loggin daze .03

We are here hanging out in Atlanta at our good friend Micheal Holler's awesome house with his adorable dogs.

Tuscaloosa was a surprising good time. We got there pretty early so we walked down the University of Alabama campus and strolled down greek row to see how the other half lives. Interesting sidenote, new bingo halls qualify as front page news in Tuscaloosa. We played at Egans which is an awesome dive bar covered in old photos and flyers. Bands we played with
TEEN GETAWAY awesome indie rock. obviously very in love with the Pixies and vocals that could tie in a race with that chick from Pretty Girls Make Graves.
FORTY LASHES self proclaimed ska band that may or may not have Christian connotations (we never asked). In actuality, they sounded closer to RX Bandits.

Stuck around and found a place to stay with Spin, the drummer for Teen Getaway who lives just an hour away in Birmingham. However, a long night of fun times and free Buds turned it into closer to 2. The next morning, stopped off at Bottletree cafe for some awesome food. I had this vegan chili bean and rice burrito that was to die for. Seriously.

Made our way into Atlanta and got to the Drunken Unicorn. Found out that the Copyrights were not playing and instead we played with
THE VINYLS a great rock band who probably spends their free time listening to Exploding Hearts records and a singer who was a dead ringer for Steven who had this awesome growly blues voice. Very catchy stuff.
DOOMED YOUTH metal band of the Anthrax fraternity. Not my cup of tea, but at least they weren't boring. There's nothing worse than a boring metal band.
THE DAGGERS very very catchy powerpop full of hooks and cute bass walks with a kickass drummer who sang backup (I love when drummers sing back up and I love it even more when they do it well! ie. John Baldwin of Teenage Kicks infamy)

It was turning into a really fun show until a fight broke out at the end of the Daggers set. What happened exactly, I will not say but as Steven put it "cocaine is a hell of a drug." Unfortunately, it drove away the decent size crowd that was there leaving about 10 people for us to play to. But in all fairness, 10 people is a good size crowd in Houston and at least we weren't in 100 degree 100% humidity.
Atlanta, you are never boring.

I'm on a borrowed computer so no pictures today. Maybe tomorrow.

love. niki.7