hey, it's the guy from heroine sheiks

Saturday, April 26th
The Uptown
Minneapolis, Minnesota
w/ Heroine Sheiks (ex-cows,oujia radio) & Economy Team

A few days before we were going to leave, Piatt got pulled over in Westport, driving without a license. For most people, this is a minor offense. But for Piatt, even minor offenses are a big deal. He's been to jail a few times and has been on probation forever, this minor offense violated his probation, so he won't be able to leave the state for a while.

So we had a few days to figure out if we were going to play the shows without a drummer or if we could find someone that was available and capable of playing drums with us. Luckily, baby birds don't drink milk had just gotten back from a tour and Oscar Allen was able to fill in on drums. He's one of the best songwriter/musicians we know, I burned him a cd of all the songs we were going to play live and within a few listens and a few hours of practicing, he had everything figured out. His ability to memorize complicated song structures is mind blowing. I wouldn't be surprised to see him smoke some fools on jeopardy someday.

Noonish on Saturday, i went and picked up the van, we met up at my house, played a few songs one last time and drove seven hours to Minneapolis.

Brian hooked it up fat in Minneapolis. when we got there and saw the venue was mostly empty and it was $10 to get in, we weren't sure it was going to be as big of a show as it was supposed to be, but as the evening rolled on, people started coming out and it got pretty packed by the end of the night.

After our set, Drew and Luke were downstairs at the venue eating some sandwiches and this guy comes up to them saying he's from Capital Records. It went something like this:

Guy: "Hey, are you guys in a band?"

Drew/Luke: "Spidermums"

Guy: "Oh yeah, I've seen you guys before, who's playing drums for you now? (Without waiting for a response) I know this guy that would be perfect for you guys..."

And on and on, then he gives them a business card, but it doesn't say anything about Capital Records or wherever he said he was from, it's a business card for some health care company.

The guy from Heroine Sheiks was downstairs being twenty kinds of freaky, Drew thought he might be on crack, but when I was talking to him after their set, he just seemed permanently spun, nice guy, he radiated an aura of insanity, good people.

Even though the place was really full, we only sold two CDs, and one of the guys who bought a CD was obviously confused about what band's CD he was buying. I wasn't around, but Trevis said he bought it, walked away, then looked at it like it didn't make any sense. When the guy left the venue, he laid the disc down at the table next to ours, but he didn't ask for any money back. So we sold two CDs and got one back, that's the way to do it. From now on, maybe we'll hang a banner with the name of the headlining band above our merch table and sell all kinds of shit, then as they leave they can put it back in our merch tub.

Heroine Sheiks were cool, they have members of STNNNG and Ouija Radio and the singer dude was in Cows. They had one song where the only lyrics I remember hearing were, "you want me....fuck you".

People were really nice, Brian bought us all shots. We got paid handsomely and stayed at Brian's apartment, nice start, no arrests.