on the road again

we have one more show tonight on our three show stint at the elevens in northampton, ma.

http://www.elevensmusic.com/

mascott guest vlog

if you can't be in the band, you might as well hijack their blog. tonite i felt like mel from flight of the conchords, except that mel would never miss the first two songs of a conchords set...like i did tonite at the g-arms show. it wouldn't have been a big deal but rainy is not yet prepared to forgive me, so i must suck it up and meet my maker. at least i have video proof of song #3...

Shining Bright with Renee LoBue


soon after i moved to a closer table to soak in the action:

Looking At The Sun


hilken, sean, rainy, dave & kevin were top notch on every song. then i almost had a coronary when they launched into my favorite dambuilders song ever...IDAHO!! the audience was filled fans of dave derby, so i feel i wasn't the only one that was having a serious '90s moment.

IDAHO


so all in all it was a totally great show...even thought i'll never get those first two songs back. The band is off to play Northampton and then Boston now, catch a show if you can.

love,
mascott

Gramercy Arms February Shows

Just letting you know in case you don't already know that we will be playing a string of shows this next week with our friend the ultrafabulous Mary Kate O'Neil who is releasing her brand new CD. marykateoneil.com

Thursday Feb 5, New York, New York - The Living Room at 8 pm (Mary Kate and band at 7)

Friday Feb 6, Cambridge, MA - TT the Bears at 10 pm (Mary Kate and band at 8)

Saturday Feb 7, Northampton, MA - The Elevens (with Mary Kate) - still waiting for confirmation on set time!

Gramercy Arms on Uncensored Interview

Sean and Dave perpend, ruminate and wax poetic extemporaneously on various topics ranging from indie rock, geopolitics and best and worst day jobs, at the impressively cool Uncensored Interview website

http://www.uncensoredinterview.com/artists/497-Gramercy-Arms

nyc magnet piece up

the fine and wonderful folks of nyc magnet did a nice piece on us that just went up. It was a pleasure to hang out with them, eat coconut flan, discuss esoteric New York history and madrigal mashups.
http://nycmagnet.com/2009/01/17/gramercy-arms/
gramercy arms hearts nyc magnet
that's renee lobue in the photo, rocking with us.

gramercy arms at pianos

cmj did a nice write up of last night's show at piano's which was ... erm ... somewhat "selectively" attended. But it was cold and lots of people including some of us were fighting colds.

Nevertheless we did have a lot of fun.


http://www.cmj.com/relay/?p=6731

Doug Gillard was awesome as ever!

He joined us onstage for a cover of his old band Death of Samantha's "Blood and Shaving Cream" that was SUPER ROCK.

a little sloppy too but no one ever said super rock had to be clean!

happy new year

Please pardon the silence here. We've been madly busy recording and getting ready for upcoming shows including our show with Doug Gillard at Piano's tomorrow. Dave Derby has been playing in Doug's band as well and will be turning in double-duty in the field of rock tomorrow night. If you're in the NY area, come on down. It should be a fun show and will be the first performance of the lineup of Dave Derby, Sean Eden, Rainy Orteca and Kevin March. Hilken, will be busy holding down the fort in Boston and won't make it. Renee LoBue will grace the microphone with her backing vocal stylings. Come on down!

More info soon on a Dave Derby-Kendall Meade-Erik Della Penna recording of Scottish songwriter, Sandy Wright's lovely "In the Summertime"