It's been an interesting few months. We wanted to give a big thank you to all of our friends for coming out to the Skylark on 1/15 and making the show a success. Since we are in the process of writing new songs for "Electrons Oppose" our show schedule is going to remain fairly light. Our goal is to get out and play a show a month. This will hopefully allow us time to make progress on the new record.

Anyway, with that in mind, we are happy to announce our next show...
The High Dive Presents, Berkeley Heights, 2/14/09. This is a happy hour show that starts @ 6:00pm. The show should be out by 8:00. That means, if you have someone special to take to dinner you should have plenty of time after the show. Our hope is to debut a new song, or two, if we can get them done. You should come. If you don't we'll be sad.

One final note...I'm sure some of you have noticed the incredible flyer on our page for the show. The illustration was created by an amazing artist named Kerry Talbott. He was kind enough to allow us to use it for our flyer. You should really check out his stuff, subscribe to his blog, send him good thoughts etc.

here is his website http://www.kerrytalbottillustration.com/index.htm

also, check out his blog http://crawdadjoneshouseofennui.blogspot.com/

It is really, really generous of him to allow us to use his fabulous art and we want to make sure he gets his proper recognition.

That's it for now.

Until next time.
Berkeley Heights

"WINTER STORM 2008" is in full effect and so are the guys here at Berkeley Heights.

I guess what I am trying to say is...come on out and see us play. After taking our little break we have finally gotten ourselves back on the music bus with a couple of shows booked and hopefully a few more on the way. The shows are going to be spaced out a little more than they were this Summer/Fall so we can keep writing new songs for the "Electrons Oppose" record but we are going to try and do one every month, or so.

Here are the first two.

12/27/08 - The Monkey Pub in the U District. It's free, it's Cody's birthday, it's a Saturday and it's not suppose to be snowing anymore. You should come.

Then...

1/15/09 - The Skylark Cafe in West Seattle. It's also free, it's not Cody's birthday and hopefully it won't be snowing then either. You should come again.

Also, we are in the process of updating some of the website stuff etc. Just keep in mind that we are slackers so things happen when we get around to them.

Take care, stay warm and enjoy the egg nog.

Love,

Berkeley Heights

Our month of craziness is over! We have returned from our various vacations and have started recording "Electrons Oppose". There should be an announcement of a live date or two in the next couple of weeks. Yay!

Also, we wanted to let people know that we are available to play your house party.  We really are a perfect house party band because:

1) We don't use live drums. This allows us to keep the volume down.

2) We are cheap. We would play for as little as free alcohol (depending on the location and other party details)

3) We will provide a PA, lights and a fog machine. (See how cool your party could be)

You may ask why we want to do this. Our answer is simple. We want to play in front of as many people as possible. You want to throw a great party and entertain your friends. It's a perfect scenario.

Anyway, feel free to send us a myspace message or an email @ berkeleyheightsmusic@gmail.com if you are interesed.

Sincerely,

Berkeley Heights

I know, I know...it's really not that big of a deal but we are excited to break the 10,000 play mark. Now we need your help to get 20,000. Wait, maybe I am getting a little ahead of myself.

Anyway, so we booked a couple more shows. The first one is going to be a Justified! cover night at the Mars Bar. It is on Saturday October 18 and it is exactly what it sounds like (bands come and play N'Sync/Justin Timberlake covers). We've picked our two songs and are trying to get them learned well enough to not make complete asses of ourselves. I don't know but I think it will be fun.

We are also doing a show with our friends Twilight Drive on the 23rd of October. This show is @ a place called the Swiss Pub in Tacoma. If you happen to live in the area (or don't mind driving down) it should be a good time.

I guess that's it.

Love,

Berkeley Heights

The Weekly Volcano (Tacoma & The South Sound's weekly paper) did a nice preview of our Le Voyeur show on Saturday. Here is some of what they said...the printed version is longer so I will try to get a scan of it available soon.

(update: here is the link to the full print version)

http://www.berkeleyheightsmusic.com/pressDetail.asp?flyer=091808

Berkeley Heights
Brothers Chris and Cody Groom — who collectively make up the two-piece band Berkeley Heights — will be at Le Voyeur in Olympia tonight. According to the band's Web site, "If you are afraid of pop music the band might not be for you, but don't be surprised if you catch yourself humming along."

Sounds to me like a challenge, and if Berkeley Heights' musical meanderings are any indication (or at least the meanderings available at www.berkeleyheightsmusic.com), it's a challenge you're likely to lose. Based on time-tested songwriting aesthetics from yesteryear and the instruments and computer enhancements of today, Berkeley Heights — for all the brothers Groom's pop leanings and candy flavored choruses — are skilled at what they do. — Matt Driscoll
[Le Voyeur, with The Freehands and Bacon Moon, 10 p.m., no cover, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.5710]

Special thanks to Matt @ The Weekly Volcano for the kind words.

As always, thanks for listening.

Berkeley Heights

Just wanted to quickly announce that we booked another gig @ The Green Room. We will also be bringing back our friends Pseudo and Alexis Egg. The cover is $5 at the door and the show starts @ 8:00pm.

We'd love to see you there.

Berkeley Heights

Yep, two blog posts in one day... Anyway, it has been brought to my attention that the lovely little blog "Indie Update" had this to say about your friends Berkeley Heights.