and carl.

Well, since you bring it up, we’re just about finished with tracking the new album! Or maybe we will release it instead as two EP’s.. I dunno, we’re about to start mixing though so I guess we’ll see then. Things are goin’ great though buddy, thanks for asking!

Yo check it out, we recently played a few songs on Portland podcast Sessions From The Box:

Reverse Dotty

April 13th, 2010

Reverse Dotty is a newer band. I promise. You’d be excused if you thought that they were part of the pantheon of classic post punk bands that spazzily worm their way into your heart, mind, and booty. Dig more of their vibe at www.reversedotty.com or www.myspace.com/reversedotty.

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As you can see below, our sound has changed somewhat. We’ve been listening exclusively to black metal these past few weeks and it is hoped that the Reverse Dotty legion will embrace this new direction.

"BRING TO ME HER BLOOD THUS THE CARRION CHILD SURVIVE"

The show was fantastic, thanks a milli to everyone who came to see us! The new songs all went over really well — even though every song was brand new, we barely messed up at all. Surprised myself even. And guess what; we’ve already got two more in the oven for the next show.

We spent so long getting the album all tracked and mixed and everything that having some new material was WAY overdue and It feels super great to be creating again.

yay…

er, I mean..
YAAAAYYY!!!!!! 

We will be debuting a set of all brand new songs this Thursday!   We’re really excited for these new tracks and hope to see everyone in the whole world at the show: Ash Street, downtown PDX, Oct 1st, 21+, 10pm!

FIRST OF ALL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CARL AND MELODY. GOOD JOB GUYS YOU EARNED IT OR WHATEVER.

OK, anyway, we’re overdue to write some new stuff, especially now that the lineup has been changed around a bit. So, we aren’t going to be playing any shows or anything until we have at least enough songs to play a whole new set. We are simply delighted by the prospect of breaking deez nuts off on some new tits.

PORTLAND June 24th

We played at Slabtown, and this was our first show with Damaris. We figured it would be good to test the waters with the new lineup before leaving town, and it went really well. It turned out that our sound guy would be Levi Lunde (who mixed our first record in 07) so that was a cool surprise. We were all excited to be playing with Damaris who we have all known for years. Our band has always been made up of friends first, so with the departure of Bobby and Bryan, the rest of us really wanted to keep it that way. Bryan had agreed to finish these last few shows with us to ease the transition. We played with The Hand That Bleeds, and that was pretty awesome, plus Flaspar was supposed to play too but they canceled. There was a silver lining in their not showing up though because not only did it mean we got out of there in time to catch The Hunches’ last show at East End, but on the way there we hit the Burnside bridge as it was being raised. We got stuck next to the Red Bull car while we waited for a sailboat to pass through and we all got free Red Bull!! Thanks Flaspar!

SEATTLE June 25th

Things started out pretty good on Thursday — we still don’t have a van so although we were hoping to borrow a vehicle from somebody (OF COURSE that didn’t work out) we ended up having to rent one. I put in a reservation for a minivan, but it turned out when I arrived, they only had one minivan (and two minivan reservations) so they asked if I wanted a free upgrade to the premium SUV. It was a massive Ford Expedition with a USB port and wood paneling and stuff, plus it said POWERED BY MICROSOFT on the console. So, shit, why not? Well, I found out later that the reason why not was that the stupid back seats weren’t removable, and because of that, there wasn’t quite enough room for us and our gear… so we had to leave our main bass cab (and the hi-chair we sit on at the drums) behind. No big deal, we’ll make it work.

I figured it would probably be a good idea to check the email one last time before leaving, and post a bulletin for the show in Seattle, and stuff like that and GOD DAMN IT!!! We had an email from the booking guy at the venue (that we had booked over 2 months in advance) saying that he was canceling the show because he had never actually set anything up due to “a rare brain disease.” Well that’s fucking great, thanks for the 6 hours of notice. We decided to head north and try our best to just pick up a show on the way.. I was wishing we could have fit another amp for vocals in case we wanted to play somewhere without a PA.

About an hour into the drive we got word that the impossible is possible:

We ended up at this place called The Morgue which is basically a clubhouse for the Seattle Pyrate Punx. They were super fucking awesome to us and set us up with a show there and even tried to get a few people out for it. Melody called her friend Kenzie who came and opened up the show for us, and it was really good. There was hardly anyone there because it was an impromptu show, so we played for under 10 people.. but we were super happy that we got to play, and we met some really rad people. At some point the zipper on my pants broke but I found a safety pin on the stage so I pinned my fly partially closed with it. This seemed like a good solution at the time but by the next day I had poked myself in the dick on 5 different occasions. The dick, for those who don’t know, is like a Slinky of nerves.

We ended up crashing at Kenzie’s super neat loft and drinking beer and talking about all kinds of deep and meaningful stuff… and inevitably about how great Discovery* is. That tends to happen. I slept most of the night in the Expedition to keep an eye on the gear but at some point I woke up freezing my ass off and went back inside.



* as in Daft Punk, duh.