ERNIE BALL IS GIVING YOU AND A FRIEND THE CHANCE TO GET TWO FREE TICKETS TO THIS YEAR'S WARPED TOUR BATTLE OF THE BANDS SHOWCASE IN HOLLYWOOD, FEATURING STORY OF THE YEAR AND EYES SET TO KILL!

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU WILL ALSO GET PASSES INTO THE EXCLUSIVE VIP AFTER-PARTY WHERE GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE WILL BE PERFORMING AN INTIMATE SET!

Announced by Ernie Ball on facebook.com/gardeningnotarchitecture November 12, 2009:

"Are you in or around the LA area? Let us know what your favorite G,NA song is and why! One winner will get 2 tickets to the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands Showcase (featuring Story of the Year/Eyes Set to Kill) and will also receive an exclusive invite to the showcase after party to watch Gardening, Not Architecture perform for industry executives and VIP guests!"

Enter via email! Send your name, age, and city along with your favorite Gardening, Not Architecture song and explanation to sarah@gardeningnotarchitecture.com.

Deadline to enter is December 6, 2009.

The winner will be contacted December 7, 2009, and announced online once confirmed!

DON'T WANT TO ENTER THE CONTEST, BUT WANT TO SEE THE SHOW?

CLICK THE POSTER FOR TICKETS!



www.gardeningnotarchitecture.com
www.sarahsaturday.com

DT: OCTOBER 12, 2009

 

GARDENING, NON ARCHITECTURE--the nom de rock of Sarah Saturday--has announced that she’ll be joined by WE THE LIVING for the last several dates of the inaugural E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009, which kicked off early last month with co-headliner GAVIN CASTLETON. Sponsored by the revolutionary not-for-profit website EARNITYOURSELF.COM--which supports the independent music community, allowing musicians to trade shows, book tours, upload articles and information, stream and sell music, network with other musicians, promoters, venues and fans, as well as receive personal advice from music industry veterans--SATURDAY and CASTLETON have booked all of the dates themselves using tools on the site, including the “Tour Planning” and “Show Trading” features. Since launching in 2006, EARNITYOURSELF.COM has blossomed into a thriving community with over nine thousand participating members and, in the last year, has averaged 100,000 pageviews a month.  

WE THE LIVING will be filling in for CASTLETON on the tour’s final dates, as he’s seen his grassroots approach to touring--supported by EarnItYourself.com--grow to the next level by being invited to open for Taking Back Sunday on several dates. Portland, OR-based CASTLETON has built his nearly 15-year career on innovation. He released his 14-song narrative “popera” Home (Five One Inc) in February 2009, lead by single "Coffeelocks" which received regular airplay on Los Angeles’ influential NPR station KCRW. On October 13, GAVIN releases a new three-song EP Random Anthems via iTunes. Single “Hope is A Drug”--currently receiving regular airplay on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”--can be downloaded for free at http://...com/hopeisadrug.  

GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE--a collaboration between Sarah Saturday and producer/engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, Sparklehorse)--released their first full length album last month, and have been recording demos together since 2004. The electronic-tinged ethereal power pop of First LP was recorded in May of 2009 at Chris (Death Cab For Cutie) Walla's Hall of Justice studio in Portland, OR. The album features all GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE songs recorded to date including “Stop, I Get It (Nevermind Redux).” A video for the track--directed by Chris Laughter of Enjoy Human Productions and shot in Los Angeles in late-September--emphasizes G, NA’s mysterious stage show, highlighted by Saturday’s homemade light wall that backs her on stage. A free MP3 of "Stop, I Get It (Nevermind Redux)" can be downloaded at http://...com/StopIGetIt.  

WE THE LIVING recorded their debut album in early 2007 and have been on the road since. The band released their 5-song EP Boom Forest - Volume I in September, available to fans for free via their email list. Through constant reinvention, touring and street team-led promotion, WE THE LIVING has grown to a nationally lauded band with a large and fervent grassroots fan base. They’ll play 250 shows this year, including the E.I.Y. FALL TOUR dates.   
 

E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009 Tour Dates 

Date   City Venue
Mon 10/12 LaCrosse, WI The Warehouse
Tue 10/13 Madison, WI The Frequency
Thu 10/15 St. Louis, MO Fubar
Fri 10/16 Tulsa, OK Soundpony Bar
Sat 10/17 Austin, TX Darwin's Pub
Sun 10/18 Houston, TX Avant Garden
Tue 10/20 Murfreesboro, TN Walnut House
+Wed 10/21 Louisville, KY Bellarmine University
*Thu 10/22 Cincinnati, OH Cintas Center at Xavier University
*Fri 10/23 Columbus, OH The LC Pavilion
+Sat 10/24 Pleasant Valley, PA Pleasant Valley High School
*Sun 10/25 Allentown, PA Crocodile Café
*Tue 10/27 Saugut, IL Pops
*Wed 10/28 Chicago, IL House of Blues
*Thu 10/29 Iowa City, IA University of Iowa
+Thu 10/29 Northport, PA Northport High School
*Fri 10/30 Green Bay, WI Tom Dick & Harry’s
+Fri 10/30 New York, NY Sullivan Hall
*Sat 10/31 Fargo, ND The Venue
+Tue 11/3 Attleboro, MA Attleboro High School
+Fri, 11/6 Sandwich, MA Sandwich High School
+Sat, 11/7 Storrs, CT University of Connecticut
+Sun, 11/8 Watertown, CT The Taft School
+Thu, 11/12 Cary, NC Cary Academy
+Wed, 11/18 Louisville, KY Bellarmine University
 

+indicates Gardening, Not Architecture and We The Living dates

*indicates Gavin Castleton with Taking Back Sunday dates 


 

For press information on the E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009, contact:
MSO    818.380.0400
Shazila Mohammed x238, shazila@msopr.com
Chelsi Schriver (tour) x231, cschriver@msopr.com

Dear Friends,

In an effort to off-set the cost of touring, and to offer my friends and fans another way to help support without necessarily having to buy merchandise or get stuff from iTunes (which would also be radical), I'm introducing the ability to DONATE to the Touring/Recording/Living fund for Gardening, Not Architecture.

I'm currently one month into a tour that doesn't have a set end date, and I'd like to stay on the road as much as I can for the next year, but (for example) I'm already about $1,200 in the hole, and about to start a 1,400 mile drive with about $10 left in cash.

I've had a lot of people ask how they can support the tour, so I came up with a way! Here's how it works:

Become a G,NA Official Sponsor
Donate to the tour / gas / food fund and help keep G,NA on the road and in the studio! Every penny counts and will be appreciated beyond words. Your name will be added to the list of contributors unless you ask to remain anonymous. Include your email address to receive a special thank you message from Sarah Saturday. Every time you donate, you'll get a new thank you message and a new asterisk next to your name on the list. Come back to donate often, and tell your friends! Thank you for supporting independent music!

Go to http://gardeningnotarchitecture.com and click the DONATE button!

Thank you for all your love and support.
xoxoSarah

1. Go to http://gardeningnotarchitecture.com right now to listen to the new album, "First LP," from beginning to end!

2. Get your ass to Los Angeles this Sunday, August 30th, for the Gardening, Not Architecture CD release and tour kick-off house show with very special guest The Working Title! Click for more details if you can't figure it out:



3. Get the latest on the EIY TOUR featuring Gavin Castleton and Gardening, Not Architecture at EARNITYOURSELF.COM/TOUR! September 9th to November 14th with only a handful of days off. Help us book shows, promote the tour, or find a place to crash!

DT: AUGUST 17, 2009


 
 

EARNITYOURSELF.COM is a revolutionary not-for-profit website supporting the independent music community that allows musicians to trade shows, book tours, upload articles and information, stream and sell music, network with other musicians, promoters, venues and fans, as well as receive personal advice from music industry veterans. Since launching in 2006, EARNITYOURSELF.COM has blossomed into a thriving community with over nine thousand participating members and, in the last year, has averaged 100,000 pageviews a month. A recent press release on EARNITYOURSELF.COM can be found at http://...com/eiyrelease.  

The site will present its first tour this fall: the E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009 featuring GAVIN CASTLETON and GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE--site co-founder Sarah Saturday’s nom de rock. The artists will book the entire 62-date tour utilizing the “Tour Planning” and “Show Trading” features found on the site. The tentative routing for the tour is below and you can follow the pair as they book venues and confirm details for each show at: www.earnityourself.com/tour. Also below is information on tour sponsors Aderra, DiNG and Ernie Ball. Each sponsor has created unique promotions and custom artist merchandise and content that will be available throughout the tour.  

“As much as I enjoy touring, I absolutely dread the booking process,” says CASTLETON. “It's really wonderful to have a site like EIY to help you stay organized and connect with other integrity-based artists.” SATURDAY continues, “My partners and I founded EARNITYOURSELF.COM on the principal that artists must learn to be self-sufficient while embracing their community if they hope to forge a long-lasting and respectable career in music. With both Gavin and me eager to get on the road to support our new records, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to put that principal to the test.” 

Tour co-headliner producer/singer/songwriter GAVIN CASTLETON is a Portland, OR-based musician who has built his nearly 15-year career on innovation. He released his 14-song narrative “popera” Home in February 2009 via Five One Inc. Lead single "Coffeelocks" received regular airplay on Los Angeles’ influential NPR station KCRW and CASTLETON recorded a live set for the station’s morning show “Morning Becomes Eclectic” in April.    

Home details the story of his six-year love affair and its eventual destruction sequenced in two halves: the first depicts Castleton and his young lover falling deeply in love, and the second, in which said lovers are stalked incessantly by a growing population of flesh-eating zombies, is the story of falling out of love. With the sultry vocals of Lauren Coleman (of Pebaluna) and the dense orchestration of a 22-piece band, the album is a soundscape of paramount proportions, even for Castleton (his last album was a prog-hiphop narrative recounting his life backwards, from his suicide in 2054 to present day).  

GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE’s Sarah Saturday will bring her electronic-tinged ethereal power-pop to the tour, on the heels of Southern California shows with The Pixies frontman Black Francis and Jonah Matranga’s (Far, Gratitude) onelinedrawing. G, NA’s first full length album First LP comes out later this month digitally and will be available physically at shows. Recorded in May of 2009 at Chris Walla's (Death Cab For Cutie) Hall of Justice studio in Portland, OR, the album features all the recorded GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE songs to-date including nine new tracks. 

GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE is a collaboration between Sarah Saturday and producer/engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, Sparklehorse) who met in 2003 and recorded what would be the first GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE demos in Beau's Madison, WI apartment. Beau and Sarah rejoined forces in 2007 at Butch Vig's Smart Studios in Madison, WI to record the band’s first official release: a four-song EP entitled The First EP, which was released in the form of limited edition, numbered CDs with handmade packaging. 

Bands and fans can get involved with the tour at www.earnityourself.com/tour.
 

E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009 Current Routing

DATE   CITY
Wed 9/9 Tacoma, WA
Thu 9/10 TBA, WA
Fri 9/11 Portland, OR
Sat 9/12 Eugene, OR
Sun 9/13 Redding, CA
Mon 9/14 Stockton, CA
Tue 9/15 TBA, CA
Wed 9/16 Citrus Heights, CA
Thu 9/17 Fremont, CA
Fri 9/18 LaFayette, CA
Sat 9/19 San Jose, CA
Sun 9/20 Fresno, CA
Mon 9/21 TBA, CA
Fri 9/25 Los Angeles, CA
Sat 9/26 San Luis Obispo, CA
Sun 9/27 Victorville, CA
Mon 9/28 Phoenix, AZ
Tue 9/29 Las Vegas, NV
Wed 9/30 Salt Lake City, NV
Thu 10/1 Provo, UT
Fri 10/2 Nampa, ID
Sat 10/3 Seattle, WA
Sun 10/4 Portland, OR
Wed 10/7 TBA, OR
Thu 10/8 Spokane, WA
Fri 10/9 Bozeman, MT
Sat 10/10 Bismarck, MT
Sun 10/11 Minneapolis, MN
Mon 10/12 Madison, WI
Tue 10/13 Chicago, IL
Wed 10/14 TBA, IL
Thu 10/15 St. Louis, MO
Fri 10/16 Tulsa, OK
Sat 10/17 Austin, TX
Sun 10/18 Dallas, TX
Mon 10/19 Houston, TX
Tue 10/20 Baton Rouge, LA
Wed 10/21 New Orleans, LA
Thu 10/22 Birmingham, AL
Fri 10/23 Atlanta, GA
Sat 10/24 Charlotte, NC
Sun 10/25 Blacksburg, VA
Mon 10/26 Washington, DC
Tue 10/27 Baltimore, MD
Wed 10/28 Annapolis, MD
Thu 10/29 Philadelphia, PA
Fri 10/30 New York, NY
Sat 10/31 Providence, RI
Sun 11/1 Portland, ME
Mon 11/2 Hamden, CT
Tue 11/3 TBA, VT
Wed 11/4 Boston, MA
Fri 11/6 TBA, NY
Sat 11/7 TBA, PA
Sun 11/8 Columbus, OH
Tue 11/10 Denver, CO
Wed 11/11 Albuquerque, NM
Thu 11/12 TBA, AZ
Fri 11/13 Los Angeles, CA
 
 

E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009 SPONSOR INFO

ADERRA: Aderra delivers emotion and information to music fans at concerts by digitally capturing the show and burning it to USB flash drives that the audience can take home with them. www.aderra.net or www.aderra.co.uk 

Aderra will provide the EIY TOUR with limited edition flash drive wristbands featuring a user dashboard with the artists’ latest albums, music videos, downloadable artwork, information about the EIY tour and movement, special offers from the tour's sponsors and unique daily video footage and interviews from the road for every show on the tour. Fans will be able to purchase the wristbands after the show, and at the end of the tour they will receive a live set from both artists as a free download via email.

 
ERNIE BALL: Ernie Ball was the first to offer rock strings with the creation of Slinkys, and further revolutionized the market by offering guitarists Custom-Gauge single strings. The Ernie Ball Company also produces Music Man guitars and basses, volume pedals, and other accessories. The company's strings and accessories are available in more than 6,000 music stores throughout the U.S, and are available in over 95 countries around the world. Widely revered as the world's most popular strings, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Slash are just a few of the many musicians who play Ernie Ball strings exclusively. 800.543.2255 or www.ernieball.com 

For the tour, Ernie Ball will host a contest where fans have a chance to win tons of prizes, including a brand new MusicMan Stingray Bass worth $2,200.00. They also have the opportunity to help the artists earn Ernie Ball strings and accessories while out on the road. To enter, fans log on to www.ernieball.com/earnityourself and submit their name, email address and phone number. The more entries that are submitted, the bigger the prizes become. Each time a target number is reached, that particular prize will be given out at random to one lucky recipient. Ernie Ball will then match the recipient's prize by mailing GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE and GAVIN CASTLETON the critical road gear that every touring band needs to survive.

 
DiNG: DiNGS are currently available for over 100 devices including cell phones, gaming systems and controllers, MP3 players and laptops.  DiNGS are full color, high-resolution and custom-fit to each electronic device.  They can be removed easily without damage and do not leave any adhesive residue. www.dinglife.com 

DiNG will create exclusive GAVIN CASTLETON, GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE and EARN IT YOURSELF products for fans to purchase and use on their cell phones, laptops, and other devices. Special discounts and coupons will also be available for these and other products through the exclusive website on the Aderra wristbands available at every show. 

 

 

For press information on the E.I.Y FALL TOUR 2009, contact:
MSO    818.380.0400
Shazila Mohammed x238, shazila@msopr.com
Chelsi Schriver (tour) x231, cschriver@msopr.com

Beau and Sarah are in the studio recording the new album!

Follow along at http://twitter.com/GNAtweets and http://gardeningnotarchitecture.com!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 09, 2009
CONTACT: ALEX MOHLER
BRIDGEPORTWEST.COM


Though GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE began as just a simple recording project for music industry entrepreneur SARAH SATURDAY, the excitement and digital success of THE FIRST EP has fueled the band's first-ever tour, launching March 10 in North Hollywood, California. The trek runs throughout the west coast including stops in Sacramento, Eugene, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Phoenix and others, wrapping in Barstow, California on March 29.

SATURDAY is the founder and creator of the EARN IT YOURSELF philosophy and all-new musician resource networking website EARNITYOURSELF.COM. The site follows the principles of the philosophy—independent artists building their own careers from the ground up and earning each of their own successes—to connect musicians and industry entrepreneurs across the globe. One of the site's features is a "Show Trades" section that allows artists to interact in booking shows and tours, which SARAH utilized exclusively to connect with venues and other bands in each city to build the GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE tour.

SATURDAY recently became the first unsigned female artist to be endorsed by MACBETH SHOES and was the inspiration for "The Saturday" girls' shoe, which was part of Macbeth's 2008 Spring/Summer line.

To highlight SARAH SATURDAY’s arrival in each of the tour's cities, BUZZNET.COM and MACBETH SHOES have launched a special contest offering fans the opportunity the spend the day with Sarah for a behind-the-scenes look at EIY in action. Each winner will spend the day with Sarah on the tour, will win a slew of prizes including a pair of Macbeth shoes and GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE merchandise, and will have a journal published on Sarah's featured Buzznet.com profile, highlighting the events of the day/night. For details and to enter the contest, visit Sarahsaturday.buzznet.com and click the “Behind the DIY/EIY Scenes' Tour Contest" journal entry.

Confirmed tour dates for GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE:
03/10 Universal Bar & Grill, North Hollywood, CA
03/11 Velvet Jones, Santa Barbara, CA
03/12 Club Fred, Fresno, CA
03/13 Howe Park Hall, Sacramento, CA
03/14 The Blackwater Cafe,     Stockton, CA
03/15 Downtown Eatery & Libations, Redding, CA
03/16 Cozmic Pizza, Eugene, OR
03/17 Kelly's Olympian, Portland, OR
03/18 Mississippi Pizza Pub, Portland, OR
03/19 Re-Bar, Seattle, WA
03/20 The Funhouse, Seattle, WA
03/21 Flying M Coffeegarage, Nampa, ID
03/22 Sugarhouse Coffee, Salt Lake City, UT
03/23 New Song Underground, Salt Lake City, UT
03/25 Chyro Arts Venue, Scottsdale, AZ
03/26 EIY Meet-n-Greet @ Last Exit, Tempe, AZ
03/29 Shooter’s Nightclub, Barstow, CA

G,NA will be teaming up with COATWOLF over the next few months to produce four music videos -- one for each of the songs on "the first ep."

we will be releasing the videos exclusively on sarah saturday's BUZZNET PROFILE, so be sure to add her over there!

in other news, sarah has been working on a slew of new songs for "the first lp" -- which is due out in the spring of 2009. and there has been talk of putting together a full band to get in a van and drive around the country playing shows for fun.

i guess we're moving into phase two...

more plugs! check out the cached page on zuneinsider.com! 

check out "jabberwocky" featured on episode 82 of "dallas does indie" hosted by jasien swords! click here: http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/3031607/

about the show:
"dallas does indie" is an indie music podcast. inspired by a personal detest for modern radio, this 30 minute weekly podcast devotes itself to playing the latest and most blogged about indie music on the web. this podcast is for everybody, and is guaranteed to make you smarter.

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