September 16th, 2009

We played in Johnson City on Saturday night wrapping up an eight-day stretch of dates through the southeast. The tour couldn’t have been more of a success. After Florence & Jackson on Friday & Saturday night, we hit up Atlanta’s Smiths ‘Ol Bar for the 3 bands for 5$ night. It went well, as well as a Tuesday night could go. We played with a killer band from Austin, TX named Goldcure. Nice dudes.

We got into Auburn with way too much time to kill Wednesday morning. After bumming around the campus and seein’ just about all there is to see in Auburn, Alabama we headed to the Independent for free food and beer. The show ended up being one of the better we’ve ever played outside of town. The place was packed and the people were nice. After the show we ended up getting a 12 pack of miller light and staying in a cabin in the middle of 1800 acres (yeah 1800) in the woods outside Auburn. Here’s some pictures:








Unfortunately, we ended up canceling our show at the Hummingbird in Macon the following night (a TOS first). For whatever reason I got extremely ill from something and ended up spending the night laid up in an apartment on the outskirts of Macon. It was pretty big let down for me personally - the Hummingbird is an incredible place and I was looking forward to all that week. Hopefully we can make the trip back down there sometime early next year.

The next night we played in the small town of Cornelius, North Carolina. Just outside of Charlotte, Cornelius is mostly a tourist town for Lake Norman which is right beside it. We played at the Irish Cue and our set clocked in at just under 3 hours. It was a feat. It went well, our only entertainment competition for the night was billiard tables.

After Johnson City on Saturday it was good to be back home. We are adding more dates to our schedule before the end of the year to hopefully finish out around 80 shows played for the entire year - a personal best. Keep an eye out!

-kent

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