hey ya'll.  Man, has it gotten cold or what?  Here in KY anyway, its very frigid.  I geuss five years down south eroded my resistance to father winter. 

well, we went to columbia KY for the very first time to play at lindsey wilson college and it was fun.  I felt like we played pretty well and the kids seemed to be having a good time.  There was this Dj guy name DJ BOOM.  Have you ever seen a performer who is so bad, you kind of suspect its all a joke, but when they stop and never reveal the joke, you just feel sorry for them?  well DJ BOOM is one such character.  This guy was Hilarious.  Some one should give that guy a reality show

we booked our first show at the Dame in lexington!  This is a club we've been trying to get in for a while now, so even though the show is two days after chrsitmas and no one will be in lexington at the time, we still took the show.  Anyway, thats the news for now, look for some more shows soon!  -JIM

I just wanted to touch base with everyone and let you guys know whats going down in Cigarello-ville.  We have been dusting off our space-opera in preperation for our next somerset show.  We havent played this bad boy anywhere for quite a while (never in KY) and we're excited to see how it goes over.  It still is clocking in at less than 30 minutes so we have a few other surprises up our sleeve for the show as well.   

We're still having a great time rehearsing in the old tobaco barn.  It sounds really good there, plus the scene out there is pretty private which is nice.  The other day, we went and bought some BB guns.  As I'm sure you can figure, those have been our favorite toys lately.  I'm a great shot i'll have you know!  (for those of you that know me personally i'm sure you see the humor of me with a gun) 

other than that, rock on friends, and we look forward to seeing you out there!  JIM/Cigarello

Man, when we got back from athens, we were exhausted.  It must be said that we had a really great time there.  We arived at about 11 in the morning on saturday, just hours before we played the katrina benefit out in the mall.  Playing during the day is a little weird, but it was nice to play under the open sky.  We made some new friends and handed out our new cigarello.net lighters.  Then we CRASHED!!!  I couldn't even stay awake that night for the boxing match, and you know that means something!   Let me take this opportunity now to tell you guys how much we love our hostess in athens, maleah!!!  Man, this girl sure treats us right.  I know she'll never read this because she never gets online, but if you know her, tell her we said 1000 thanks to her!!!  The the show on monday night at the 40 watt was a blast!  Echo Canyon really played well and set the stage for a great evening.  I know we all had fun during our set, we even premiered our cover of crazy train to tremendous response.  (many told us it was the highlight of their night.)  what can i say, i knew after the canyon's set that we were really going to have to bring the rock.  Now we're back home for a few days before setting out again for somerset and the great indie kinds down there.  can't wait to see all the summer-heads, ta ta...  JIM/Cigarello 

We spent last night practicing some of the new cover songs we've been working on for our oct. shows in bardstown.  I have to admit it was a lot of fun!  So far we've worked up about five of the eleven or so covers we need.  (any suggestions for the remaining six?) 

We also just booked a show for athens!!!!! YAY.  Obviously, we love going back there so i jumped at the oppportunity to play a benifit for katrina relief.  We're going to play the mall, one venue i never thought we'd play there, so that in its self is exciting.  Plus I'm really looking forward to seeing all our friends there and see how things have been.

We're also still gearing up for our show in somerset!  I've been getting in touch with some people out there and so far the response has been really positive.  The venue sounds like a really cool place.   i think we're going to make alot of friends down there.

thats all for now, keep your comments and messages coming- I love them!-JIM