Onion Flavored Report

Thrillhouse, Friday 7/11/2008

Years ago, we played a show in Brooklyn--Hallowe'en, 2003?--and we finally made it back last month for another show. It was great: lots of people, great readings, great bands, and Goodbye Blue Monday turned out to be an excellent place to have a show on a warm Sunday night. Thanks to anyone reading this who turned out for the show. We were excited and eager to play, and the show lived up to and beyond our hopes.

Probably on that same long-ago tour, we played in Bloomington, Indiana. I'm not sure when we'll get back there, but one of my favorite products of the Bloomington scene, Ghost Mice, are coming to Thrillhouse this Friday with some friends they made on a tour of Ireland, the Heathers. Also playing will be their old friends from San Francisco, Onion Flavored Rings.

This is probably going to be our last show for a while. Erick is headed off on another trip, possibly related to his book. No, definitely related: either he's promoting it, or recovering from it. And we thought putting out a record was hard!

Which reminds me, we still have newish records out: our epic 7" concept record, 5 billion years in the making, on Thrillhouse Records; and our split with Future Virgins on 1234Go Records. If you think you don't need the OFR/FV split on vinyl because there's a digital version floating around out there on the web, I beg to differ: I've heard the MP3s, and they're not only low-quality, but about 5% too fast. Fine if you're in a hurry, but not exactly what either band sounds like.

Eventually, we'll issue a proper CD version, and MP3s will be here for you. You miss out on the artwork, though. And there's nothing like colored vinyl.

New York, New York

Erick will be there on his book tour. Paul will be there on a honeymoonish trip with his new bride Ariel. And Steve will be there...just to be there.

For the first time in several years, an intact OFR will be in New York on June 15, 2008. This presents the opportunity for a show, and it happens that our old pals Tulsa, on that very day, indeed have a show in Brooklyn. Et voila.

When the possibility first arose, we got excited. Now that it's on, we're really excited, and we hope to see you there!

Other Flavorings

After our show last night at Thrillhouse, it will be a while before the public has a chance to set eyes on us again—July 11, 2008, to be exact. In the meantime, Paul has stuff going on with Surrender, Erick will be promoting his newly published book when he's not working on a record with Black Rainbow, and Steve can be spotted on various sidewalks around the bay area playing music with the funyons.

In fact, you can see the funyons today at Annie's Social Club. This show kind of brings it all together: the funyons is the direct progenitor of OFR, and the headlining band is The Unit Breed, featuring none other than Joe Demaree, who recorded the first OFR record in his San Jose garage. Showtime is 7pm, or possibly "7pm" (read 8:30pm…or 9pm?).

The July 11 show, if you're interested, is at Thrillhouse with our old friends Ghost Mice and their new friends from Ireland, The Heathers. We can hardly wait!