The Minni-Thins

The Cathedrals Take It

My nerves having been playing havoc on my stomach at every show since we opened for The Wrens earlier this month. Tonight was no different, and I found myself unable to eat all day and on the verge of puking just as we began to play. I managed not to blow chunks, and we managed a pretty nice set.

Moth was good, but three songs into The Cathedrals set I looked at Damon and said, "They're going to win," and he smiled and agreed. Well played, Cathedrals. Good luck next week.

Thanks to everyone who came out, with a special thanks to our underage pals who were finally able to get in to see us and mosh. Next show is (next) Saturday, July 2, at The Comet with our good buddies from Louisville, Adventure. Look out burritos, here we come... See you there!

Somehow I overlooked the email with the details for Saturday's show. Here are the CORRECT details:

Sundresses:  8- 8:30 PM

Kamikaze Saucers:  8:45- 9:15 PM

Minni-Thins:  9:30- 10:00 PM

Moth:  10:15- 10:45 PM

Cathedrals:  11:00- 11:30 PM

****************** THIS IS A FREE ALL AGES SHOW ******************

The Minni-Thins at... LOLLAPALOOZA?!?!?!

First off, Friday, Damon is participating in the monthly Final Friday art show downtown.

Here's the details: "I Should've Worn Earplugs" 2 years of Cincy Rock Photography by Damon Green June 24th - July 26 2005 Special performances by For Algernon and The Newbees @ 7:00 PM on the 24th Curated by Jacquelyn Vaughn Take part in the Meet-the-Artist Reception during the Final Friday Gallery Walk Call Enjoy the Arts/START At 621-4700 or visit www.etastart.com for more info.

On Saturday, we'll be at the Madison Theater in Covington, duking it out against other local favorites for a chance to play Lollapalooza in Chicago later this year (with Widespread Panic, the Pixies, Weezer, The Killers, Cake, The Arcade Fire, and many more). WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! The event is free, doors open at nine, and the other acts will be Moth, The Sundresses, The Cathedrals, and Kamikaze Saucers. Did I mention that it's a FREE show?

6-20-05 - Madison - Chicago - Back to Newport

Madison was an amazing way to finish out the tour. My sister and brother-in-law met us early in the day for lunch and drinks, and we had a great crowd at The Portal (Hi, Rebecca!). Darin and Kenny followed Coltrane Motion into Chicago to crash at Matt D's place, and Aaron and I stayed the night in Madison with our sister. We went to Chicago in the morning, wandering around downtown until we stumbled upon Pizano's and the fabled Chicago styled deep dish pizza our sister had to have.

I don't think we could have asked for a better first tour. Thanks to Coltrane Motion for having us along.

Darin has already begun planning for our next tour in the Spring of 2006. Here are the cities and dates:

Week One
- 3-3-06 - Fri - Lawrence, KS
- 3-4-06 - Sat - Denver, CO
- 3-5-06 - Sun - Santa Fe, NM
- 3-6-06 - Mon - Phoenix, AZ
- 3-8-06 - Wed - Los Angeles, CA
- 3-9-06 - Thur - San Francisco, CA

Week Two
- 3-10-06 - Fri - Eureka, CA
- 3-11-06 - Sat - Portland, OR
- 3-12-06 - Sun - Seattle, WA
- 3-13-06 - Mon - Boise, ID
- 3-14-06 - Tues - Cheyenne, WY
- 3-15-06 - Wed - Rapid City, SD
- 3-16-06 - Thur - Minneapolis, MN

Final Weekend
- 3-17-06 - Fri - Madison, WI
- 3-18-06 - Sat - Chicago, IL

6-18-05 - Waking Up In Milwaukee

It was a long couple of days of driving from Denver to get here, and we're all getting on each other's nerves now. I know way to much about Darin and Kenny's bowel movements.

The opening band was a god-awful classic rock cover band. There was no sound guy. After they finished, we set up and thought we had won the audience over with our first song, but most of the thirty or so people who were in attendence left during the second song. The rest left by the fourth song. Crystal found one of our buttons in an ash tray, discarded by a disgusted patron. Coltrane Motion decided not to play.

Madison is the last day of the tour and only an hour or so away. We're all kind of bummed that it's coming to an end, but we've learned a lot about how to do our next tour. My sister, Sarah, and her husband, Casey, are meeting us in Madison. I think it's going to be a great show.

6-16-05 - About to leave Denver, CO

Denver was a load of fun. We split up yesterday and all went to explore. I got crazy lost while wandering downtown after seeing Batman Begins (which was amazing), and later found out Aaron and Kenny also got ridiculously lost. Speaking of those guys, they are not getting along, and it got pretty tense before our show last night. However, despite the tension (or maybe as a result of it) we played a great set to a fantastic audience who loved us. The entire night was great, actually, with the Motion turning in their best performance of the tour (so far) and Cowboy Curse fucking slayed. We also played with an all girl band called hot House who was a lot of fun and we're going to try and have to Cincy.

We're back on the road in about an hour. Aaron is going to go to Omaha with Bond and Denowitz to give he and Kenny some space, and we're all meeting up again in Milwaukee.

6-15-05 - Entering Denver

I woke up in the hotel the morning after our Champaign show at 8:30 to find Kenny comletely missing. I got dressed, woke up Aaron and Darin and proceeded to search for him. He was not in the truck bed. He was not in the pool. He was not on hotel grounds. He had no shoes, no belt, no jacket, and no wallet. I returned to the room to find out that Bond had saw him stumble out at 5AM but had no idea where he might be going. Darin and I decided to drive around to search for him.

After another search of the hotel grounds we found Kenny in the backseat of the truck, passed out. "How did you get in here?" Darin Asked. "I don't even fucking know," Kenny said, rolling back over to resume sleeping.

It turned out that in his drunken stupor, he had decided to take a walk and then forgot where our hotel room was. While wandering the hotel, he was discovered by management and asked to leave. He told the guy he was in room 138 (we were in 133), and at 138 he was met with an angry dude, not happy to be woken at 6 in the morning. The hotel guy told Kenny to get out, so he decided to hide in the bushes outside. It only took the manager a few minutes to find the shoeless kid with the pink mohawk sleeping in the bushes. He called the cops and told Kenny. Kenny managed to get into (the unlocked!) truck, and no one found him until we did. Upon returning to the room, Kenny told us we should leave because he had been removed from the premises.

The ride to Wichita was long and pretty boring. Aaron and Kenny started to get a little on edge due to their cramped accomodations, and we were all glad to get out at Kirby's Beer Store, which was about as big as my bedroom. Few people were there, but we had fun and enjoyed Fumescrew (a poppy punk band who were also on their first tour and bickering after only a few hours on the road).

In the morning we let Aaron go with Coltrane Motion and the three remaining Minnis were quite comfortable on the Drive into Colorado. We picked Aaron up again in Limon and found him in better spirits after having spent 5 hours in the backseat of the Coltrane Motion ride watching Star Wars.

Denver seems like a fun town (and Darin's friends are cool), but not much is happening tonight. Tyler (the bass player from from Coltrane Motion) locked his keys in his car while it was running with the headlights on. We pretty much gave up promoting tomorrow's show after that.

Tomorrow promises to be a lot of fun...

Release Party Photos

Here are my photos from the big bash.

Here are Scott's.

6-12-05 - Champaign, IL

We weren't blessed with enough foresight to reserve our U-Haul, so there was a brief moment where we thought we weren't going to make our first show. But, we managed to find one and got on the road with Aaron and Kenny cramped in the back of Darin's truck with each other's feet in each other's asses.

The drive was uneventfull, with all of us to pumped to sleep. Singalongs ensued.

We played a hookah bar called Nargile for a huge crowd of Coltrane Motion after being promised, "Like, 150 people, dude." Later, we discovered the local band we were playing with was a jam band, so it was no wonder the 50 or so people who were there chose to ignore us.

After an hour or so of hanging out and smoking a lemon hookah, Matt (from Coltrane) and Darin were invited by a hot waitress, named Shawnee, to come downstairs to a "secret open bar" and followed her. Before we knew it, everyone but Bond and I were downstairs partaking in the free booze.

Underage drunkeness ensued. And, you know, some (semi) legal kind too.

Darin found us in the middle of a story and said, "We were just asked to leave. The guy said he couldn't believe we were stealing his liquor, and we were the worst band that had ever played here." We were beng removed from the venue!

Darin tried to explain, but the owner wasn't having any of it. Shawnee completely denied all knowledge of the "alledged event."

Upon getting back to the hotel, we laughed about the whole thing until Matt interupted us. "I have something to show you guys," he said, removing a folded sheet of napkin from his pocket. It was Shawnee's phone number:

Tour 2005 - 6-11 - Newport, Ky

The release show went fantastic and without a hitch. Thanks to all of the bands, Image 1001, Beth, Tom, Tristen, Sean, and everyone who came out to the party.

We leave for Champaign, IL in about three hours. We're tired as hell, but everyone is in high spirits.