A huge THANK YOU to all of you who have kept us inspired and made us more excited than ever about our band. We played our first show with the new line-up back in late October, and since then things have been climbing a ladder of continual awesomeness. Everyone we've talked to is as stoked on the new line-up as we are, and that makes us quite happy.
The dates in October with Young Livers and Thunderlip were super fun, and FEST 6 was fucking amazing (a huge thanks to Tony, and to the 100 or so people who actually showed up to see us, especially the VA Beacch, ATL, and Gainesville contigents). Playing with Small Brown Bike and Seaweed was too cool for words.
Our Virginia shows in November and December ruled it - great to hang with Ankou and Pash again, and the Melt Banana show was fun times...plus we got to play a show with Brendan's other band, Memorial. A Cosmonaut's Ruin, Horsefang, Tapeworms, and of course our practice space mates, The Unholy Four (w/ The Homewreckers), all rocked our collective ass - all of you insprire new faith in what Charlottesville's inconsistent music scene is capable of producing these days.
Our 2 week tour in January proved to be the best tour any of us have ever experienced. Almost every show had a great turn-out, and even more importantly, almost every show had enthusiastic people who were really into our music. For once we didn't lose money either! Having Neagle on the road is like bringing along your own self-powered anti-boredom machine. Zac Hobbs was also our merch dude extraordinaire...quite an aloof fellow I might add - for sure. Ha ha...sorry Zac, I had to.
Big thanks go to the following folks for making this tour the super fun time that it was: Endless Mike & The Beagle Club, Roboto Project, Jeremy and The Davneport, Patrick and Lost Hands Found Fingers, The Poison Room, Skull Mountain Dudes (Duncan, Chubbs, Chuck, Micah, Paul), Head Above Water, Generation of Vipers, Ocoai, Longbranch Saloon, David & Steve for putting us up and showing us "Monsturd", Cam and The Snakepit dudes, all of the Clemson kids made the raddest house show ever, Mary and Incindiaries, Zac's parents, my hookshot that schooled Neagle, I Can Fly House, Fag Static, Chissakes, Sorry No Ferrari, BENARD, Matt at Transitions, The Tim Version, The Rest of Us (rad dudes!), The Atlantic for totally ruling it, Su, Jackie, and Emma for also totally ruling it, The Top, Tony Weinbender, Ben Pratt, Aaron Kahn, Liquid Limbs, YOUNG LIVERS ("where's my dice you motherfucker!!!?!"), The Pink Palace, Diego, TWO DAYS OF FREEDOM, Black Tusk dudes for letting us pig out and for giving us moonshine, Hazerai, and Chaz for being a sweet and understanding dude. Last but not least, our beloved van, Jailbreak, for handling way more weight than she probably should have, and for not breaking down!
Now go do the SLIP 'N' SLIDE!