In Bloom

 Writing from Bremen, Germany where we played a very sparsely-attended but still highly sweet gig just hours ago. This tour has been blurring by, and I'd like to do a proper recap, but I'm somewhat brain-boggled, so I approach the blog and slowly start to wobble. There have been a few highlights, but the finer points will have to wait. For now...

 We played our first show in Offenbach with Wild Moccasins from Houston, TX. They ruled a ton and were incredibly nice people. I hope our paths cross again soon!

 Another gig in Chemnitz Germany (with another killer band called 206, some kinda heavy Alternative TV/Swell Maps-meets post-grundge vibes) and then off to Poland for the first time in my small life. It was another world. Bombed out, gorgeous tree-lines and endlessly speeding cars into an unknown future. We met some locals after the show and they bought Betty and Viktor shots made of vodka, cranberry juice and Tobasco that looked like a parfait-alcohol approximation of the Polish flag.

 A totally killer Monday night show in Hamburg last night, and off to Copenhagen tomorrow. More moments when I get a moment. I miss all my friends and loved ones and I hope everyone is feeling amazing until I see you next!!

Sometimes I Rhyme Slow/Suddenly I See

In Stockholm, rehearsing for Mighty Clouds tour. Here I am having a nervous breakdown when I broke a guitar string, and hiding under my coat. JUST KIDDING!!! This is a picture taken seconds after I set foot on Swedish soil, following 14 hours of travel where I couldn't quite fall asleep. The lag is getting it's ass kicked today, however, as I already woke up at around 5 am and now (almost 9am) am getting ready to chug as much of the Swedish equivalent of Mountain Dew/Moon Mist/Etc as possible. In the silent space of 5am trying not to wake anyone up but wide awake myself, I listened to "Straight Outta Compton" on headphones. When Silk Flowers were in Detroit just a few days ago, Ethan asked me: "NWA or the Misfits?" Good question, and a hard call!! I said NWA right away because I could listen to them almost anytime, and Misfits have too much of a cartoony undercurrent to be anything other than phase-related... BUT Hold up--- NWA is so ridiculously cartoony! They might be the same band. What is the concensus? NWA or the Misfits??


Mighty Clouds Springtime Euro Bloom Tour:
March

Thu 24 Offenbach Germany, Hafen 2 w/ Wild Moccasins
Fri 25 Görlitz Germany, tba  Berlin Germany, tba
Sat 26 Chemnitz Germany, AJZ 
Sun 27 Poznan Poland, Meskalina
Mon 28 Hamburg Germany, Astra Stube
Tue 29 Bremen Germany, Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus
Wed 30 Copenhagen Denmark, KB18 Kødboderne 
Thu 31 Gothenburg Sweden, Jazzhuset 

April
Fri 1 Malmö Sweden, Debaser
Sat 2 Stockholm Sweden, Strand
Mon 4 Helsinki Finland, Bar Loose 
Tue 5 Tampere Finland, Telakka
Wed 6 Turku Finland, Dynamo 
Fri 8 Erfurt Germany, Franz Mehlhose 
Sat 9 Darmstadt  Germany, Oettinger Villa 

Mixing Zombies

 It's 2:26AM on Friday night, and it's the sixth or seventh day that me, Amber and Shelley have stayed up super endless late working on mixing the Swimsuit record. They say it takes about an hour for every minute of music you hear on a record, or maybe it's ten hours, or maybe it's an hour per second? This record is gonna be really really good. We'll hopefully have copies for tour in May.

 I leave tomorrow afternoon for Mighty Clouds euro tour. I'll post up the dates in the next two days everywhere I can. Haven't been to Europe since well... back when. I'm excited and deliriously tired already!  Jumping.

I Want To Be All Of These Things At The Same Time

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