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 We're playing at 11pm Monday July 12 here Well we just accepted a show at the venerable Viper Room and we’ll have a free unlimited guest list so come on out, y’all! Hit us for a spot on the list here: misternervous@gmail.com We’ll be on at 11pm. ..Awww, c’mon, you can do it! earlier bands that night include: Non Ultra Joy at 10pm, No Tomorrow at 9pm, Kiss and Tell at 8pm  I stood where she'd written our names in the wet cement of the sidewalk OK guys I’ve finally conquered my technophobe luddite attitude long enuff to put half the DRAMA album up here for your listening pleasure. The player is to your left there… Not only that but now you can download the song BLUE DAY absolutely FREE. Of course if you wanted to help Mister Nervous thru the lean times you could buy the album on CD or as an mp3 album… again both options right there on your left. Or maybe you just wanna look like the coolest one in your crowd… then you’d wanna stop putting off getting that Mister Nervous t-shirt, hoodie, go-cup, mousepad, automobile and McMansion you’ve been patiently waiting to purchase. Heaven only knows how you’ve survived so long without this stuff. Link to your right… — END PLUG —  Please bear with us transmission will resume soon Lurching forward in fits and starts the LA FOLDAWAYS are preparing a love assault on your rockNroll sensibilities. The super-secret rehearsals between Wes and the members of some of LA’s finest musical ensambles have seen the band roaring through stuff by Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, T Rex, Bowie, Berry etc etc. We do not aim to be a tribute, classic-rock, oldies, or jukebox band… heavens no. We’re gonna play good songs without any pretense at duplicating other peoples performances or providing any canned crapola retro pseudo-spectacle. Nah, we’re gonna play these songs for the pure hell of it, cause we love this stuff. So now that you’re all salivating with glee and anxiously awaiting the raucous roll-out of this irresistible experience you’ll wanna “stay tuned to this channel” for furthur (sic) updates on the progress of this pandemonium packed project. Jus’ sayin…  Testing 123  Spirit Vine (photo by Karri Bowman) SPIRIT VINE conjures a retro-future where folks still read The Doors of Perception, seek enlightenment in shaman directed spiritual sweat-lodges and go Bathing at Baxters. They’re bringing their reverb drenched tribal love rock to Spaceland Thursday May 6 along with Roughed Up Folk – My Pet Saddle – and members of Dios performing as Special K & Flying J (who will be performing songs from an upcoming Beck covers album). Spirit Vine’s GOLDEN ep has been getting some well-reviewed attention, and the band is working on a full length album while weathering some changes. I had a chance to interview their dynamic lead vocalist Jacquelinne and here without furthur comment is our conversation: WES (Mister Nervous): You guys have come a long way as a band since I first saw you at 14 Below, but right away I was impressed with the message you were trying to get across in the music and words. Could you try to describe the intention, the message that drives your music? Jacquelinne (Spirit Vine) Anything that inspires, helps people grow, transforms, pulsates, makes people imagine…I am really into cycles right now…death and rebirth, moving out of the past and keeping your intentions as honest as possible. WES: Your recent GOLDEN ep has been getting some very positive write-ups online lately and you’re still recording new stuff. Are you planning to release a full cd in the future? Jacquelinne: Hell yeah! We are in the midst of writing it right now….so amazing to see how the sound evolves…like watching a baby grow in front of your eyes….the process will be a little different too….we used to record in a back house/Wooden Ship in Echo Park…now we have graduated to Kelly’s farm in Silverlake…we will also be in good hands with Anthony Caruso who will be recording this record…everything else is a secret
The LA FOLDAWAYS are finally entering intense rehearsals in May. A side project from the Mister Nervous band, Wes and a dedicated crew of misfits will be pulling together a repertoire of “classic” rockNroll including numbers from The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Van Morrison, Shocking Blue (!), The Who… and more stuff including some interesting takes on old blues and RnB songs. A core trio is working as the lynchpin – and a large pool of singers and players will rotate as the “front” or songleaders in many performances. Not quite a tribute, “Classic Rock” or jam band – more a combination of all three. Shows will often feature completely different band line-ups, as available players will work in different combinations making each show completely unique. The LA Foldaways mission: to treat many of our favorite vintage songs as vibrant living things to be joyously jammed (as opposed to reverently copied). We’ll let you know more soon.  Every Tuesday at the Airliner is a different theme, like the 60s night here This Tuesday’s event at the Airliner is GO FOLK YOURSELF and features Pierre de Reeder (of Rilo Kiley), Pete Covington (from New South Wales, Australia), Homesick Elephant and Mister Nervous (hey that’s us, we’re opening up this weeks show at 8pm with a bang… well we can get kinda loud…) and 6 other musical artists. With 2 (or more) stages running at the same time wandering through the large funky building allows you to check out many different artists in a single evening. I had a chance to interview Vince Munoz, he’s the guy who puts these Tuesday things together, so instead of me raving away let’s see what the man who makes it all happen has to say. “Every Tuesday I do is a different monthly event”, says Munoz,” For example the first Tuesday of every month I do an indie-electronic event (Tektonik LA). Every 4th Tuesday we’ve just started doing a ’60s night. We normally have DJs spinning ’60s soul, mod, motown, etc. downstairs, while upstairs we’ve been getting some really good local acts covering different bands from the ’60s.” “The fact that my job is getting to listen to good bands is very cool. With Go Folk Yourself what we want to do is turn the venue into more of an experience. We want the event to be a place where artists, musicians and vendors can network and get their name out. The goal is to get really good acts that not only make the show strong and fun but also we want to give them an opportunity to come back every month and build their fans. We’ve been getting vendors and artists to setup their products, paintings, sculptures etc. in our back patio.” “The plan for all of our events is to branch out to a bigger community”, Vince stresses,” we want to do more than just be another show with a bunch of bands.”
GO FOLK YOURSELF APRIL 13th 2010 – 8pm THE AIRLINER 2419 N. Broadway Los Angeles CA 90031 - WES D (hit the link below and read my complete interview with Vince!)  Mister Nervous played Blue Day with Ben Fordham on violin at the DRAMA cd release party last week We had a great time jamming with our friends last week at the Unknown Theater where we released our new CD Drama. Almost everyone who sang or played on the record was able to come out and make that big sound come alive. Lydee from the Sundowners sent along some pix that we’ll put up in the images area, Thanx Lydee! We’ll be playing more shows with the Sundowners this year, Dennis has already set one up for June at The Old Towne Pub in Pasadena, and we’re grateful for that because we love playing with those guys! In fact: I want to thank everyone who made it out to the show last Thursday for their support. Now just in case you were one of those unfortunates who managed to miss out on that show here’s your next opportunity to rectify that terrible error (AH-HA-hahaha) ’cause we’re playing at the Silver Factory Studios this SUNDAY 3/28. We’ll have our friends Rocking Horse People and Megasapien with us so if you didn’t catch their recent performances at Echo Curio and the Unknown … well then you gotta complete win/win/win situation on hand here! SUNDAY MARCH 28th  Silver Factory Studios 3/28/2010 SILVER FACTORY STUDIOS  The Sundowners do what they please There’s nothing quite like a SUNDOWNERS show. The songs this band plays are completely their own and influenced (as lead singer and guitarist Dennis Stahl says) by,”…all the good shit from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. This is not a contrived sound for the masses, it’s a heavy psychedelic, spiritual blues sound:100% organic and designed to open the mind. There are a lot of acts out there, yes, but only a few bands. What this means is three guys and a lady who play together and off of each other. We don’t cater to any particular audience, just those interested in good rock and roll from every era.” From the hills of Alta Dena where the air is justa little clearer and the altitude justa little higher their music will probably remind you of a lot of things but it’ll never sound even slightly derivative. And live the band projects an atmosphere of affection and whimsy that makes it feel like you’ve been invited into a happy house-party with your new favorite slightly bent friends.  Michael Harpel and Dennis Stahl On SKELETONIZE , their second album, the songs pull from an even wider landscape of sounds and moods than on their sprawling two disc debut cd. Just when you think you know where the journey is headed the band’ll switch it up and take you to some new unexpectedly wonderful place…as Dennis recently remarked “we’ll do uptempo and downtempo in the same song”. This flies in the face of the current trend of easily pigeonholed cookie-cutter compositions many groups use to try to zero-in on their currently chosen demographic target, which naturally makes this unaffected take-us-as-we-are crew very near and dear to Mister Nervous’ heart. And so we are pleased beyond words to say the Sundowners are opening up our Mister Nervous record release party this Thursday!  The Sundowners love you and they're your new best friends! THURSDAY MARCH 18th THE UNKNOWN THEATER (with MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS and MISTER NERVOUS) Doors open at 10pm  My Imaginary Friends are playing a rare midnight set at the DRAMA release party Thursday The record company suits might call My Imaginary Friends alternative country rock, but you’ll call ‘em irresistible. Erin Armstrong writes songs that sound like your best friend is just plain talkin’ to ya… except you’re surrounded by a soundscape as real and familiar as your favorite streach of sun-dappled country road. The band’s music folds pop, indie, country, jazz and rock elements into a completely original mix that always feels like the real deal. If these songs don’t immediately get under your skin and into your heart then you and I got nothin’ to talk about. Erin and Ben Fordham (fiddle, mandolin, guitar) left Charleston, SC, and joined up in LA with Grant and Yohei. Their newest cd Blue Carolina is startin’ to cause a bit of a stir in Nashville as well. And why not? The record opens with Sue Thrasher an exhilarating rockabilly rush of blues harp and slide guitar. It’s a near mission-statement with Erin in full Carolina Firecracker mode (“Even Carolina is turnin’ blue; Darlin’ you don’t know nothin’ ’bout where I’m from”). Blue Carolina is an excellent representation of the band’s live energy, where even the most bittersweet songs in the set are delivered with such infectious bonhomie it often feels like half the audience is floatin a foot above the floor. These days the band has stepped back from the constant gigging they were doing for a while, so chances to catch this excellent band are not so frequent… but we’re very happy to say they’ll be with us on Thursday to help us launch the new Mister Nervous cd! Erin and Ben contributed vocals and violin to some tunes on DRAMA and they’ll be sittin’ in with us during the Mister Nervous set so come early and see 3 fantastic bands. THURSDAY MARCH 18th THE UNKNOWN THEATER (with THE SUNDOWNERS and MISTER NERVOUS) Doors open at 10pm We’re having a party to release our new cd DRAMA! We’ll be performing the album with special guest musicians ( our friends who helped make the music on DRAMA). Two of our favorite local bands are also on the bill: yes, MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS and THE SUNDOWNERS are playing too. Thursday 3/18 - Doors open at 10pm $10 at the door… awesome space, affordable drinks, great music! You’re coming, yeah? |
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