Nashville by EMILY After another epic seven hour drive, during which the much put-upon Bernadette ferries us across Iowa, Kentucky and Tennessee, we finally pull up in Nashville. Tonight’s venue is the Springwater Supper Club, a gloriously dilapidated dive bar encrusted with graffiti and smogged up with cigarette smoke. While the band aren’t universally enthused […]more…
tour diary :: Distant Correspondent > Entry #6
Columbus by MARGARET DARLING Hello again, it’s Margaret. I woke up in Chicago the morning following our Galerie F performance in a bean bag chair in a condo on the 18th floor of a really tall building with a super nice doorman in the Loop. My brother Jesse, who had traveled into town to catch […]more…
tour diary :: Distant Correspondent > Entry #5
IOWA CITY by Michael Lengel Iowa City. After miles and miles of cornfields, farmland and deserted gas stations through Nebraska and Iowa, this gorgeous college town is rather surprising. We rolled into town with a beautiful sunset, rowing teams practicing on the Iowa River, college folks ambling about, and a perfect fall evening. Iowa State […]more…
tour diary :: Distant Correspondent > Entry #4
On to Hastings, Nebraska! Perhaps not the most glamorous of spots to play our first out of town show! But a low-key gig is not the worst way to ease our way into this whole touring experience. Kind of like opening “off-off-Broadway,” right? The drive from Denver to Nebraska can only be described in monosyllabic […]more…