YOTI (Ye Olde Towne Inn)
Ages: 21+
Price: < $10.00
I’ve been friends with or been in bands with members of all the acts playing this show! I love seeing what everybody’s doing, and not having the pressure of moving equipment or borrowing gear from Skull Fogger 😉
So come hang out!
Penny Road Pub
Ages: 21+
Price: $10.00 in advance, $12 at the door
Something Beautiful, opening for Red Lamb – feat. Dan Spitz (ex-Anthrax) at Penny Road? Count me in!
More bands to be announced (probably)
Pick up tickets from us at our upcoming shows, or shoot an email, and we’ll get tix to you!
Bridgeway of Bensenville
This is going to be a Christian Hymn-sing featuring my favorite spirituals and famous-and-greats for the end of the Lenten season. I always look forward to leading songs on an acoustic guitar for folks to both reminisce over and experience anew.
Messiah Lutheran Church in Wauconda
Ages: All Ages
Price: $00.00
I’ll be finishing off Messiah’s midweek Lent services leading the Holden Evening Prayer – a sweet liturgy that really captures the spirit of the season, as well as some old favorite spirituals.
Cobra Lounge
Ages: 21+
Come out and hangout with me and Skull Fogger! Great tunes, great times!
Songwriting is easy. Yes, really, but only sometimes. It can be a rare thing, and you’ll never appreciate it as much as you should. It’s not one of those things that you “can’t appreciate and easy thing until you’ve hit hard times” type of situation, it’s just that those easy ones are the ones you overlook. So much effort goes into a song like Something Beautiful’s Dreams About Your Skin that a song like Nobody told Me, or Not So Blues just doesn’t seem to come to mind when I think about what I’m proud of when I’m asked about what I write.
I wrote that song in pink fuzzy boots and mario pajamas after getting coffee at my starbucks, which is across the street from where I live. I was in a good mood, and it made me sing. Easy job, no hangups. Said something about being single, having it easy and living simply. It took about ten minutes to write and record, and spend very little mental energy on reminiscing on the ease with which it flowed out of me. Some people really like it, but I consider it merely a joke. How rude is that of me? Kinda, I think.
Some other songs can take years to write, and that ever-present feeling of “I’m leaving something unfinished…” in the background is what will make those tunes stick out to me. But you know how we’re always being told to stop and smell the roses? I’m finna do that once in a while. Thanks for indulging me.
Some of them 20 minute songs became some of your faves, or at least big hits… I’m not saying that mine was a knockout, but it certainly was serviceable. It was pure expression of an emotional state, and depending on the listener, it may convey the ease of the moment. Or maybe it’s just a quick dumb song. It may not be a steak dinner, but once in a while I’ll take a jolly rancher.
Count your blessings instead of sheep tonight.
Nite Cap
Ages: 21+
Price: $10.00 in advance, $15.00 at the door
This is a fundraising event in honor of Barri Gibbons, father to our friend Sheryl Grimes. The show will feature Something Beautiful, Hubbard Union, Jack Went Down, Tai from Wicked Selector, DJ Daily, and special guest DJ Sangre
There’s a SWEET raffle, where you can win a Something Beautiful Superfan pack, containing pretty much one of EVERYTHING we got, $100 cash, tickets to the Patio Theater, breakfast at the Flying Saucer with Hubbard Union, and MUCH MORE
There’s a pre-party at Jade Dragon Tattoos, where they’re giving discounts on cancer-related tattoos, and 50% off of ribbon tats.
It’s for a GREAT cause, so LIKE it on facebook and spread the word, you guys.
Live Wire in Chicago
Ages: 21+
Price: $ not sure but I’m payin it
Crusader is rocking out to raise money for a great cause, so come hang out with me and let’s support our friends in their crusade! YARRRGH!!!
Nite Cap
Ages: 21+
Price: $6.00 (or so – facts as I get em)
Come hang out after watching horror movies at the Portage theater! We’re playing with Skullfogger and 4 Without, so it’s gonna be a KILLER night!
