at this very moment is Tweating our asses off. Why? Because we have a show TOMORROW and we have been too busy working on our new record to think about things like playing shows but now we are thinking about it and we are really excited. This post is going to be a smorgasbord of stuff great and small. We have a bunch of news to share. Man this social networking this is a bunch of work and trying to let everyone know what we are doing “right now” is kinda impossible since we ourselves don’t know but follow us on Twitter to see how it goes.
The Prids Benefit Record Dots To Connect
is released and available at
Amazon.com
Featuring the best of The Prids’ music performed by:
The Upsidedown, A Place To Bury Strangers,
The Green Circles, Charmparticles, Hearts Fail,
and many more great bands.
All who love and have been influenced by their music.
Sales of the record will help with medical expenses
incurred after their 2008 van accident while on tour.
Much love to The Prids!
Click the record to get it now!
Ok so we had a blast at SXSW. We played lots of shows, got a bunch of new fans that said we were the coolest show at SXSW which makes all of the trouble seem totally worth it. Speaking of trouble… We are now snowbound in Wyoming and SteveVan is sick. Hopefully just a little altitude sickness. Waiting for the mechanic so we should know soon. We are not going to be able to make our show at Salt Lake at the Urban Lounge and we are sad about that but we just got news that we were mentioned on wired.com so that is warming our hearts some.
The last show Matt was finally able to unleash the pyrotechnics he has had up his sleeve and the crowd loved it. He can’t wait to play another outdoor show now. Umm that is all for now… The mechanic is ready up see Steve. Bye.
This is our favorite place to play/stay.. This historic hotel is such a treat because the sound is good the people are friendly and you can just go upstairs to your room when the show is over which probably won’t happen but it is nice to know there is a cozy bed just up the steps.
Hey the Wordpress for iPhone just worked great so hopefully we can write and post pictures from the road now.
Below are some pictures I took durring our soundcheck.
Not sure of all the bands playing tonight but the first one has like 14 some odd people in it. I bet they are good but not as odd as us.
We are now near El Centro and are moving freely along the Great Wall of Mexico. Next stop Tucson, Arizona. We commenced the rock and roll circus western tour with Spindrift on Wednesday. It began with a very fun show in LA at The Redwood “bar,” more accurately the Redwood “Shanty.” A pirate themed place which went well with Spindrift’s new nautical themed video backdrop (which by the way is enthralling) AND there were real pirates walking around AND 10,000 Leagues Under The Sea meets Six Degrees of Separation from Portland, so many of our friends were in town. It’s a wonder someone didn’t drown.
There was a nice review posted on loudvine.com about this show. It’s recent. Just look for The Upsidedown!
Speaking of technology and trying to figure stuff out, we just got on Twitter so you can now join us on tour! For a play-by-play on twitter.com/theupsidedown you can join in on the fun, tell your friends and give us pointers. We also just got Wordpress for the iPhone which we are testing at the moment.
Props to Lee Cohen/The Dandy Warhols for freaking out on us for not blogging and tweeting enough! We have big plans and all of our woofers and tweeters aligned for magic Lee. Set the sails
OK so Wordpress for the iPhone (for fan/nerds). Truth be told Sara Jane just transcribed this from my iPhone because it didn’t post. I DID get that photo above to post but when I tried to repost it hated it. Kept getting the error message “wrong id yadda” but I bet it is just another little wordpress quirk to figure out. I am going to back this up just in case the phone app screws it up again. More later on that rock nerds so stay tuned.
Got to nap before rocking the Hotel Congress tonight in Tucson. Legendary.
This is Matt by the way signing out. - Jason wrote the first part on my phone until he started getting car sick then I wrote the rest and Sarah Jane transcribed it and tried to change my name to “Patty” but luckily I caught it. They think it is funny to call me Patty today.
