Mark your calendars! Venue info and tickets: The Outpost
There’s a brief playlist with a selection of songs from the bands on the bill over on Spotify. It includes only the bands with songs on Spotify!
The flyer for the show is above. The original collage is below. A few other flyers folks have made are below too and one of them also features one of my collages!
I’m really excited about this show. Friends are coming in to play, which is always fun, and the venue is an outdoor stage by the river in West Asheville. This promises to be a magical night!
TBH, I wasn’t really looking to book shows and was planning to lay low for a while after my recent two-week run at the mall, but here’s what happened: I sent copies of Candy Macabre to a few people whose music I admire. Not many, maybe six total. I didn’t have a purpose in sending the records, except to share the album with some of the people who, through their example, helped make me feel like I could/should make/release an album. One of those people was Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo fame. To my great surprise and delight, Robert wrote me, said kind things about the album, and asked if I could help an Athens band called Organically Programmed play in Asheville.1 Of course!
Then I learned that the band included another luminary (to whom I had also sent my album), John Fernandes, who runs Cloud Recordings, and has played in more bands I love than I could list, but who I first became familiar with through his work with the Olivia Tremor Control—an all-time favorite band of mine. (Soon I’ll write a little essay on Olivia and share some show pictures I have of them playing long ago.) Plus, I’m loving OP can’t wait to see them play!
So I set to work finding a venue, and I recruited my friend Kyle, whose new band is called ANTHMZ and whose old band is MammaBear. We were trying to get the full ANTHMZ band here from Atlanta, but, you know, scheduling! Kyle’s solo sets are delightful, so this will be great. He was kind enough to play in my mall pop-up shop a couple months back, and I can’t wait to play with him again. I also drafted my pals Jill and Colin who perform as Mountain Medicine. Oliver, the leader of Organically Programmed, pulled in come, and there you have it!
Flyer by Jill of Mountain Medicine, featuring a collage by me
Flyer by Sam of come
Typically when a band is starting out, you depend on bands in other towns to put you on bills in their town. Then hopefully there’s some reciprocation, and you get to play in their town at some point.