These songs are downloaded from a blog. I forget what town we are in but it was the last of the German shows. In Europe they said we had to play for atleast an hour and we were used to trying to keep it under one half hour so we are, if not all litterally drunk, kinda feeling that way from the over exposuer.No self respecting powerpop/punk/rock and roll band of the none prehistoric variety should play beyond 30 minutes!!All I remember about that place was mountains of beer bottles in the street outside of the club and kids leaning up against gas pumps smoking cigarettes!!As for Rolling Over Beethoven, me and Gavin always argue when we play together but we are never really mad at each other or at least not for very long anyway.Usually only  for a few seconds. The mistakes and accusations are making me laugh and smile as i listen. The Fevers are fun when we really want to be playing. This is why we don't tour. Radio Hearbeat ruled because we were thrilled to be there as did this European tour because, how could we not be thrilled to be there??? Maybe we'll be happy to be somewhere playing together again someday. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

Sincerely, Fever B

We recorded some stuff live at WFMU studios for the super super awesome Dave The Spazz radio show!

Listen for the Fevers Party Tune with Josie Cotton, Nikki Corvette, Dave The Spazz, and lots of other little monkeys (and monkees) clapping along and singing in between swigs off thier Budwiesers.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/MS

Fever-G

   I'm having a hard time doing laundry, because i don't want to wash away the smell of New York City Pizza, Southpaw, Subways and Taxicabs, the NYC streets,and most of all, the GIRLS we met there. Everyone we met was so nice to us and i want to thank those who came to see us(boys too) for making us feel loved. It was too much fun!!!

Highlights for me you ask? 1.) 20/20(broke my heart) 2.) Pointed Sticks(Italian nylon dance party!) 3.)Milk N Cookies(mend my heart) Justin Strauss asked if he let Rock Mania down and i almost cried.He said that we should've interviewed Sal because of all his accomplishments. Sal is awesome(true), but we talked to who we felt was the heart and soul of Milk N Cookies and Justin proved we were right! I must have hugged him 10 times that night. It was such a perfect ending for a perfect weekend! It's hard to really say who among the supporting acts was good or bad. I will say that if you sang instead shouted and you let people know your heart and your heart was saying something good and that you were with us and not against us, then i loved it. Anyone who rebels against love can suck it! ;P

JACK LEE: I don't know what you saw,but for me,it was an example of what can happen when you wear your heart on your sleeve for so many years. His songs are all so personal and so filled with pain and dissapointment that it should not be a surprise to anyone who knows his music that he might end up this way one day.  Oh well. I love him.

Next stop Japan!! In September we'll go for a few days With Paul Collins and his band!!!

 Love Always, Fever B

We have a new 45 out on Plastic Idol Records.  2 new Fevers originals  recorded in Minneapolis, MN in 2005. 

www.plasticdolrecords.com

or

www.myspace.com/plasticidolrecords

It's true, I am listeneing to Gandalf The Grey as I write this.  What are you doing?

We have a new single out i guess. For the "record"(sorry) it was not produced by "Thee Legendary SMACK! Ramen" alone. There has never been a record that was produced by any one of us EVER. His girlfiend works at Get Hip and it sounds like she may have wrote the little blurb that included that little bit of misinformation. It's a fun 45 though. It has one unreleased song that we first played with Donny Denim on the drums at a house party!!!

They want us to buy it. It used to be free. Then it was sort of free. Now we either buy it or we can't change anything about it. Maybe we can but they are making it hard to figure out!!!!!!! Sorry.

The Fevers got together for another two show US tour. The First night was in St Paul at my favorite music venue here in Minnesota, the Turf Club. It was just supposed to be a warm up for the next night but there wasn't much going on around town so they made it a radio sponsored event. This time was alot harder than past tours because this was far enough removed from the 5678's that we had to struggle to play together. We were definatley NOT tight at either show. Weird things happend to make things more difficult. At the Turf Club some guy jumped up on stage and knocked over my amp and broke it right in the middle of the set. He later apollogized and said that what he was trying for was the worlds first powerpop stagedive. I couldn't be mad at him after he said that. Following his lead, another guy jumped up in the middle of a song and started talking to me. He was saying "live your life!" and then he said it into my mic and jumped off stage. I could not be mad at him either because he was so damn happy and positive. He was having a great time. It was great to play for all of our Twin City friends and over all it was alot of fun. Thanks to everyone that was there. The next night was the reason we got together. It was for the Blackout Three Day Rock Festival in Chicago. We were to headline the first night. It was our first real headlining show in the USA and we were all nervous about it. We practiced one day only for three hours and learned songs that we've never played live. 18 songs instead of our usual 11 or 12 and i guess it was too much. On top of that there was my amp that decided to stop working right before we played probably because of the fall it took the night before. So instead of focusing on my guitars over all sound, i was just trying to make it work. The stage crew helped me figure something out but it was never quite right and sometimes the sound was so dry that i couldn't play guitar solos. If that wasn't hard enough to deal with, then my guitar strap lock busted in a way that was hard to fix so i had to play the back up. I broke a string on that so i had to fix my straplock somehow to continue.There was a huge puase in the set. It was nerveracking to say the least My band was upset and i don't blame them. The CROWD was GREAT!!! They were shouting things like "sing one about love!" and making other funny remarks. They came to see us play those songs and they weren't judging us technically. They were great. The journalist that came too critique will have alot to say about how poor our performance was but i don't care. The truth is that i agree. We don't practice or even see each other enough to be consistantly good live. That doesn't mean we are not a good band. We have our own style. We play from the heart always. If you've seen us you know that's true. We make good records that we hope will stand the test of time and we will keep on making them in our own special way and we may always be one of those bands who never fits anywhere until a whole scene is built around our sound. I'd rather be THAT kind of band than just another garage band. Hopefully, next stop is Australia. Only time will tell wether or not we can take another possible catastrophy on stage.

WAYBACK MACHINE (US) JAN 2005 Wow! I just spun this one four times in a row and didn't tire of it. That means GREATNESS, people!! I mean, yeah, their first LP (GAAN DAAR WAAR DE MEISJES ZIJN... don't say that with a mouthful of bubblegum) was incredible powerpop rock'n'roll and gained them worldwide fans, but I'm tempted to say that this new slab is even *better*. This fucker is so hooky I start to bleed everytime I put it on! They've been compared to the likes of the Nerves, the Knack, Teenage Head, the Real Kids and the Paul Collins Beat, combining the late '70s powerpop/punk sound with '60s boygroups like Hermin's Hermits and the 1910 Fruitgum Co. so you know they've gotta be great. But if you still haven't heard their first LP that's where you need to start, although I wouldn't fault you if you picked this one up first (your secret's safe with me, chump). So many killer tracks loaded with infectious melodies here that it's hard to pick favorites (or standouts to spin on my show), but the ones that really stick in my noggin are "Dance," "Bound to Cry," "Love Always Wins" (the title track), "Photobooth" (some of their best songwriting EVER!) and "My Iy Iy"... beautiful. Oh, and Gavin's vocals are perfect. Nothing sugary sweet about 'em. Nice and raspy like rock'n'roll vocals are s'posed to sound, like the well-worn sound of your favorite slab of vinyl after a few hundred spins. On top of fucking great, catchy music these guys give you the impression from their website and the pics on album that they're completely fun, silly, unpretentious, loveable goofballs! No rockstar stances or "we're oh-so hip" poses and artwork. WTF? What label, you ask? Well, Alien Snatch, natch! Get it. (J.Kopper)