Sometimes when I'm telling people about an upcoming show, I wonder "is it worth it?"  Not for me, but for them.  Why should people pay money to see us?

It's easy to form a band.  You can easily find cheap, decent quality instruments.  Learn to play, find some people to play with, write some songs, use one of the numerous decent quality/ easy to use recording programs and record a few songs, get a myspace, book some shows.  On some levels, the easy of starting a band is great - it fosters creativity and levels the playing field.  Anyone can do it.

On the other hand, it leads to mediocrity.  I haven't seen a band that was bad in a long time, but I sure have seen plenty that were just ok - had some ok songs, played their instruments fine, seemed to be having a good time.

We don't want to be that.  No one in Flatfoot has delusions of "making it", or being the best band in the world, but we're going to give you your money's worth.  We take pride in our live show.  Aside from the occasional jig/ thrown instrument/ back to back guitar moves/ fist pump/ surprise sibling lick/ etc. we're not doing anything visually amazing.  But we believe in our songs and we feel we play them pretty well.  People always seem to have fun at a Flatfoot show, and I'm confident telling them they should come see us.

That helps when I start feeling like this guy: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33250

In other news, Saturday's show will be a special reunion show with original bassist/ silver throat Tom McCartan.  He's visiting from NYC, and we'll have a good time.  Tom has a great voice with lots of character, he writes great twangy songs and he's the only one that can do some of our cover songs justice (for example, we stopped playing Born To Run after he left - it just didn't sound right).  This will be a special show for us, and one (again) we're sure will be worth your $5.