Thanks to all of our frien..ds who've been consistently showing their faces and support this past year 2008 was an agonizing and stressful year for Nux Vomica. We've been through three bass players this year alone.  The year started off killer, we played some rad shows in Portland, Medford and Eugene, and somehow wrote a new song that clocked in at almost 30 minutes!

In April.. Ben told us he no longer wishe..d to play in Nux Vomica, due to his other priorities. No hard feelings. Since Just Dave broke his ribs at our show in Eugene, me, Chris and Tim set ourselves to taking a short break while we worked on some new material. It was quite relax.ng, but short lived because around June we had to start trying out new bass players to make it to the Portland Punk Fest "Summerfector" at the end of August. By July we had norrowed it down to two dudes, Danny and Mark. After a lot of deliberation and some in-fighting, we went with Danny. However, Mark knew enough songs to play a set, and Danny did not. So Mark agreed to practice for a month and play the fest with us. We'll always be in debt to him for that.

After.. the fest (which went great, we had a blast), we booked a new show in early November with our friends SAMOTHRACE from Lawrence, KA. The next two months were full of cramming in the 30-minute song (dubbed "the monster") to Danny, re-writing it, heavy in-fighting, and last-minute practices. The show went off well, we were really nervous and stressed out to the point of vomiting, but it went off fucking killer. Now three guys are on vacation in Baltimore till January. We still plan on playing with INEPSY in Februaary but after that the future is still on hold. We need time to relax and re-estab.ish our friendships with each other.

In the meantime, we have a new 7" comin..g out in January on Defector Records, and in the distant future we also have a split 10" with THE MAKAI and a double LP. Thanks everybody for showing us your support, it means more to us than you think...See you in 2009! Up the punks! -Zack