Apr 8 2009 8:00P
The Frequency w/ THE DRONES Madison, Wisconsin
May 2 2009 8:00P
7th Street Entry w/ GAY WITCH ABORTION, and DOUBLE BIRD MInneapolis, Minnesota
May 8 2009 8:00P
Union Hall NYC, New York
May 9 2009 8:00P
Cake Shop NYC, New York
May 30 2009 8:00P
The Blind Pig, for BANG! party Ann Arbor, Michigan
Jun 20 2009 8:00P
The Melody Inn Indianapolis, Indiana
Jul 10 2009 8:00P
Metro LOSE YOUR ILLUSION, TOO Release Party w/ Thomas Function, Davila 666, and Stranger Waves Chicago, Illinois
Jul 11 2009 8:00P
Beachland Ballroom w/ Davila 666 Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 12 2009 8:00P
Bug Jar w/ Davila 666 Rochester, New York
Jul 13 2009 8:00P
The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern w/ Davila 666 Toronto
Jul 14 2009 8:00P
Il Motore w/ Davila 666 Montreal
Jul 15 2009 8:00P
The Church w/ Davila 666 Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 16 2009 8:00P
Johnny Brenda’s w/ Davila 666 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
Southpaw w/ Davila 666 Brooklyn, New York
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Café Nine w/ Davila 666 New Haven, Connecticut
Jul 19 2009 8:00P
Maxwell’s w/ Davila 666 Hoboken, New Jersey
Jul 21 2009 8:00P
Talking Head Club w/ Davila 666 Baltimore, Maryland
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
TBA New York City, New York
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
Backstage @ the Black Cat w/ Davila 666 Washington DC, Washington DC
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
31st Street Pub w/ Davila 666 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
The Comet w/ Davila 666 Cincinnati, Ohio
Jul 26 2009 8:00P
Ravari Room w/ Davila 666 Columbus, Ohio
WEST COAST TOUR DATES TO FOLLOW
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This Week in Mannequin Men
Hey, so a bit has been happening with us.
First of all, we're happy to announce that Chicago's Biz3 will be doing publicity for the new record, we couldn't be happier to work with such a respected firm of guys and gals.
Also, we booked some more Mannequin Men shows since the record might take a while to come out.
We'll be playing with the New Bomb Turks (yeah, that New Bomb Turks) at the Cobra Lounge on Saturday, February 21st and will be playing with Michael Yonkers/Plastic Crimewave, Cave, and a bunch of other bands in March at the Million Tongues Festival @ the Empty Bottle
We'll also be heading out to Minneapolis to play on the 7th at Stasiu's which should be interesting if not a rager. We can't wait to see all you Minnesotans again.
Also, we just got back from Madison from a show with our pals, Dials. Twas fun and all and we treated ourselves to a calm night of dining and swimming, here's a review:
http://madison.decider.com/articles/tim-and-eric-at-barrymore-theatre-the-dials-and-ma,23056/
Finally, we'll be travelling down to SXSW in March like every other bloodthirsty lunatic. Playing Champaign with Living Blue on the way down as well as Lawrence and Omaha with the Black Lips. Come see us, we'll be posting the dates soon.
guess that's all,
kev
First of all, we're happy to announce that Chicago's Biz3 will be doing publicity for the new record, we couldn't be happier to work with such a respected firm of guys and gals.
Also, we booked some more Mannequin Men shows since the record might take a while to come out.
We'll be playing with the New Bomb Turks (yeah, that New Bomb Turks) at the Cobra Lounge on Saturday, February 21st and will be playing with Michael Yonkers/Plastic Crimewave, Cave, and a bunch of other bands in March at the Million Tongues Festival @ the Empty Bottle
We'll also be heading out to Minneapolis to play on the 7th at Stasiu's which should be interesting if not a rager. We can't wait to see all you Minnesotans again.
Also, we just got back from Madison from a show with our pals, Dials. Twas fun and all and we treated ourselves to a calm night of dining and swimming, here's a review:
http://madison.decider.com/articles/tim-and-eric-at-barrymore-theatre-the-dials-and-ma,23056/
Finally, we'll be travelling down to SXSW in March like every other bloodthirsty lunatic. Playing Champaign with Living Blue on the way down as well as Lawrence and Omaha with the Black Lips. Come see us, we'll be posting the dates soon.
guess that's all,
kev
Monday, September 22, 2008
"Commitment"
we've been listening to a lot of bobby darin during breaks and it's been especially helpful when we're getting things going in the weekend mornings at the manor. i feel strangely like a group of hyenas. there's a pretty tight bond between the six of us right now as we roll through the finish line here and start mixing and i'm interested to see what comes from this. Surely, we've been in a situation where we felt on the same page with people before and have definitely been charged up together, but with mike and jesse there's a definite sense of a more human understanding.
the manor is kinda like being in exile.
it is hard to imagine having to go back to dealing with real life every time we leave there.
all of our jokes are then rendered non-sensical and when people ask how the studio is, it's hard to relate any sort of memory of the events that transpired. i mean, fuck, none of them really make sense to me.
overdubs are finished on nearly every song now and we'll be ready to mix once we lay down the party vocal on '(us and) all our friends are so messed up' we should be ready to hole up and mix the fucker. things are turning out great, but it's still a little strange. tried a bunch of t-rex percussion stuff on 'helpful' and did some overdubs on vocals for 'wtf lol' (thanks, sar) the thing that really sticks out for me is the adds on percussion for 'judy' which sound incredible. ethan has really really nailed the little lead-in licks that he hears on his head in nearly every song and his guitar playing, while managing to stay articulate, is out of this world.
we'll see.
finishing up tonight on most stuff.
know i promised a song, but you might have to wait til tomorrow.
~k
the manor is kinda like being in exile.
it is hard to imagine having to go back to dealing with real life every time we leave there.
all of our jokes are then rendered non-sensical and when people ask how the studio is, it's hard to relate any sort of memory of the events that transpired. i mean, fuck, none of them really make sense to me.
overdubs are finished on nearly every song now and we'll be ready to mix once we lay down the party vocal on '(us and) all our friends are so messed up' we should be ready to hole up and mix the fucker. things are turning out great, but it's still a little strange. tried a bunch of t-rex percussion stuff on 'helpful' and did some overdubs on vocals for 'wtf lol' (thanks, sar) the thing that really sticks out for me is the adds on percussion for 'judy' which sound incredible. ethan has really really nailed the little lead-in licks that he hears on his head in nearly every song and his guitar playing, while managing to stay articulate, is out of this world.
we'll see.
finishing up tonight on most stuff.
know i promised a song, but you might have to wait til tomorrow.
~k
Thursday, September 18, 2008
"They painted a dog and when it got on stage it kinda just barked and ran away."
Heard some pretty great stories about ZZ top on the Tejas tour yesterday. Including one that ended like that, because when Billy Gibbons was asked what he wanted the stage to look like, he responded that he hoped it would re-create the album cover.
"So you want cattle?"
"Yeah, and every night i want a wolf to come out and howl and we'll start the show"
"Well, Billy, a wolf is a wild animal..."
yesterday was by far the most productive of the days in there and i am really really starting to become involved in this record as i think everyone who is working on it is. 'alice golden' was nearly forgotten since it hadn't been played in so long but we dropped a great version of it yesterday and it is close to my fav so far. some unexpected gems.
got done with all the guitar and bass fixes yesterday as well so we'll start overdubbing parts onto the record tonight when we meet up.
it's strange.
i know the record is going to diappoint a lot of kids as it's so much more pop than anything we've ever tried before. i am starting to abandon the strangeness of that now though. it really is kinda an odd record but in my favorite ways. it's weird to think about how when the replacements did 'let it be' they recorded 'androgynous' and 'gary's got a boner' in the same session. not that i'm comparing our record to a masterpiece like that, but i feel that there is a similar idea there.
hopefully, the rock songs (and there are some faster ones on it) will sate that need for people to bang their head.
patrick just made a good point in saying: "i don't sit around and listen to rock records" and it's a really good point.
anyhow.
more tomorrow and maybe a song or something.
just don't tell lust or the label.
"So you want cattle?"
"Yeah, and every night i want a wolf to come out and howl and we'll start the show"
"Well, Billy, a wolf is a wild animal..."
yesterday was by far the most productive of the days in there and i am really really starting to become involved in this record as i think everyone who is working on it is. 'alice golden' was nearly forgotten since it hadn't been played in so long but we dropped a great version of it yesterday and it is close to my fav so far. some unexpected gems.
got done with all the guitar and bass fixes yesterday as well so we'll start overdubbing parts onto the record tonight when we meet up.
it's strange.
i know the record is going to diappoint a lot of kids as it's so much more pop than anything we've ever tried before. i am starting to abandon the strangeness of that now though. it really is kinda an odd record but in my favorite ways. it's weird to think about how when the replacements did 'let it be' they recorded 'androgynous' and 'gary's got a boner' in the same session. not that i'm comparing our record to a masterpiece like that, but i feel that there is a similar idea there.
hopefully, the rock songs (and there are some faster ones on it) will sate that need for people to bang their head.
patrick just made a good point in saying: "i don't sit around and listen to rock records" and it's a really good point.
anyhow.
more tomorrow and maybe a song or something.
just don't tell lust or the label.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Jeff's House
another day done, didn't get a whole lot accomplished besides naming our imaginary ska band (Don Skaballero or Animal Skallective) and getting some bro-ing done, but we did manage to pull off a really nice "neon lights" by doing something we've never tried and splicing the two parts together. sounds real great and will definitely be one of the corners of the record as far as i'm concerned. had a listening party to check out what we had gotten done and now it's time to listen to some stuff and get ideas/decisions on which takes and what to use.
just started downloading the .zip file of it off rapidshare and i don't know if you guys have this problem but rapidshare can fucking blow me. it's just a pain in the ass. regardless, it was nice of jesse to throw that up there so we could all just download what we have. i'll try and post something later in the week when we get some more things decided upon. Despite thinking that we were being total slackers by drinking so much beer and telling jokes the whole time, we're actually getting a lot done.
tonight, we go in to do 'massage' again and then i think we're going to try and blaze through some of the more boring shit, like guitar punches and bass fixes. got quite a bit of stuff already.
just started downloading the .zip file of it off rapidshare and i don't know if you guys have this problem but rapidshare can fucking blow me. it's just a pain in the ass. regardless, it was nice of jesse to throw that up there so we could all just download what we have. i'll try and post something later in the week when we get some more things decided upon. Despite thinking that we were being total slackers by drinking so much beer and telling jokes the whole time, we're actually getting a lot done.
tonight, we go in to do 'massage' again and then i think we're going to try and blaze through some of the more boring shit, like guitar punches and bass fixes. got quite a bit of stuff already.
Monday, September 15, 2008
do both
so, we went into the studio with lust at phantom manor saturday afternoon.
things got rolling kinda slow and the rain didn't really motivate anyone to change that so we lost a couple hours to the bloody marys at the bottle. rolled in to get set up and the studio looks great. nice room to sit around and hang out in, great control room and a pretty incredible live room.
everyone got a little lit up for the first session and we didn't end up getting much in the way of takes saturday night. i think we kept three: 'cream rises', 'never living', and 'judy'. lust is hilarious to work with and i'm pretty sure i've never had as many inside jokes with someone i had practically just met than him. he kinda knows when to break up the tension and when to just let it roll, it feels great to work with someone who is so good at his job, and is willing to put a WWF microphone sound FX machine into the talk-back mic when the song sounds like shit.
sunday we got quite a bit more done which may or may not have been because we weren't totally wrecked off our asses all day. miles' upper grass helped a lot and there was more budweiser. finally got lusty to drink some of those after a short protest that was supposed to last the entire session and didn't last more than three hours. let's face it. it's the king of beers.
got going quickly, laid down miles' new one which is still untitled, 'massage', 'i don't care', a great nearly perfect version of 'rat hole', a couple versions of 'WTF LOL', laid a base track for the pagans cover, and also worked a lot on ideas for the new one we are writing in the studio called 'kinda babes'. things are sounding pretty great and the sounds we're getting are pretty right on the money. likely we'll go in and throw some prettier stuff on the tracked songs tonight and try our hand at 'neon lights' which kinda sounded like garbage yesterday.
maybe we'll take it a little easier tonight, too. i can say for sure that this weekend has done some pretty intense damage to my liver and has aged me a little bit, but it was pretty fun. i can totally see now how bands end up fighting the shit out each other in the studio. when you're getting fucked up and sitting in a room together talking about what you wanna do and someone dissents it's almost always taken as a personal attack. doesn't help when the people getting fucked up and arguing are musicians and have pretty substantial egos to go with them. there was a little bickering in front of sara and caitlin yesterday and i got kinda bent out about. decided we needed to chill and did. got some pretty decent stuff recorded after that as well and got, what i think is, a keeper for 'WTF' right after.
excited to see what happens in the next stage.
til' then.
-k
things got rolling kinda slow and the rain didn't really motivate anyone to change that so we lost a couple hours to the bloody marys at the bottle. rolled in to get set up and the studio looks great. nice room to sit around and hang out in, great control room and a pretty incredible live room.
everyone got a little lit up for the first session and we didn't end up getting much in the way of takes saturday night. i think we kept three: 'cream rises', 'never living', and 'judy'. lust is hilarious to work with and i'm pretty sure i've never had as many inside jokes with someone i had practically just met than him. he kinda knows when to break up the tension and when to just let it roll, it feels great to work with someone who is so good at his job, and is willing to put a WWF microphone sound FX machine into the talk-back mic when the song sounds like shit.
sunday we got quite a bit more done which may or may not have been because we weren't totally wrecked off our asses all day. miles' upper grass helped a lot and there was more budweiser. finally got lusty to drink some of those after a short protest that was supposed to last the entire session and didn't last more than three hours. let's face it. it's the king of beers.
got going quickly, laid down miles' new one which is still untitled, 'massage', 'i don't care', a great nearly perfect version of 'rat hole', a couple versions of 'WTF LOL', laid a base track for the pagans cover, and also worked a lot on ideas for the new one we are writing in the studio called 'kinda babes'. things are sounding pretty great and the sounds we're getting are pretty right on the money. likely we'll go in and throw some prettier stuff on the tracked songs tonight and try our hand at 'neon lights' which kinda sounded like garbage yesterday.
maybe we'll take it a little easier tonight, too. i can say for sure that this weekend has done some pretty intense damage to my liver and has aged me a little bit, but it was pretty fun. i can totally see now how bands end up fighting the shit out each other in the studio. when you're getting fucked up and sitting in a room together talking about what you wanna do and someone dissents it's almost always taken as a personal attack. doesn't help when the people getting fucked up and arguing are musicians and have pretty substantial egos to go with them. there was a little bickering in front of sara and caitlin yesterday and i got kinda bent out about. decided we needed to chill and did. got some pretty decent stuff recorded after that as well and got, what i think is, a keeper for 'WTF' right after.
excited to see what happens in the next stage.
til' then.
-k
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