After much advertising on this and other web sites, we played at the Note this past Friday. Ben brought a camera.

This is Emily at Underdogg before the show. Less than five minutes after this picture was taken, she ate a corn dog.

This is a picture from our set. It was not taken during our cover of “Burnin’ for You.”

These are the Venom Lords. We love them because they know rock.

These are two and a half of the Melismatics. They are clearly quite apt at posing for candid photos.

This is Matt. He took the picture of us above. He also plays guitar in Yarn.

This Friday, we played at Ronny’s Bar. As the first show since the completion of “A Stepper’s Affair,” this loosely functioned as our record release show.

The evening was an unqualified success. Our new friends The Venom Lords were delightful on both a personal and musical level, The Whole Fantastic World stretched pop music to its limits, and the more than slightly charismatic power pop of The Singles closed the night with a fervor.

Our performance also went well. We played one new song (“The Davenport Special”) and closed with the five songs from “A Stepper’s Affair.” The audience was generous in both size and support, making it one of our most enjoyable sets to date.
Thanks to all who came out (particularly everyone who was seeing us for the first time) and the other three bands for making it such a fine evening.

For quite some time, Hay Perro superfan and Black Beach co-frontman Justin Sovereign has been encouraging us to book a show together at the Red Line Tap. Last night, that request was made a reality.

While not the most technically proficient show we’ve ever played, it was a great deal of fun. We debuted one new song (“Black Hat Preacher”) and added another cover song to the HP lore (Cheap Trick’s “Surrender.”) PVH seemed pretty into it.

Many thanks to everyone who disregarded the sub-zero temperatures and came out to join us. Thanks also to the Red Line Tap for being a cordial host and providing us with half-price dinners.

The perpetually cooperative Daniel Q. Julius took some pictures: