happy valentine’s day

We can’t find words to describe how grateful we feel to have gone on tour in the UK this winter. Your Neighbour the Liar are the sweetest dudes ever for setting it all up. We also got to play with a lot of other awesome bands like Human Hands, Bird Calls, Ten Speed Bicycle, I Saved Latin, Smithsonian, Speedboat Salesman and more. Thanks to everyone who set up a show, let us sleep on your floor/bed/couch, fed us, hung out with us, came to see us, sang along, or played a show with us.

Since we’ve returned from tour, James has parted ways with the band.

While we look for a permanent drummer, Brandon Baker will fill in on drums for a couple of shows at SXSW. You may remember Brandon from such hits as the “First Down” EP, the “Away Game,” 7″, and “Fightin’ Pheonix.”

Speaking of “First Down,” it has been re-released on tape via Count Your Lucky Stars and Keep It Together.

More news to come…

Violitionist Session

As we head out of the US at the end of this week for our UK tour, we leave you with an (almost) acoustic performance done in Denton, TX for Violitionist Sessions. Simply put — it’s 3 songs (“Sudden Death”, “Flood”, & “Sideline”) followed by a 3 question interview.
Here is our performance of the first track from The Draft, “Sudden Death.” Enjoy!

UK Tour

We’re happy to announce our UK tour dates:

Dec. 27, 2011 London House Show (e-mail andnotheardzine [at] gmail [dot] com for more info)
Dec. 28, 2011 Ipswich @ The Swan
Dec. 29, 2011 Manchester @ The Castle Hotel
Dec. 30, 2011 Dundee @ Kage
Dec. 31, 2011 Edinburgh @ Banshee Labyrinth
Jan. 2, 2012 Leeds @ Fox and Newt
Jan. 3, 2012 Nottingham @ J.T Soar
Jan. 4, 2011 Swansea @ Mozarts
Jan. 5, 2011 Exeter @ The Cavern
Jan. 6, 2011 Camden @ The Black Heart
Jan. 7, 2011 Brighton @ The Albert

All dates are with Edinburgh, Scotland’s Your Neighbour the Liar. We have them to thank for making this possible, so please, check them out. More info can be found on facebook and over at Alter the Press.

Village Basement Session!

Football, etc – “Safety” from Village Basement Sessions on Vimeo.

We did this awhile ago, but there were problems with the audio so it took awhile to go up. Thanks again to John, this was fun.

08.01.11

Well, we got back from tour a few weeks ago and let’s just say it was amazing. It was so great to make new friends and see familiar faces. Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows, let us crash with them, set up a show or played in another band.

Here are some videos:

So now that summer is almost over, the next thing on the horizon for football, etc. is to tour the UK in December/January. We will be touring with Your Neighbour the Liar from Scotland. Look out for those dates.

Tour

tour is quickly approaching. our boo jeff over at theUPstudio made us this poster. we’re getting them printed, so you can pick one up if you like it!

Bag of Bones

On Friday, May 27, Mercy and I were riding our bikes home from seeing our friends Communipaw play at the Mink. Mercy hit a pothole and fell. Result: broken arm.

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On Monday, Mercy had a lot of metal inserted into her arm (about 6 screws, 2 plates, 2 pins, 1 wire, and lots of staples to hold it together).

The good news: We still plan on touring. In fact, Mercy played two songs on the bass today. It hurts, but she’s a bad ass.

We’re canceling a couple of shows this weekend (SRY), but are hoping to continue with our itinerary ASAP. We do not plan on canceling any of our shows with Pswingset or the rest of our tour.

See you on the road.

xo,
Lindsay

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