For those of you lucky enough to be in the area!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Memphis Roller Derby at the Mid-South Fairgrounds
Shortwave Dahlia will perform at Halftime!!!
Memphis Roller Derby Gig!
March 9th, 2009A story
December 8th, 2007Once upon a time, I knew a guy named Hart Littlejohn. He was in this band, The American Tenants, who played the Map Room and crashed at our bungalow post-gig. Caught him nicking some green tea out of the pantry the next morning but we ended up friends. He sent me records, I reviewed them. He added “well” to his Hart and another “A” to “American”. “Aamerican”. What the hell?
Well, wife and I saw him again in 2003, before we had a kid…got him a gig with the Monsieur (Jeff Evans). I think it was 2003. He was headed out to LA. That didn’t work out and he ended up in Nashville last time I heard. The man was fantastic. Every once in a while, that conceited bastard artist ego came out of him, but most of the time we talked about stuff like how great the original Star Trek was, and our mutual love for Tom Petty. Yeah, bet you never saw that coming from me.
I was thinking about Hart(well) tonight. Thinking he might be proud of me for actually getting a band together. He’d get a kick out of us playing on a bill with burlesque at the best place in town–to think of it, how in the hell did that happen anyway? That’s the fraidy cat in me, knowing we’ll be bumping elbows with the garage rock crowd doing music that couldn’t be more left of that particular center…well, it could be Yanni…still, you know what I mean.
I’m gonna look him up somehow.
Warren Ellis Likes Us!
November 2nd, 2007From the mouth of Jack!
In his own description:
“‘Song For Vara,’ the longest song on the ‘cast, reminds me of many things. For me, it’s an alchemy of autumn nights spent by the radio in the 80s, poured out as postrock.”
Excuse me, I think I just soiled myself. For those of you with clean underpants, download the podcast at http://warrenellis.com
Not Dead Yet write up on “Song for Vara”!
November 2nd, 2007Interesting…a fantastic write-up!
Amie Street Revisited
October 29th, 2007Jack has reopened the Amie Street page, and has uploaded the Loose Arrow Single there.
Here’s the direct link to the page:
http://amiestreet.com/shortwavedahlia
Go and download some tracks if you were unable to purchase the Single when it was available.
November show at Neil’s!
October 25th, 2007Don’t forget, we’ll be at Neil’s Saturday, November 10th, with J.D. Reager & the Cold Blooded Three AND Ginsu Wives.
The cover is $5 as usual and the show starts at 10:00 PM!
New And Shiny Forum!
October 25th, 2007Just as an FYI, the new Shortwave Dahlia Forum is open for business!
I’ve added the link to the links list above (If you’re viewing this at the community) or, if you’re reading this on your friends list, you can click on the link below:
http://shortwavedahlia.org/forum/index.php
Come on over and join the discussion! OR, seeing as it’s just opened, START a conversation. The band will be answering any questions you have, or you can just swing by and discuss music.
There will be more updates and more frequent posts as we get closer to the album release.
Music Nation
October 11th, 2007Shortwave Dahlia have created an entry at Musicnation.com.
Click on the below link to see their page and from there you can vote for them, check out photos in the gallery or listen to tracks.
http://shortwavedahlia.musicnation.com/
Come over and support the band!
Now we are four
October 4th, 2007…which means we can call the corners, right?
Ahem. The latest addition (and what seems to be an annual tradition now) to the band is vocalist and keyboardist Dana Paisley. As far as I know, this is her first band.
Those of you in attendance at our September 21st gig are probably not the least bit surprised–she joined us onstage for a Depeche Mode cover (”It’s No Good”) and was incredible. What started out as a guest appearance has turned into a full-time thing! We have rehearsed a couple other tunes with her for the show Saturday night and are excited to widen the sound of the band.
PSA from Jack
September 5th, 2007Hey everybody!
I’m sitting here at work, getting all fired up listening to Killing Joke (whom I discovered in the Eighties thanks to—get this—Metallica…I have metal roots in spite of a lack of hair) and I’ve got something to say. Something reasonable? I hope so.
There is a glut of independent music, and it’s hard to stand out (harder than ever with the advent of digital publicity). With as much stuff as is out there, it’s easy to get so numbed out that you gloss over all of it. Us included.
So it’s time to get you all involved. I loathe the term “street team” – how major label of me – but I think we need one. We need you talking about us, whether it’s here, in your LJs, out there in the world wide wank…urm, web rather…and I think there are lots of ways to do it that we just need to capitalize on, and we can’t do it alone.
If you want graphics, banners, buttons, user icons, anything SD, post here. Tell us what you’d like and one of us is bound to be able to help. You want songs that you can share with other people? You want to interview one or all of us for your blog? Cool. You don’t even have to limit your activity to LJ. We have a Yahoo! Group as well. Hell, I think we have several groups on different sites (I lose track). Invite people to have a look/listen. You know what? Post here anyway. It’s not an announcement group—it’s a community! I don’t care if it’s to tell us how much you can’t stand “Call and Response”.
Show up to the shows. Leave the venues we book at with a distinct impression that we are worth having on their stages…they look at how much alcohol they sell and how many potential beerdrinkers walk through that door and pay the cover. It sounds cutthroat, and it honestly IS. But that’s what they’re watching out for, and if a band doesn’t deliver the people, they find themselves running out of venues to play.
I guess I’m fired up in part because of this: this band means more to me than ANY other musical venture I’ve ever been on (and I’ve been in several). Whether we should or not, we take the music we make very seriously and we consider playing it for you to be very sacred. On top of that, we have an incredible and loyal bunch of friends who do a fantastic job spreading the “gospel”.
Let’s get out there and make Shortwave Dahlia completely unavoidable.
xoxo
Jack
