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Silverlake Lounge Saturday at Six: Mister Nervous – Monthlies.

Wes — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:37:24 +0000

We’re gonna enjoy this one – so will you. THE MONTHLIES. are one of our favorite bands (& it’s kinda a family affair, if you will, as Kelly’s brother is the lead singer – but we love ‘em cause the songs are soooo good and the band’s a joy to experience).

Also it’s a celebration of a birthday among The Monthlies: the lovely and talented lead guitarist Jana.

Mister Nervous is up first at 6pm, yup REALLY SERIOUSLY 6pm. The Ross Sea Party is up at 7 and The Monthlies. at 8. It’s all over by 9pm allowing you to continue the party elsewhere nourished by good songs and great people. The new Mister Nervous song CRYSTAL GIRL has been a hit with audiences every time we play it – we’ll be recording this one soon. Naturally we’ll have copies of the DRAMA cd available… we’re gonna give some stuff away too.

MONTHLIES. lead singer and songwriter Wes O’Lee has also embarked on a very ambitious project: writing, recording and posting a new song every day in 2011. It’s almost disturbing how prolific he can be – writing so many good songs. It’s enuff to make Mister Nervous full of jealous envy…(well, Wes D anyway).

…and so in the venerable (haha) misternervous.com tradition of supporting stuff that is totally awesome (even if WE didn’t MAKE it ourselves) we present here the first two posts in the WES O’LEE – A SONG A DAY 2011 project:

OK: this first one here is also a family affair: Kelly plays drums and sings back-up along with his gorgeous gal Jana… and Monthlies. bassist Chris Hall notes:”I need to tag my bass from 8th grade in this sucka!”.

and heeeere’s song #2
(‘scuse me for a minnit… I think I got sumpin’ in my eye…)

MISTER NERVOUS – THE ROSS SEA PARTY – THE MONTHLIES.
SATURDAY JANUARY 8th @ 6pm
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE
2906 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 663-9636

Black Friday with Old Californio

Wes — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:03:35 +0000

The Sundowners and Mister Nervous at the Old Towne Pub

Old Californio: music that could have only been created in Southern California? (photo by Roman Cho)

Is it currently OK to mention New Riders of the Purple Sage, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Spirit or The Grateful Dead in polite conversations about WestCoast music and still seem reasonably cool? Like I care. These OLD CALIFORNIO guys have that 1970 thing going, fer sure, but with their own updates and personal flavor. The band rocks with the mild mannered authority and breezy casualness that can turn a stage into a back porch. I defy you to listen to some of the tunes on their playlist there (Mother Road f’rinstance) without getting that desert vista/top down/cruisin’ in the sunshine feeling.

"Indignant playing and spirited drinking" (photo by Didier Chevalier)

2009's Westering Again

OLD CALIFORNIO: Westering Again

What we’re talking about here are really great songs (remember those?). There’s no real dross or dead weight on this ambitious work. It’s a melodically complex and accomplished effort, hard set with a blast-furnace production that reveals the considerable talents of the band’s membership.

What we’re talking about here is bright guitar-driven melodies with complicated and earthy arrangements, mixed in with a little down-home country twang and dovetailing instrumental jams, providing ample evidence that they also have a tacit understanding of what made those great classic rock outfits of yore so exhilarating and memorable in the first place. -Bryan Thomas, February 2009

OK THEN: So by now it’s pretty clear we’re lookin’ forward to sharing the Old Towne Tavern stage with these fellas and our good friends THE SUNDOWNERS (about whom I’ve often expressed my admiration: HERE for example)

We had a great time introducing new song CRYSTAL GIRL at the Airliner show so we’re natch-er-ly gonna be doin that again along with some selections from DRAMA an all… we’re up first @ 9pm followed by the prides of Pasadena N Alta Dena and summa the nicer folks you’ll ever meet. You should probably come…

Strike that if yer NOT comin what’s WRONG with you?

Nah, just kiddin…

Come anyway.

FRIDAY NOV 26th

Mr. Nervous 9:00
Old Californio 10:30
The Sundowners 12:00

Old Towne Pub
66 N. Fair Oaks
Pasadena, CA 91103
Enter through the alley on Holly Street
21+ - $5.00

Good Hurt Wednesday

Wes — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:23:30 +0000

Mister Nervous plays the GOOD HURT on Wednesday October 6th @ 11pm. We don’t play the westside very often so here’s your chance (especially if you’re one of those “never east of Bundy” type of people). Our shows at the Viper Room, Bordello and Cranes Tavern rocked pretty damn hard and confidence is high for a kickass set over at the Good Hurt. Contact us to get on the FREE list and save yourself the door-charge ( misternervous@gmail.com or over at FACEBOOK) !!!!

We’ll be playing the DRAMA cd in full so if you haven’t seen us do it live here’s your chance (we may be pulling out a surprise or 2… we’ll see… ). Pick up the cd from us (if you haven’t already done that) or get a cool Mister Nervous t-shirt at the show.
We’ll be adding more new stuff to our shows this fall: Wes has new songs that he’s anxious to get up on the boards.
THE GOOD HURT
12249 Venice Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90066
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 6 2010
11pm 21+
FREE
(if you contact us to get on the list)

The Sundowners play the Unknown Theater

Wes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:48:41 +0000

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
1110 Seward St.
Los Angeles CA 90038

(with MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS and MISTER NERVOUS)

Doors open at 10pm
$10 at the door (however: drinks are very reasonable!)

UNKNOWN THEATER 3/18

Wes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:21:48 +0000

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.
We’ll be at THE UNKNOWN THEATER 1110 Seward St – Los Angeles CA 90038

Thursday 3/18 - Doors open at 10pm

$10 at the door… awesome space, affordable drinks, great music!

You’re coming, yeah?