11/6/02 The Hi-Pointe - St. Louis, MO
Other bands: The Livingston Project, Near Miss, Belvedere
To fill the time until Nick locked us in on a tour, we played a handful of shows hither and thither.

The Hi-Pointe Cafe was a little sticker-crusted dive with a decent sound system and perpetually broken toilet. It was one of those 200 (or so) cap venues that probably every big band hit at an early point in their career. I always referred to the Creepy Crawl as St. Louis's CBGB's, but it also could have been the Hi-Pointe.

We were seeing some changes now that the record was out. There was a group of some three or four kids at the show there to see our band. Up until now, the idea that someone hundred of miles away would know our songs before we came to town was nearly unbelievable.

In signature Brazil style, we made the 6-hour drive, stayed at the venue for a few hours, then drove 6 hours straight back home to crash out as the sun crept up over the horizon. We always tended to push our luck with the gas gauge, and on the way back we let it go a little too long. At 3 a.m. we sputtered down the highway on fumes, yet somehow managed to roll into an all-night gas station just as the fuel injectors gave their last wheeze.

The Hi-Pointe Cafe closed in 2006. The owner got her real estate license and left the club business for good.