Pretty predictable title i guess…Fridays show was pretty ace. Again playing AFTER the headline act which was kinda weird. The show was with Don Cavalli, this band from Italy and wow…man, the room was packed with greasy italians with quiffs….looking straight out of a James Dean film. After he finished, the room pretty much emptied out of the muscle shirt wearing, with sleeves rolled up (with cigarette packets tucked in) dudes and our friends and their friends and people we’d met around LA and some randoms cruised in. Was a nice little group of people that got to see a damn fine show.

The venue Echo Curio is a gallery, BYO, and really choice to play at. I’ll upload some photos soon…but its a really good option for your first visit to LA. The owner treats you well and its very easy to play and in the sweet part (echo park) of town. Over the Atlantic debuted live their track “Echo Park” at the show as well..and it was amazing..def one of my favourite live songs of the set. The neighbour of the dude we are staying with came to the show, and she loved it…I kept looking over at her and saw her biting her bottom lip, with eyes closed, swaying her head Stevie Wonder styles… man, I love LA!

PIC - Over the Atlantic at Echo Curio

I had my first real encounter with the “industry” I’ve come to hear about with a record label boss coming up to me at the show telling me how much he loved the band and he really wanted to hear more. He runs a pretty awesome label…so it was really nice to hear..and i think a testament to how crazy good live this band is….man, if only we can manage to get a show with some large audiences…

Matt (MC Stormtroopa) Schuerich whipped us up an illustration in a couple of hours that we got turned into a stamp… we picked up some white cardboard CD wallets yesterday and are stamping them up and adding some subtle colour with coloring in pencils for a special tour only EP..featuring a couple of new songs, and a couple of tracks left of the US/UK release of “Junica”.

Seeing No Age and Mika Miko at the Public Library tomorrow and then heading up to Death Valley…excited.

Nik also did a photoshoot for his Psychic Powers project which is with LA based Alejandro Cohen, they are really amazing: www.myspace.com/psychicpowers and a 7″ on a rad US label coming out soon. Check out “Frozen”, I used an alternate version on one of the A LOW HUM singles club discs…but yeah, check the version on their myspace page.