Dalloways and Loquat March 20

SF organic-meets-electric popsters Loquat will join The Dalloways at Club Fred March 20. The band has shared the stage with The Cardigans and Evan Dando. Visit Loquat on Myspace, make friends, and come out to the show to meet them.

Why We Love You

Much to my dismay, while eating Taco Bell after our Friday, February 15 CD Release Party at Starline, I realized I hadn’t thanked a few of our great friends that had helped make the show such a success. So here ‘tis.

LOVE and PROPS to these fabulous Fresno media members:

1. Mike Osegueda of the Fresno Bee for his great article entitled “Familiar Faces Return.”

2. Mikey and the Fresno cultcha aficionados at The Dorktown Podcast for featuring an interview with The Dalloways on their latest episode

3. KFSR 90.7 for hosting our bass player on a segment before the show and playing some of our new tunes.

4. Fresno Famous for their fab calendar

And THREE CHEERS to our fabulous Dalloways Crew:

1. Jessica Moncrief, bold and fearless photographer extraordinaire, who does whatever it takes to get the shot, Annie Liebowitz style! (The photo in this blog is by JM!) Watch for her shots to be featured in a special Dalloways photo album and on dalloways.com soon.

2. Becky (a.k.a. Seamonkey for the additional awesome photo work. We will be featuring her shots as well.

3. JT and Ashley for their video engineering skills. Congratulations on their wedding … the morning of our show!

4. Chris Brown and Orion for rockin' the merch and the newsletter. We've never seen such an ambitious duo. And they look great in our new T's as well!

5. Brian Gard for the audio engineering.

And MERCI MERCI MERCI to the honorary Dalloways of the night:

1. Paul Meadors (a.k.a. Art Farkas, author of the hilarious Letters to Ebay and former 1st chair trumpeter from my high school days) for his beautiful flugelhorn playing.

2. Rachel Roelke for her fabulous, soulful backing vocals.

And GRACIAS to the most fabulous venue in town!

1. Mike and The Starline for hosting this event.

2. The bartenders and wait staff for being so kind.

3. Ray for rockin’ the sound board.

And LOVE to the bands!

1. The fab folksy Aspen Hollow for getting the word out and bringing the peeps and playing their beautiful subtle pop.

2. The Sleepover Disaster who always bring the goods (Good luck to them at South by Southwest!)

And lastly and most importantly ...

Many thanks to all the folks who came out to see the bands and add to the great atmosphere of the night.

If you happened to miss the show, you can pick up our new EP in CD or MP3 format from CDBaby. We will also be listing the new “I Love You Regardless” T’s for sale in our online store. The T design was created by The Dalloways’ own resident artist/keyboarist Cortnie Cleary, and I’m not lying when I say they are the cutest band T-shirts ever.

We hope to see you at our next show!

Dalloways: Young Americans and Downtown Shootings

The Feb 9 CD Release at Sandrini's in Bakersfield was huge! We couldn't have asked for more. Started off with our good friends The Sleepover Disaster and their beautiful shoegaze sounds - silky reverb guitar swells reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine. Then The Filthies, our Bakersfield punk heroes. These guys get a mosh of happy fans rabidly dancing every time we see them live. They brought the sound and their fans in droves to this show, so we owe them lots of props.

We put together an all-star band for a few numbers. Included Matt Munoz, Mento Buru founding member on sax, Melissa of Near Miss Mallet and Cheri of Mystic Red as backing soul gals. Earlier that day put the finishing touches on Bowie's "Young Americans." This was the most fun The Dalloways have ever had with a cover song. It's been a personal dream to play in an 8 plus member band - dream come true! Check out the cool Dalloways Mini Documentary: Young Americans on YouTube.

Hectic Films debuted the new Dalloways "Dirty Money and Filthy Love" video, a moody film noir styled piece featuring the title song of our latest EP. Check it out on YouTube and leave some praise for these local guerrilla style movie makers who are taking their low-budget meets high quality craft a step up with every new feature.

So there was a shooting down the street shortly after our last number - some nutcase in The Syndicate angry that he was cut off pulled out a gun and started shooting indiscriminantly in the bar and then ran off. The entire street was locked down, and we wer stuck with some concerned people in Sandrini's for awhile. It's too bad when things like this happen downtown. These isolated incidents build up in people's minds and really hurt the scene. But those of us who know the place intimately will continue to support. Downtown is the cultural, art, and music hub of this city - ground zero - and this isn't going to change. I think it's because creative people naturally gravitate to the close, urban feel, the sense of togetherness, the great cafe meeting places and and music venues. It's our local cultural ground zero!

More props go the Bakersfield media and bloggers who stepped up and covered the local music scene like I've never seen.

• View the photo slideshow by ABC 23's Jessica Moncrief
• Read Bakersfield Downtown: The Dalloways and the Shooting Aftermath on Buzz Bands
• Watch The Dalloways Mini Documentary: Young Americans by N.L. Belardes
• Read the Matildakay.com Review of Dirty Money
• Read the Bakotopia Review of Dirty Money by J.R. of Illpressed
• Read the Bakersfield Californian Eye Street Feature by Shellie Branco
• Read Hectic Films' blog Dalloways CD Release Party and Then Downtown Shooting by Jason Sanders
  

Thanks to the mad/wonderful music fans and media for helping make this show rock!

Dirty Money Featured on matildakay.com

Check out the latest Dirty Money feature on matildakay.com's One Bakersfield Woman's Blog to Mankind.

Dalloways Featured in Californian

Check out Shellie Branco's February 6 Eye Street feature in The Bakersfield Californian.

Dirty Money Review on Concert Livewire

Read the latest Dirty Money Review on Concert Livewire.

Dalloways Get Creative to Battle Myspace Glut

The Dalloways and Bakersfield compatriots Lost Ocean were recently featured in a KERO 23 article about indie marketing called "Bands Get Creative to Battle Myspace Glut." You can read the article and watch the cool video footage on turnto23.com.

Hero Hill Reviews Dirty Money

Read the Hero Hill review of Dirty Money and Filthy Love.

Bakotopia Reviews Dirty Money

Music critic Jesse Rivera reviews the new EP on a full-page spread in Bakotopia. Check out the article. The D's hope to see you at the CD Release Bash Feb 9 at Sandrini's! Also on the ticket: The Filthies and shoegaze wunderkinds The Sleepover Disaster. View the Feb 9 Event here. An added bonus?... You may just see a Bako all-star cast on stage, including Mr. Munos himself on sax. Keep your fingers crossed.

Dorktown Features Dalloways Song

One the EP's tunes is featured on the Cafe Dorktown podcast. Download the episode at The Fresnan Blog. And say hi to our new friend Mikey at Dorktown, who is deep deep into Fresno Cultcha!

Hectic Times, Hectic Video!

Supposedly, the young slasher film come action flick directors at Hectic Films are putting the finishing touches on the Dirty Money music video. That's good news!

We last left these chaps on filming day in the basement of Benjamin's in downtown Bakersfield. We drank fake whiskey poured from wine bottles into martini glasses and threw around playing cards and lots of dollar bills for this classic speakeasy-themed piece of film history. I was only a little disappointed that there wasn't more blood and gore on the set, but I guess we can save that for the next video.

Hectic Films was featured in the most recent edition of Bakotopia, so pick up a copy and read more about these up-and-coming directors.

Feb 9 Bakersfield CD Release Party!

NEW CD: DIRTY MONEY AND FILTHY LOVE!
NEW HECTIC FILMS VIDEO DEBUT!
GREAT BANDS!
GOOD TIMES IN THE COOLEST BASEMENT BAR IN TOWN!
MORE MORE MORE!

DO NOT MISS!...

Bakersfield friends, come to this Feb 9 CD Release featuring the new Dalloways video by Hectic Films and much more. Confirmed at Sandrini's, downtown bakersfield. Visit dalloways.com or Dalloways Myspace for more info. More acts posted soon. Sandrini's: Venue Tel: (661) 322-8900.

Dalloways New Year

Happy New Year!

Our 2008 is already pretty exciting, and we hope yours is as well. We're still on schedule for the Dirty Money and Filthy Love EP, which is set to land mid-January. It will take us a bit for BIB to get the album sent off to our distributor, but we should have the CD ready to sell at shows no later than the 15th.

Currently, we are discussing/finalizing details with venues for CD release parties. We'll keep you posted. Please check back here! We wouldn't want you to miss a date in your area.

We will be releasing streaming audio tracks on myspace, and all tracks will be available for purchase through our Snocap/myspace store, iTunes, CDBaby, and loads of other retail sites. Of course, you can always buy the actual CD at CDBaby or from the merch manager at one of our shows.

We hope to see you soon!

xoxo

Dirty Money Mid January!

This brand new five song EP is currently being pressed and printed. The tracks were recently mastered by the expert Mike Bozzi at Bernie Grundman.

Here is a listing of the tracks:

1. Dirty Money and Filthy Love
2. Me and Thomas Hardy
3. Let's Climb the Staircase
4. I Love You Regardless
5. Didn't Have the Time

Radio promotion, release parties, and a tour are in the works. More news about the release and dates soon.

EP Nearing Completion

Today, Aaron and I are putting finishing touches on a ghostly song called "Let's Climb the Staircase." This will most likely be one of the five songs on our upcoming EP called "Dirty Money and Filthy Love." It's looking like December will be the completion and release of it all! Soon, we'll head down to Bernie Grundman Studios to polish the tracks off ina fab. mastering session.

As of yet, we have not CD release parties set but will start in on the planning very soon. Please check back with us on this front as we'd love for you to be there when we release the EP.

Machete in Biker Bar

On the road, coming home after a brilliant weekend of touring. Currently listening to the wonderful new Fast Computers album Heart Geometry. Beautiful synth layerings, satalite beeping loops, and rich string sections.

So where’ve we been?

Friday, we drove for thirteen hours straight to Eugene, Oregon, and met up with Peter and Jen of TFC, who were kind enough to put us up in their mid-century party pad. Very quickly we got to playing Guitar Hero, ripping it up on such classics as Balls to the Wall and other fairly obscure, half-forgotten rock songs that make for great faux guitar playing.

Tapas for dinner, and then a quick set-up at Sam Bond’s Garage—a great little venue ranked in Esquire as one of America’s best bars. It’s a humble neighborhood haunt with great Oregon beer and of course, the local favorite—mead.

The last time we played Sam Bond’s, we noticed a hippie hanging by his knees from a tree down the street, and one stoned dude weaving on a bike down the middle of the avenue, riding no-hands while playing the sentimental section of “Free Bird” over and over again on an acoustic guitar. Eugene was living up to the hype. So this time around we didn’t know what to expect.

We set up our equipment for our first ever duo performance—just C and G with drum and bass tracks run conveniently through our iPod. There was a good sized crowd of Eugene citizenry who were nice enough to not heckle us. The other bands on the ticket—Ed Cole and The Underlings, and Luca, were in the crowd, nodding their heads and tapping their feet, a whoop of appreciation here and there. Worked out some of the kinks of our set in front of a live audience.

Later, we went back to the party place and had pizza rolls with Apple Jack and other mixed drinks from Fox and Dean’s vast collection of top shelf liquors. More Guitar hero till late into the morning.

Next day we all packed up for our show in Portland where we would share the stage with Home Before Sundown and Fast Computers.

After a relaxing afternoon of champagne and synth sessions at the HBS house, all three bands caravanned to a kick-ass sushi house.

We arrived at Kelly’s Olympian to load in. Kelly’s is a biker bar with about two million dollars worth of motorcycles hanging from the ceilings and walls—Harley’s and Indians and cafe racers of all kinds. A drunk punk with ripped jeans and chains was flailing around a taped up machete and trying to hug everyone. I guess the tape was to make the machete somehow acceptable in a crowded public place, but we found him just a bit unnerving.

The excellent sound man Nalin was dressed à la Richie Tennanbaum. He gave us a choice of background visual footage on stage—Saharan lion chases and killings or Twilight Zone footage for our background. We chose the Zone—couldn’t pass up the moody black and white weirdness.

Played about a 25 minute set of new tunes, and then Home Before Sundown—a self-proclaimed synth army of a band with four synths and backbeats and soulful vocals. Depeche Mode lovelorn angst meets earnest lovelorn kids of Portland.

Then Fast Computers took stage—an always ecstatic Jen Fox bouncing positively about those drums, the stylish Peter Dean cranking out upbeat synth and electric piano tinklings and masterful tales of their recent US tour. Fast Computers have a new line-up featuring the ever-cool Brenna Sheridan on guitar and synth and enthusiastic-dancing Andrew on bass.

Oh, and then to wrap up the night, of course, arm wrestling to the soundtrack of Sylvester Stallone’s masterful 80’s classic, Over the Top. This was a mini-tour worth remembering.

Pictures posted soon!

Dalloways Talk Shop on ABC

The Dalloways talk about Distant Fairs with local celeb news and entertainment journalist N.L. Belardes of ABC 23 after a recent show at The Dome in Bakersfield.

Watch the interview on Youtube posted below, and read a new live review on Buzz Bands.

Dark Disco and September 29

Working steadily on the mixes. Up on the block now is "Didn't Have the Time," a dark disco tune with some very cool vampiresque backing vocals. It's shaping up as one of the dance tunes along with "Dirty Money." Shooting now for a November release of the EP.

Working with our friends at Hectic Films on a video for the single, "Dirty Money." I'll keep the details under wraps for now until productions begins.

September 29 in Bakersfield is our next show for the public in Bakersfield, with Near Miss Mallet and Highway Jones.

October 19 in Portland!

We've got a great show coming up October 19 in Portland with beautiful techno cuties Fast Computers and Home Before Sundown. For details, visit The Dalloways Tour Page.

Distant Fairs Sound Bites Posted

The Dalloways have polished up yet another tune called "I Love You Regardless." This along with "Me and Thomas Hardy" and "Dirty Money" are now posted as sound bites on The Dalloways Myspace, so take a listen!

The band is actively seeking a label partner to team up with for the next big Distant Fairs EP/LP combo project, so if you'd like to hear the rest of these tracks in addition to other tunes from the project, simply email your request to the band through The Dalloways Online.