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!
Hello, Everyone!
Do you want to be the coolest kid on the beach this summer? Or do you just want to express your unconditional love for someone? Pick up the new “I Love You Regardless” t-shirts for guys and gals designed by none other than keyboardist/designer Cortnie “Hot Stuff” Cleary.
The illustrative design is printed on the highest quality Alternative Apparel T-shirts. Women can choose between "destroyed" vintage black with antique white lettering and slate gray with turquoise lettering. Men can choose between navy with sky blue lettering and chocolate brown with antique white lettering. Super soft cotton T's, super stylish cuts, super Cleary design!
We've just added the fantastic beautiful slowcore Fresnans Gypsy Cab to the Thursday, March 20 Line-up! Don't miss this one - beautiful guitars, synths, and times.
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.
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.
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.
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!
