band can update this, but they either dont know this or quickly forgot after i told them. i like to write, but i have to be in the mood to do so or atleast there has to be something worth writing about. neither has really happened for me even though i havent really been doing much of anything seeing as how ive been unemployed for the past month, whoo!

anyway, enough about me since this isnt a blog about me

the band has been up to a lot since my last post. we went on a six day tour, three of which were with suis la lune out of sweden, a band that we all love and admire and one that you should listen to ASAP if you havent heard of them already. the tour was so much fun. it was weird not having oedipus. around but we got in some quality band time and hung out with some friends along the way. we also met a lot of really great people this time out. each show was different and we seemed to have gotten a really positive response from the crowds at each along with some of the bands we played with. we all really wanted it to last longer and are looking forward to tour again in the summer.

right before our first show in philly we picked up our ALBUM! it is finally finished and available for sale on our myspace and at shows. since we've been back we have gotten a lot of great feedback from the album all of which has been completely flattering. we started this band with very humble and small expectations and it has grown into something bigger than i think we all originally anticipated it to be.

we played two garage shows the weekend we got back so we didnt really have a whole lot of time to unwind. we took a week off after that and came back together for practice yesterday.

as it stands now, we still have quite a bit going on. we finished writing our tenth song, "from the top of my heart", right before tour and have been playing it ever since. we are really happy with the direction that this song has taken us and look forward to writing more.

next monday, april 6th, we have a show at the sidebar with the blue letter from richmond, virgina along with our good friends in the bands octaves and recently reformed all the oceans.

we're almost sold out of the first pressing of "open up finders, please" and are awaiting the next pressing as we speak. our friend robbie recently started a tape label, tall cedar tapes, and is working with us to release the album on tape which we should be receiving soon as well.

as far as the future goes...we're probably going to take a break from shows and focus on writing. we all feel like this is the next obvious step for us and are so motivated from the response of our first release to focus our energies on writing our next release.

just like pretty much every band nationwide, we will be hitting the road this summer on a two part tour: 10 days in both july and aug. dates havent been confirmed yet and we're still planning our route but if you think you could help us out with a show drop us an email at agesixteenband@gmail.com.

i think i pretty much covered everything i wanted to...oh, we're also working on new merch and a website

bye for now