In August Saysha and I went to a BBQ in the Bronx at the Crafty Records house where we met a ton of really really really awesome people, one of which is a singer/songwriter named Brook Pridemore, another of which is a guy named Dan who owns Crafty Records. When they asked us if we would be the band at their Card Shop show, we were honored!
If you haven't been to City Island in the Bronx I highly recommend it. It's like another world; I don't even like the water and I thought it was beautiful. Saysha and Andrew and I got there first (Saysha was freshly back from her yoga weekend, and by freshly back I mean she had been home for about an hour,) but we didn't want to be the first ones there so we went to the end of the street to check out the view for a while. When Ryan pulled up we decided to make our presence known.
Dan and Reina had prepared dinner for everyone. It was delicious! They really know how to entertain. Little did I know that the only people there were the performers, so I felt like an idiot when I had to ask Paul who he was. Sorry about that Paul...
Brook and I went to get John and met everybody at the venue, Dan scored us a gallery called The Card Shop to play in. It was beautiful with art on the walls, a couple of big couches and a bathroom. He brough the PA and some speakers and we geared up our amps. Everything was just so nice and chill. It reminded me of the coffee houses I used to go to in high school. The fun awesome ones where all the local bands play and everyone is just so happy and into it. That's pretty much exactly what it felt like to me.
We played with Ivan Sandmore, Paul Baribeau, and Brook himself, funny because everyone else had a guitar and that's it, and there we were with our drums and amps and ear plugs. Ha ha! It's fun being the loud ones. But seriously, thank you so much to everybody who came out and danced- especially that kid in front- dude, I don't know your name, but you're awesome! Thank you so much!
If you like singer/songwriters, you definitely have to check these guys out. Ivan has such a beautiful voice. Ethereal almost. Paul blew me away, I swear. I spent all day Monday listening to his CDs. Brook too. He has this incredible ability to command a crowd. When we saw him at the BBQ he came out in the center of a ring of punk rockers with a beat up acoustic guitar, I so thought it was going to be disastorous, and he blew me away. He's so good! He asked everybody to come up and dance with him so Saysha and I did and it was awesome. I was singing his song the whole way home.
Anyway, that's all. It was a really fun show, parties are my favorite. Speaking of which, we have another one coming up this Wednesday, September 26th at The Knitting Factory- it's Saysha's birthday party! Yay!!! Please come. It's going to be lots and lots of fun, I promise.
Until next time...
Set List:
-Without You
-This Happens
-Don't Look Back
-Falling Stars
-Try So Hard
-Consider Me Gone
-Guiltless
-Stuck In My Head
