1-on october 4th my fun rock band ‘the little death nyc’ will be doing a small and early show at the mercury lounge for our friends. at 8;30pm. we haven’t played lately(apart from the howl festival)so we thought this would be fun. plus we’ll be finished by 9;30 and we can have more time for cheap domestic beer, which we all enjoy very much.
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2-on october 11th i’m dj’ing with my friends juan mclean and stretch armstrong at hiro ballroom.i might’ve sent a flyer about this, but there was some confusion about the date. confusion be banned, it’s october 11th, disco party from 10pm – 4:30 a.m, or so, at hiro ballroom.
i think it’s $5 to get in(yes, we’re fancy).
and i just finished my record. as in yesterday. it’ll come out in february. or march.
so now i’m not as psychotically anxious and busy as i’ve been for the last few months.
in case you wanted to know.
and, an aside, a friend of mine recently asked me, ‘why do you play small shows in the lower east side and do small dj’ing dates when you could be touring and playing venues that hold 10,000 people?’
good question.
my simple answer is that i actually enjoy playing small shows in the lower east side way more than i enjoy playing venues that hold 10,000 people. sounds crazy, but it’s true. for years i thought that doing long tours and playing huge venues would make me happy. but then when i found myself doing long tours and playing huge venues i also found myself to be quite depressed. so, simply, i’ve decided to not do long tours, and to rather play fun, small shows with my friends at venues that are only a taxi cab ride away.
i might be coerced into touring in the future, and i might even end up playing shows in big venues again, but for now i really enjoy what i’m doing.
and money? sure, you make a lot of money playing big venues and going on tour for 22 months.
but so what?
what good is making a lot of money if you’re miserable?
maybe some musicians love going on tour for long times and playing bigger and bigger venues. i don’t know, i certainly don’t.
playing a show at 8;30 on a thursday night at mercury lounge for 100 people and then drinking cheap domestic beer with my friends holds about 1,000,000 times more appeal than living on a tour bus and waking up in parking lots and playing in front of 10,000 people a night. i’ve done both, i choose the former.
ok, thanks, and hopefully see you soon.
moby