Harvard Square was hopping Friday night. People were everywhere. And Tommy Doyle's was hopping too. A band called Borough of Kings from NYC opened the night. They leaned toward 80's party music including some covers in that vein.
I decided to play an old Guild Starfire that I've had forever that night, just to keep people honest. I'll post a pic of that soon.
We had a nice crowd of Sand folks and the place was crowded with walk-ins byt the time we were on. Here's what we played:
Mystery Track #4
Call Me Elvis Now
As Noah wrote to me today about his feeling about the Celtics, I'm also perhaps foolishly on the side of hope.
Some friends came in to the Conference recording sessions to help with the singing of Let the Demons Die. (Check out here to see a vid of the making of that.) We provided them with this very professional aid to help with the lyrics:
We worked on 5 or so post-Conference songs or potential songs last night. It's promising stuff. Bootleg versions of some of this material in whatever state it's in may be available at some point on the iSM page. Stay tuned.
Thanks everyone for another nice sold out show at Lizard Lounge last night. Great atmosphere there as always. Here's what you missed if you weren't there (in the right order this time):
Put a Brave Face On
Call Me Elvis Now
Back Again
ATM Song
Stick Around Some More
Dreams to Forget
This Time the Angels Walk the Line
[a new song, possibly called Because of Me]
The Snow is on the Grass Again
It's Getting Late
Noly-Noly Crimbellum
Dance and Drink Wine
The Ship
Quinn the Eskimo
Responding to public demand, images are now uploadable by fans to sandmachine.com. Webmaster Tom has created iSM Community Gallery v1.0, located at the iSM section of the site. Logged in users of sandmachine.com will see an orange "Upload Your Image!" button through which you can browse to the image you're after.
Upload away.
We're playing a bunch of songs Thursday night, from sources near and far. Your fave may already be in the works, but in case it isn't if you want to request something we'll give it consideration (meaning, can we wing that one?). You can reply here or wherever...
I was in New York City over the weekend, staying near Chinatown/Little Italy. On Saturday we wandered the Soho-Noho-Washington Sq-Lower East Side circuit and encountered a great number of Santas. Apparently there was a "Santa Convention" - they were on every corner and walking on every street. This night nothing attracted a crowd of Santas like a crowd of Santas. We passed a number of establishments where when we looked in all we could see was them. And also out and about were reindeer, snowflakes, elves, and other things I couldn't identify but were tied to the season somehow I'd guess.
For the first time ever we have a holiday single this year. It's called "Back Again" and you can't miss it front and center on the homepage. You can listen to it there or download it. It's our holiday present. Hope you like it. We weren't sure what your size is, but we hope it fits. Kept the receipt.
Special thanks to Ethan Stone for the tasty organ work throughout and especially on the instrumental break. And another special thanks to Keri Beckwith for the very nice original "Back Again" image (affectionately called bunnydrum).
