Yo-diddle hi-diddle hey.

I wanted to share a little reminiscence about a particularly inspiring gig we had two weeks ago in Chicago, IL at the Empty Bottle with the Baby Teeth and Post Honeymoon.

The music was great, the vibe was good. Lots of friendly faces, lots of new ones. Post honeymoon started the night off right and set the bar for the energy level of the evening, and we did our best not to let it drop. It was a crazy show for us too because Michelle completely lost her voice earlier in the week so she couldn’t sing on the gig, which created the need for Theo and Joey to step it up even more into spotlight.  Fortunately for us they are both just stellar and rose to the challenge completely.  It was very weird to perform without Michelle, but we are blessed with band full of great singers and talented musicians so we could handle the key changes and other necessary tweaking to make it work.

Baby Teeth headlined the night, and if you haven’t heard of them, you NEED to check them out.  Their set was absolutely righteous, and they are all just amazing musicians, and wonderful people.  This was our second show with them, and I am sure that there will be many more.

The sexiest Baby Teeth you've seen yet...

Here is a little review of the show from (http://wrestlingentropy.blogspot.com/):

Baby Teeth, Live at the Empty Bottle, with My Dear Disco
What the hell–springtime on a random Thursday: might as well go check out a Baby Teeth gig. They’re getting ready to release their next LP this summer, and they brought a shitload of new jams to the Bottle last week. It really made them step up their game a bit, too. They played with an almost nervous intensity I’ve rarely seen in them before–and it suited them well. Perhaps they were also encouraged by the shit-hot opening set from Ann Arbor’s My Dear Disco (between them and Nomo, what the FUCK is in the water up there?!). Imagine a version of Maroon 5 populated by a bunch of dorky yet adorable college-age dudes and a set of uilleann pipes, and you can kind of envision what they’re up to. Apparently they usually work with a female singer, too, but her voice was blown out, so she wasn’t on stage that night. I can’t even imagine how much more over-the-top awesome that would make the group, though. They had incredible energy and incredible musicianship. I’ll look forward to seeing them again soon.

Also, and honestly one of the best parts was meeting an amazing poet named Thax Douglas, who is apparently a bit of legend around Chicago.  He wrote an incredible poem for us before the show and we invited him to read it from the stage before we began our set.  Honestly, it is the most impressive and true thing that I have seen written about us, and it was written by a man who had not even seen us perform (he had heard our MySpace i believe and that’s all).  I feel compelled to share it with the world:

MY DEAR DISCO
enough

white-hot

searchlight-screams

pulled from the

gullets of

mourning doves

form a

laser-intense

circle poisoning

you with life,

dragging you

from your cool

luxury

tombstone.

-5/14/09  Burger King for Empty Bottle

Thanks Thax.  Love you man.

Thax with the Lead Singer of the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne

Peace and love,

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