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Last Updated: 12/18/2009

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 

Current mood:  accomplished
After 40+ shows, 3 countries and pretty much the best 2 months of my life the summer tour is over. I want to thank everyone that came out to shows, booked shows, gave us a place to crash, made us food, checked us out and were overall just friendly awesome people. We met more amazing people on this tour then I can count. What is next for Offsides? Currently we are finishing up a Full Length It is looking like it will be released on Get Outta Town Records, so please watch out for that. I am really proud of how it is shaping up. This winter we are planning a east coast tour, but sadly won't be playing out that much. I am getting my butt in gear to finish college this year so things will be a little slow. After May though we are going to start to do a lot more touring. So thats that!

This summer was incredible, words really can't describe how great a time it was and how lucky I feel to get to not only tour the country with some of my all time favorite people, but also get to meet so many extremely amazing people. I've put a few pictures up of some of the shows. 

Some bands to check out (to name just a few of the awesome bands we played with this summer):
Homewrecker (ohio fast hc), La Arma Es La Palabra (Vegan Edge band from Monterey Mexico that blew me away!), Picking Up The Pieces (straight up HC from Mexico City and the nicest kids ever), Strong Belief (Monterey Band as well that rules really hard), Us Against The World (female fronted punk band that might be my new favorite band), Vacant State (vancouver pissed off HC), Decades, A Better Hope Foundation, Envision, Reach, Cross Check, Worlds.

Thanks!!!
XXX
Danielle
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
Here you go central america....

Split with No Harm Done

Gone:
Unaware or just don't care, the reactions always the same. A world torn apart limb from limb, robbed, enslaved and degraded to a point of hating themselves, when the real culprit of their fate lies miles away. Diseased to die a poison they never took, when black and white make red. Believing in the myth created to keep people in their place but fists create a false sense of control. Oppressed but unaware of the effects of liberty, stuck in the leftovers of greed. You steal the day, but we fight for the night. When there's nothing left to lose, we can see through the dark. 


With Great Honor
Am I guilty if it wasn't my blood that built this world? We know this made up story taught to keep us in our place. Took the bounty of a land with promises made and broken, we give thanks for all this violence and deceit. Killing the savage, saving the man. Celebrating the rape and murder, the seizing of the day, a people gone, smashed, erased. Can't comprehend the cultures long past, the welfare act, the commerce clause, the reservations, false convictions, stolen land, taken children, barren wombs and long walk to death.


Vacant Lots
Living in exile, no home or help. Labeled as lazy and addicted. Excuses fly for the squalor they call a life. Step over them on the street. Wasted filth, not humanity. Used up, swept under, left to rot. It's time to take off those polished shoes and try walking barefoot. The gravel, the glass, it hurts.


It's A Struggle To Communicate EP Lyrics

TAKING IT
Everyday the same
People all around
Who are they?
Working towards the future,
Unsure that there could be more
Then money and success.
Feeding off each others wants
These expectations shape our lives
Routine messing with the mind

A long walk on a neverending road
We are trying so hard to fulfill the dream
Accomplishing but accomplishing nothing for ourselves
Its time to realize
There’s more to today, then thoughts of tomorrow

Refusing to stand still, looking towards myself
Letting go isn’t easy, but living isn’t supposed to be
Demanding my life.

WAR OF CHOICE
When home is gone, the lights are out
Tired and alone, screaming for help
Running till my chest can’t keep in my heart
Knowing where I should be heading, trying to follow my feet
Where’s there to go, what’s there to do, when life’s wearing down on me.

Yelling help me when no will come
Realizing I’m done, but getting up
Pushing forward, unwilling to stop
Maybe I’ll be harder to break then I thought
Forcing my eyes to focus
On what’s living, what’s life, what’s this
Everyone moment I keep myself hopeful
In this life it’s easy to fall behind and miss everything.

Destroy myself, destroy the pain, take the easy way
Hiding behind, not facing the fight of getting past today
My head and my hands won’t destroy me
The easy way out won’t control me
War of choice.

POINTLESS
Forcing a life when there are so many willing. Noooo
The standards that you set
You’ve got the job, the 401k
Your value of affection is not found in what you have

Difference between life and living
What you have, what they need

Reaching that time in life
Complacency setting in
And now your wondering
What else can I posses?

Different between life and living
What you want, what they need

Pointless
Its not just selfish, its inhumane
Forcing a life, destroying a dream
Pointless.

ONGOING STORY
Lives unaccounted for, easy to loose
Having to escape everything you knew
Pound the walls and clench your fists
The situation stands still
Wanting to defend, comfort, help
The family, the people, the eyes looking to you
Unable to cry out “look here, help me”
When walls enclose no crminal, but a refugee.
Different voices the same words spoken.

GONE
Unaware or just don’t care, the reactions always the same
A world torn apart limb from limb, robbed, enslaved and degraded
To a point of hating themselves, when the real culprite of their fate
Lies miles away.

Diseased to die with a poison they never took
When black and white make red

Believing in the myth created to keep people in their place
But fists create a false sense of control
Oppressed but unaware of the effects of liberty
Stuck in the leftovers of greed

Diseased to die with a poison they never took
When black and white make red

You steal the day, but we fight for the night
When there’s nothing left to loose, we can see through the dark.

AT ZERO
Watching you disappear, unable to convey how you mean the world
You are everything, you mean so much to me.

Can’t understand, there’s nothing I can do, but try to hold on for a little longer, try to hold onto you.

Pressing my face against the glass
Trying to see you one more time
Closed my eyes
The only place I see you now is in my head

Hanging onto your last step, if only I could pull you back to me
Needing to tell you, you are the world, words failing my love for you

Words failing, can’t understand
Words failing, there’s nothing I can do
Words failing, needing to tell you
Words failing, my love for you
Can’t understand why this is happening, there’s nothing I can do, needing to tell you, you are the world, words failing my love for you.


Currently listening:
Supporting Caste
By Propagandhi
Release date: 2009-03-10
Friday, February 27, 2009 
So springtime is approaching and as you may have noticed we have not exactly been playing a lot this winter. This is thanks to different members living in different places. We are doing a short spring break tour of the southeast and have a longer full US/Canada/Mexico tour in the works for the summer. Plans to record also keep getting pushed back, but right now its looking like we are going to try to record a full length this May. So be on the watch for that. If you live in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina or Virginia please come check us out next week!

thanks!!!
xxx
Danielle/Offsides

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Saturday, December 20, 2008 
We just did a new interview so I figured I would put it up (along with some other old stuff) for everyone to check out if you're interested. Enjoy!


Interviews
myspace.com/10qw

http://www.pastepunk.com/features.php?v=268

Reviews of "Its a Struggle To Communicate"

http://www.beyondracemagazine.com/index.php/reviews/music%20reviews/593-offsides-its-a-struggle-to-communicate

http://diatribeinc.org/2008/11/14/offsides-its-a-struggle-to-communicate-get-outta-town/

http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/2075

http://www.beowolfproductions.com/MusicReviewsJuly08.html

http://unlimitednights.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/offsides-connecticut-hardcore/
Currently listening:
Set Your Goals
By CIV
Release date: 1995-08-01