Someday, we are going to master the art of the "tour diary."  We are also gonna master the art of "video diaries..."   O well, I'm trying!  If we had a big enough touring vehicle I'd totally take an extra person with us to cover the video stuff!  I have so many cool ideas, it just seems impossible to get em and all of us are REALLY bad at doing it.

SOOOO anyways,  we had an AWESOME trip down and around Florida this past weekend.  All the shows did well- very well for an unsigned band like ourselves-  basically all the shows had between 90 and 140 people paid!  That means with bands and guests we were rocking to over 100 people per show!  TAKE THAT!  Thank you sooooo much to everyone who made this possible:  Nick from The Dugout, Dan Smyth, Jen from 1982 + The Skandals, 22nd Base, Plan Z, The Pants, Victims of Circumstance, The Long Johns, H1N1, Suckerfish, Danny Smooth, Along The Lines Of, No More, The Duppies, Jump Radar, and Shotgun Diplomacy for helping us out with this!  YES thats alot of people, but everyone had a part- even if they were just playing the show!  Also special thanks to Nadar, Graham + Stephen Sutton, and Tyler for giving us places to stay.  Also thanks to Adam Donaldson for watching over Paul's Jeep in Pensacola!

LAST but not least-  I wanted to say thanks to Nick from 22nd Base, Graham and Steven Sutton, Woody Bond, Tony Farah, Danny and Jen of No More, and ANYONE else who helped us backline gear on this trip.  Without a real good touring vehicle-  yall saved our asses and helped us keep this cost effective!  I can't say thanks enough because without all that- we really would have been stuck.

So here we go: 

We left New Orleans about 3 hours later then we wanted to on Thursday and quickly realized we were not gonna make it all the way to Gainesville before the sun came up.  We got Paul around midnight in Pensacola and squeezed into our tight vehicle for the trip!  How we pulled this off I really don't know:

So we kept driving and realized we couldn't start this trip by staying awake through sunrise on the first day so we rudely asked our good buddy Nadar to put us up for the night.  AS ALWAYS!  Nadar took care of us.  We crashed for just a few hours and then proceeded to drive all the way to Miami.  On our way we saw quite a few traffic accidents.  One car was on fire right outside of New Orleans, some cars broken down, one car rolled up against a sign, etc, etc... and each time Clay would say "I hope that doesn't happen to us!"   O SHIT- yea, my bad--  SPECIAL THANKS to Clay for filling in for Austin on this trip.  He did awesome and we really had a good time with him.  Clay plays bass in Joystick and anyone who makes it to the next 3 shows can meet him.  So anyways, that was pretty humorous-  we just kept driving and driving and driving...

We arrived in Miami past load in- but thankfully everyone understood.  Traffic was awful!  I hate being late, so I was calling/texting like a madman to keep people informed...  well we got there and started loading in/cooking and waiting for everyone else to get to.  The Dugout is a 300-400 capacity venue out by the airport in Miami.  I really like this place.  The people that run it are great and they are slowly upgrading the PA!  It was 10x better this time then it was back in June.  AND SO WAS THE SHOW!  THe audience grew from last time as well and we really had a great crowd.  We were able to try a few new songs out and get Clay's jitters out of the way.  Good response-  We had some guest horns for Push Push Push as well as some good ol stage fun as usual:  Here's a pic of Rachit having "fun"