Don’t forget, Woolen Men, Inside Voices and Death Songs THIS FRIDAY at the artistry. It’s going to be awesome. Sadly, I cant go, Ill be in the dish pit of my friends awesome new restaurant. Come see me! www.mihopdx.com

And now to the old stuff. I don’t think i ever posted these videos. Here are 2 from back in October when we played the Baebele Music studio REALLY early in the morning.

And a thrilling interview with a prop mic

Here is one from a great night in Vienna

Already Gone AGAIN

New tunes for a new album. It’s my favorite part in being in a band, the writing stage. The new songs are awesome and i cant wait to get them together and record. Plus it helps that the songs are so awesome. I dunno how Nick can write so fast and consistently. It takes me a year to come up with one song that’s not embarrassing. He shows up after a 10 week tour with 15 ready to record. Jeaz.

It’s been a while since i really updated and some cool stuff has come out. Jake was interviewed about his day job for an Into The Woods video.

Don’t Quit Your Day Job Ep #3 – Shaky Hands/American Dream Pizza from Into The Woods on Vimeo.

We got seriously name checked recently on the CW tv show Life Unexpected. Usually if we get a commercial or played in a tv show i wouldn’t post about it but this is so amazing, strange and hilarious that you gotta see it. I guess we are cool with the young teens. Who knew?

The band i have with Nick Delffs and Alex Arrowsmith (Haunted K.O.A) recorded a demo of a new song. I think it turned out great. Not bad for running the song straight thru maybe 5 times before recording it. Click HERE to listen

And if you are in the area this April (the 9th) come check out Death Songs playing with Inside Voices and The Woolen Men (my favorite Portland band) at the Artistry. It’s all ages so you have no excuse not to go.

Till next time
Mayhaw

Speaking of songs we got a few shows on the way. If you live in the Portland area come see us this thursday and friday night at The Know (2026 Northeast Alberta Street). We are playing, recording and filming the sets. Opening the shows are Tanning (Jake solo), Nick Delffs (solo) and my new band Haunted K.O.A (Me, Nick and Alex Arrowsmith). Shameless self promotion? No, we just forgot to find an opening band and decided to do it our self.

We hope to see you this Thursday and Friday. Shows have to end by 11 so get to the place early (8 ish). Capacity is about 30 so keep that in mind.

Ill leave you with a video of a show we played this past New Years Eve. We covered a Nilson song called Jump Into the Fire.

- Mayhaw

I’ll have some words tonight about that Jeff guy who surprises me everyday a bit more. Even though watching him walking through his everyday (touring) life is pretty much the same as watching a Gus Van Sant movie, I’ll certainly remember his most majestic moments.

From a sound guy perspective, his parts are quite difficult to make intelligible at first, because his play depends a lot on what’s happening, on the others, so I can’t set him up once and for all and leave himself play with presence and volume -it sure is hard to know what really happens while you’re on stage.

I feel that I constantly have to follow him through the concerts -means to have one hand moving up and down the knobs- so I kinda focused on him recently and was surprised how much of a great guitarist he is and moreover how dedicated he is  -I had no bias before the tour though.

From my little sound booth, I can clearly see him make efforts to surround the songs, filling feedback-ish gaps and adding melodical answers to Nick’s confident play.

It was funny yesterday in Berlin because he spent most of the concert in the shade, blurrying his physical presence in favor of sounds, an nice evidence for the point I’m trying to make here.

His performance at the show in Ljubljana was amazing, his soli were right in place, and all the small adds he placed were incredibly well felt. I just had to pull him up or down in volume, it was just perfect because it allowed me to play with them instead of try to fix what’s wrong in the sound.

I’d like to always mix in these terms, a performance rather than a pure technical duty. But this depends on how everybody feels on stage. The Good Thing is that it seems to happen more often at this point of the tour. A good omen for the next half month!

“I always thought Jake’s a vampire, appenrently he’s able to enjoy the sun.”

“Nick grows a strong beard now…”

“In one hand the wheel, in the other the camera -my cellphone in fact. Mountains, we sure come to get you!”

Yesterday was Wien, Austria. good crowd (nice chicks), good talks and drinks. Met the bass player of that awesome band Radian.

some pics of that great city…

I must say the steamboy van has been a sanctuary hosting weird discussions and today we brought it backstage; at the very moment I write those lines, your “bien aimés” and myself are trading insults translations, trying to figure out why french is such a poetic language… here are a bunch of the direct translations I offered them; these are pretty common in Prance…

ass comb, bidet shavings, nun ass, dirty asshole, one-eyed whore, fly fucker, poop face…

meditating on TSH’s childish behaviour, Mayhaw’s specially.

my good thoughts to you all.

steam.

today we hit Munich, cool club, cool sound, cool folks.

this show will be recorded so expect some audio around here soon…

below is what’s left in our pockets from London’s CARGO…

Who would YOU like to see featuring your inssurance commercials?

Personally, Iggy Pop sounds good…