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Upcoming gig!

Shortwave Dahlia is back out and performing! New album is imminent!

Here’s the show details–If you’re in the area, make sure to come on down and enjoy an incredible show!

The Full Moon Club
1718 Madison Ave
Memphis, TN
With Clouded Son and Black Max.
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 9:00pm

If you can’t make the gig, check out the merch!
Cat Room Records Merchandise

Now that the album is in it’s final stages, stay tuned for order information, track listings and maybe the occasional taster!

Directly from the proverbial horse’s mouth, and by horse I mean JACK!

“Okay, so here’s how this is going to work.

The Wilderness is expected to be rolling out in August or September.  A pre-order price of $10.00 gets you:

1. A compact disc of the album (remember those things?  shiny platters of digitally coded music?)
2. A selection in the weeks before the album’s release of downloadable practice sessions, in which we roll through the new tunes as well as some old favorites.
3. Inclusion on a special e-mail list with which we give you news on the album’s development.
4. Last but not least, your very own shortwavedahlia.org e-mail address!  Now your spam has somewhere new to go!

PayPal your money over to shortwavedahlia@yahoo.com OR to send it by snail mail, contact Jack at jack@shortwavedahlia.org for the mailing address.
So what do you say?  Ready for the next phase of Shortwave Dahlia?”

Per Jack!

http://popsballot.memphisflyer.com/

Please do a write-in vote for “Shortwave Dahlia”. It would blow my mind to see us actually get written up as an honorable mention.

So get over there and do the Shorty D write-in!

We got together for the first time this year last night. First and foremost, we knew we needed to take some photographs (kinda makes it seem more official that we’re a quartet, plus it was long-needed anyway) so we went outside and, with a flash and the lawn security light to guide us we became immortalized in pixels.

After that, we went inside and pulled up something Ethan had sent over a while back…made ourselves acquainted to it—lots of great variations in the drums and some melodic elements that we instantly endeared to. Threw about a couple extra chord changes and had a good laugh about the chorus…hopefully next week we’ll give it a bit of structure and voila! A new song!

Had a look at the photos as practice concluded, ended up with about five keepers and one really fantastic one of Dana (that I can say with absolute certainty makes her cringe). Fun times…

Love and gourami,
J

So one New Years Eve, many years ago, I was with a group of good friends.  As the clock chimed 12, I felt something needed to be said.  “May you all live in interesting times” I said, not realizing then that this was, apparently, an ancient Chinese curse.  One of those good friends spent most of that year cursing me.

 Cut to a year later.  The friend mentioned above is at another New Year’s party in another state - one of those loud and crowded affairs.  He happened to be near the stage as those midnight toasts / wishes were going around and, through some irresistable urge, grabbed the mic and wished the entire crowd an interesting year.  As he tells it, the room fell into a perplexed silence, except for one irage voice that shouted back “You !!!!”

 So if you happened to find yourself at a party this New Year’s where someone was paying this particular one forward, watch out - it could be a wild year.

 For my part, I am looking forward to this one.  The band has our first album (with this configuration) on the horizon and there are some interesting changes in the old personal life as well.  Even the day job is looking up… well, later than sooner, but still this year.

 So with that, here is hoping that at least this year does not bore you to death