Hello friends!

SK6ERS are hitting the road with NEEDTOBREATHE and we want to see your faces out there!

Presale tickets for the March leg go on sale this Friday, December 18, at 3:00 pm. Tickets for dates in April and May go on sale February 5.

Head on over to our website for the full list of dates and info, and get your presale tickets here.

**TEAM SK6ERS**

Stephen Kellogg and The Sixers want to see your rendition of their music video Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts. Recreate the music video using the choreography in the Official Video.

All video applicants will receive a signed poster by the band.

Stephen, Boots, Kit and Steamer will review the videos submitted then choose their favorite. The creators of the winning video will receive tickets and backstage passes to hang out with the band (up to 4) at any SK6ers show in 2010* plus a Ful tour luggage set courtesy of our friends at Ful bags.**

Get creative! But remember your video MUST:
- Be your own original version of the Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts music video
- Include the choreography from the official video
- Be at least 1 minute long

Once finished, upload your video to youtube and send the link to sk6erscontest@gmail.com along with your full name, address and age.

Good luck!!

TEAM SK6ERS

* Some restrictions may apply.
** Travel expenses not included.

Hello friends!

As a thank you to the fans of SK6ERS, we've partnered up with 15 of our friends to bring you a free music sampler. It's a gift from us to you for the Holiday Season! As always, thank you for all of your incredible support. Click on the banner below to download! You can also stream all the songs in the widget below.

To our Loyal Fans!

Another SK6ERS first, "Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts" debuted in Triple A Radio Charts this week at #28...yay!!

Here is an in studio performance of the song at one of our favorite radio stations, Portland, OR 101.9 KINK. Enjoy...

Here's some big news for those of you who don't want your news any other way:

Holiday Run Announced - 9:30 Club Kick Off

This year's annual Holiday Run kicks off with a huge bang - Dec. 26th in Washington, DC we bring our jams and our chops to the 9:30 Club. We have been excited about this show since the minute we booked it. Every Holiday Run has some special theme, and this year in addition to a traditional SK6ERS set, we'll be paying tribute each night to some of our peers who have influenced our music. Never heard SK6ERS play a State Radio song? Well, now's your chance.

SK6ERS NYE Celebration!

This year, you have 2 chances to celebrate New Years Eve with SK6ERS at Watercolor Cafe in Larchmont, NY (just a short drive from NYC, CT, and NJ). Doors for the first show are at 6:00 pm and doors for the second show at 9:30 pm. Each ticket includes a full SK6ERS set, 3-course gourmet dinner, a meet & greet with the guys, champagne toast at midnight (or faux midnight for you early birds), AND, because SK6ERS have decided to go so intimate for 2009, they will be writing a song for each show, including every advance ticket buyer's name in it!! You will leave with a CD of the song!! Come one and come all!

SK6ERS Are No Charity Rarity

As Monopoly is to McDonalds, so are the handwritten lyrics to the Rellogg Foundation. Available now, exclusively through our online store, you can get some unique cool gifts for loved ones. The kicker is that in addition to personalized lyrics, we'll have a 2010 Calendar and our first ever Holiday song "Winter Wonderland" available. 100% of Net Proceeds will go to benefit the St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Live Record at the Legendary Bowery Ballroom

SK6ERS are turning SK's Birthday Shows in NYC into their first ever LIVE RECORD. Lately SK6ERS have been better than ever - rocking hard and loving life. This recording comes at the perfect time. All ticket buyers will receive an exclusive SK6ERS recording at the show and for those who take advantage of the discounted two night pass, you will be able to show your tickets from both nights at the merchandise table and receive your invite to the after party celebration! Please join us in making history together!
Until next time,
SK, Kit, Boots, and Steamer

Hello all!

  Hello, Boots here.  It has been quite a while since I’ve written one of these road journals.  Such a long time, that I don’t know whether to call it a road journal or a blog, or perhaps a road blogournal.  I’ve been concentrating more on the video side of things to keep you updated on what we’re doing on the road.  We call those things video blogs.  Or vlogs.  Maybe we should start calling them road vlogournals…

 

  Neither here nor there, the past two months have been worthy of many vlogs and blogournals because so many great things have been happening to The Sixers that it’s hard to even know where to begin.

 

  How about September 4^th 2009?  That sounds good.  That was the day The Sixers got together with the UMass marching band and made a video for the HIT SINGLE Shady Esperanto.  We had a vision of making a video with a huge amount of people, preferably a marching band (I don’t think we had access to state penitentiaries).  What would we do with them?  At first we didn’t know, but when Stephen and I started dancing in a hotel room somewhere in Indianapolis it all became clear; we would teach them a poorly thought out dance.  Actually, it wasn’t poorly thought out more than the moves just looked silly.  Especially when these moves were being performed by two dudes with no pants on in a Holiday Inn.  But with 400 people doing it at the same time we thought this dance could stand a chance, even in your underpants.

 

  Shooting began at 7am, which was a bit scary for me, because this summer there were very few days that I’d wake up before 11am, but luckily Jess brought an i.v. of coffee.  After several injections of lattes and 5 hour energy drinks we began to teach this massive crowd the silliest dance I’ve ever seen… and it looked great.  They got us some uniforms, we sweated, danced, got the band to spell out SK6ERS, edited the footage for over 10 hours somewhere in New Jersey 10 hours before we had to leave for tour and we were done.  Just like that.

 

  And what a wonderful way to start off a tour.  From one eminent, grandiose idea to another.  When talking with Carbon Leaf about how The Bear Rhymes With Woman Tour was going to shake down, we weren’t exactly sure if it were possible.  Normally, when you tour with another band, in order to save room, time and other important things like channels on the soundboard, dignity, etc., you sometimes have to share equipment and move your gear out of the way (we call that Striking in the business…).  But we had a plan.  We weren’t going to do any of that.  There would be no set changes, no waste of time in between bands.  We would vigilantly do nothing, we’d only go against the grain, against everything our touring forefather’s have done before; we were going to leave our shit up there and never stop the show...

 

  When most drummers meet each other on the stage for the first time on a tour, there is always this all too common joke and it goes something like this:

 

Drummer 1 (while taking drum set off stage, usually in dismay): Hey man, I should just leave my kit up here and we could do a Grateful Dead or Allman Brothers jam…  Two drum kits would be cool!

Drummer 2:  Haha, yeah that would be funny…  Get your shit off the stage.

  But this time no one was joking.  No one was fooling around.  We were going to leave drum sets on stage for a seamless transition and encore at the end of the show with every member of the two bands together.  And yes, there would be two drummers and no, no one would get hurt, except if you count people’s heads being blown off by an unbelievable dual drum set solo to end the show!!!!  After an Allman Brother’s song of course…

  Following through with ideas like the Shady video and the transition element of The Bear Rhymes With Woman tour is what made these past couple of months so special for us.  Because with both of these ideas, there were at least 12 people who said “That’s impossible” or “Are you fucking kidding me?  That’s never going to work, go fu-“.  You get the picture.  But we conquered the elements and not only reached our goals, but in the process it seemed like we made a lot of people happy.  I don’t know if every person noticed the fortitude of these accomplishments, but we sure did see a lot of smiling faces and that’s really all you can ask for.....

  So Carbon Leaf went home as did SK6ERS.  Ten sweet days off and then back out on Lady Road as we call her, ready to take down the west coast with our good buddy Tyrone Wells and his gang.  We’re excited for what’s on the horizon and we hope to see you there.

All the best,

 

Boots