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Vignette, Berlin
Our show in Berlin is the best yet, and even though we’re tired we agree that the night must go on. We have a hot tip from local opener...
Ethan Bassford
May 5, 20146 min read
European Tour: Brixton, Continued
Our morning coffee stop in Brixton Market introduces me to the “flat white”, which to me is the ideal ratio of coffee to milk. It is sort...
Ethan Bassford
May 4, 20141 min read
European Tour: This Pot Has Been On The Stove For 400 Years
The show is not actually in Lille. It is in Wicres, a tiny town of 380 or so on the outskirts of Lille. The promoter has a concert series...
Ethan Bassford
Apr 28, 201411 min read
European Tour: Overeating Paris
I can’t really tell you what Bourges is like because we’re at a festival, and festivals are an altered state of reality. As with most...
Ethan Bassford
Apr 26, 201414 min read
European Tour: “Cheese With Rice!”
Shortly after boarding Turkish Airlines Flight 1821, departing from JFK at 12:50 PM, I am offered a drink. How classy, I think to myself;...
Ethan Bassford
Apr 23, 201416 min read
Electric Balloon Tour: The problem of a spaceman
I’m so far behind on contemporaneous coverage of tour, I’m just going to say fuck it. The immediacy is gone, and anything I’d write now...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 28, 20146 min read
Electric Balloon Tour: The Big Easy and Hotlanta and whatever nicknames they have for Sarasota and T
Considering I only got two hours of sleep, I wake up surprisingly refreshed. Our first stop for the day is Tulane University, where we’ll...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 24, 201410 min read
Electric Balloon Tour: I’m All Austin The Supermarket
We roll into Austin pretty late, and go to our friends’ house to crash. Our friends are Zorch, an amazing psychedelic mathy/proggy band...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 17, 201419 min read
Electric Balloon Tour: A Monument To Man’s Arrogance
The first thing you should know about our show in Phoenix is that it takes place at the Hard Rock Café. Last time I set foot in a Hard...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 10, 201410 min read
Electric Balloon Tour: Things To Eat Besides The Lotus
We roll into San Francisco around midnight, and pull up to Different Fur Studios. Different Fur put the show together, and the powers...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 8, 201411 min read
Electric Balloon Tour, the re-electrifying
The best thing that happens in Olympia besides making a friend at the thrift store is eating this banh mi. We have to get the oil...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 5, 20146 min read
Electric Balloon Tour, Day whatever*
*a few days behind here, I should catch up to the present this week We arrive in Seattle with time to spare, and everyone goes off in...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 4, 20145 min read
Vignette, Portland
Before the show in Portland, two of us and a local friend head out to a strip club. We had heard about one particular place, and it...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 3, 20144 min read
Vignette, Olympia
With hours to kill before the show, we all part ways to wander. I stop into a thrift store. Thrift stores outside New York are always a...
Ethan Bassford
Mar 1, 20145 min read
Electric Balloon Tour, Day 10
The drive from Fargo to Spokane is 17 hours in good weather, but it is not good weather. The first day is all right, freezing cold but...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 28, 20144 min read
Electric Balloon Tour, Day 8
After Minneapolis, it’s on to Fargo. We drop off our stuff at The Aquarium, which is the upstairs of Dempsey’s Public House, a...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 26, 20144 min read
Scenes from a gas station; Tomah, WI
Gas stations are an important part of tour. Depending on your gas mileage and average bladder capacity, you’ll be stopping once every one...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 26, 20143 min read
Electric Balloon Tour, Day 7
Milwaukee gave us a warm reception. We played at the Riverwest Public House, a place I would absolutely hang out if I lived in the area....
Ethan Bassford
Feb 25, 20144 min read
I found the cheese I was born to eat
We roll into Jonah’s parents’ house around 2, and immediately get to snacking. Mostly standard things: chips, salsa, nuts. But then Jonah...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 23, 20141 min read
Vignette, Chicago
In Chicago, the venue is up four flights of stairs. Four amps, a drum set, several boxes of records, and all our instruments must go up...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 23, 20144 min read
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